Internet TV startup Brightcove today announced the beta of its next-generation online video platform, Brightcove 3. Scheduled for release this fall, Brightcove 3 is designed to simplify Internet TV, enabling the publishing of long-form, broadcast-quality content through websites without the need for proprietary software plug-ins. “In the last three years we’ve learned a great deal […]

FoxyTunes 3.0 for Firefox is a browser plug-in that turns any webpage with media files into a playlist that you can play right there on the page, without needing to launch a separate player. It also adds controls to the browser window for the most commonly used features in iTunes and other media players. The […]

Alison and Lloyd of technology makeover show My Home 2.0 perform some innovative surgery on an old teddy bear. The result: a teddy bear that reads your Twitter feed. The Twittering Teddy also has a UStream channel, so you can tweet about something and then go watch a creepy animatronic teddy bear speak it on […]

A survey of communications industry leaders suggests that customers now view high-speed Internet as more important than HDTV, digital phone service and other new technologies. Research company Pike & Fischer recently surveyed executives, engineers and consultants representing the cable, telephone, satellite TV, broadcast, and technology equipment industries, along with academics and government regulators in the […]

According to a new survey, the average teenager’s iPod has about $800 of pirated music on it: On average every iPod or digital music player contained 842 illegally copied songs. The proportion of illegally downloaded tracks rises to 61 per cent among 14 to 17-year-olds. In addition, 14 per cent of CDs (one in seven) […]

In this series of videos, NPR’s Ira Glass explains his ideas on storytelling in audio and video: Ira Glass on Storytelling

Six Apart, creators of Movable Type, today introduced a free web application, Blog It for iPhone Powered by TypePad. Built specifically for iPhone’s Safari browser, Blog It for iPhone is designed to let you post blog entries or status updates, from wherever you are, to more than a dozen different online services. Blog It for […]

Nicholas Carr, in the Atlantic this month, makes the case that Google, and the Internet in general, is making us stupid: “Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I […]

While the Steve Jobs keynote at the WWDC was underwhelming to many, there’s been a lot of interesting related news that’s come out in the last two days: Most iPhone apps are going to be free – Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, took some time Monday following Steve Jobs’s opening keynote to chat with 20 Apple […]

Variety reports that HBO is buying into comedian Will Ferrel’s FunnyOfDie.com. The site, introduced a little over a year ago, is a sort YouTube clone focusing on comedy. Much of the site’s appeal, though, is the offbeat comedy videos HBO has bought a small equity stake in the comedy site and has commissioned 10 half-hours […]