Jeremy Allaire and Adam Berrey from the Internet television startup brightcove have posted an interesting take on the state of Internet video. They take a look back at what happened in 2007, but also offer their vision for what will happen in 2008. Here are the highlights: Branded Destinations – Media companies with established brands […]

The Sex:Tech Conference wants you to create a video that answers the question “Why is sex so interesting and sex ed so boring?” They want you to make a video on one of these ideas: Theme 1. Share your sex ed experience so far. Show us how and why it sucked or rocked. Theme 2. […]

Kent Nichols, co-creator of the popular video podcast Ask A Ninja, has started a new blog, and it already looks like it could become essential reading for indie new media content creators. His first post takes a look at YouTube and why video podcasters and vloggers shouldn’t depend on it: “YouTube doesn‚Äôt care about any […]

According to a new report, Apple TV leads the market for Internet television devices, but the devices have had difficulty resonating with consumers, largely due to their cost and complexity. ‚ÄúVendors of these products have struggled with a number of hurdles that have so far made this market relatively unsuccessful,‚Äù says ABI Research director Michael […]

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

Paramount Pictures’ Jackass movie franchise is moving to the Web, with what they are calling the first studio-backed film to premiere online: On Dec. 19, the studio will make Jackass 2.5 available in connection with Blockbuster‚Äôs Movielink service. The hour-plus film has original material and previously unseen outtakes from the second Jackass movie in 2006. […]

Earlier in the day, we reported that popular tech analyst Robert Scoble was planning to leave podcasting startup PodTech. Since then, Scoble has confirmed his decision on his blog: My last day there will be January 14th. I am working on a number of PodTech initiatives, including the CES BlogHaus as well as a Blogger […]

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 […]

More bad news for troubled podcasting startup PodTech: According to reports via TechCrunch and Twitter, popular tech analyst Robert Scoble is leaving the company and taking ScobleShow, the closest thing PodTech has had to a hit show, with him: Famous blogger Robert Scoble will be leaving his current job at PodTech in mid January, he […]