Burst Media has released the results of a survey on media consumption of 18-24 year old college students, reporting that students spend more time with the Internet than with other media. Burst also reports that Internet audio and video were two of the students’ top reasons for using the Internet. According to Burst, many students […]

According to the latest research by Pew Internet, online video is hotter than ever. 57% of internet users have watched videos online and most of them share what they find with others. Highlights of the research: The growing adoption of broadband combined with¬†competition among¬†content providers has helped pave the way for mainstream audiences to embrace […]

Verizon Wireless announced today a feature that we expect to become more and more common with digital cameras, video cameras and mobile phones – direct uploading to the Internet. Verizon customers can record video with their wireless phones and upload the videos directly to YouTube using an easy to remember number ‚Äì YTUBE (98823). To […]

The New York Times published a photo of podcast publisher Sue Bratton today to illustrate an article on the Association for Downloadable Media. It’s a nice shot of Bratton, but there’s something wrong with the image – something that may not be important to the readers of the New York Times, but that is important […]

The New York Times today has some interesting coverage of the recent announcement of the Association for Downloadable Media, an organization that hopes to set standards for audience measurement and advertising for downloadable media. The article takes a look at some of the reasons that some commercial podcasters see a need for the organization: Susan […]

Dave Winer, who created RSS 2.0, one of the standards on which podcasting is based, posted an interesting take today on the popular news feed service Feedburner, warning that there’s “danger in giving so much power to one company.” Feedburner is very popular with podcasters because it can streamline dealing with newsfeeds and offers statistics […]

StreetIQ.com has announced the launch of a Facebook application (registration required) that provides quick access to more than 400 business and financial podcast channels and integrates them into the social networking experience on Facebook. Using¬†the recently launched software platform at Facebook, StreetIQ.com lets Facebook members access their favorite business and financial podcasts and to share […]

From the department of bad ideas that won’t die comes word that Canada may be levying a fee on iPods & other portable media players, along with digital media, to meet demands of an organization that represents the interests of the music and movie industries. Legal blogger Dr. Micheal Geist has an excellent rundown on […]

Nearly one out of ten large companies has fired an employee for violating corporate blogging or message board policies, according to a survey conducted by Proofpoint, a company that specializes in corporate messaging security. 19 percent of the companies have disciplined an employee for violating corporate blogging or message board policies. While we haven’t seen […]

A new voice-over-IP (VoIP)¬†startup, Ooma, has launched that hopes to stir up the phone industry by combining Internet phone calls with peer-to-peer phone line sharing. It connects to your local phone line and to your broadband Internet, routing your long-distance calls over the Internet. The service also uses your phone line and the phone lines […]