Microsoft has announced that it is expanding its video offerings through the Zune Marketplace. Here’s a list of what’s coming.

Amazon.com is planning to take on Apple’s iTunes Store with a new video-on-demand service, the company has revealed. Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, speaking at the All Things D Conference, described the service as a “new version of video on demand” that will begin showing videos instantly on personal computers. Videos will be sold on an […]

Japanese electronics and telecommunications companes are developing a Linux-based TV-killer which will let users watch streaming video and browse the web using a remote.

The TV Portal Service Corp syndicate, made up of Sony, Matsushita (Panasonic), Sharp, Hitachi and Toshiba, is expected to announce a new tech standard for Internet television as early as next month.

Weezer’s Pork and Beans video, which features cameos and references to dozens of viral Internet videos, is a viral hit of its own. Director Mathew Cullen explains the story behind the video: “We’d been wanting to work with Weezer since their last album,” said Cullen, “and five weeks ago Weezer sent us this song, and […]

Rocketboom host Joanne Colan is leaving the show, according to a report in Valleywag: According to a source at the Creative Artists Agency, host Joanne Colan is leaving Rocketboom, one of the Internet’s first prominent news videoblogs. During her tenure, Colan never managed to transform the show (directed by creator Andrew Baron) from a quirky […]

The LA Times, of all places, says that broadcasting is dead: Broadcasting, simply put, isn’t casting broadly anymore. As the sweep suggests, the TV networks are losing not just their viewers but also their sense of specialness. They’re becoming just the lowest numbers on the multichannel dial, rather than the last outposts of mass culture. […]

The audience for Internet video will hit one billion viewers by 2013, driven by increasing broadband penetration and the rising connection speeds available to a growing percentage of the world’s population, according to ABI Research. That’s 1 in 6 people in the world that could be the potential audience for your Internet video! “The rapid […]

The long tail of cinema is coming soon to Internet television, according to New York Times article. It looks at Cinetic Media, a company that is working on distributing indie films via the Internet: John Sloss is one of the top sales agents for independent films. Mr. Sloss, 52, has handled the sale of such […]

Remember Viacom’s $1 billion lawsuit against Google over copyright infringement?

Viacom sued Google, arguing that “YouTube is a significant, for-profit organization….based on building traffic and selling advertising off of unlicensed content.”

Google is fighting back, claiming that the Viacom lawsuit threatens the future of the Internet as we know it!

The latest video by Weezer, for their song Pork and Beans, is insanely viral, racking up a couple million views in the last two days alone.  It’s not hard to see why. The video pays tribute to many of the stars and one-hit-wonders of Internet video, with new media cultural references that are almost too […]