Google today announced a new standard for helping search engines index video, Video Sitemaps. Video Sitemaps is an extension of the Sitemap Protocol that helps make your videos more searchable via Google Video Search. By submitting this video-specific Sitemap in addition to your standard Sitemap, you can specify all the video files on your site, […]

They Might Be Giants have introduced a new podcast for kids, TMBG’s Friday Night Video Podcast For Kids. You can preview the podcast below. To subscribe, add this feed URL to your podcast client: http://feeds.feedburner.com/theymightbegiants/ via Wired

Photographer Lane Hartwell is tired of people stealing her photos and reusing them without her permission. She’s published her images, like a lot of us, on Flickr, with all rights reserved. Unlike most of us, though, Hartwell is a freelance photographer and a regular contributor to Wired News. Her work has featured in publications around […]

Today, Helio announced a new mobilecasting service that they are calling “the most comprehensive YouTube experience currently offered on mobile!” They could have thrown a “massive” or “global” into that, but the service is exactly the type of thing we’ve been pushing for for years: mobile devices that are sophisticated two-way Web publishing platforms. Available […]

Apple has updated the iTunes store with a directory of their top podcasts of 2007. Lots of the usual suspects, including Sesame Street, NPR’s Fresh Air, Ask a Ninja, Grammar Gril Diggnation, Boing Boing TV & Tiki Bar TV. It’s a great starting point, though, for people new to podcasting. Another demonstration of the fact […]

Movable Type’s Anil Dash today announced that the popular blogging platform is being GPL’d, as Movable Type Open Source. It’s now open source and free for any use. The change makes sense for MT. WordPress was threatening to marginalize the Movable Type platform.¬† WordPress’s openness has been attracting the attention of developers and it’s become […]

Anne Zelenka at GigaOm has an interesting take on the idea of using WordPress as a social networking platform, looking at DiSo, Chris Messina’s project to build a social networking platform based on WordPress: “In contrast to social networking, blogging offers a person-centric way for individuals to come online. A social network like Facebook gives […]

Online video behemoth YouTube announced today an initiative in which original content creators will now have an opportunity “to reap rewards from their work” and receive the same promotional benefits afforded to YouTube’s other professional content partners. YouTube is inviting US and Canadian users to join their expanded YouTube Partner Program. Earlier this year, the […]

Hayden Black, video podcaster and creator of Abigail’s X-Rated Teen Diary tells us: “A couple of weeks ago, on Thanksgiving, we were contacted by a Marine Sergeant stationed in Iraq who, along with his unit, are big fans of the show and wanted a special video dedication. We were so surprised and pleased to hear […]

As social media gets more and more popular, companies are struggling to understand what’s important, who they should pay attention to and what they should measure, according to a report by the Institute for Public Relations and Wieck Media. Here are the highlights: Fifty-seven percent of respondents said that social media tools are becoming more […]