Google and the Nielsen Company announced today a multi-year, strategic relationship. As a first step, the relationship leverages Nielsen’s experience in television audience measurement to bring demographic data to the Google TV Ads advertising platform. By combining Nielsen demographic data with aggregated set-top box data, Google hopes to provide advertisers and agencies with comprehensive information […]

SubscribeCast Technologies has released Preeso, a new Web-based service for creating premium (paid) podcasts. The service is a ground up redesign of the company’s existing premium podcasting application. ‚ÄúWe really focused on the user experience. We want the customer to be able to set up a paid and protected podcast in minutes, not hours, or […]

A new version of Expressivo text-to-speech software has been released. New with version 1.3 is integration with iTunes, making it easy to automatically translate text-to-speech and get it on your iPod. Any text read by Expressivo is automatically added to your iTunes library as an audio file. Texts read by Expressivo can also be played […]

At GigaOm, Om Malik is starting to ask the same question we’ve been asking, now that big media is pulling its content off YouTube, developing their own video sites and ganging up to fight YouTube: Is YouTube screwed? “It is becoming increasingly obvious: Big media companies (content owners) are lining up against YouTube & Google, […]

MySpace today announced the launch of an original scripted web series, Roommates, the first original web series created for MySpaceTV. It’s a fauxality show focusing on hot chicks just out of college. The first of 45 episodes goes live today on MySpaceTV, with new episodes debuting each weekday at 1:00 pm PT/ 4:00 pm ET […]

SanDisk Corporation today announced the U.S. availability of the Sansa TakeTV video player, a sneakernet alternative to Apple TV. According to SanDisk’s Daniel Schreiber, the TakeTV has “No confusing wireless network set-up, no wires running across the living room and no cumbersome burning of DVDs. Just use the Sansa TakeTV device to move your favorite […]

NBC Universal has quietly yanked Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake’s D*ck in a box off of YouTube. Try to view the video, and you get a message that the video is no longer available. The video removal appears to be part of a larger shift in NBC’s strategy for Internet video. According to reports, NBC […]

AT&T and Apple have sold 1.325 million iPhones, according to Strategy Analytics, making it one of the most popular mobile devices in the United States. “The iPhone has become AT&T’s top selling device, commanding some 13 percent of AT&T’s overall handset sales, and the 4th top selling handset in the US market,” according to Barry […]

A new site, TheFunRide lets you search for videos across YouTube, Google Video, Metcafe, Daily Motion and 70+ other video sharing sites. Unfortunately, it doesn’t do it very well yet. We searched for a variety of popular video search terms, with terrible results: Pamela Anderson – this search returned lots of skateboarding videos, but no […]

PodCamp Boston 2, taking place October 26-28 at the Boston Convention and Expo Center, Boston, MA, promises to be one of the most interesting new media unconferences ever. PodCamp Boston 2 is a three-day event focusing on blogging, podcasting, social networks, video on the net, and new media. More than 1,200 people are expected to […]