Podcast Pickle has announced a contest to reward people for writing reviews at their directory. Beginning Friday, August 10, the Reviews for Riches contest begins, and will run for 4 weeks. When you review a podcast at the site, your name will be entered into the drawing. If your name is drawn, you can win […]

A new Survey from market research firm Parks Associates has found that few in the U.S. are satisfied with their experience downloading videos from the Internet: Only 16% say the selection of videos available online is good; Only 13% say video downloads are sold at a reasonable price; and Fewer than one in five consumers […]

UK ISPs, including Tiscali, BT and Carphone Warehouse, are warning that they may “pull the plug” on the BBC’s new iPlayer, a new Windows Internet video player, because of its potential to eat up Internet bandwidth. They’re threatening to block the player or throttle bandwidth for users unless the BBC gives the ISPs a cut […]

There’s been a lot of blog discussion, recently, about podcasting startup PodTech and its struggles to become profitable. The company is burning through cash to support 38 employees and high-rent office space in Palo Alto, but has failed to create any breakout Internet TV franchises. CenterNetworks’ Allen Stern offers Five Suggestions to Improve PodTech: Update […]

The Financial Aid Podcast’s Christopher Penn has released a free .php script, the Podcaster iPhone Kit, that can be used to generate an iPhone-friendly page for your podcast. Here’s how Penn describes the script: This simple little web page parses your podcast’s XML feed and slaps it into a nice page designed to render well […]

Podango’s¬†Scott Bourne has announced plans to form a new podcaster’s group, the Association of Podcasters & Online Media Producers (APOMP). The nascent group is a response to the recently announced¬†Association for Downloadable Media (ADM),¬†which some podcasters feel is too focused on commercial podcasting. ¬† Bourne’s group¬†would like your input, and are asking podcasters to fill […]

MSNBC has announced that, after the live AFL-CIO Presidential Candidates Forum has concluded, non-NBC media, blogs and Internet media may make unlimited use of the debate and excerpts, with appropriate credit to MSNBC, for the purpose of analyzing, reporting on, or commenting on the Forum.¬† While many would consider this fair use, MSNBC is making […]

Microsoft’s Zune has¬†failed to become an iPod-killer, but it may be a Zen-killer. Creative Technology, which entered the digital music player market in 1999, is feeling the heat of increased competition between Apple and Microsoft for the protable media player market. The company has¬†posted a wider fourth-quarter loss, and its¬†shares fell to an 11-year low. […]

Universal Music Group plans to test selling digital music free of digital rights management (DRM)….but not through Apple’s iTunes music store. Tracks from thousands of albums will be available for purchase on the recording artists’ Web sites and through several established online music retailers, but not iTunes. “Clearly the handwriting is on the wall for […]

Internet television site Veoh has filed an action in Federal court against Universal Music Group (UMG), “to reinforce its rights as a copyright compliant company under the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).” Veoh is preemptively attacking Universal, according to the company, to “create a copyright friendly environment” for Internet video. […]