Podcast aggregation site Odeo today announced that its assets have been acquired by SonicMountain, a New York based company focused in the digital media hosting and search marketplace. Odeo was among the first commercial podcasting sites, launched in July 2005, and is designed to make it easy to listen, download and subscribe to podcasts. The […]

Angel Learning, a developer/marketer of enterprise e-learning software, has announced that the latest version of their Learning Management System program has built-in podcast support. Responding to strong interest in the educational community for podcasting, ANGEL 7.2 contains a native feature to support content syndication in all forms. Faculty simply create a ‚ÄúContent Syndication‚Äù folder and […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit Tuesday against Uri Geller, a “paranormalist” best known for bending spoons, for bending the law to silence his critics. EFF’s client, Brian Sapient, belongs to a group called the “Rational Response Squad,” which is dedicated to debunking what it calls irrational beliefs. As part of their mission, Sapient […]

NBC Universal has announced that it plans to limit the length of pre-roll advertising (ads displayed before you get any content) in Internet videos to 15 seconds or less. Longer-form content, such as full-length episodes of TV series will continue to accept 30-second or longer spots. “It’s essential for clients to deliver their messages in […]

Added to the mobilecasting index: spodtronic lets you listen to your favorite radio station, anytime and anywhere, on your mobile phone. With spodtronic’s mobile podcatcher, you can also download podcasts directly to your handset, without the need to use a computer. The company positions its service as a total radio experience – an alternative to […]

A new study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project highlights the fact that most Americans are not participating in blogging, podcasting or Internet media sharing sites like YouTube. While 85% of Americans use the Internet or cell phones, only 8% are what the study calls information “omnivores” – people that fully participate “in […]

RCA has announced the new EZ201 Small Wonder, an inexpensive digital camcorder designed to make it easy to capture and share video. It joins a growing segment of cheap camcorders, like the Flip Video, designed to offer basic image quality and the most frequently used features of more expensive camcoders. “We‚Äôve listened to our consumers‚Äô […]

UK’s Football Association Premier League Limited and indie music publisher Bourne Co. filed a class action lawsuit in federal court in New York Friday to stop the unauthorized use of their works, and those of all other similarly situated copyright holders, on YouTube. The lawsuit names as defendants two YouTube affiliates (YouTube, Inc. and YouTube […]

Presidential candidate Barack Obama on Thursday called on Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean to make video from any Democratic presidential debates available “for free and without restriction.” Obama supports a call from Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig to share the debate videos and eliminate unnecessary regulation of political speech. “Technology has exploded the opportunity […]

YouTube has announced a new program to expand its revenue sharing program to top YouTube video bloggers, including LisaNova, renetto, HappySlip, smosh, and valsartdiary. Participating user-partners will be treated as other content partners and will have the ability to control the monetization of the videos they create. Once they‚Äôve selected a video to be monetized, […]