UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, has announced that ten proposals for video podcast productions from ten countries have been selected to receive production grants. More than one hundred proposals were received from close to fifty countries in response to an open call for submissions last September. The proposals were studied by […]

Technology site CrunchGear reports that iPods will soon be getting a podcasts menu: Ouch! While iPods have had a podcast menu for over a year, a newly published patent application, Utilization Of Podcasts on Portable Media Devices, documents a how a series of hierarchical menus displayable on an iPod could guide a user to select […]

New research by interactive agency Sharpe Partners has found that 54 percent of adult Internet users currently create their own video offline, but only 11 percent actually upload it to the Internet. That gap, according to Sharpe Partners’ Kathy Sharpe, represents a huge opportunity for software and system providers that can help consumers migrate their […]

The Podcast & Portable Media Expo is history. Show organizers are expanding its reach to encompass the increased number of content creators and exhibitors in the areas of video for the web, blogging, and user-generated content and have renamed it the Podcast and New Media Expo. The conference and tradeshow is scheduled for September 28, […]

Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion is wondering Why Yahoo is backing away from RSS. “Has anyone noticed that Yahoo’s love affair with RSS seems to be withering?” asks Rubel. “In the past few weeks Yahoo has rolled out three major new web sites – Yahoo! Food, Yahoo! Advertising and Yahoo! TV. They’re great sites, but […]

BitTorrent has announced a slate of partnerships with a variety of leading film and television companies, including 20th Century Fox, G4, Kadokawa Pictures USA, Lionsgate, MTV Networks, Palm Pictures, Paramount Pictures and Starz Media. BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol that lets users share large files , while minimizing bandwidth charges for distributors. […]

YouTube as you know it may be dead, but it looks like a thousand baby YouTubes may spring up in its place. As material is getting banned from YouTube, it’s popping up again at sites like DailyMotion. Its getting tougher and tougher to break copyright law on YouTube these days. The site now performs frequent […]

Four major studios, Universal, 20th Century Fox, Paramount and Warner Bros, are reported to be pressuring Apple Computer are pressing Apple to make changes to iTunes before they will agree to make their films available via the iTunes Store.Currently, content on iTunes can be synced to an unlimited number of iPods. The studios want Apple […]

BitTorrent has announced a slate of partnerships with a wide variety of leading film and television companies. Fox, G4, Kadokawa Pictures USA, Lionsgate, MTV Networks (including COMEDY CENTRAL, Logo, MTV: Music Television, MTV2, Nickelodeon, Nicktoons Network, SpikeTV, The N, TV Land and VH1), Palm Pictures, Paramount Pictures and Starz Media will publish movies and TV […]

Fox Reality has partnered with Apple to deliver the first episode of all of its upcoming series to iTunes for free, one week prior to their premieres. The first series to premiere on iTunes, Fox’s My Bare Lady, promises to be controversial. The series follows U.S. adult film stars Kirsten Price, Nautica Thorn, Sasha Knox, […]