Over at TidBITS, Glenn Fleishman reports that Apple is not supporting the use of hard drives attached to the AirPort Extreme as a Time Machine backup device: Apple confirmed for me last week that a feature for using hard drives attached via USB to an AirPort Extreme Base Station is an unsupported feature. The company […]

Earlier in the year, we noted that bad advertising is holding back online TV, citing the poorly targeted, overlong and disruptive ads on Hulu as an example. Anyone that thinks that you are going to sit through traditional television advertising when you’re watching online videos is out of touch, at best. This view is starting […]

The Rolling Stones have launched a new channel on YouTube, Living Legends. Visitors can upload video questions for the band, and the best questions will be answered by the Stones. It’s an interesting use of the site, but I’d like to see them experimenting with letting fans make creative use of Stones music or music […]

YouTube Doubler lets you watch two YouTube videos at the same time, so you can watch David Hasselhoff vs Elmo, Blue Man Group vs The Who or River Dance vs Robot Dance

The SFGate has a profile of podcasting novelist Scott Sigler that looks at how he’s used free podcasts to promoting his writing career: Before Sigler revealed podcasting as a new frontier for book promotion, the San Francisco author was rebuffed hundreds of times by major publishers. Sigler’s science fiction-horror thrillers attracted little attention. That changed […]

The Idaho Potato Commission (IPC) has launched one of the stranger user-generated video contests ever, iTuber Take II. They are inviting potato lovers from across the country to create videos featuring potatoes. In celebration of the International Year of the Potato, the Idaho Potato Commission has launched a special category just for Idaho high school […]

Yeah – this is pretty far off-topic – but it’s Quake on the iPhone! This highlights that the iPhone has a lot more potential as a platform than as just a phone. What would you like to see running on the iPhone? via Scott at Hermitworks

Remember all the goofy things you did as a kid, and how you’re glad sometimes that people don’t know about them? Things are different now. With YouTube, today’s kids are completely pwned. WFMU’s Beware of the Blog has a great post that looks at a terrifying and hysterical sub-genre of YouTube videos: AP English classes’ […]

NPR’s John Schaeffer takes on the skeletons in your musical closet on the latest WNYC Soundcheck: Everybody has a dirty little secret from his or her pop-music past. They go far beyond guilty pleasures. Everybody has songs, albums, concerts, and other fan moments too embarrassing to remember and/or too shameful to acknowledge. Host John Schaefer […]

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has announced a set of Digital Video Ad Format Guidelines and is looking for feedback. The guidelines and best practices address the most widely used current in-stream ad products, including linear video ads, non-linear video ads and companion ads. They were created to address: Simplifying digital video ad buying across […]