NBC has announced that it will be using Internet video as a sort of minor league training grown for late-night television. It’s announced that Jimmy Fallon will be the Late Night replacement for Conan O’Brien when Mr. O’Brien takes over the Tonight show next year. Lorne Michaels, Executive Producer for Late Night said that he […]

If you’re a Windows user, and you need a DVD utility for ripping DVDs for your iPod, Zune, or other media player, check out DVD Catalyst Free. It’s a free version of a commercial application, but it’s still fairly capable, converting DVD to iPhone, iPod, Zune, PocketPC, Palm, PSP and more devices. It can convert […]

Free video hosting service Vimeo has announced that it’s banning gaming videos, becuase they’re space hogs that don’t meet the goals of the site: The Vimeo staff has decided that we are no longer going to allow gaming videos on Vimeo. Specifically, we are no longer going to allow game walk-throughs, game strategy videos, depictions […]

Embedded Video is a WordPress plug-in designed to streamline embedding video into blogs: The plugin is made for easily embedding videos into a blog post. The videos can be integrated from external portals (like YouTube, Google Video and many many others) or they can be uploaded to the web server or a remote server and […]

MG Siegler at Parislemon has an interesting take on the current state of movie rentals on the�XBox 360, suggesting that it’s not ready for prime time: Last night I sat down to download The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. I figured it would take 5-10 minutes to get enough information to start playing and then […]

Ian Lamont, at The Industry Standard, has published his take on “why podcasting is failing” reacting to the news that much-hyped podcasting startup PodTech was getting bought by ViewPartner: “Podcasting is failing as a business platform, and has failed to make a mainstream impact. The news that PodTech only managed to limp into an acquisition […]

Last fall, Podtech‘s then VP Robert Scoble said “Reports of PodTech’s demise are bull####!” Now, VentureBeat reports that podcasting startup PodTech has been purchased by ViewPartner, a communications technology company.  PodTech sold for under half a million dollars, a fraction of the $7.5 million invested in the company. PodTech struggled from the beginning to find […]

Metacafe and Microcinema, a leading international rights manager, are teaming up on a juried online and offline film festival, MetaFest 2008. MetaFest hopes to combine the best of interactive online video-viewing with the best of the live-audience offline film festival experience. Selected films will have a theatrical premiere in San Francisco in November 2008, will […]

WebTrends, one of the leading corporate Web analytics providers, has introduced a new video tracking service that is designed to uncover viewing patterns and trends across all major media formats. Features of WebTrends video tracking: Track visitor use across all major video formats, including Flash, FLEX and Microsoft Silverlight. Track visitor use of Windows Media, […]

There’s a great deal of buzzing today about a few Internet video news items: Amazon is debuting a streaming video store. The service, Amazon Video on Demand, will offer about 40,000 streaming videos for customers to choose from. TiVo is adding YouTube support. TiVo’s YouTube support was announced in March, and is available to broadband-connected […]