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Pandora Hits 2 Million iPhone Users

Dec 3rd, 2008 | By | Category: General

Pandora CEO Tim Westergren reports that the social music service has reached the milestone of 2 million iPhone users: At 10:04am this morning we hit 2,000,000 registered iPhone Pandora users! We’re hearing all sorts of wonderful feedback from listeners who are using it on their commute, jogging with it, plugging it into home audio systems…you […]



The Top 20 iPhone Social Networking Apps

Dec 2nd, 2008 | By | Category: General

Apple has announced the top iPhone apps of 2008 (App Store link).  Here are the top iPhone apps for social networking: Top Paid Social Networking: MobileChat BeejiveIM Quip Rooms – Your Mobile Chat Client Twitterrific Premium Flutter Twittelator Pro mBoxMail Secrets hiCard – Suite Top Free Social Networking: Facebook AIM Myspace Mobile IM+ Lite Loopt […]



YouTube Cracks Down On Rick Rollers, Sexy Videos, And Guys That Put Pictures Of Babes Halfway Through All Their Videos

Dec 2nd, 2008 | By | Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

YouTube today announced a variety of changes at the site that are designed to help you view content that’s relevant to you and avoid content that isn’t. While YouTube’s focus is on making it harder for uploaders to trick people, the changes they’ve made affect everyone.  Here’s a rundown of the changes, from YouTube’s announcement: Stricter […]



iPhone Hits 10,000 App Milestone; 50,000 Apps Next Year

Nov 30th, 2008 | By | Category: iPhone

iPhone application review site 148Apps reports that Apple’s App Store has hit a milestone, now offering more than 10,000 iPhone apps.  Other interesting facts: Most iPhone apps sell for less than $2.00 Games and Entertainment are the most popular categories for iPhone apps If you purchased every iPhone app, it would cost you over $31,000. […]



Joost Puts Internet Video On Your iPhone

Nov 29th, 2008 | By | Category: General, Streaming Video, Video

Joost has released a new app (App Store link) that brings the social video site to the iPhone.  The app lets you find/watch videos in several ways: Browsing by category Select “most popular” videos Watch our favorites  Search for a specific video While the idea behind this is great, the app only works on WiFi […]



Blubrry Releases Updated Podcast Plugin For WordPress

Nov 28th, 2008 | By | Category: Featured Story, Podcasting Software

Blubrry has announced that they’ve released version .5.0 of their Powerpress podcasting plugin for Wordpress.

The latest version incorporates a number of bug fixes as well as some minor enhancements.



Vicoustic Intros Budget Acoustic Screen For Recording Vocals

Nov 28th, 2008 | By | Category: Podcasting Hardware

Vicoustic has introduced a budget solution for recording vocals, Flexi Screen Lite. The £65.00 unit has a dual functionality, absorbing the singer’s energy on the inside to give a less ambient sound, while at the same time, partially absorbing scattered room reflections on the outside. According to Vicoustic, Flexi Screen Lite’s acoustic foam has optimum density and thickness, using […]



Apple Using DMCA To Limit What iPod Users Can Do

Nov 27th, 2008 | By | Category: iPods & Portable Media Players

The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports that Apple appears to be using the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) to limit what iPod owners can do with their portable media players: At the heart of this is the iTunesDB file, the index that the iPod operating system uses to keep track of what playable media is on […]



The Future Of PodCamps

Nov 27th, 2008 | By | Category: Podcasting Events

PodCamp co-founder Chris Penn has posted his thoughts on the future of PodCamps, a series of user-organized podcasting conferences. Penn offers six suggestions for 2009 PodCamp organizers: Use the tools! 2008 showed rapid growth in every social network of note, and as organizers, the more you can help people meet and greet prior to the […]



Tivo In Death Spiral

Nov 27th, 2008 | By | Category: Digital Video Recorder, Internet TV, Video

TV By The Numbers’ Bill Gorman has posted some revealing stats on TiVo subscribers that suggest that the technology is headed for the dead pool.  The above graph charts the change in TiVo subscribers, by month. Starting with February ’06, TiVo subscriber growth stalls and by February ’07, TiVo started bleeding subscribers.  Gorman notes: In the […]