USA Network announced today the network’s first independent digital media initiative, Didja.com¬†- a site that the network promises will be all ads. According to USA Network, “Didja.com is a social networking destination that reinvents the commercial viewing experience by celebrating advertising as entertainment.” According to us, they should have put something better on their site […]

The NewsMarket today launched a new service, VideoCaf√©,¬†that lets bloggers browse and embed free video content from some of the world’s leading organizations. VideoCaf√© is designed to provide bloggers the same access to video content that television and large media sites have had in the past.¬†Initial footage available for embedding into blogs comes from Google, […]

Apple today introduced iLife ‚’08, featuring a major new version of iPhoto and a “completely reinvented” iMovie. iPhoto 08 automatically organizes photo libraries into Events that let users more easily manage their growing photo collections, and iMovie ‚08 introduces a new way for users to quickly make movies and share them online. Both iPhoto and […]

The New York Times has a decent overview of recent developments in streaming video today: ‚ÄúThere is extreme interest in streaming because it simplifies the process of getting video to the consumer,‚Äù said Ross Rubin, the director of industry analysis for the NPD Group, a market analysis company. Streaming video, unlike downloads, never resides on […]

Information Week’s Alexander Wolfe today offered his DRM Scorecard, summarizing it Hackers Batting 1000, Industry Zero. “Every single significant attempt at consumer-music DRM has been cracked,” writes Wolfe. He supports this by noting that CSS (older DVD encryption), Fairplay (Apple’s encryption technology), AACS (new DVD encryption technology) and Windows Media DRM have all been cracked. […]

YouTube has announced a new music video competition, YouTube OntheRise Rap Edition. The video contest hopes to find the best upcoming rap and hip-hop artists in the US. Interested artists can submit original videos from Friday, August 10 through Friday, August 17. 50 Cent, Common and Polow da Don will help judge the contest and […]

WebbAlert, a new video podcast that’s a variation on Rocketboom, has launched and is betting that by brown-nosing bloggers it can generate buzz for the show. The show, hosted by X-Play‚Äôs Morgan Webb, focuses on technology and gaming news. Here’s what TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington has to say about the show: Webb also ‚Äúgets‚Äù how new […]

27-time Grammy winner and entertainment icon Quincy Jones has introduced a video podcast series, the Quincy Jones Show. The podcast offers a behind-the-scenes look at Jones’ world, including footage of him at work in the studio with some legendary performers. ‚ÄúI live to touch and share my love and wisdom with people around the world,‚Äù […]

A new Hollywood video destination site, My Damn Channel, is the latest attempt by mainstream media companies to break into the exploding Internet video market. While the site is getting hyped by the Associated Press & Variety, it appears to be a variation on all the other mainstream media video destination sites that have failed […]

Podcasting and video podcasting startup PodTech has had its share of negative coverage recently, being described by some as “the Valley’s worst video network.” The company has been struggling to get additional funding, has recently let some of its staff go and has been criticized for the quality of its content. PodTech CEO John Furrier’s […]