YouTube is getting serious about mobilecasting, expanding its mobile service to include virtually all of the videos available on its Web site. Starting today, people with current generation mobile phones can watch tens of millions of YouTube videos. YouTube also is providing mobile access to many of the same features that have become staples of […]

Wordpress creator Matt Mullenweg has announced that WordPress.com, a free blog hosting service, has updated the amount of space it allocates to each user to 3 gigabytes: Much of the work we do at Automattic is behind the scenes, infrastructure you‚Äôll (hopefully) never notice or see, but we‚Äôre always thinking about how the improvements we […]

The amount of money spent in the US online advertising market will double, to $50.3 billion in revenue, by 2011, according to research from the Yankee Group. The internet accounts for approximately 20% of overall media consumption in the US, but advertisers currently invest only 7.5% of their budget online. There is tremendous potential for […]

Seesmic is a web-based video sharing platform that is designed to make posting short videos to the web trivially easy. The site can be used to create video blogs, engage in video dialogs with other users or to quickly create content to embed at other sites.The BBC has a seesgasmic take on the site: It’s […]

ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick reports that Wizzard Media, the owners of the Libsyn, Switchpod and Blast Podcast networks, will announce tomorrow that it passed the 1 billion download mark in 2007. It’s an impressive number, one that’s sure to generate a lot of buzz for both Wizzard and podcasting. It’s been an interesting ride for Wizzard. […]

Yahoo today announced a new free browser-based MP3 player that you can use and freely embed in your page. Here’s how it works: You add links to MP3s in your web page. These can be anywhere on the web. You add a line of code to insert Yahoo’s Javascript library. Working play buttons appear next […]

Kent Nichols, co-creator of the popular video podcast Ask A Ninja, has started a new blog, and it already looks like it could become essential reading for indie new media content creators. His first post takes a look at YouTube and why video podcasters and vloggers shouldn’t depend on it: “YouTube doesn‚Äôt care about any […]

Google has announced a new project, Our Stories, to help people share the stories of their lives, no matter where they live or how their stories unfold. The project brings together the efforts of Google, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) and UNICEF. Google is providing the infrastructure to let people around the world create and […]

Flux, a social media startup funded in part by media conglomerage Viacom, has introduced two new services designed to let you leverage the company’s social media platform, Flux Lite and Flux Custom. The services are designed to make it easy for you to set up a media community. This gives Flux three social media options: […]

In this episode of the New Media Update, Podcasting News’ Elisabeth McLaury Lewin talks with Mark Rotblat, one of the founders of TubeMogul.com, a web video distribution and analytics startup. TubeMogul has developed an interesting tool for video producers. It lets you upload your video once, and TubeMogul distributes the video to whichever popular video […]