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Oct 11th, 2009 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Citizen Media, Internet TV, Microblogging, Video
Twitter plans to add video tweeting to its mobile microblogging platform. According to a story in the Telegraph: Twitter users may soon be posting real-time video tweets in addition to text tweets under plans to modernize the site. Twitter’s founders hope by adding live video-tweeting it will help boost its prominence as a fashionable social-networking […]
Tags: Microblogging, twitter, video blogging
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Oct 9th, 2009 |
By James Lewin |
Category: General, Internet TV, Video
Chad Hurley posted an update on the state of YouTube today, calling the site the Burger King of new media: Today, I’m proud to say that we have been serving well over a billion views a day on YouTube. This is great moment in our short history and we owe it all to you. Looking […]
Tags: new media statistics, new media trends, the future of television, YouTube
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Oct 9th, 2009 |
By James Lewin |
Category: General, New Media Organizations
Most churches and religious organizations are skipping podcasting and social media, and putting “shovelware” onto the Web instead, according to the Barna Group, an organization that does research on faith and culture. While there’s been a lot of talk about godcasting and using social media to connect with congregations, it looks like most churches, as […]
Tags: godcasting, new media trends, religions podcasts
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Oct 7th, 2009 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Microblogging
CBS News reports that Drew Carey, the host of CBS’s The Price Is Right, is willing to donate up $1 million to Lance Armstrong’s LiveStrong Foundation if he gets 1 million followers by midnight on December 31, 2009. On Saturday, Carey tweeted that he would bid and donate $25,000 to Drew Olanoff, who currently owns […]
Tags: Microblogging, new media trends, twitter
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Oct 6th, 2009 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Digital Music
Music startup doubleTwist today launched a new application, available for Mac and PC, that wants to replace the proprietary world of Apple’s iTunes with one where you can download music and sync it to any player. Here’s how doubleTwist explains what they do: Our vision is simple: to create a unifying media platform that connects […]
Tags: Amazon, Apple, doubleTwist, iTunes, MP3, MP3s, music downloads
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Oct 6th, 2009 |
By James Lewin |
Category: General, iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players
There’s still hope for the Microsoft Zune, based on a new teen survey on portable media players. 13% of the teens surveyed that plan to buy a portable media player plan to buy a Zune in the next 12 months, up from 0% a year ago. 73% plan to buy an iPod, down from 100% […]
Tags: Apple, iPhone, iPod, iTunes, Microsoft Zune, portable media players, Zune, Zune HD
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Oct 6th, 2009 |
By James Lewin |
Category: iPods & Portable Media Players
Microsoft is considering porting its Zune software and services to other platforms, including Apple Mac OS X.
There’s no guarantee that Microsoft is going to pursue this strategy.
If they do, though, they may actually be starting to think different about the Zune.
Tags: Apple, Mac, Macintosh, Microsoft, OS X, Zune
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Oct 6th, 2009 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video
Lawyers working on a $1 billion copyright lawsuit, filed by Viacom against Google’s YouTube, may have found evidence that YouTube employees uploaded pirated videos to the site, in order to bump up traffic. According to a CNET News article: Internal YouTube e-mails indicate that YouTube managers knew and discussed the existence of unauthorized content on […]
Tags: legal battles, Streaming Video, Viacom, YouTube
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Oct 5th, 2009 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Digital Video Recorder, Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video
Check out this demo of the Livestream Livepack – described as “a satellite television truck in a backpack.†Plug in a camera and you can stream HD video to the web, wirelessly.
Tags: Internet video, live streaming, Livestream, television, the future of television, wireless
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Oct 5th, 2009 |
By James Lewin |
Category: iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players
There’s a lot of discussion today about Adobe’s plan to bring Flash to Research In Motion, Windows Mobile, Palm and Google phones. To bring Flash to all the major cell phone platforms, it seems, except for Apple’s iPhone. “This is bringing the full Flash capabilities to these devices, it hasn’t been available before,” said Adrian […]
Tags: adobe, animation, flash, Google, iPhone, new media trends, Palm, Research In Motion, Windows Mobile
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