Christiaan Van Vuuren bas been stuck in quarantine for tuberculosis for two months. He’s sick, and not in the sense of being sick, sick. He’s making the most of his isolation, though, learning how to record songs on his laptop and making music videos, Twittering and making friends on Facebook. And while Van Vuuren may […]

Apple TV sales are up 35% over last year, according to Apple COO Tim Cook. The company has not revealed unit sales numbers for Apple TV. And, while the 35% growth rate would be enviable for most companies, it’s a new product category and Apple has yet to hit a home run with it. “We’re […]

You probably know that YouTube is, by far, the top video destination on the Web. Here are some things about YouTube, though, that you probably don’t know: 5 Things You Probably Don’t Know About YouTube Videos People now watch a lot of YouTube videos. The average US Internet user watches over three hours of YouTube […]

Tired of Apple’s “Apple TV is a hobby” attitude? Boxxee wants to help you “pwn your AppleTV” and run Boxxee – a free Internet media platform – on your Apple hardware. Here’s Boxxee’s instructions: Installing Boxee on Apple TV In order to install Boxee on the AppleTV you need to do the following: Download the […]

Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook, speaking today in San Francisco, explained why he believes the Apple TV is a great product, but there just isn’t a large enough market to make the hardware worth a great deal of concentration from his company. The product is a “hobby,” he said, because it doesn’t compare to […]

Longtime video blogger and media consultant Steve Garfield has a new book out, Get Seen: Online Video Secrets to Building Your Business, that takes a look at vlogging and video podcasting from the viewpoint of an pioneering indie content creator. The book: Examines success stories of how companies have used online video; Presents a series […]

Old Spice’s latest commercial, The Man Your Man Could Smell Like, is awesome in a dozen different ways – but it’s also a great example of corporate viral video that works. How many ads get two million views in two weeks on YouTube? Old Spice doesn’t have to have to put a URL in their […]

British comedian Ricky Gervais has translated his popular podcast, The Ricky Gervais Show, into an animated series for HBO. The animated series takes the audio of the podcast and puts animation to it, intercutting retro-styled animated scenes with animated versions of Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington. See the HBO site for details.

NBC has put out a press release hyping its coverage of the 2010 Olympics. Some of the highlights: They’ve delivered 8.1 million video streams to date; They’ve had 13.6 million unique visitors; and Traffic to NBCOlympics.com is up 200% over 4 years ago. That sounds pretty impressive – until you consider that this Fred video, […]

Dan Rayburn has published an interesting, but savage, critique of YouTube over at Business of Video. In it, he argues that YouTube is stifling innovation and couldn’t survive without Google’s deep pockets: YouTube didn’t contribute to the technology of the industry at all. They haven’t created any codecs, new delivery protocols, created any industry standards […]