YouTube is getting serious about mobilecasting, expanding its mobile service to include virtually all of the videos available on its Web site. Starting today, people with current generation mobile phones can watch tens of millions of YouTube videos. YouTube also is providing mobile access to many of the same features that have become staples of […]

For the third year in a row, Dixie Consumer Products has renewed its sponsorship of the MommyCast podcast, with a new 2008-year agreement. The continuing relationship will allow Dixie to maintain its role as a “preferred online sponsor” and partner of the long-running and popular MommyCast. Gretchen Vogelzang, co-host and co-founder of MommyCast, said, “We […]

Doug Kaye, founder of volunteer network PodCorps, has clued us in on another one-time opportunity for podcasters. The New York Times needs local “radio producers” to gather audio interviews on Super Tuesday, February 5th, 2008, in the following states: Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California (Northern & Southern) Colorado Connecticut Delaware Georgia Idaho Illinois Kansas Massachusets […]

I’ve been catching up on Lost recently with the HD episodes available from Hulu and ABC. The quality is very good, considering it’s streaming HD Internet video, and having all three seasons of Lost available on demand is great, too. Their advertising implementation is terrible, though. Here’s why: Before you watch the show, you have […]

Wordpress creator Matt Mullenweg has announced that WordPress.com, a free blog hosting service, has updated the amount of space it allocates to each user to 3 gigabytes: Much of the work we do at Automattic is behind the scenes, infrastructure you‚Äôll (hopefully) never notice or see, but we‚Äôre always thinking about how the improvements we […]

According to the analysts at Compete, the Podshow podcasting network is one of the top five movers and shakers of 2007. Here’s what PodShow’s Adam Curry has to say about the news: This is a report I‚Äôm extremely proud to post about. According to Compete.com PodShow grew 29144% in 2007, making us the third fastest […]

The amount of money spent in the US online advertising market will double, to $50.3 billion in revenue, by 2011, according to research from the Yankee Group. The internet accounts for approximately 20% of overall media consumption in the US, but advertisers currently invest only 7.5% of their budget online. There is tremendous potential for […]

Seesmic is a web-based video sharing platform that is designed to make posting short videos to the web trivially easy. The site can be used to create video blogs, engage in video dialogs with other users or to quickly create content to embed at other sites.The BBC has a seesgasmic take on the site: It’s […]

Revision3, the video podcasting network launched by the guys from Digg, has introduced a new weekly show, The Digg Reel, that offers 15-minutes of highlights from the highest-rated videos on Digg for that week. “There’s so much crap out there, it’s great to have the Digg community filter out the best, but no one can […]

Writer’s Guild of America members plan to launch Strike TV, an Internet fund-raiser to help members affected by the strike. Set to launch in February, the online channel will feature original video shows created by working professionals in the TV and Film industry. “Strike TV videos will not be about the strike,” according to the […]