Today, Helio announced a new mobilecasting service that they are calling “the most comprehensive YouTube experience currently offered on mobile!” They could have thrown a “massive” or “global” into that, but the service is exactly the type of thing we’ve been pushing for for years: mobile devices that are sophisticated two-way Web publishing platforms. Available […]

Paramount Pictures’ Jackass movie franchise is moving to the Web, with what they are calling the first studio-backed film to premiere online: On Dec. 19, the studio will make Jackass 2.5 available in connection with Blockbuster‚Äôs Movielink service. The hour-plus film has original material and previously unseen outtakes from the second Jackass movie in 2006. […]

Earlier in the day, we reported that popular tech analyst Robert Scoble was planning to leave podcasting startup PodTech. Since then, Scoble has confirmed his decision on his blog: My last day there will be January 14th. I am working on a number of PodTech initiatives, including the CES BlogHaus as well as a Blogger […]

Apple has updated the iTunes store with a directory of their top podcasts of 2007. Lots of the usual suspects, including Sesame Street, NPR’s Fresh Air, Ask a Ninja, Grammar Gril Diggnation, Boing Boing TV & Tiki Bar TV. It’s a great starting point, though, for people new to podcasting. Another demonstration of the fact […]

More bad news for troubled podcasting startup PodTech: According to reports via TechCrunch and Twitter, popular tech analyst Robert Scoble is leaving the company and taking ScobleShow, the closest thing PodTech has had to a hit show, with him: Famous blogger Robert Scoble will be leaving his current job at PodTech in mid January, he […]

We spend a lot of time looking at the big trends shaping Internet media at Podcasting News, and one of the most important ones is that people’s attention is moving to the Web faster than traditional media companies. As a result of this shift, mainstream broadcasters are losing their audience to things like YouTube and […]

Cheap digital cameras are making it possible to do new things with video, and to experiment with cameras in ways that weren’t previously possible. On the slopes near Park City, Utah, Anthony Godoy, of Twenty20, and Graham Watanabe, of the U.S. Snowboard Team, invented and tested the “Granthony Cam.” The Granthony Cam mechanism enabled the […]

Online video behemoth YouTube announced today an initiative in which original content creators will now have an opportunity “to reap rewards from their work” and receive the same promotional benefits afforded to YouTube’s other professional content partners. YouTube is inviting US and Canadian users to join their expanded YouTube Partner Program. Earlier this year, the […]

Hayden Black, video podcaster and creator of Abigail’s X-Rated Teen Diary tells us: “A couple of weeks ago, on Thanksgiving, we were contacted by a Marine Sergeant stationed in Iraq who, along with his unit, are big fans of the show and wanted a special video dedication. We were so surprised and pleased to hear […]

Are you ready to try out HD streaming video in your Web browser? On Wednesday, Adobe Systems announced the immediate availability of Adobe Flash Player 9, which adds H.264 standard video support, the same standard deployed in Blu-Ray and HD-DVD high definition video players, and High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio capabilities. The player features hardware […]