The Emmy Awards were more horrible than ever – with a visit from Neal Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion as Dr Horrible and Captain Hammer. The highlight is Dr. Horrible’s skewering of both the future of television and the current state of Internet video.

This video, via Socialnomics, looks at the social media revolution. Watch it – you’ll find out some facts that will surprise you, no matter how engaged in social media you happen to be.

PiperJaffray analyst Gene Munster is predicting an update to Apple‘s close-but-no-cigar Internet TV device Apple TV at the company’s September 9th event. Munster notes that lead times are extending for the entry-level 40-GB $229 Apple TV, but unchanged for the higher-capacity 160-GB model. “We now have reason to believe” that an AppleTV update may be […]

The TV industry has as little as two years to get their online act together. Otherwise, it’s going to face face an “iTunes moment” and cede its online future to Apple, according to Microsoft’s Ashley Highfield. “The industry has about two to three years to adapt or face its iTunes moment,” said Highfield, the managing […]

Google has announced plans to AdSense-up one-off viral video hits on YouTube: Today we’re excited to announce that we’re extending the YouTube Partnership Program to include individual popular videos on our site. Now, when you upload a video to YouTube that accumulates lots of views, we may invite you to monetize that video and start […]

Kodak has released the Kodak Zi8 Pocket Video Camera, a $179 HD handicam which features – finally – an external mic jack. There are a lot of cheap portable video cameras, but almost all of them suffer from horrible sound and no support for better mics. Let’s hope that other companies will follow Kodak’s lead […]

Zombie Girl: The Movie is a documentary that looks at 12-year-old Emily Hagins and her quest to write and direct an indie zombie movie: Inspired by an Australian zombie import called Undead, she set about her first full-length feature film, Pathogen, when she was just 12 years old. Enter filmmakers Aaron Marshall, Erik Mauck and […]

Mobile social video site Qik has announced that Qik for the iPhone 3GS (App Store link) is now available. The free app lets you video blog directly from your iPhone 3GS. Upload videos from your iPhone’s Camera Roll This version of Qik lets you pull videos from your iPhone 3GS Camera Roll and upload them […]

Media research firm IPSOS has found that twice as man Americans are streaming TV shows and movies as were doing it a year ago. In the past 30 days, 26% of online Americans have streamed a full-length TV show and 14% have streamed a full-length movie. This is more than two times the levels measured […]

YouTube took credit today for pushing Chris Brown’s Forever, a song that was released over a year ago, to #4 on the iTunes singles chart and #3 on Amazon’s best-selling MP3 list. YouTube suggests that user-generated video, combined with their rights management tools, packs a powerful marketing punch: At YouTube, we have sophisticated content management […]