¬† PowWows.com has introduced a new podcast that features Native American music and interviews, IndigiTunes. The first episode featureed Pow Wow music. More recent episodes have featured 49 songs, Fiddle music and music from Kenny Merrick Jr. You can preview the podcast below, or subscribe by adding this feed URL to your podcast client software: […]

AdAge reports that social networking sites now reach an amazing 96% of online tweens and teens.¬†¬†71% of online tweens and teens connect to a social network at least once a week, making them some of the most popular sites on the Internet. For companies that want to reach teens, the study suggests that social networking […]

U.S. video rental spending is well off its 2001 peak of $10.3 billion, but revenue from online subscriptions is beginning to put some steam back into the rental industry, according to Adams Media Research (AMR). AMR projects online subscription spending to increase by 41% to $1.9 billion in 2007. ‚ÄúThe five-year decline in the video […]

Movavi has launched Movavi Online, a web-based service that lets you convert video from one format to another – for sharing, podcasting, cellphones, iPods, and more – for free. The new service generates video files specifically tuned for viewing in email, on mobile devices, for video blogging (vlogging) and video podcasting. Options include encoding video […]

Feed-based search service Feedster has announced a “Web 2.0” style makeover for its site. On first look, this appears to mean that they made the site slow and ugly. Here’s their take on the changes, though: To start with the obvious, the site looks completely different. When comparing the old with the new, it‚Äôs quite […]

Kiptronic, a technology service for downloadable media, announced today that it now offers dynamic ad insertion and campaign management for video content. Kiptronic‚Äôs service is currently in production with several media organizations including Cond√©Net, an Internet unit of Cond√©Nast Publications. ‚ÄúThe growth in Internet audio and video consumption requires unique content services that [don’t disrupt] […]

¬† PCAudioLabs has released Impact, a new case option its line of studio/music computers. The case,¬†a modular rack-mount design with acoustic foam insulation,¬†was designed from the ground up taking into account how computers are used during the process of recording and mixing audio. Prices for configured Impact audio workstations start at US $2,675. Details at […]

Hundreds of U.S. commercial webcasters are going silent today, June 26, to protest to an impending royalty rate increase that could threaten their ability to make money broadcasting mainstream music. Yahoo! is one of the Internet radio broadcasters that has announced that it is going silent: “Apologies to anyone who was hoping to listen to […]

blinkx today unveiled AdHoc, a contextually relevant video advertising platform,¬†aka¬†AdSense for Video, the latest in a stream of recent announcements from the company. According to blinkx,¬†”Just as Google‚Äôs AdSense transformed advertising on the Text Web, blinkx‚Äôs AdHoc platform will revolutionize video advertising by matching compelling, customized, TV-style ads to your audience on the Video Web.” […]

Dave Winer, who developed one of the standards which podcasting is based on, is excited by the idea of combining audio files with Twitter messages. He calls the combination a “TwitterGram”: The other day I was thinking about other kinds of Twitters. The thing we like about Twitter is that you can’t post a book-length […]