Another sign that the iPhone is the new laptop: Google announced today that Google News is now available formatted for the iPhone and iPod touch. Today, we’re happy to announce that Google News is now available to iPhone and iPod Touch users in over 30 countries. This means that you’ll see a full-fledged version of […]

ooVoo has announced the launch of a Mac version of its free video chat client & recorder. With the new Mac version, users will be able to connect face-to-face with up to six people at once, regardless of whether they on Mac or PC. ooVoo Mac’s features include the ability to send and receive video […]

MacRumors reports that AT&T hotspots are now offering free Wi-Fi access to iPhone users. Barnes and Noble, Starbucks and presumably AT&T’s 71,000 other Wi-fi hotspot locations are now offering iPhone users a custom portal to access free Wi-Fi. A special iPhone formatted page asks for your mobile phone number. Once entered, you can access the […]

CNBC has published a great interview by Maria Bartiromo with Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt. In the interview, Schmidt says that figuring out how to make money off YouTube has become the company’s top priority: Bartiromo: Let me ask you about YouTube and MySpace. YouTube has these phenomenal growth rates. What do you think is […]

Author Clay Shirky gave a speech at the Web 2.0 conference, April 23, 2008, that touched on his idea of the social surplus – the vast quantity of people’s time that is being freed up to do user-generated media, Wikipedia and other useful things as they move their attention from television to the Internet Along […]

Digital music sales will represent 40% of all music purchased worldwide by 2012, according to the research firm In-Stat. Digital music downloads represented 10% of the total worldwide music market in 2007, up from 6% in 2006. Factors contributing to this growth include the global expansion of broadband, continued demand for single-track downloads, and expanding […]

I recently had a (way too brief) conversation with PodCamp NYC 2.0 co-organizer John C. Havens, VP of Business Development at Blog Talk Radio and fellow Advisory Board member of the Association of Downloadable Media. (He’s on the right in the photo, with Chris MacDonald.) John wanted to talk about this PodCamp’s wider appeal to […]

Podcasting network Wizzard has announced three new distribution deals: It has increased its Latino catalog of shows by signing an agreement with www.elatinoweekly.com, an independent Latino-centered entertainment and current affairs publication based in Los Angeles, California. Under the agreement, Wizzard Media will distribute the Latino-centric video from eLatinoWeekly.Com. A deal with independent music label iRecords […]

Okay, a confession here: I spent much of Earth Day today, a beautiful sunny day, outdoors. Away from my laptop computer. Away from wi-fi. It seemed a fitting way to celebrate the thirty-ninth annual Earth Day, riding my bike and enjoying cold beverages at a succession of locally-owned establishments. One thought that kept coming back […]

The Association for Downloadable Media, a recently-formed industry association “focused on creating standards and guidelines to support the continued and increasing monetization of downloadable media,” last week unveiled proposed guidelines for audience measurement at the ad:tech conference in San Francisco. The draft proposal is open for public discussion and comment for the coming thirty days […]