Apple today introduced new Apple TV 3.0 software, featuring a redesigned main menu, support for iTunes Extras and iTunes LP, as well as support for listening to Genius Mixes and Internet radio. While it’s great to see Apple finally update Apple TV, anyone looking for the platform to open up, add an app store or […]

When Nine Inch Nails looked into filming their first-ever live peformance of The Downward Spiral, they ran into legal and financial barriers. But crowdsourcing saved the project: On the recent Wave Goodbye tour, we were unable to professionally film the band’s performance of The Downward Spiral at Webster Hall, due to exorbitant fees requested by […]

Craigslist’s Craig Newmark has penned an interesting article at the Huffington Post, suggesting that the source of mainstream news media’s troubles isn’t Craigslist, but the fact that mainstream news media has betrayed the public’s trust: Trust is the new black, as I like to say. The great opportunity for news organizations is to constructively demonstrate […]

Zoom is now shipping the Zoom Q3, a $249 pocket-cam that promises to be “the best sounding video camcorder you’ve ever heard.” The Zoom Q3 looks like it should be a great camcorder for “prosumer” level video podcasting and video blogging. The Q3 has two condenser mics on-board, in an X/Y pattern in order to […]

The original Star Wars (aka Episode IV: A New Hope) is a classic – cheesy acting and all. But the crowd-sourced Star Wars Uncut may end up challenging the original for the position of second best Star Wars movie ever. Organizers cut the original movie into 15-second clips and 473 indie moviemakers are recreating the […]

It sometimes seems like you can’t go to a concert anymore without getting warned that audio and video recording are prohibited. Nine Inch Nails is taking a different approach, though, encouraging fans to not just film and record their shows, but to put together edited DVDs that you can download. The video above is a […]

Twitter plans to add video tweeting to its mobile microblogging platform. According to a story in the  Telegraph: Twitter users may soon be posting real-time video tweets in addition to text tweets under plans to modernize the site. Twitter’s founders hope by adding live video-tweeting it will help boost its prominence as a fashionable social-networking […]

Chad Hurley posted an update on the state of YouTube today, calling the site the Burger King of new media: Today, I’m proud to say that we have been serving well over a billion views a day on YouTube. This is great moment in our short history and we owe it all to you. Looking […]

Lawyers working on a $1 billion copyright lawsuit, filed by Viacom against Google’s YouTube, may have found evidence that YouTube employees uploaded pirated videos to the site, in order to bump up traffic. According to a CNET News article: Internal YouTube e-mails indicate that YouTube managers knew and discussed the existence of unauthorized content on […]

Check out this demo of the Livestream Livepack – described as “a satellite television truck in a backpack.” Plug in a camera and you can stream HD video to the web, wirelessly.