The Guardian reports that BT PodShow, an online TV portal, is getting its full consumer launch: The service is a joint venture with US-based Podshow (now Mevio), in which the backers of Google and YouTube have invested, and which has been running for several months. It has over 1m hours of content. The two companies […]

Google Reader got an update today, but it’s more than an updated news reader – it’s a taste of the future of the Web: We on the Reader team are heavy mobile Safari users. To make our (and your) Reader iPhone experience better, we wanted to really take advantage of the iPhone’s capabilities. Today we’re […]

Excited about the new version of Speed Racer? Hulu has a collection of classic Speed Racer episodes available on demand as streaming video.

Todd Cochrane is the CEO of Raw Voice, a longtime podcaster at Geek News Central and helps connect podcasters with advertisers via his Blubrry podcast network. He’s also known for having strong opinions, on topics ranging from the PodShow/Mevio name change to the quality of podcasters’ RSS feeds. I asked Todd about his perspective on […]

Beet.tv‘s Andy Plesser reports that the co-producers of lonelygirl15, Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried, have raised $5 million in venture funding for their new company, EQAL. They’re building a digital media studio and working on product placement and licensing deals. “We’re going to teach Hollywood how to do it right,” said Beckett.

We’ve reported previously that newspapers are losing advertisers to Internet media, that young people are abandoning newspapers for Internet media and that newspaper revenue is tanking. The result of these trends is that the value of traditional newspapers is in a freefall: Avista, the PE-fund that bought the Minneapolis Star-Tribune for $530 million in late […]

We’re fans of Twitter (podcastmama & podcasting_news), but have been surprised by the site’s frequent downtime. Turns out there’s legitimate reason for concern: Twitter has the worst uptime of all the major social networks. Availability monitoring company Pingdom.com released availability stats for the major social networks today, and Twitter comes out in last place: Social […]

Universal McCann has published a new report that suggests that new media is rapidly becoming mainstream media around the world. The comparative study looks at social media trends through three “waves”: Wave 1 – September 2006 Wave 2 – June 2007 Wave 3 – March 2008 Research highlights: Social media is a global phenomenon happening […]

Todd Cochrane (Blubrry, GeekNewsCentral), creator of the People’s Choice Podcast Awards, is looking for a new home for the event: I am working on my plan for the 2008 People’s Choice Podcast Awards. I am looking at some major changes, part of it has to do that we have no venue at New Media Expo […]

In the last year or so, everybody and their mother seems to have taken time off from the social media fad of the day to blog that podcasting is dead: Information Week says podcasting is dead. John Dvorak says podcasting is dead. The Bioscience Education Journal says podcasting is dead. PodShow thinks podcasting is dead, […]