Microsoft¬†has made an unsolicited $44.6 billion offer for Yahoo! to challenge Google’s dominance in Internet search services and advertising. According to Bloomberg.com, Microsoft’s $31/share offer is 62 percent more than Yahoo’s closing stock price yesterday. In the months leading up to Microsoft’s offer, Yahoo!’s stock has been declining in value, dropping 18 percent this year […]

VoIP pioneer Jeff Pulver, host of online tech show PulverTV, announced today the launch of PulverTV, which he is calling “The First 100% “Indie Internet TV” Channel.” The staff at PulverTV are creating 12-14 hours/week of original programming. In addition, they’ve enlisted several dozen producers of independently created Internet TV to include in the daily […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation and People For the American Way are spearheading the fight against amnesty for telecommunications companies which have illegally spied on Americans over the past six years. They’re asking for bloggers & podcasters to speak out against the proposed immunity legislation. According to the “Stop The Spying” initiative, The Bush administration has, […]

Animation producer Kevin Gamble, otherwise known as Tiki Bar TV‘s fez-wearing bartender Johnny Johnny, recently moved from Vancouver to New York. They say that New York is the most exciting city in the world, but Gamble got more excitement than anyone could wish or plan for this weekend when he rescued a woman who fell […]

Writer and new/social media guru Shel Israel announced this morning that he will be joining his Naked Conversations co-author Robert Scoble (late of PodTech and former Microsoft blogger) at FastCompany.TV. Israel’s new video podcast, GlobalNeighbourhoods TV (GNTV), debuts March 3. The program will detail “social media’s impact on culture and business.” Israel comments, “While my […]

While we were out covering the NAMM music industry convention last week, we had a wonderful lunch meeting with Gigavox Media’s Michael Geoghegan (with me in photo, right). Michael told us lots of great stories about his work creating the Disney podcast before we headed over to play at Disneyland (shh! don’t tell our kids […]

The third annual Podcasters Across Borders is still several months away, but podcaster and event co-host Mark Blevis has let us know that early (discounted) registration for PAB2008 will be taking place for one week only, today through Saturday, February 2. PAB2008 is happening June 20-22, 2008 in Kingston, Ontario (Canada). The cost of registration […]

For the third year in a row, Dixie Consumer Products has renewed its sponsorship of the MommyCast podcast, with a new 2008-year agreement. The continuing relationship will allow Dixie to maintain its role as a “preferred online sponsor” and partner of the long-running and popular MommyCast. Gretchen Vogelzang, co-host and co-founder of MommyCast, said, “We […]

Doug Kaye, founder of volunteer network PodCorps, has clued us in on another one-time opportunity for podcasters. The New York Times needs local “radio producers” to gather audio interviews on Super Tuesday, February 5th, 2008, in the following states: Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California (Northern & Southern) Colorado Connecticut Delaware Georgia Idaho Illinois Kansas Massachusets […]

The new year feels as though it is off to a galloping start. Barely two weeks into 2008, and we’re bracing for the fourth or fifth batch of big announcements from the fourth or fifth big industry convention in two weeks. This week features the big auto show in Detroit, the music industry convention NAMM […]