Just a quick reminder to our midwestern friends that PodCamp Midwest is tomorrow, Saturday, February 16, from 9am – 5 pm at the University of Kansas Edwards Campus, 12600 Quivira Road, in Overland Park. Elisabeth from Podcasting News is planning to attend. If you are coming to PodCamp, please track her down and say hello. […]

The Yahoo! Video Blog has announced a variety of updates to the Yahoo! Video site. Here‚Äôs what‚Äôs new: Widescreen videos: Yahoo! Video supports a 16:9 cinematastic player that‚Äôs far ahead of what most sites are offering. And the video looks great. More content: Yahoo! Video now aggregates the whole spectrum of video found throughout Yahoo!, […]

Forgive the pun, but we have a love/hate relationship with February 14. For some people, Valentine’s Day it is an agonizing “holiday” of choosing the right romantic gift, that conveys the right message. It can be even more traumatic to see everyone around you starry-eyed with love, when you find yourself, through circumstance or choice, […]

If you’re trying to make money with new media, IDC has some good news for you. U.S. Internet advertising is growing like mad – up by 25% in 2007 to over 25 billion dollars. And the money’s not all going to Google. Research Highlights:¬† As people spend more time on the Internet, companies are moving […]

U.S. Internet users watched Internet video a record times in December, according to the latest figures from comScore. comScore speculates that some of the increase in viewing of Internet video can be attributed to stale television content as a result of the Writer’s strike. Research Highlights: U.S. Internet users watched more than 10 billion videos […]

Podcast hosting network Wizzard Media announced this morning that its common shares are set to begin trading today on the American Stock Exchange (“AMEX”) under the ticker symbol ‚ÄúWZE.‚Äù Previously, the company traded as ‚ÄúWIZD‚Äù on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board. Wizzard is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Detroit, […]

InformationWeek reports that the US Central Intelligence Agency is watching YouTube – and they’re not just trying to figure out the lyrics to Chocolate Rain on their lunch break. Spies under the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) are looking on YouTube for intelligence; according to the report, spies have become major consumers of social media. […]

Real-time video chat site ooVoo today announced the release of the newest version of its real-time video chat service, ooVoo 1.5. ooVoo 1.5 offers new ways to create and share content including recording a video conversation for friends or colleagues or for posting online. The video recording services is designed so that you can record […]

Apple today added new models of the iPhone and iPod touch which have double the memory. The iPhone now comes in a new 16GB model for $499, joining the 8GB model for $399. iPod touch now comes in a 32GB model for $499, joining the 16GB model for $399 and the 8GB model for $299. […]

We’ve been fans of SkinnyCorp for several years now. We saw their founders on a panel at South by Southwest in 2006, and they wowed us with their corporate philosophy. We were already fans of the funky t-shirts they sell at Threadless (the punny “communist party” and “hypotamoose” t-shirts are in heavy rotation in the […]