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New Community-Driven Music App Helps You Discover Music

Nov 29th, 2006 | By | Category: Digital Music

Goombah is a free desktop application, launched today, for Mac or Windows that provides music recommendations based on your tastes and the interests of other Goombah users. Goombah analyzes each user‚Äôs iTunes collection and listening behavior and connects them to people and music that match their taste. Users can sample recommendations and purchase them from […]



Should The Zune Be Shot Out Of A Cannon?

Nov 29th, 2006 | By | Category: iPods & Portable Media Players, Strange

Unconfirmedsources.com reports that Mythbusters co-hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage have found a use for Microsoft’s much-ridiculed Zune portable media player. They’ve assembled a Zune firing air cannon with a muzzle velocity of over 800 MPH. According to Hyneman “We selected the Mircrsoft Zune as a projectile because it’s what our viewers really wanted to […]



BitTorrent Cuts Video Deals With Fox, Paramount, Warner Brothers

Nov 29th, 2006 | By | Category: Digital Movie Store, Digital Video Downloads, Digital Video Recorder, Podcast Distribution

BitTorrent has announced a slate of partnerships with a wide variety of leading film and television companies. Fox, G4, Kadokawa Pictures USA, Lionsgate, MTV Networks (including COMEDY CENTRAL, Logo, MTV: Music Television, MTV2, Nickelodeon, Nicktoons Network, SpikeTV, The N, TV Land and VH1), Palm Pictures, Paramount Pictures and Starz Media will publish movies and TV […]



Microsoft’s Zune Introduction Is A Debacle

Nov 29th, 2006 | By | Category: Digital Music, iPods & Portable Media Players

Microsoft’s highly anticipated Zune introduction has turned into a debacle. The Chicago Sun-Times says Avoid the loony Zune. “Microsoft’s new Zune digital music player is just plain dreadful. I’ve spent a week setting this thing up and using it, and the overall experience is about as pleasant as having an airbag deploy in your face.” […]



Mobilecasting Update: You Pay $15, Verizon Picks The Videos

Nov 29th, 2006 | By | Category: Citizen Media, Corporate Podcasts, iPods & Portable Media Players, Making Money with Podcasts, Mobile Podcasting

The recent news that YouTube is working with Verizon to bring a selection of YouTube content to cell phones is striking some as more evidence that YouTube as you know it is dead. YouTube‚Äôs phone-based version will require a $15-a-month subscription to a Verizon Wireless service called VCast. VCast users will be able to view […]



Mobilecasting Update: Mobile Porn Explosion Coming

Nov 28th, 2006 | By | Category: Making Money with Podcasts, Mobile Podcasting, Podcasting Research, Podcasting Statistics

The mobile adult content market is forecast to grow from its 2006 level of $1.4 billion to over $3.3 billion by 2011, according to new study by Juniper Research. Over the whole 2006 to 2011 period, Juniper estimates that mobile adult entertainment services will generate a $14.5 billion in revenues, with Europe contributing 39% and […]



Podcast Goes From Zero To One Million Downloads In Four Months

Nov 28th, 2006 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Podcast Quickies

The podcast Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing has gone from zero to over a million downloads since launching in late July, according to its creators at the QDnow Network. Show host and creator Mignon Fogarty says the key to the show’s success has been making it fun. Fogarty uses humorous examples […]



Can Satellite Radio Survive Podcast Onslaught?

Nov 28th, 2006 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Digital Music, General, Podcasting Research, Podcasting Statistics

Satellite radio operators XM and Sirius face a 20 percent decline in fourth-quarter retail sales that is likely to put pressure on their respective stock prices, according to a Bank of America investment note. On Monday, their stocks started declined in reaction to the note, shedding most of the gains notched in November following third-quarter […]



Apple, Fox Bringing Porn Stars To iTunes

Nov 28th, 2006 | By | Category: Digital Video Downloads

Fox Reality has partnered with Apple to deliver the first episode of all of its upcoming series to iTunes for free, one week prior to their premieres. The first series to premiere on iTunes, Fox’s My Bare Lady, promises to be controversial. The series follows U.S. adult film stars Kirsten Price, Nautica Thorn, Sasha Knox, […]



Future iPods To Hold All World’s Music And TV

Nov 28th, 2006 | By | Category: Digital Music, Digital Video Downloads, Digital Video Recorder, iPods & Portable Media Players

An executive at Google is predicting that an iPod will hold all the world’s TV in 12 years. Speaking at the FT World Communications Conference, Nikesh Arora, Google’s VP of European operations, told delegates that, in the coming years, the plummeting price of storage and its increasing volume-to-size ratio will give iPods almost unlimited potential […]