Companies hoping to create the “AdSense for video” just got some major competition. Google has announced that it is launching a pilot with a small group of publishers to test streaming video ads in their online video content. With this pilot, publishers control when the ads play in their videos and choose which videos get […]

TechCrunch is reporting that Google is buying RSS feed management company Feedburner for about $100 million. The deal is all cash and mostly upfront, although the founders will be locked in for a couple of years. “The information we have is that the deal is now under a binding term sheet and will close in […]

Wallstrip, the Rocketboom of financial news, has been purchased by CBS Interactive for a price in the millions, with a multi-year commitment to continue show and enhance its site. “You can make money from blogging!” said Wallstrip’s Howard Lindzon. The show, described as “Cramer with breasts” by its creator, is a short (about four minute) […]

Maharashtra-based bloggers Debashish Chakrabarty and Shashi Singh have announced the launch of Podbharti, India‚Äôs “first pure Hindi podcast.”¬† Their podcast is targeted toward the Hindi audience in India and abroad.¬† The duo aim to provide a comprehensive coverage of news and opinion about Indian-language blogging, technology, news and current affairs and the entertainment industry. Podbharti.com […]

The UK Podcasters Association, a non-profit organization promoting podcasting, has announced that it has come to an agreement with AIM, the UK-based Association of Independent Music, which allows members preferential access to AIM’s podcast license. The AIM podcast license covers over 30,000 tracks licensed by the UK independent music industry and includes labels such as […]

It looks like the good people at Soundtrack.net have figured out one of the tried and true ways to get covered by Podcasting News: do something that involves pirates and podcasting. Their latest podcast looks at the music for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. In our longest podcast to date, SoundtrackNet talks with […]

ESPN today launched a set of free, downloadable video podcasts available daily. The first video podcast offerings include: a downloadable version of the popular ESPN.com SportsCenter Minute; the “Big Finish” from ESPN‚Äôs Pardon The Interruption (PTI); the “First Word” segment from ESPN‚Äôs Around The Horn; ESPN Digital Media‚Äôs “Fantasy Focus” daily original fantasy sports news […]

VocalBooth.com, a manufacturer of modular sound reduction enclosures, has released their 14 Carat Diamond Series vocal booths. The Diamond Series, named for its shape, is a five-sided booth engineered to utilize the corner of a room. The five sided design also creates non-parallel walls that help to reduce standing waves. The new 14 Carat series […]

Engadget has issued a mea culpa for “AppleGate” – its announcement that Apple was delaying the iPhone and the next version of OS X for several months. The story, which turned out to be unfounded, lost Apple stock owners an amazing $4 billion with minutes. Engadget’s Ryan Block had the task of explaining their situation: […]

MusicXPC‘s Professional S3 studio production computer is a Windows-based system specially tweaked for media production, configured from the BIOS up to handle audio tracks, effects and virtual instruments with ease. The system features an Intel Core 2 Duo processor running at 2.4GHz with a 4MB L2 Cache on a 1066 MHz FSB. The machine comes […]