Twitter has announced a new site, election.twiter.com, that tracks Twitter conversations of politics in real time. During the first presidential debate in Oxford, Mississippi and each subsequent debate leading up to and beyond election day, Twitter plans to perform real-time algorithmic analysis on millions of unedited public reactions.  The site is addictive and it should […]

Vincent Laforet filmed this short video that demonstrates the image quality of the Canon EOS 5D MKII.  The footage is amazing enough – but the fact that it was shot with a consumer DLSR is even more amazing. The camera can shoot about 8 minutes straight of higher than HD video.  The camera is expected to […]

As part of Google’s 10th anniversary, the company asked ten of its experts for their take on the future of the Internet.  Today they posted “father of the Internet” Vint Cerf‘s take, and he keys in on two trends that we’ve focused on because of their importance to new media – mobile content creation and […]

SporeTV (iTunes link) is a new video podcast from Electronic Arts that looks at the hugely hyped video game Spore.  The first episode is a discussion of the development of Spore with creator Will Wright.

Roku, maker of the Roku Netflix Player, says that it’s going to open up its platform to any content provider over the next few months: “We’re opening up the platform to anyone who wants to put their video service on this box,” says Roku CEO Anthony Wood, speaking at Streaming Media West. “We’re going to release the […]

A tale of love, expressed in iPod words. Produced and directed by Paolo Tosolini and Silvia Tosolini, Creative Commons license.

Apple has announced iPhone Developer University – a new program designed to help educational institutions create curriculum for developing iPhone applications.  The iPhone Developer University Program is a free program designed for higher education institutions looking to introduce curriculum for developing iPhone or iPod touch applications. The University Program provides development resources, tools for testing […]

Viper’s Video Quicktags is a free WordPress plugin that is designed to make embedding videos into blogs quick and easy.  You can fully configure how the videos are displayed (width, height, colors, alignment on the page) and more.  Video Quicktags currently supports these video sites: YouTube (including playlists) Google Video DailyMotion Vimeo Veoh Viddler Metacafe Blip.tv […]

Popular Internet television site Hulu today introduced two new features. The first, Channels, aims to simplify navigation, while the second, Discussion Boards, introduces a social media aspect to the site.

The Pulitzer Center has announced Project: Report, a citizen journalism contest intended to encourage non-professional journalists to use YouTube tell stories not covered by traditional media.  In each of the three rounds of Project: Report, reporters will be given an assignment to complete. Winners of each round will receive technology prizes from Sony VAIO & […]