Video

flickr Wants To Be The New YouTube

Apr 8th, 2008 | By | Category: Streaming Video, Video

Video on flickr just got official – at least if you consider an announcement by puppets to be official. The service is limited to pro accounts and videos are limited in length to 90 seconds. Here’s what flickr has to say about the 90 second limit: Video on Flickr grew out of the idea of […]



YouTube and C-Span Launch Nationwide Voter Video Project

Apr 7th, 2008 | By | Category: Streaming Video

YouTube and C-SPAN have partnered to launch a program to allow voters the opportunity to voice their views on the issues most important to them in the 2008 election. YouTube Voter Video on C-SPAN is encourages voters to respond to the question “What issue in this election is most important to you, and why?” From […]



Sonoma-Marin Fair Goes Virtual On YouTube

Apr 7th, 2008 | By | Category: Corporate Podcasts, Streaming Video

  The Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, California is expanding its reach, using YouTube to bring things like the World’s Ugliest Dog Contest (above) to the world.  “The purpose of a fair is to celebrate and showcase the community. Fairs are social events and social media is perfect for fairs because of this. We’re inviting folks to […]



Today’s Kids Are Pwned

Apr 4th, 2008 | By | Category: General, Internet TV, Strange, Streaming Video

Remember all the goofy things you did as a kid, and how you’re glad sometimes that people don’t know about them? Things are different now. With YouTube, today’s kids are completely pwned. WFMU’s Beware of the Blog has a great post that looks at a terrifying and hysterical sub-genre of YouTube videos: AP English classes’ […]



Seesmic Buys Twitter Client Twhirl

Apr 4th, 2008 | By | Category: Citizen Media, Microblogging, Video, Vlogs

Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur, who’s got to be the A-1 top of the food chain numero uno most charismatic French new media entrepreneur ever, announced today that his company had acquired Twhirl, a Twitter client. Not just any Twitter client, though – le plus grand Twitter client. Seesmic is a video blogging and conversation […]



New Wireless Multimedia Center

Apr 3rd, 2008 | By | Category: Internet TV, Podcasting Hardware

The Falcon MVIX is a new drive enclosure that loads your media files via Ethernet or WiFi so you can view them on a HDTV. It combines three main functions: It’s a hard drive enclosure, so you can add your own IDE or SATA hard drive and use it to store your media files. It […]



Blinkx Offers Its Take On Internet Television

Apr 2nd, 2008 | By | Category: Streaming Video

Video search company blinkx today announced the availability of blinkx BBTV, a new online television service that leverages blinkx’s speech and visual recognition technology to deliver Internet television with contextually linked information. blinkx BBTV enables users to instantly browse or interact with online sources related to what they are watching, whether it’s Google, Wikipedia, IMDB […]



XBox 360 To Get Original Internet Television

Mar 31st, 2008 | By | Category: Digital Video Downloads, General, Internet TV, Video

Competition for the next generation Internet television platform is starting to heat up. Microsoft, seeking to expand offerings on its Xbox 360 console, has reached an agreement with Hollywood firm the Safran Company to produce original shows for distribution on the system. The company represents clients like actor and producer Sean Combs (“Monster’s Ball”), actor and writer Nia […]



Safari On iPhone To Get YouTube Support

Mar 31st, 2008 | By | Category: Digital Video Downloads, Internet TV, Mobile Podcasting

The iPhone Safari browser may soon directly support YouTube, according to at least one report:  The latest version of the iPhone 2.0 firmware that was just seeded to developers has a YouTube plugin for MobileSafari.app! We’re not sure at this point if this is using the same method as the native YouTube app that just works […]



PodCamp Coming to Ohio

Mar 29th, 2008 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, How to Podcast, Podcasting Events, Video Podcasts

PodCamp, the free podcasting unconference, is coming to Ohio, on Saturday, June 28, 2008 at the ITT Technical Institute in Hilliard. PodCamp Ohio offers an opportunity for attendees to learn, share or grow their new media skills. They can attend informal sessions, created and driven by participants, about podcasts, blogs, digital music, web video and […]