Live streaming media startup Qik has announced an alpha client for the BlackBerry Pearl 8120, BlackBerry Pearl 8130, BlackBerry Bold, BlackBerry Curve and BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220. Qik on BlackBerry lets you stream live to the Internet from supported Blackberry devices.  Here’s Qik’s demo video: Here are details on the Qik Blackberry alpha release:

Internet video site Hulu was nearly wiped off the face of the Internet yesterday, leading to widespread speculation about what had happened. Some interesting theories included: DanStasiewski: Hulu appears to be down. Should I get on the roof and wiggle the antenna? JoeAnderson: Maybe bringing down Hulu.com will finally get me into the Evil League […]

Boxee has announced an update which adds Hulu support to the open source social media center: our forums, twitter and inbox are filled with messages such as “now if I could only play Hulu on boxee..”, “give me Hulu!”, or my personal favorite “if you somehow figured out how to make Hulu work… I will kiss […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of public interest groups today called on four television networks to stop stifling political debate on the Internet with overreaching copyright claims and proposed two measures to help YouTube protect online political speech. In an open letter sent to CBS, the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), Fox, and […]

A demo from Digg’s Kevin Rose of the Qik iPhone app – an app that promises to bring live streaming video broadcasting to the iPhone.  Before you get too excited, remember that Apple still has to approve this for the App Store.

It looks like NBC is hoping to capitalize on the fact that Tina Fey is hotter online than off by debuting her show 30 Rock online.  According to MediaPost, NBC plans to debut the full season premiere online seven days before its on-air takeoff. The debut will be streamed on NBC.com starting Oct. 23, as well […]

Mobile video platform Qik today launched its live mobile video service for mass market mobile phones. With Qik, you can stream video live to the Internet from a mobile phone. Qik’s service is now ready for use on more than a dozen Nokia and Sony Ericsson handsets.  Qik is initially launching in alpha on the following […]

YouTube co-founder and CEO Chad Hurley spoke yesterday at MIPCOM, an international media conference. Highlights of his speech: There was a time when a centralized distribution model was relevant and effective. But if you listen to your audience; if you hear what they are telling you; you will understand that the days of the centralized distribution […]

Internet video site Joost today launched its new Flash-based web video service and introduced social networking tools designed to make it easier to share and find videos. “People have always relied on their friends’ recommendations to figure out which movies they want to watch, or talked about their favorite TV shows and moments with friends […]

Google has announced that it’s shifting gears and testing full-length programming on YouTube.

This is a result of the problem we identified earlier this year: 97% of YouTube’s content is deadweight, financially, and Hulu is close to overtaking the site, as a result.