Back in 2006, we said that YouTube As You Know It Is Dead, arguing that Google’s desire to make YouTube “legitimate” would kill off the site’s user-generated focus: Google’s announcement places emphasis on the legal distribution of professionally produced content. “The combined companies will offer new opportunities for professional content owners to distribute their work to […]

Everybody is analyzing Barack Obama’s historic win over John McCain and a lot of smart people have come to the conclusion that Obama’s use of new media was key to his win.  Here are five of the most interesting looks at the new media angle of Obama’s campaign: The New York Times looks at How Obama Tapped Into […]

Sarah Palin may not have reigned in the budget in Wasilla. Sarah Palin may not have graduated from the first, second, third or fourth college she attended. Sarah Palin may not said no to “Bridge to Nowhere” pork. No matter what you think of Palins accomplishments, though, it’s hard to argue with BusinessWeek’s claim that […]

YouTube has announced updates to its embeddable video player, adding high-quality start images, search, video annotations and Closed Captions.

Time has selected its picks for the top inventions of 2008 and Internet video startup Hulu made the list, at #4.  About Hulu, Time notes: When cable eventually dies, websites like Hulu will be held responsible. Unlike YouTube and other amateur-video-upload sites, Hulu is a hub for network TV shows and movies: Hulu offers shows […]

Just about the greatest song ever written about America, courtesy The Boss. If you live in the US, vote today.

See more funny videos at Funny or Die Attack ads from the bitter Palpatine-Calrissian presidential race. via Neatorama

Silicon Alley Insider has a great post highlighting the ways that you can watch the elections online. While you probably expected each of the major networks to provide live streams, you can also get live streams coming from the candidates themselves: John McCain’s Live Ustream Channel Barack Obama’s Live Ustream Channel

Orb Networks has introduced a new iPhone app, OrbLive (App Store link), that plays live TV, Internet TV, and webcams on your iPhone or iPod Touch. The app is optimized for media streaming over WiFi. Note: OrbLive is currently limited to Windows PC users,

Yahoo!’s Brickhouse team has announced that the company will be killing off Yahoo! Live, a live video conferencing service: Our mission here on the Brickhouse team is to quickly develop product ideas that can add value to Yahoo! as a whole. To do this effectively we constantly evaluate our early-stage products and sometimes have to […]