The University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) is using iTunes U, Apple’s educational podcast service, to provide new content by McGraw-Hill Higher Education as part of a pilot program. The University is testing using McGraw-Hill’s rich-media educational content to engage students in new ways. This initiative also is giving students the opportunity to directly participate in the […]

The United Nations has hooked up with fake jailbait vlogger lonelygirl15 (actress Jessica Lee Rose) and the producers of the discredited YouTube flog for an ad campaign promoting a UN antipoverty event planned for Sunday. Rose, the actress who plays ‚ÄúBree‚Äù in the Lonelygirl15 videos posted on video-sharing Web site YouTube, will reprise the role […]

Domain registrar and Web hosting provider Private Domain Depot has introduced a Quick Podcast service for home, hobby or business podcasters. The company is offering three plans to choose from, starting at $5.99/month for 1GB of disk space and 100 GB bandwidth, which they say is equivalent to about 3,600 downloads of a 1-hour talk […]

Blue Microphones, a leading microphone technology vendor, has introduced two new Applets for their Snowball USB Microphone which adds further flexibility to its dual-capsule design by giving users more control over the input gain. The Snowball has been popular with podcasters because it is a relativley inexpensive USB microphone. Two new free firmware applets for […]

Webwag.com, a personalizable start page service that launched in September, lets users design their own start page as a” universal mash-up”, with news and blogs feeds of their choice, the ability to check several emails accounts, listen to podcasts with an iPod-styled player, show local weather forecast and other services. ‚ÄúWebwag helps users to personalize […]

Pamela Gay, a physics professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, is the co-host of Astronomy Cast, a new podcast that takes a “weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos.” “I’ve always been interested in popularizing astronomy and how to get more people interested in what I do,” said Gay, of Edwardsville. She is joined by Fraser […]

Google announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction. Following the acquisition, YouTube will operate independently “to preserve its successful brand and passionate community.” The acquisition is likely to lead to rapid changes at YouTube. Google’s announcement places emphasis on the legal distribution of professionally produced content. […]

Dick Schiferli of Pamela Systems has announced that the company’s flagship software for Skype, Pamela Pro, will be available for free to every seminar attendee during the International Podcasting Expo, October 20-22, 2006. Paige Eissinger of 2 Smart Chix will also offer training on the Pamela Pro software. The Podcasting Expo is a virtual event, […]

GreedTube is a new video-sharing site that doesn’t look like it will be long for this world, unless it makes a few changes. It’s a very YouTube-like site, with a very YouTube-like name and a very YouTube-like logo that lets you post videos and share in the ad revenue.

Rumors of a Google acquisition of YouTube, which started at the TechCrunch technology blog, have run wild over the last few days. The Wall Street Journal followed the TechCrunch post by reporting that Google is in talks to buy the popular video-sharing site, citing the TechCrunch blog and a person familiar with the matter. Since […]