Russian President Dmitry Medvedev kicked off his video blog earlier this week with a discussion about his upcoming address to the World Policy Conference in Evian. 43 year old Medvedev has been one the Internet since 1996, so it’s only natural he would follow the lead of other world leaders, like Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel.   “Putin is a […]

The Wall Street Journal reports that people are starting to drop their cable subscriptions for Internet video: “I’m saving a lot of money,” says Tony Leach, a product manager at an online stock brokerage firm in the Bay Area. Mr. Leach canceled his $60-a-month cable subscription two years ago and has watched all of his […]

According to Microsoft Zune guru Rob Greenlee, there’s been “a huge jump in podcast interest in the Zune Podcast Marketplace Software.” “This is an annual rite of passage, that summer is the time when podcast usage dips and then it comes stampeding back in the Fall and Winter,” explains Greenlee. “This year is no exception […]

MEVIO has announced the launch of TeXtraTV, a new technology entertainment channel that combines the best technology shows, reviews and video clips with some of the top celebrity hosts in technology. The company hopes to make TeXtraTV the MTV of technology video. According to Ron Bloom, co-founder and chief executive officer of MEVIO, “In the […]

Lasonic has introduced its I931 High Performance Portable Music System – aka, The iPod Boombox.  It’s a lot like the boomboxes from back in the days – except that it’s Made For iPod, it’s got USB support, it reads from SD/MMC cards, it’s got a remote and it can send video out to a TV.  […]

Marketing Vox reports that NPR’s site traffic is up 78% over the last year, thanks in large part to podcasting and social networking features. NPR.org had 2.6 million unique visitors in August, a 78 percent increase from a year earlier, according to comScore data. Public radio audiences and contributions went up, too. NPR is also planning […]

i.TV has launched a free movie and TV guide service (App Store link) for the iPhone and iPod touch. In a nutshell, it’s an interactive, mobile TV Guide.  Here’s a rundown on i.TV’s features: TV and movie listings based on your current location and other customizable profile settings. The service provides rich background information for most […]

YouTube has announced another option that it plans to use to make money off of its video library – “click-to-buy” links: Today, we’re taking our first steps to providing YouTube users with this kind of instant gratification, by adding “click-to-buy” links to the watch pages of thousands of YouTube partner videos. Click-to-buy links are non-obtrusive […]

Aristarkh Chernyshev & Alexei Shulgin’s wowPod is an interactive multimedia sculpture based on the iPod.  It features a giant, distorted version of the iconic Apple iPod, which is actually functional.

Pollster is using the 2008 election as an opportunity to raise awareness of its embeddable maps, like the one above. The maps are automatically updated with current information.