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Feb 27th, 2010 |
By James Lewin |
Category: General
Jesse Thomas designed and animated this for the JESS3 lecture at AIGA Baltimore in Feb 2010. It’s full of interesting facts – and some depressing ones, like the 200 billion spam messages sent via email per day.
Tags: internet media, new media trends, social media, social networking, statistics
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Feb 25th, 2010 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video
Tired of Apple’s “Apple TV is a hobby” attitude? Boxxee wants to help you “pwn your AppleTV” and run Boxxee – a free Internet media platform – on your Apple hardware. Here’s Boxxee’s instructions: Installing Boxee on Apple TV In order to install Boxee on the AppleTV you need to do the following: Download the […]
Tags: Apple, Apple TV, Boxxee, Internet television, Internet TV
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Feb 23rd, 2010 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Internet TV, Video
Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook, speaking today in San Francisco, explained why he believes the Apple TV is a great product, but there just isn’t a large enough market to make the hardware worth a great deal of concentration from his company. The product is a “hobby,” he said, because it doesn’t compare to […]
Tags: Apple, Apple TV, Internet television, Internet TV
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Feb 23rd, 2010 |
By James Lewin |
Category: General
Apple’s recently introduced iPad has been criticized by many analysts as being just a big iPod touch. A new survey, though, suggests that people are really interested in a handheld computer that’s basically a big iPod touch. RBC/Changewave found that 13% of the people they interviewed were very likely or somewhat likely to buy an […]
Tags: Apple, Apple iPad, tablet
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Feb 22nd, 2010 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Internet TV, Video, Video Podcasts, Video Software, Vlogs
Longtime video blogger and media consultant Steve Garfield has a new book out, Get Seen: Online Video Secrets to Building Your Business, that takes a look at vlogging and video podcasting from the viewpoint of an pioneering indie content creator. The book: Examines success stories of how companies have used online video; Presents a series […]
Tags: Steve Garfield, video blogging, vlogging
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Feb 20th, 2010 |
By James Lewin |
Category: General, Internet TV, Video
Old Spice’s latest commercial, The Man Your Man Could Smell Like, is awesome in a dozen different ways – but it’s also a great example of corporate viral video that works. How many ads get two million views in two weeks on YouTube? Old Spice doesn’t have to have to put a URL in their […]
Tags: Leo Laporte, viral videos, YouTube
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Feb 19th, 2010 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Audio Podcasting, Corporate Podcasts, Internet TV, Making Money with Podcasts, Podcast Distribution, Podcasting, Video
British comedian Ricky Gervais has translated his popular podcast, The Ricky Gervais Show, into an animated series for HBO. The animated series takes the audio of the podcast and puts animation to it, intercutting retro-styled animated scenes with animated versions of Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington. See the HBO site for details.
Tags: animation, audio podcast, Audio Podcasting, HBO, Ricky Gervais
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Feb 18th, 2010 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Audio Podcasting, Podcasting, Podcasting Software
Google has updated its free podcast client for Android devices, Google Listen. Here’s what’s new in version 1.1: Subscriptions are stored by Google Reader in the “Listen Subscriptions” folder. Subscribed feed items are fresh, no longer limited in size, and are available offline (and more quickly). Screen “My listen items” shows queued and most recently […]
Tags: Google, Google Listen, podcast client, podcast client software, podcast software
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Feb 18th, 2010 |
By James Lewin |
Category: General, Podcasting Software
WordPress.com – the popular free blog hosting service – went offline today, taking with it popular sites like TechCrunch, GigaOm and 9.2 million other blogs. The site was down close to two hours. No official announcement has been made on the cause for the outage. WordPress.com is the 19th most popular site in the world, […]
Tags: blog, blogging, blogging software, WordPress
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Feb 17th, 2010 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video, Video Podcasts, Video Software
NBC has put out a press release hyping its coverage of the 2010 Olympics. Some of the highlights: They’ve delivered 8.1 million video streams to date; They’ve had 13.6 million unique visitors; and Traffic to NBCOlympics.com is up 200% over 4 years ago. That sounds pretty impressive – until you consider that this Fred video, […]
Tags: Fred, Internet video, Olympics
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