comScore today released the results of a study profiling the “iTunes podcasting audience”. The study, sponsored by mobile advertising service Ad Infuse, focused on users who downloaded podcasts via iTunes in October 2006. It found the podcast audience to an attractive demographic for advertisers, with a core audience of high-income, well-educated people. Research Highlights: Males […]

The WordPress development team has announced the immediate availability of version 2.2 “Getz” for download. This version, named in honor of tenor saxophonist Stan Getz, includes a number of new features, most notably Widgets integration, and over two hundred bug fixes. WordPress has become popular among podcasters as a free tool for publishing blogs, podcasts […]

PennSound, a project of the University of Pennsylvania, is a Web-based archive for noncommercial distribution of the largest collection of poetry sound files on the Internet. PennSound offers a large variety of digital recordings of poems — currently 1,500 and fast growing — mostly as song-length singles. “This has never been done before,” said Al […]

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is pushing Congress to enact a sweeping new intellectual property bill, the Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007, that would increase criminal penalties for copyright infringement, including “attempts” to commit piracy where no actual copyright infringement occurs. “To meet the global challenges of IP crime, our criminal laws must be […]

MySpace today announced the launch of a new section within MySpace Video featuring premium content from top corporate news and lifestyle brands. MySpace Video will launch ‚Äúbranded channels‚Äù for National Geographic, The New York Times, Reuters, The Daily Reel, Expert Village, Flow, FOX‚Äôs IGN Entertainment, Octane TV, Kush TV, Ripe TV, Studio411, VBS.tv, and Young […]

Google has introduced a new podcast, the Google Developer Podcast. The podcast is hosted by Dick Wall and Carl Quinn, two Googlers that are part of the Java Posse podcast. Topics covered will include: Interviews with Google engineers, discussing areas of their expertise New features, applications, and APIs that matter to developers Open source projects […]

adap.tv, an digital video advertising platform, today announced its public launch and a strategic partnership with Metacafe, one of the world’s largest video Web sites. The company’s technology is designed to not only analyze video content and determine the most relevant ad, but also to adapt in real time to viewer behavior, thereby increasing the […]

The future of Internet television belongs to free video podcasts and ad-supported video downloads, according to a new report by Forrester Research. Forrester estimates that paid video downloads will peak in 2007, generating $279 million in revenue, up from $98 million last year. Beyond 2007, advertising models will drive the online video market. Despite the […]

Media Rights Technologies and BlueBeat.com, developers of digital rights management software, have issued cease and desist letters to Microsoft, Adobe, Real Networks and Apple for failing to implement the companies’ DRM technology in Windows Vista, Adobe’s Flash Player, Real Player and Apple’s iTunes and iPod. The companies are using an unusual interpretation of the Digital […]

Amazon.com today officially launched the Amazon Podcasts network, an original podcast offering¬†that features four channels of free content: Amazon BookClips, Music You Should Hear, Significant Seven and Amazon Wire. The company expects to offer several additional channels in the coming months to meet its customers‚Äô increasing demand for rich content related to the products they […]