flakjakt (Steve Fallows) calls his Cascades music video the “first official iPhone 4 music video”. There are rivals to that title, but at least this is the first one with hipsters and flamenco dancers. Fallows says: In a fun weeklong experiment, my friend Marty and I collaborated on this video for an original song I […]

iPhone 4 video quality is great for a phone – but is limited by the fact that light hand-held video cameras deliver shaky video. While Tiffen has announced an iPhone Steadicam, you can also build your own. This video, by Spencer S. Watson, demonstrates how he built a DIY iPhone Steadicam out of a modified […]

Audio podcasts now reach about half as many people as Internet radio.

Accoding to a new survey of Internet users, 31% listen to radio via the Internet and 16% listen to podcasts.

Several readers were incensed last week when we highlighted InfoWorld’s early negative impressions of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7. InfoWorld’s take was scathing – suggesting that Microsoft should kill the project. Now Engadget’s Joshua Topolsky has offered his in-depth preview of Windows Phone 7, and he’s also skeptical about the viability of the platform: What we’ve […]

Do you need proof that Old Spice may be the first brand to really “get” new media? Then look no further than this video of the Old Spice man explaining how to defeat pirates and ninjas. Or his personal response to Rose McGowan:

http://vimeo.com/13398124 You gotta love this – Boxee Chief Product Officer Zach Klein offers an introduction and demo of the first Boxee Box off the assembly line. Compared to the typical stiff demo or the hyper-prepped Apple intros, it’s sort of refreshing to see Boxee do this lo fi, even taking out time to nom on […]

Developer Humble Daisy has announced a temporary price drop for ProfCast, the company’s flagship lecture recording and podcasting solution. For remainder of the month of July, ProfCast will be half priced. “We wanted to try something a little different. Rather than have a ‘sale’, we thought we would just simplify things and drop the price […]

Will Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Phone 7 smartphone be the next Zune? Could be – based on the latest Windows Phone 7, InfoWorld says Microsoft should just kill the project now: There’s no kind way to say it: Windows Phone 7 will be a failure. Windows Phone 7 is a waste of time and money. It’s […]

TechCruch reports that pioneering video podcaster Ze Frank is getting $500,000 from a band of investors to “play games”. Frank says “The company is still in stealth mode – but it will involve social gaming and will be influenced heavily by what I’ve learned about play and participation over the last ten years with projects […]

A massive recall of the iPhone 4 over its antenna design flaw is ‘inevitable’, say PR experts, because protecting the Apple and iPhone brands is more important than the multimillion dollar cost to fix the issue. Yesterday’s announcement by Consumer Reports that they tested the iPhone’s antenna and duplicated anecdotal reports about the iPhone 4 […]