Joost has released a new app (App Store link) that brings the social video site to the iPhone.  The app lets you find/watch videos in several ways: Browsing by category Select “most popular” videos Watch our favorites  Search for a specific video While the idea behind this is great, the app only works on WiFi […]

  Blockbuster and 2Wire, a provider of integrated broadband solutions, today introduced the 2Wire MediaPoint digital media player, an on-demand video solution giving movie fans instant access through their television sets to Blockbuster Ondemand content. For a limited time, the MediaPoint digital media player is available “free” with the advance rental of 25 BLOCKBUSTER ONDEMAND […]

It looks like Chicken Little is behind the wheel at Fortune magazine. Fortune’s Richard Siklos says that “User-generated video under siege,” and that it’s being sidelined by mainstream media’s move into Internet media. What’s obviously happening here is the beginning of a monumental battle for online video viewers’ attention. YouTube or someone else may yet […]

Liz Gannes at New Tee Vee reports on another live streaming deathcasting incident: In a striking display of the power of live video, Abraham K. Biggs committed suicide on Wednesday while broadcasting himself on video site Justin.tv. As we understand it from various forum posts, the 19-year-old Floridian was apparently egged on by commenters on […]

Monty Python announces that it’s tired of getting ripped off for all these years, that it’s launching its own YouTube channel and that they’d really like you to buy some of their stuff, say no more.

i.TV has announced that it’s looking for beta-testers to try out the next version of its popular iPhone media app: We have some new features to roll out and we would love to have some help testing the next version of i.TV.  Our development team is almost finished with the next release. If you are […]

Mainstream Internet video startup Hulu has posted a collection of videos that explain the site’s video sharing features. While you can’t share your personal videos on Hulu, the site at least makes it easy to embed videos in blog posts, share on social medi sites and email. Now, if they’d just make embeddable videos permanently […]

The New Tee Vee conference is underway today in San Francisco. Om Malik, one of the conference’s founders, says they started the event “in order to closely track and monitor the growth of online video.” This year’s gathering features panels and presentations from people involved in “old tee vee” (the creator of the CSI: series, […]

Tay Zonday speaks with YouTube’s head of marketing, the head of brand management at Virgin America and Internet celeb LisaNova about YouTube’s upcoming streaming event, YouTube Live. Tay also explains his new money-making opportunity. via Mahalodaily.com

Sarah Palin may not have reigned in the budget in Wasilla. Sarah Palin may not have graduated from the first, second, third or fourth college she attended. Sarah Palin may not said no to “Bridge to Nowhere” pork. No matter what you think of Palins accomplishments, though, it’s hard to argue with BusinessWeek’s claim that […]