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:

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 […]

The Register reports that Firefox 4 is going flash free: Mozilla vice president of products Jay Sullivan says that unlike Google, the open source outfit has no intention of bundling Firefox with Adobe Flash – or with a plug-in that runs native code inside the browser. Mozilla believes that the future of online applications lies […]

Matt Mullenweg today announced the release of WordPress 3.0, the latest version of the popular blogging application, dubbed Thelonious: Arm your vuvuzelas: WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard). Major new features […]

Apple announced today that you can now self-publish iBooks to the iBookstore. Here are Apple’s requirements for publishing an Apple iBook: Technical Requirements: An Intel-based Mac running OS X 10.5 or later At least 1 GB RAM QuickTime 7.0.3 or later. This is so you can encode and deliver content using our dedicated software. At […]

Internet video – content stored and distributed over an IP architecture — will eclipse the consumption of broadcast TV by 2020, according to research from The Diffusion Group (TDG). According to TDG data, while the amount of time spent viewing TV has remained relatively stable, the amount of time consumers spent watching online video increased […]

Blue Microphones has introduced the Mikey G2 Pro iPod, iPhone Microphone, designed for mobile recording with your iPhone or iPod touch. The Mikey G2 Pro microphone features two custom-tuned Blue capsules for stereo recording, a line-input, USB pass through and an updated 230-degree rotating design. Mikey’s three gain settings allow for recording everything from a […]

This video, based on the book Socialnomics by Erik Qualman, serves up an amazing collection of social media and new media statistics. The best quote: “The ROI of Social Media is Your Business Will Still Exist in 5 Years.”

Henge Docks has introduced a new line of docking stations for Apple notebook computers that are designed to make it easy to use your MacBook as a media center. Each Henge Dock model is designed for a specific type of MacBook computer. Included with each dock is a compliment of USB, Ethernet, Audio cables and […]

Are you ready to let your hoodie update your Facebook account? Jennifer Darmour’s Ping is a social networking garment – a hoodie that updates your Facebook account wirelessly and lets you look swankadelic at the same time. It’s an example of wearable technology that supports social networking. According to Darmour, the social networking hoodie offers […]