Podcasters Across Borders, a Canadian podcasting unconference, has announced its schedule for the 2008 event, being held June 20-22 in Kingston, Ontario: Friday, June 20, 2008 1:00pm Video production workshop (Bob Goyetche and Mark Blevis) 2:00pm Social (Media) Science (Dave Brodbeck) 3:00pm Community: Why It���s the ONLY thing that matters (Whitney Hoffman) 7:30pm PAB2008 Kick-off […]

YouTube today announced new features that turn YouTube into a platform for Internet video development: We now provide a complete set of (CRUD) capabilities for uploading, managing, searching, and playing back user videos and metadata from the YouTube “cloud,” managed by us. We do all of the hard work of transcoding and hosting and streaming […]

If you’re going to the NAB Show, you may want to check out the schedule for their Podcasting Summit. The Summit offers a 1-day boot camp, plus two days of additional training covering everything from planning to production through encoding, distribution and legal issues.

Internet video site Hulu launches today, offering full-length episodes of more than 250 TV series, including Lost and The Simpsons, along with older hits like Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In addition, Hulu will feature content from the Warner Bros Television Group, Lionsgate and from sports leagues. According to the company, it has already attracted over […]

Natural/organic supermarket chain Whole Foods Market, is launching Whole Earth Generation, a video podcast series dedicated to raising environmental awareness among young people. The podcast project is beginning with a search for six “fresh-faced personalities” aged 8 to 17, to be auditioned as hosts of this green-themed series. Children from all over the United States […]

A scandal has broken out over the fact that the most-viewed video of all time on YouTube, Evolution of Dance, has been beaten by a fan video for the song Music is My Hot Hot Sex. A lot of people are crying foul – not just because the Hot Hot Sex video is so bad, […]

Much as the movie industry would like to avoid having Apple becoming the dominant digital vendor for digital movies as it has in the world of digital music, Apple is doing it anyway. While the movie and television industry experiments with a bunch of incompatible standards and technologies, Apple has been inexorably putting together a […]

The LA Times has published an article by thirtysomething creator Marshall Herskovitz that responds to criticism of his show quarterlife, which was hyped beforehand as the first television-quality production for the Web. The show bombed on YouTube and went on to bomb on network television. Despite the show’s poor performance, Herskovitz thinks quarterlife is not […]

A lot of people have trouble explaining Twitter. The people at Common Craft, a series of short explanatory videos, do the job with Twitter in Plain English. Favorite line: “Real life happens between blog posts and emails.”

UK mobile developers Coolgorilla have launched the London Travel Guide, a free travel guide specifically designed for iPods, iPhones and mobile phones. The London Travel Guide packs over 400 pages of info, along with interactive features, onto your portable media player. The guide is designed to be regularly updated, so you can have the most […]