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, […]

Video startup Veoh Networks is dead, reports Media Memo: Veoh, one of several well-funded startups that have tried and failed to cash in on the Web video boom, is finally calling it quits. The company let go of the remainder of its workforce yesterday, and sources say it plans on filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy […]

YouTube today introduced its Video Speed Dashboard – a free service that shows you your video speed compares to the average for your ISP, your region, your state and more. The service also plots your video speed over time: According to YouTube: The goal with this dashboard is to give you insight into what your […]

Video podcast network Revision3 has announced its growth results for 2009, highlighting several milestones for the company: Revision3’s programs were viewed nearly 70M times during 2009; Revenue grew 30%; Average deal size grew by 50%; and They added Ford, Adidas, Coors, Nokia and Panasonic as major advertisers. Revision3 also added 10 new shows in 2009: […]

McGraw-Hill’s CEO Terry McGraw confirmed (or spilled the beans) some details on Apple’s upcoming Apple iPad computer. In an interview with CNBC, McGraw says that the Apple Tablet is very exciting, will run iPhone OS and that it will be great for textbooks: “Yes, they’ll make their announcement tomorrow on this one. We have worked […]

Podcasting pioneer Dave Winer posted some interesting thoughts last week on reinventing journalism: I have the same feeling about journalism today that I had about computer science in the 1970s. Sure, we had textbooks and teachers, and projects and grades, but there was also an opportunity to invent it as we were going along. Computer […]

Infoworld has published an article arguing that Apple’s rumored iPad will fail big time. According to Infoworld, “to believe that Apple can somehow succeed where all others have failed is to ignore some fundamental realities of tablet computing.” Infoworld sums up the prospects for the rumored iTablet, saying “Unless Apple pulls something truly revolutionary out […]

NewTeeVee reports that there’s now porn on the Roku Internet video system: A new channel popped up on Roku yesterday called EroticVision.TV that makes adult content available on the broadband set-top box for the first time. But the new “adult entertainment” channel hasn’t actually been approved by Roku, and it operates in a kind of […]

Ustream today introduced the availability of Ustream Live Broadcaster (App Store link), a free app for the iPhone that lets you stream live video from your iPhone 3G or 3GS: The Ustream Live Broadcaster is a free app that enables live streaming on 3G or Wifi, and users can notify their Twitter communities when they […]

YouTube has announced that it’s counting down the most memorable videos of the year, advent calendar style: Without giving too much away, you can expect to see some well-known YouTube videographers on the countdown, along with breakout viral videos and a selection of the year’s biggest pop-culture phenoms and memes. During December, we’ll be adding […]