Howard Lindzon, the creator of the “Wall Strip” video podcast (“stock culture meets pop culture”), was interviewed by Expo organizer Tim Bourquin as the opening session for the 2007 Podcast and New Media Expo in Ontario, California. Lindzon parlayed his background in the financial industry, and some financial backing ($600,000), and overlooked his own lack […]

Podcasting network PodShow today announced PodShowTV, a new service designed to let you access the network’s content on PCs, mobile devices and, in the near future, through advanced digital set-top boxes, Net-connected DVRs and IPTV. The service will feature PodShow content, but also provide a platform for users to interact and publish content. In effect, […]

Today at DigitalLife, Microsoft made two announcements that raise the stakes in the competition to bring Internet television to the world. In doing so, Microsoft threatens to further marginalize Apple TV and even sideline indie video podcasters. Microsoft’s first announcement was to unveil Extenders for Microsoft Windows Media Center. These horribly named devices, which are […]

Podcast network Podango today announced the twenty-one podcasting and new media speakers staged for its “Unconference” at the Podcast and New Media Expo (PNME), taking place September 28-30, at the Ontario Convention Center. “We’re featuring an open discussion and practical, how-to exchanges of information,” said Lee Gibbons, CEO of Podango. Podango has organized an outstanding […]

Rocketboom and Blip.tv have announced a partnership to incorporate interactive advertising into the weekday video podcast. The result is more intrusive than some other Internet video ad types, but is an interesting new ad option. Here’s how Blip.tv’s Mike Hudack describes the system: That new technology is an entirely interactive QuickTime overlay advertisement that looks […]

Gawker is reporting that pioneering video blogger Amanda Congdon and ABC will be parting ways: We hear that ABC News vlogger Amanda Congdon’s contract won’t be renewed. Congdon, who came to fame at RocketBoom, started contributing to their website late last year. She has been quite productive recently taking tours of homes in Santa Barbara […]

Podcasting startup PodShow is expected to formally announce a partnership with TiVo next week that will bring PodShow’s video podcasts to TiVo users. The agreement promises to make Podshow’s content available to millions of new viewers, directly on their televisions. An official announcement is expected at next week’s Podcasting and Portable Media Expo. Paul Colligan […]

This year, it’s looking more and more like the major broadcast networks are going to be taking baby steps into Internet media, experimenting with a variety of different methods of delivery while trying to protect their traditional business model: Fox plans to offer the season premiere episodes of seven programs for free through Apple’s iTunes […]

NBC has announced a new service, NBC Direct, which will let you download and view NBC’s primetime and late-night programming to Windows PCs to watch for up to a week after the shows are broadcast. The service, which will begin beta testing in October, promises to let you download full-length episodes of Heroes, The Office, […]

Some forty years after it first revolutionized children’s television programming, Sesame Workshop (the makers of public tv’s Sesame Street) has announced the launch of a video podcast series. The short weekly episodes focus on a single “word on the street” (literally, a word chalked onto blacktop). The recent podcast about squid featured grown-ups and children […]