Technology site CrunchGear reports that iPods will soon be getting a podcasts menu: Ouch! While iPods have had a podcast menu for over a year, a newly published patent application, Utilization Of Podcasts on Portable Media Devices, documents a how a series of hierarchical menus displayable on an iPod could guide a user to select […]

New research by interactive agency Sharpe Partners has found that 54 percent of adult Internet users currently create their own video offline, but only 11 percent actually upload it to the Internet. That gap, according to Sharpe Partners’ Kathy Sharpe, represents a huge opportunity for software and system providers that can help consumers migrate their […]

The Podcast & Portable Media Expo is history. Show organizers are expanding its reach to encompass the increased number of content creators and exhibitors in the areas of video for the web, blogging, and user-generated content and have renamed it the Podcast and New Media Expo. The conference and tradeshow is scheduled for September 28, […]

Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion is wondering Why Yahoo is backing away from RSS. “Has anyone noticed that Yahoo’s love affair with RSS seems to be withering?” asks Rubel. “In the past few weeks Yahoo has rolled out three major new web sites – Yahoo! Food, Yahoo! Advertising and Yahoo! TV. They’re great sites, but […]

In September of this year, when Apple sent cease and desist letters to several companies claiming that they infringed on Apple’s “iPod” trademark, there were rumors that Apple was trademarking the term “podcast”. A letter received by The Global Geek Podcast confirms what many suspected: the rumors of Apple trademarking “podcast” were overblown. In the […]

Yale University has introduced an official podcast, the Yale Podcast, that features lectures and speeches given at the University by professors, alumni and other notable guest speakers. According to Yale spokeswoman Helaine Klasky, the podcast has received over 50,000 hits in its first week and has been met with much excitement throughout the Yale community. […]

BitTorrent has announced a slate of partnerships with a wide variety of leading film and television companies. Fox, G4, Kadokawa Pictures USA, Lionsgate, MTV Networks (including COMEDY CENTRAL, Logo, MTV: Music Television, MTV2, Nickelodeon, Nicktoons Network, SpikeTV, The N, TV Land and VH1), Palm Pictures, Paramount Pictures and Starz Media will publish movies and TV […]

The recent news that YouTube is working with Verizon to bring a selection of YouTube content to cell phones is striking some as more evidence that YouTube as you know it is dead. YouTube‚Äôs phone-based version will require a $15-a-month subscription to a Verizon Wireless service called VCast. VCast users will be able to view […]

The mobile adult content market is forecast to grow from its 2006 level of $1.4 billion to over $3.3 billion by 2011, according to new study by Juniper Research. Over the whole 2006 to 2011 period, Juniper estimates that mobile adult entertainment services will generate a $14.5 billion in revenues, with Europe contributing 39% and […]

The podcast Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing has gone from zero to over a million downloads since launching in late July, according to its creators at the QDnow Network. Show host and creator Mignon Fogarty says the key to the show’s success has been making it fun. Fogarty uses humorous examples […]