Flux, a social media startup funded in part by media conglomerage Viacom, has introduced two new services designed to let you leverage the company’s social media platform, Flux Lite and Flux Custom. The services are designed to make it easy for you to set up a media community. This gives Flux three social media options: […]

The vloggers at Common Craft have another winner with their Blogs In Plain English: The ideas apply just as well to podcasting & vlogging.

Compete has published their latest stats for Total Time Spent Online – and they make clear that people are rapidly moving their attention from traditional media to online media. Time spent online is up by nearly 25% since last August. Here’s how Compete’s Jay Meattle characterizes the trend: “We are spending more and more time […]

Dave Winer, creator of the RSS 2.0 standard on which podcasting is based, offers some interesting comments on the state of podcasting at his blog: “What if the energy that went into Chumby, for example, went into designing a podcast player? The player might actually look more like Chumby than it does an iPod. The […]

When we talked with Rocketboom’s Andrew Baron recently, he cited the idea of creating a spectacle as one of the ways to create great viral video. “Videos of spectacle translate on the net,” notes Baron, “An idea that is very original and unique, while extreme, can be videotaped and put up on YouTube to get […]

Remember when NBC yanked its shows off of iTunes because it couldn’t come to an agreement with Apple on pricing? Now they’ve entered into an out-of-left-field agreement with Netflix that will let Netflix subscribers watch current episodes of NBC’s top-rated show, Heroes, the day after their network airing. In addition, Netflix offers prior season episodes […]

Independent reviews are starting to come in on the Amazon Kindle, and it looks like the ebook reader is going to be this year’s Zunetanic, an over-hyped iPod-wannabee. While mainstream fluffer reviews, like Steven Levy’s Newsweek article on the new gadget, make the Kindle out to be the iPod of ebook readers, you can’t sneak […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published a comprehensive account of Comcast’s packet-forging activities and has released software and documentation instructing Internet users on how to test for packet forgery or other forms of interference by their own ISPs.Separate tests in October from EFF, the Associated Press, and others showed that Comcast was forging small […]

MTV Networks is planning to make every clip from every episode of South Park available online for free next year. The decision follows the recent introduction of an all-you-can-eat Web 2.0-style video site for fellow Viacom media property The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The Daily Show site offers 13,000 high-quality clips, from episodes dating […]

Apple will introduce a 3G version of the iPhone next year, according to AT&T Inc. Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson. “You’ll have it next year,” said Stephenson. He said he didn’t know how much more the new version will cost than the existing model, which sells for $399. Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs “will […]