If you like ninjas and you like pirates, tomorrow may be just about the best day ever. Sept 19th is International Talk Like A Pirate Day – and this year, the Ninja from AskANinja plans to “attack swashbucklers and scurvy dogs.” The Ninja will be chatting live about pirates at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ask-a-ninja-live or http://fans.askaninja.com 3pm PDT/6pm […]

Amazon has announced plans for a content deliver network – a network designed to speed up the delivery of content on your Website – that will be easy to use and pay-as-you-go.  A content delivery network is a distributed network of servers that put copies of your content close to end-users. For example, if someone […]

The New York Times has a great look at the state of the Zune today, that suggests that the Microsoft’s portable media player has found a niche: Microsoft hasn’t made much effort to match the iPod’s universe of functions. The Zune store still lacks movies, downloadable programs, gift certificates, monthly allowances or any way to rate […]

The Blubrry PowerPress plugin for WordPress version 0.2.1 is now available. The latest version incorporates a number of bug fixes and enhancements. Here’s what’s new: Fixed itunes:subtitle displaying ‘…’ Display itunes:summary in items option Add trailing slash to media url if not present Enhance ability to copy Podpress settings Details are available at the Blubrry […]

Want to know why Steve Jobs is still calling Apple TV his “hobby”? New research by The NPD Group offers an explanation: 41 percent of dollars budgeted for movies and video is spent on DVD movie purchases; 11 percent for purchases of TV programs on DVD; 29 percent on DVD rentals including Netflix and other […]

Think you need more gear to make that video podcast/music video/movie/viral video hit? Think again.  This video, for the Eskimohunter’s Surfing at 32ºF, was shot entirely on Nokia Nseries cell phones. “Each of the Nokia Nseries devices I used was perfectly suited to the kind of experimental, ‘out-there’ shots I wanted to capture for ‘Surfing at 32ºF’,” says […]

blinkx announced today that it is the fastest growing video site in the U.S., and also one of the fastest growing online sites in the U.K. According to findings by Compete.com, blinkx is the fastest growing video site among the top 20 video competitors in the U.S. Its traffic grew by 1,036% between July 2007 and […]

Microsoft today released a free software update that will bring new features to all Zune portable media players. The new software will allow Zune users to: wirelessly stream and download music from the Zune Marketplace store on the go; tag and purchase songs directly from the built-in FM radio; and tap into new, personalized music recommendations […]

JJ Abrams‘ new series, Fringe, is one of the most talked-about television fall television debuts, in part because it introduces as many mysteries as it answers.  Fox has also introduced a Fringe podcast, which addresses a lot of the questions raised by the pilot. It’s a great idea: get people hooked on a mysterious show, […]

Amazon’s Internet Movie Database announced today that it had added over 6,000 videos to the site, transforming it from a encyclopedia into a formidable video destination site.

That’s a lot of videos – but it’s just the start of IMDb’s plan to offer all the movies and television shows in the world online for free.