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Scoble: PodTech Not Dead Yet!

Oct 25th, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Video Downloads, Internet TV, Podcasting Networks, Video Podcasts

Struggling podcasting startup PodTech isn’t closing up shop, according to PodTech VP Robert Scoble. It’s changing direction. “Reports of PodTech’s demise are bull####!” said Scoble. “This is total, 100% bull####. Not even deserving of a response. I’m not leaving PodTech. When, er if, I am you’ll read it here on my blog.” Daniel Lyons, writing […]



ShredOrDie Wants To Be The YouTube Of Extreme Sports

Oct 24th, 2007 | By | Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

ShredOrDie.com, a new website that wants to the be YouTube of extreme sports, launched today. The site is a collaboration between the creators of funnyordie.com and skateboarding icon Tony Hawk. ShredorDie.com features action sports videos, with an emphasis on skate, snow, surfing, BMX, motocross and action sports culture. Tony Hawk provides creative direction and a […]



Google, Nielsen Partner To Track Video Usage

Oct 24th, 2007 | By | Category: Internet TV, Video

Google and the Nielsen Company announced today a multi-year, strategic relationship. As a first step, the relationship leverages Nielsen’s experience in television audience measurement to bring demographic data to the Google TV Ads advertising platform. By combining Nielsen demographic data with aggregated set-top box data, Google hopes to provide advertisers and agencies with comprehensive information […]



New Revver Plugin Pairs Video With WordPress Blogs

Oct 23rd, 2007 | By | Category: Making Money with Podcasts, Video, Video Podcasts

Video sharing platform Revver now has a WordPress plug-in for users of the popular blogging application. Revver takes user-created video content, pairs it with targeted advertisements, and shares the revenue with the video’s creator. They also have an existing set of developer tools for non-WordPress users, for making video sharing websites. Podcasting News took a […]



Is YouTube Screwed?

Oct 22nd, 2007 | By | Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

At GigaOm, Om Malik is starting to ask the same question we’ve been asking, now that big media is pulling its content off YouTube, developing their own video sites and ganging up to fight YouTube: Is YouTube screwed? “It is becoming increasingly obvious: Big media companies (content owners) are lining up against YouTube & Google, […]



MySpaceTV Launches Original Fauxality Show – Roommates

Oct 22nd, 2007 | By | Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

MySpace today announced the launch of an original scripted web series, Roommates, the first original web series created for MySpaceTV. It’s a fauxality show focusing on hot chicks just out of college. The first of 45 episodes goes live today on MySpaceTV, with new episodes debuting each weekday at 1:00 pm PT/ 4:00 pm ET […]



SanDisk Intros TakeTV, A Sneakernet Alternative To Apple TV

Oct 22nd, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Video Downloads, Internet TV, Video

SanDisk Corporation today announced the U.S. availability of the Sansa TakeTV video player, a sneakernet alternative to Apple TV. According to SanDisk’s Daniel Schreiber, the TakeTV has “No confusing wireless network set-up, no wires running across the living room and no cumbersome burning of DVDs. Just use the Sansa TakeTV device to move your favorite […]



NBC Yanks D*ck Off YouTube

Oct 21st, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Video Downloads, Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

NBC Universal has quietly yanked Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake’s D*ck in a box off of YouTube. Try to view the video, and you get a message that the video is no longer available. The video removal appears to be part of a larger shift in NBC’s strategy for Internet video. According to reports, NBC […]



TheFunRide Searches Across YouTube & 70 Other Video Sites…..Just Not Very Well

Oct 20th, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Video Downloads, General, Streaming Video, Video

A new site, TheFunRide lets you search for videos across YouTube, Google Video, Metcafe, Daily Motion and 70+ other video sharing sites. Unfortunately, it doesn’t do it very well yet. We searched for a variety of popular video search terms, with terrible results: Pamela Anderson – this search returned lots of skateboarding videos, but no […]



Media Companies Draw Line In The Sand On Copyright Infringement

Oct 18th, 2007 | By | Category: Podcasting Law, Streaming Video, Video

Several of the world‚Äôs leading Internet and media companies today announced their joint support for a set of copyright guidelines for user-generated content designed to protect the intellectual property of content owners. According to the companies, the principles offer a comprehensive set of guidelines to help user-generated content (UGC) services and content creators work together […]