A new IBM survey of consumer digital media and entertainment habits shows that audiences increasingly replacing time spent with traditional media with Internet time. “The Internet is becoming consumers’ primary entertainment source,” said Saul Berman, IBM Media & Entertainment Strategy and Change practice leader. “The TV is increasingly taking a back seat to the cell […]

Dave Winer, one of the fathers of podcasting, is calling out video podcasters and vloggers for becoming “everyday papparazzi”: The video cameras are so cheap and so are Internet connections, we’re heading to a place where even the most casual of encounters may be captured and broadcast.I want to just be a normal schlub, sitting […]

Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the latest update for Adobe Flash Player 9 software, code-named Moviestar, which adds H.264 standard video support, the same standard deployed in Blu-Ray and HD-DVD high definition video players, and High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio support, as well as hardware accelerated, multi-core enhanced full screen video playback. These advancements enable […]

Organizers have announced the BlogWorld & New Media Expo, a new blogging tradeshow, to be held at the Las Vegas Convention Center Thursday – Friday, Nov. 8 – 9, 2007. The Expo will feature more than 60 seminars, panel discussions and keynotes. The Expo promises sessions on blogging basics, podcasting, video blogging, monetization strategies, increasing […]

If there’s any doubt that video podcasting is going mainstream, the Wall Street Journal’s new video podcast should end it. The WSJ today announced the launch of a new video podcast, Andy Jordan’s Tech Diary.¬†The show¬†chronicles the often odd stories that can be found when people and technology come together. According to the WSJ, Jordan […]

Web hosting provider Go Daddy has introduced a new service, Quick Blogcast, that rolls its blogging and podcasting applications into one tool. ¬† “Quick Blogcast allows people to tell their own stories with audio, video, photos and text over the Internet,” said Warren Adelman, President and CEO of Go Daddy. “It‚Äôs a great way to […]

Wizzard Software, a leading podcast hosting network, has announced that it recorded record revenues of $1,428,097 during the second quarter ended June 30, 2007, an 83% increase from the second quarter of 2006 and a 97% increase over revenues in the first quarter of 2007 ($725,926). For the six month period ended June 30 2007, […]

When you look at the steady stream of companies that are hyped at sites like TechCrunch – companies like Cluztr, Validas, Wablet and Weebly – it doesn’t seem like a stretch to think that there’s something to the idea that there’s a “Web 2.0” bubble, an unwarranted rush of interest and investment in new Internet […]

ZDNet’s David Berlind has published an interesting article on the Twitterization of traditional media. While the focus of the article is on how Twitter will affect big media, Berlind also does a great job of summarizing the challenges facing corporate media as it is forced to compete with bloggers, podcasters and video podcasters: Although it […]

The ongoing outage of the popular voice over IP application Skype highlights the risk of building a utility service like voice communication on a proprietary identity system. By creating a single point of failure, Skype effectively designed into their system an outage that is now affecting hundreds of millions of people. Skype apologizes for the […]