Orb Networks has introduced a new iPhone app, OrbLive (App Store link), that plays live TV, Internet TV, and webcams on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

The app is optimized for media streaming over WiFi.

Note: OrbLive is currently limited to Windows PC users,

Yahoo!’s Brickhouse team has announced that the company will be killing off Yahoo! Live, a live video conferencing service:

Our mission here on the Brickhouse team is to quickly develop product ideas that can add value to Yahoo! as a whole. To do this effectively we constantly evaluate our early-stage products and sometimes have to make the hard decision to move on, in order to continue exploring new territory and developing new products.

So it is with great sadness that I share the news that Yahoo! Live, a Brickhouse project in social broadcasting, will be going off the air on 3 December 2008.

We’d like to thank everyone who has participated. Without all of you, Y!Live would not have built the strong community that it has. It has been really interesting (and entertaining) to see all of the ways broadcasters have used Live, developing it into a place for all sorts of social interactions.

We hope you can join us in our town hall this Wednesday to toast Yahoo! Live.  

We tried out Yahoo! LIve early on and promptly broke it. When it was introduced, we said:

At this point, the service is far from ready for prime time. In testing it out, we got a variety of interesting messages, such as this:

Yahoo! Live also told us “You can continue to surf and chat; video will resume once our servers stop smoking.”

We’re not sure what they were smoking, but it seems to keep them from being able to handle a few hundred beta users.

When we have been able to connect, we found Yahoo! Live to be a buggy video conferencing service. With Yahoo!’s weight and audience behind it, though, it could soon be a video service to contend with.

Yahoo! never threw its weight behind it, though, and now it’s headed to the deadpool.

YouTube has added a new auto-translate feature that adds real-time machine translation to any caption tracks you upload. This increases the values of captioning your videos – when you add captions to a video in one language, it will automatically be readable to almost everybody through auto translate. 

To get a translation for your preferred language, move the mouse over the bottom-right arrow, and then over the small triangle next to the CC (or subtitle) icon, to see the captions menu. Click on the “Translate…” button and then you will be given a choice of many different languages

More info is available at YouTube’s caption page.

PodcampAZ Day 1 from Clintus McGintus on Vimeo.

Clintus McGintus offers his take on PodCamp AZ, Day 1.

Kaltura’s All in One Video Pack plugin for WordPress gives you the ability to upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix content with an online video editor, enable video responses, manage and track your video content and create video playlists, all at no cost.

Features:

• Upload, record from webcam and import all rich-media directly to your blog post;
• Edit and remix videos using Kaltura’s online full-featured video editor;
• Easily import all rich media (video, audio, pictures…) from other sites and social networks, such as YouTube, MySpace, Flickr, CCMixter, Jamendo, New York Public Library, any URL on the web etc.;
• Allow readers and subscribers to add video and audio comments, and to participate in collaborative videos;
• Manage and track interactive videos through the management console;
• Complete administrative capabilities. You decide who can add and edit each video;
• Supports more than 150 video, audio and image file formats and codecs
• Three different video player styles to choose from
• Custom sizing of the video player
• Advanced sharing options for videos
• Easy installation that takes just 4 steps and a few minutes.

Videos are hosted on Kaltura’s network. Hosting is free up to 3GB of streaming/month. Commercial plans are available if your needs outgrow this.

NBC‘s 30 Rock got series high ratings for its season premiere on Thursday, taking advantage of the buzz surrounding star Tina Fey, whose appearances as Gov. Sarah Palin have proven to be a viral goldmine.

Tina Fey’s recent popularity is turning the status quo of television on it head.

First, Fey’s SNL skits as Sarah Palin had more views online than on television.

Next, NBC debuted 30 Rock’s season premiere online a week before it was shown on television, and the series got its highest ratings ever.

Expect to see NBC and others to pay a lot more attention to generating online buzz.

We love Halloween almost as much as we love Internet media. Luckily, there are lots of ways to get your Halloween fix with new media. 

Here are some of our favorites:

Watch Night Of The Living Dead On Hulu

It’s an hour and 36 minute zombie creepfest. What more do you need?

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

The Boss has released a new video and a free download to celebrate Halloween.

“If you grew up in central or south Jersey, you grew up with the “‘Jersey Devil’,” says Springsteen. “Here’s a little musical Halloween treat. Have fun!”

Yamaha is now shipping the Pocketrak CX, a portable audio recorder with an upgraded stereo microphone system designed for recording live music.

Like its predecessor, the Pocketrak 2G Pocket Recorder, the Pocketrak CX supports a variety of different recording formats from 16-bit 44.1 CD quality .wav files to MP3. It comes with an onboard speaker, stand adapter, and Cubase AI DAW software.

While the Pocketrak 2G is good for recording discussions and lectures, the Pocketrak CX is designed with music recording in mind.

Other features:

• The CX has a larger battery, good for up to 40 hours of continuous recording and play-back
• a high sensitivity 90° X-Y microphone for high-quality stereo recording
• support for microSD cards (2GB card included).

The Pocketrak CX is now available for $499 MSRP at authorized Yamaha dealers.

New media isn’t just for the cutting edge hipsters anymore; the suits are officially moving in.

Marketers are jumping into new media and moving their advertising budgets from traditional media to social networking sites, blogs, podcasts and mobile marketing. 

According to a new survey by Epsilon,  nearly two-thirds (63%) of the marketing executives they surveyed see an increase in their spending on interactive/digital marketing, while 59% report a decrease in traditional marketing spend. 

Where Corporate Marketers Are Focusing Their Attention

• Social computing (including word of mouth, social networking sites, viral advertising, etc.) was the most popular emerging channel with 42% of marketing executives expressing interest in adding it to their marketing mix.
• Blogs were the second most popular emerging channel: 35% of marketing executives want to pursue blogs and 19% already use blogs
• Almost one-third of CMOs mentioned podcasting as an area of interest: 31% are interested in adding podcasting to their marketing mix and 18% already have.
• Mobile devices also elicited interest: 29% are interested in Mobile Devices (Phones/PDAs) and 22% have added them to their marketing mix.