Loren Feldman, the puppetmaster behind the puppet Shel Israel video blog, is moving on. Puppet Shel Israel is a sort of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog for new media, parodying “new media expert” Shel Israel, while scooping him with entertaining interviews, like this discussion with Digg’s Kevin Rose: While Loren’s puppet has been scoring the […]

Cynical Peak’s Rivet is a Mac OS X app that lets you access your iTunes media on your Xbox 360. In a nutshell, it turns your XBox 360 into Apple TV Jr. You can browse, play, and view your pictures, movies, and video through the Xbox 360’s media blade. Rivet will automatically load and give […]

Video community site Seesmic has announced that it has partnered with Six Apart, the maker of Movable Type to provide Movable Type users and their readers with the ability to integrate video comments alongside traditional text-based comments. Seesmic already offers a plug-in for integrating its video system into WordPress sites. The MT plug in is […]

Google Media Server, a Windows application that aims to bridge the gap between Google services and your TV, was greeted with yawns upon its release yesterday. The free software is designed to let you access media files, such as videos, music, Picasa Web albums & YouTube videos, via your TV. Sort of like a poor-man’s […]

12seconds.tv is a new site, now in private “alpha” testing, that is sort of like YouTube for cell phone videos.  The site “allows friends and family to record and share short video updates about what they are doing or where they are.” The site doesn’t currently have a lot of features yet, but you can post short videos […]

In five years, video will be everywhere, showing up on your phone, on Blade Runner-esque billboards, in your email and on your car’s GPS unit. According to Forrester analyst James L. McQuivey, Ph.D., you’ll encounter “a dozen video platforms per day,” – what he calls an OmniVideo world. You’ll not only watch more video, but more of […]

Tim Street, creator of the video podcast French Maid TV, is live-streaming a French Maid TV shoot, via UStream. (Note: the embed has been updated to point to video from the streaming event. ) French Maid TV was an early breakout hit among video podcasts, each episode a 5 – 10 minute “how to” lesson, […]

TubeMogul, a video analytics and distribution service, has announced its TubeMogul Top 40, and indie video podcasters and new media networks top the list. This is a list of the publishers using TubeMogul to distribute their videos that get the most views each month. While it’s not surprising that the list is dominated by new […]

The BBC today introduced an updated version of the BBC iPlayer, which fully combines radio and TV in one interface. The BBC iPlayer is an Internet-based on-demand catch-up service for BBC media, and is available on PC, Mac, Linux, Virgin Media, Apple iPhone & iPod touch and Nintendo Wii. The BBC reports that it has […]

Beet.tv‘s Andy Plesser snags a nice interview with Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google and the man known to many as the”father of the Internet.” About 4:30 into the interview, Cerf talks a bit about the history of video distribution over the Internet, and then goes on to say that the popularity […]