This video captures a demo of a Sin City style motion magazine feature about “Your Worst Sex Fears”, created for Viv Mag – an all digital magazine. The demo, by Alexx Henry, Cory Strassburger and Ming Hsiun, is another example of how designers are re-imagining magazines for the iPad and other tablet computers. It’s an […]

Adobe already has trouble on its hands over Apple’s decision to not support Flash on the iPhone and the iPad – and the general public’s “meh” response. Now Adobe’s got bigger Flash problems. The Open Video Alliance, which includes Mozilla, Kaltura, Miro, and Yale Law School, are joining forces to bring video to Wikipedia – […]

YouTube released a mind-boggling statistic today – users are now uploading 24 hours worth of video every minute. This is up 20% from May of last year, when YouTube announced they were getting 20 hours of video uploaded every minute.

Microblogging site Tumblr has announced plans to make video sharing “crazy simple”. According to Tumblr: We’ll be rolling out crazy simple native video uploading to all accounts. This is designed to be an easy alternative to full-blown video sites when all you want to do is post a quick video to your blog. Tumblr notes […]

Blogging – and new media in general – has often been criticized as being derivative. Here are some stats, via the Nieman Journalism Lab, that may put that criticism in perspective: 9 out of ten mainstream news stories are copied. In the stories analyzed (from publications like Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, […]

Web video distribution and analytics TubeMogul today introduced PlayTime, a new Internet video ad platform that they call “the advertising industry’s first 100 percent transparent video ad network.” According to TubeMogul, PlayTime delivers unprecedented transparency, by letting advertisers compare performance metrics across placements in real-time. “PlayTime is essentially AdSense for brand advertisers, bringing the performance […]

The number of unique viewers of online video increased 10.5% year-over-year, according to The Nielsen Company. While still impressive numbers, the explosive growth of a few years ago appears to be gone, replaced by slower, but still respectable organic growth. Other highlights of Nielsen’s stats: People are watching more video – the number of streams […]

The Government Accountability Office has introduce a podcast that highlights its recent investigations. GAO’s Watchdog Report features five-minute interviews with auditors and investigators on new investigations. “Podcasting enhances the service GAO provides to Congress and the public by offering an alternative means for people to learn about significant issues and new GAO reports and testimonies,”said […]

iTunes alternative doubleTwist has been updated with podcast support. doubleTwist users can now subscribe to podcasts, search for new shows and  sync those podcasts to a variety of media players. Other updates: library sorting issues fixed (sort by original track number) id3 tag discovery and display enhancement — not a full featured id3 tag editor […]

Podcasts are only 5 years old – but podcasting has already gone from being a niche indie tool to being a mainstream communication channel, even for corporations. Podcast pioneer Dave Winer, who created one of the standards upon which podcasting is based and who helped popularize the technology, has published a torrrent that aggregates podcasts […]