U.S. video rental spending is well off its 2001 peak of $10.3 billion, but revenue from online subscriptions is beginning to put some steam back into the rental industry, according to Adams Media Research (AMR). AMR projects online subscription spending to increase by 41% to $1.9 billion in 2007. ‚ÄúThe five-year decline in the video […]

Dave Winer, who developed one of the standards which podcasting is based on, is excited by the idea of combining audio files with Twitter messages. He calls the combination a “TwitterGram”: The other day I was thinking about other kinds of Twitters. The thing we like about Twitter is that you can’t post a book-length […]

While updates to Apple’s OS X, iPhone app development and Safari for Windows may be the most talked-about introductions from Steve Jobs’ WWDC keynote address, updates to Mac OS X Leopard Server include significant features for podcasters. According to Apple, Leopard Server is the most significant improvement to the server operating system since Mac OS […]

Melodeo today announced nuTsie, a new mobile music service that lets you get your entire iTunes library on your mobile phone. nuTsie lets users access their iTunes music on a wide variety of popular phones. nuTsie is built on Melodeo’s mobile streaming technology, which means users don’t have to sync their phone to a computer, […]

Six Apart has announced Movable Type 4, now in beta. The new version of the popular blogging platform addresses some of the issues that have led to many MT users switching to the open-source WordPress platform. The company is also releasing an open-source version of Movable Type to help compete with WordPress. WordPress use has […]

Minnetonka Audio Software is shipping AudioTools Batch Pro, a new app that promises to fully automate audio file processing. Batch Pro is a powerful tool for editing, converting, transcoding, encoding, and applying plug-ins to sets of audio files in a batch mode. Users specify input files, configure a chain of processors, set parameters for each […]

The WordPress development team has announced the immediate availability of version 2.2 “Getz” for download. This version, named in honor of tenor saxophonist Stan Getz, includes a number of new features, most notably Widgets integration, and over two hundred bug fixes. WordPress has become popular among podcasters as a free tool for publishing blogs, podcasts […]

Angel Learning, a developer/marketer of enterprise e-learning software, has announced that the latest version of their Learning Management System program has built-in podcast support. Responding to strong interest in the educational community for podcasting, ANGEL 7.2 contains a native feature to support content syndication in all forms. Faculty simply create a ‚ÄúContent Syndication‚Äù folder and […]

Olympus is offering podcasting grants for schools to help promote awareness of its podcasting offerings. Apply for the grant, and your school could win software and the digital media accessories you need to start a podcasting program. To apply, you need to develop a lesson plan demonstrating how you would use podcasting in your curriculum. […]

NAB: Apple unveiled Final Cut Studio 2, a video editing suite which features: Final Cut Pro 6, which introduces Apple‚Äôs ProRes 422 format for uncompressed HD quality at SD file sizes and support for mixed video formats and frame rates in a single Timeline; Motion 3 featuring an intuitive 3D environment, paint and new behaviors; […]