Open source media platform Boxee has announced plans to partner with consumer electronics manufacturers to create a Boxee Box platform – an open Internet video hardware set top box. Here’s the text of their announcement: We launched our public alpha for Mac/Linux in January at CES. During the show we met with several device manufactures […]

Internet video site Vidly has announced that it will now let you share HD videos via Twitter: We’re excited and proud to announce that Vidly is the first Twitter video service to support full 720p HD video. Traditionally, video on Twitter has been low quality UGC. We want to encourage sharing of high quality content […]

Orb Networks today announced the availability of Orb for Macintosh, a free application that lets you stream your iTunes library over the Internet. Orb lets anything from iTunes be accessed on any internet-connected device, without downloading titles beforehand or uploading anything to the cloud. The free Orb application and service enable the streaming of any […]

A 23-year old Minnesota teacher has announced plans to stream the birth of her first child over the Internet to anyone that wants to watch. “We wanted to share this experience,” Lynsee said about the decision she made with her husband Anders. “If I were in a classroom, I’d be teaching about development. It was […]

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 […]

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.

Think YouTube and the iPhone are pretty cool? In 5 years, there will be more than 12 billion devices capable of connecting to 500 billion hours of on-demand video content. According to Intel’s projections, on-demand TV will be ubiquitous in five years. “We are talking about more than one TV-capable device for every man and […]

Zombie Girl: The Movie is a documentary that looks at 12-year-old Emily Hagins and her quest to write and direct an indie zombie movie: Inspired by an Australian zombie import called Undead, she set about her first full-length feature film, Pathogen, when she was just 12 years old. Enter filmmakers Aaron Marshall, Erik Mauck and […]

Media research firm IPSOS has found that twice as man Americans are streaming TV shows and movies as were doing it a year ago. In the past 30 days, 26% of online Americans have streamed a full-length TV show and 14% have streamed a full-length movie. This is more than two times the levels measured […]