The Sex:Tech Conference wants you to create a video that answers the question “Why is sex so interesting and sex ed so boring?” They want you to make a video on one of these ideas: Theme 1. Share your sex ed experience so far. Show us how and why it sucked or rocked. Theme 2. […]

According to a new report, Apple TV leads the market for Internet television devices, but the devices have had difficulty resonating with consumers, largely due to their cost and complexity. ‚ÄúVendors of these products have struggled with a number of hurdles that have so far made this market relatively unsuccessful,‚Äù says ABI Research director Michael […]

Google today announced a new standard for helping search engines index video, Video Sitemaps. Video Sitemaps is an extension of the Sitemap Protocol that helps make your videos more searchable via Google Video Search. By submitting this video-specific Sitemap in addition to your standard Sitemap, you can specify all the video files on your site, […]

PC World has released a list of its Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007, and a lot of them are likely to resonate with anyone involved with new media. Here’s some of the article’s highlights: Amazon Unbox – The interface is cluttered and ugly–lacking both the simplicity and sophistication of the Apple iTunes Store or NetFlix’s […]

They Might Be Giants have introduced a new podcast for kids, TMBG’s Friday Night Video Podcast For Kids. You can preview the podcast below. To subscribe, add this feed URL to your podcast client: http://feeds.feedburner.com/theymightbegiants/ via Wired

Remember the public split between Apple and NBC a few months back? NBC wanted to jack up the prices for TV show downloads via iTunes from $1.99 per episode to $4.99. In response, Apple announced that it would not be selling NBC television shows for the upcoming television season in iTunes. NBC & Apple’s agreement […]

Remember when NBC yanked its shows off of iTunes because it couldn’t come to an agreement with Apple on pricing? Now they’ve entered into an out-of-left-field agreement with Netflix that will let Netflix subscribers watch current episodes of NBC’s top-rated show, Heroes, the day after their network airing. In addition, Netflix offers prior season episodes […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published a comprehensive account of Comcast’s packet-forging activities and has released software and documentation instructing Internet users on how to test for packet forgery or other forms of interference by their own ISPs.Separate tests in October from EFF, the Associated Press, and others showed that Comcast was forging small […]

MTV Networks is planning to make every clip from every episode of South Park available online for free next year. The decision follows the recent introduction of an all-you-can-eat Web 2.0-style video site for fellow Viacom media property The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The Daily Show site offers 13,000 high-quality clips, from episodes dating […]

UK’s BBC Worldwide, Channel 4 and ITV plan to launch a new video-on-demand service, Kangaroo, offering more than 10,000 hours of TV programming. The project aims to be a “rich entertainment site”, where consumers can catch up with recently aired shows and older archive programming. In a joint statement, the partners said Kangaroo “will work […]