Podcaster and social media guru Chris Penn has posted his take on the future of podcasting, and says that “There are still hundreds of millions of iPods out there that have not tuned in, largely because people still don�t know how.”

United States District Judge Jeremy Fogel has delivered Prince, and Universal Music a fair use smackdown in a case that may end up reducing the number of nuisance takedown notices filed against people that share videos at sites like YouTube. Universal had sued Stephanie Lenz over the use of Prince’s song Let’s Go Crazy in […]

Ever wonder what the best place is to host a blog or podcast so that your site doesn’t die the first time you get on Digg? WhoIsHostingThis, a free service that lets you check where sites are hosted, tested the top 100 blogs (based on Technorati rank). They found that two hosts, Media Temple and […]

Tim Bourquin, creator of the New Media Expo, is thinking about quitting the tradeshow business. He cites five reasons – reasons that he feels “threaten the very industry itself”: High speed Internet costs. Nearly all convention centers have long-term, exclusive agreements in place with high speed Internet providers and the prices they are charging are […]

How would you like to be able to copy and paste between applications on your iPhone? That’s what Geek Brief‘s Cali Lewis demonstrates in the video above. This isn’t an official solution at this point, though. She’s running unreleased versions of WordPress and other apps that support OpenClip. OpenClip is a non-profit, open-source, community-effort project, […]

The Periodic Table of Videos is site that uses YouTube videos to make chemistry interesting and even fun. The site is organized around the periodic table of elements, and each element has a video that demonstrates its characteristics in visual ways. It’s a great use of Internet video to deliver educational content in a compelling, […]

YouTube Podcaster is a free service that lets you take YouTube searches and turn them into video podcasts, which you can subscribe to with iTunes or other podcast client and view on your portable media player. The site is a bit kludgy, so here’s a quick guide to how to turn YouTube searches into video […]

Ambrosia Software has released WireTap Anywhere, a low latency audio tool that lets you take the audio output from any Mac application or hardware input device and record it in your favorite audio recording application. Any program that produces audio can appear as an audio input device, letting you record or process it in any […]

New research shows that podcasting and social media are important technologies at the fastest growing companies in the US. The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research recently conducted one of the first statistically significant, longitudinal studies on the usage of social media in corporations. Research Highlights: Four out of five companies in the […]

We’ve been following Blendtec and their WillItBlend? video podcast for several years now and are amazed at how well the company has reinvented the infomercial as something that people will actively seek out. The company is taking its success to another level, though, as their most recent video demonstrates. In the video, Tom Dickson notes […]