I’ve been catching up on Lost recently with the HD episodes available from Hulu and ABC. The quality is very good, considering it’s streaming HD Internet video, and having all three seasons of Lost available on demand is great, too. Their advertising implementation is terrible, though. Here’s why: Before you watch the show, you have […]

Wordpress creator Matt Mullenweg has announced that WordPress.com, a free blog hosting service, has updated the amount of space it allocates to each user to 3 gigabytes: Much of the work we do at Automattic is behind the scenes, infrastructure you‚Äôll (hopefully) never notice or see, but we‚Äôre always thinking about how the improvements we […]

CNBC has an interesting interview with Steve Jobs, in which he confirms our take away from his MacWorld announcements: Apple is killing off the DVD: Don’t underestimate the power of the new iTunes movie rental service either. I asked Jobs whether this meant the format war between Blu-ray and HD-DVD was over, with Apple the […]

Sprint has announced that it will be cutting 4,000 jobs and closing 8 percent of its stores: The company said it would cut 125 stores and eliminate more than 4,000 sales outlets within retailers.¬† Sprint expects the measures to trim labor costs by an annual rate of $700 million to $800 million by the end […]

Seesmic is a web-based video sharing platform that is designed to make posting short videos to the web trivially easy. The site can be used to create video blogs, engage in video dialogs with other users or to quickly create content to embed at other sites.The BBC has a seesgasmic take on the site: It’s […]

Revision3, the video podcasting network launched by the guys from Digg, has introduced a new weekly show, The Digg Reel, that offers 15-minutes of highlights from the highest-rated videos on Digg for that week. “There’s so much crap out there, it’s great to have the Digg community filter out the best, but no one can […]

Tooble is a new program for OS X that automatically downloads, converts and imports any YouTube video to play on your video iPod, iPhone, AppleTV, or even on your computer with iTunes. Tooble’s browser lets you search YouTube, play videos, select the ones you want and then download them and load them into iTunes. Here’s […]

Writer’s Guild of America members plan to launch Strike TV, an Internet fund-raiser to help members affected by the strike. Set to launch in February, the online channel will feature original video shows created by working professionals in the TV and Film industry. “Strike TV videos will not be about the strike,” according to the […]

We reported earlier today that Robert Scoble was leaving PodTech to move to Fast Company. In a post on his blog, Scoble explains why he is making the move: “I don’t love doing much except for interviewing and blogging and my family. I’ve run the books at UserLand Software. I hated that. I’ve tried managing […]

Former Microsoft blogger and Naked Conversations author Robert Scoble has announced that he’s leaving podcasting startup PodTech to take a newly created position at Fast Company: First of all, thanks to John Furrier, James McCormick, and the entire PodTech team. I grew a lot over the past year due to the opportunities they gave me […]