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A&P Sacks Employees Over Internet Video, Lewd Acts With A Banana

Aug 28th, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Video Downloads, Internet TV, Strange, Video, Vlogs

A&P has unceremoniously sacked brothers Mark and Matthew D’Avella for using the company facilities to film a faux-gangsta rap video, Produce Paradise. The brothers, aka Double D and Razor Blade, made the video of themselves performing as the Fresh Beets. Here’s why Double D calls himself “the Vanilla Ice of our generation”: The brothers were […]



Akamai Announces HDTV Video Distribution Service

Aug 28th, 2007 | By | Category: Corporate Podcasts, Digital Video Downloads, Internet TV, Podcasting Networks, Podcasting Services, Streaming Video, Video

Akamai Technologies, a leading provider of Internet content delivery services, has announced that it is offering services to help customers deliver the HD Web. Akamai’s content delivery network works by distributing requests for files over a worldwide network of servers. That way, when you click on a link to play an Akamai-hosted video, you get […]



Digg Update Puts Viral Videos On Home Page

Aug 28th, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Video Downloads, General, Streaming Video, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

Digg announced an update today that puts viral videos front and center on the site’s home page. “We’ve gone live with improvements to our home page that allow you to see both news and videos on a single page,” said Digg’s¬†Daniel Burka. ¬†”We‚Äôve gotten a lot of feedback that the videos are entertaining but people […]



2008 Podcast & New Media Expo Moving To Vegas

Aug 27th, 2007 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Podcasting Events, Video Podcasts

TNC New Media, organizers of the Podcast and New Media Expo, taking place September 28-30 in Ontario, California, have announced their plans to move the 2008 show to Las Vegas. The 4th Annual convention will take place on August 14-16, 2008 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. “After three years in Southern California at the […]



Internet Godfather Says Traditional Television Is Dead

Aug 27th, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Video Downloads, Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

The Guardian Unlimited has an interview with Vint Cerf, aka the godfather of the Internet, about the future of television. While mainstream television networks may have some trouble seeing and adapting to where things are going,¬†the 64-year old Cerf expects television to change rapidly, as it approaches its “ipod moment”. “85% of all video we […]



Why We Aren’t Watching TV’s New Shows

Aug 27th, 2007 | By | Category: Corporate Podcasts, Digital Video Downloads, Internet TV, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

The Hollywood Reporter has an article today looking¬†at the¬†baby steps that major networks are taking towards putting their new shows on the Internet.¬†All the networks except ABC are putting out at least some of their pilots on the Web, while ABC is limiting sampling opportunities to large screening events: NBC is offering downloads of the […]



Google Offering Free Video Podcast Hosting

Aug 25th, 2007 | By | Category: General, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

Google has announced video podcasting support for its blogger service. To turn on enclosure links, just go to Settings > Formatting and set the ‚ÄúShow Link fields‚Äù option to ‚ÄúYes.‚Äù This will add the enclosure link fields to your post editor. From there, just paste in the URLs of your recorded media, and your blog […]



Sony PSP Gets Video Download Service

Aug 23rd, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Video Downloads, Internet TV, iPods & Portable Media Players, Video

Sony today announced the Go! branded Video Download Service for PSPs. The service is a joint venture with British Sky Broadcasting (Sky) to offer PSP (PlayStation Portable) owners in the UK and Ireland the ability to watch video on demand and on the move. The service will not be a direct competitor to open Internet […]



Internet Media Replacing Traditional Media

Aug 22nd, 2007 | By | Category: Internet TV, Podcasting Research, Podcasting Statistics, Streaming Video, Video, Video Podcasts

A new IBM survey of consumer digital media and entertainment habits shows that audiences increasingly replacing time spent with traditional media with Internet time. “The Internet is becoming consumers’ primary entertainment source,” said Saul Berman, IBM Media & Entertainment Strategy and Change practice leader. “The TV is increasingly taking a back seat to the cell […]



Are Video Podcasters Becoming A Menace, Or Does Dave Winer Just Want To Be A Schlub?

Aug 21st, 2007 | By | Category: Citizen Media, Internet TV, Podcasting Law, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

Dave Winer, one of the fathers of podcasting, is calling out video podcasters and vloggers for becoming “everyday papparazzi”: The video cameras are so cheap and so are Internet connections, we’re heading to a place where even the most casual of encounters may be captured and broadcast.I want to just be a normal schlub, sitting […]