FluidTunes is a freeware application for Mac OS X that lets you control iTunes through a camera with gestures, using your hands, head or feet: Swipe your hand from left to right or right to left over the screen center to scrub. Wave quickly at buttons to activate them. Without using a keyboard or mouse, […]

Google announced today that it is “delighted” at the debut of the new Vatican channel on YouTube. Concurrent with World Communication Day, Pope Benedict XVI celebrates today’s launch with twelve short videos on their new channel. The launch video, “Vatican Communications HD,” strongly reminds us of the social studies films we saw at school in […]

BBC Switch, the broadcast corporation’s youth brand, is launching a new “interactive” teen-oriented drama, “Proper Messy,” across the range of platforms popular with the young crowd. The show debuts January 24, and viewers can watch on tv (BBC 2), online (BBC Switch site) and on social networking site Bebo. What makes this program interesting (to […]

Longtime podcaster and new media consultant C.C. Chapman made an appearance on cable news channel CNN Tuesday, where he talked about how the coverage of Barack Obama’s inauguration by social media: Embedded video from CNN Video Chapman created an early standout among music podcasts with his Accident Hash series. He also hosts the Managing the […]

On its “Traditional Media” blog today, search engine giant Google said it was “turning the page” on its print media advertising sales program, which will end Feb. 28. Google had been working with 800 U.S. newspapers, up from about 50 papers at the time of its late-2006 launch. Spencer Spinnell, Director of Google Print Ads […]

The Times Online has an interesting story today about Scottish beer maker Brewdog, looking at how it used blogging to market their beers. Brewdog’s approach was smart and incredibly cheap – give bloggers free beer. Brewdog was struggling to sell its product until its co-founders hit on the idea of using the internet to market […]

Regular readers of Podcasting News have probably already figured out that we are attending the music industry convention NAMM (formerly National Association of Music Merchants?) in Anaheim, California. This will be the fifth year we’ve attended the show, and it is one of the highlights of our year. The event gives us an excellent opportunity […]

Audio equipment manufacturer Alesis has announced that its new ProTrack Mobile Recording Kit is now shipping. The handheld ProTrack recorder turns the user’s iPod into a stereo digital recorder, using the new Alesis AM2 Stereo Microphone Set. Users can record stereo audio using the ProTrack’s onboard dual condenser microphones, which are fixed in XY-stereo configuration […]

The organizing committee for the London 2012 Olympic Games is working with the games’ biggest sponsors to mount a massive social networking campaign in the lead-up to the Summer 2012 Games. The campaign revolves around promoting interest in the games by promoting involvement in sports for everyone. Adidas, which has a £100m sponsorship deal for […]

Would you like to know a simple way to make your Internet videos rank higher than 80% of all the videos published? Research firm Forrester has taken a look at the state of search engine optimization of Internet videos, and have found that less than 20% of marketers insert keywords into the filenames of the […]