Video site Blog TV has announced a “professional” level of user account. Blog TV is a video platform that, to date, has offered free access to users who want to stream live video. The service also allows recording of video episodes and enables text chat during live streaming. The Pro account includes these features: Pro […]

A new version of free, open source HD video player Miro launched today. The makers of Miro 2.0 say that this is the “biggest update in the project’s history.” Miro is a collaborative project developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF), a non-profit organization, and by volunteers around the world. PCF has a mission to […]

Google today launched an official blog about the social web. Mendel Chuang, Product Marketing Manager for Google Friend Connect, writes: “We think the web is better when it’s social. …[W]e are developing tools to make ‘any app, any site, any friends’ a reality…. “We will write about social initiatives within Google, such as Google Friend […]

Podcast network Wizzard Media announced that it has signed an agreement with Attention Span Media LLC to distribute the studio’s “Sock Tube Presents” movie parody show. “Sock Tube Presents” is a series of movie parodies starring tube sock puppets. (The current feature is a sock puppet rendition of “Slumdog Millionaire.”) Kara Swisher of the Wall […]

Late last year, podcast network and hosting provider Podango shut down rather abruptly. We heard from Podango cofounder Lee Gibbons yesterday, with an update on what is happening with the Utah-based startup: I hope this message finds you well. This email is to update you on Podango’s situation. After seeking funding from both traditional and […]

The Kansas City Weather Podcast has celebrated its fourth birthday – and with nearly daily episodes since its inception, it now has more than 1,300 episodes.

We talked to KC Weather Podcast creator Ed Roberts about his thoughts on starting his podcast’s fifth year.

Todd Mundt, longtime public radio guy (and a favorite former Iowan) who writes as The Mediavore, is featured today in a CNN Money article about Americans’ changing media consumption habits. Mundt’s changing media consumption habits are reflective of similar changes taking place throughout many U.S. households. Many families are economizing on entertainment costs, as they […]

Amazon.com today introduced Amazon Kindle 2, the new reading device that offers, in their words, Kindle’s “revolutionary wireless delivery of content” in a slimmer, sleeker package. The book reader retails for $359 and is scheduled to ship beginning February 24. Amazon is taking pre-orders here. Amazon enthuses that the new Kindle model has a longer […]

It was a nice surprise last week to hear podcasting event pioneer Brian Russell being interviewed on American Public Media’s Marketplace program. As you may remember, Russell organized one of the first “open space” podcasting conferences, PodcasterCon, back in January 2006 (about 8 months before the first of dozens of PodCamps debuted). He was also […]

Internet media platform Boxee announced today that their iPhone remote application has been approved by Apple. Soon the remote application will be available (free via the App Store), and will give users a more powerful tool for navigating Boxee. The announcement was just a brief blurb on Twitter, without a lot of detail, so we […]