Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron hopes that his new video podcasting studio will be less about advertising and more about creating interesting shows: Abby Corps is about enabling content creators by building community. When the emphasis is shifted towards supporting great quality content and the options for monetizing that content remain open to outside partnerships and […]

Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron has announced that he is partnering with Jeff Pulver to create a new video podcasting network, Abbey Corps. According to Baron, the new network will be a competitive alternative to Podshow and Podtech, two podcasting startups. “Jeff Pulver and I have co-founded a new studio network,” writes Baron at his blog […]

The newsroom comedy video podcast Goodnight Burbank has a special Christmas episode this week. Find out what happens behind the scenes after Gordon Winston-Smythe and Kelly Jones (that’s “honess”) sign off.

What do you get when you mix Amanda Condgon, body oil and video chat? Starring Amanda Congdon, a new video blog, featuring the video blogger and former Rocketboom host scheduled, to debut today on Blip.tv. The show is one of the first video blogs to debut with the support of major sponsors, Dove Cream Oil […]

Roman Catholic Cardinal Sean O’Malley already calls himself a blogger. But now O’Malley is delving further into new media with a video podcast of his Christmas message to the masses. The podcasts — in English, Spanish and Portuguese — are part of a broader effort by the Boston Archdiocese to embrace new technology as a […]

SageTV Media Center, a personal video recording (PVR) and media center software package for Windows and Linux PCs, has added new features that include bringing online video to the TV, support for the global DVB broadcasting standard, the ability to play unencrypted DVD libraries on the TV with SageTV Media Extender, and expanded file support […]

Digg, a popular social networking news bookmarking site, introduced an update today that makes podcasting a major feature of the site. The site is also emphasizing video bookmarking, making multimedia much more prominent than it had previously been. The change could dramatically change the face of podcast discovery, as Digg focuses on the viral spread […]

Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron has a few choice words about ABC’s new video blog featuring former Rocketboom host Amanda Congdon. He’s also got some interesting points to make about mainstream media’s attempts to clone the success of indie vlogs: “I’m going to set aside all of the technical problems everyone has already mentioned with the […]

SearchforMedia Network, developer of video and audio search engine technologies, announced Tuesday the first phase of its international video podcast directory, www.searchforvideo.com. The video search engine offers users a means to find podcast content from a variety of countries and in a number of languages. “Searchforvideo currently offers a video podcast directory for English-language video […]

iBloks today announced a Windows Video Podcast Starter Kit designed to empower podcasters to easily create world class quality video podcasts. The Starter Kit includes the iBloks Video Podcaster software, a headset with noise canceling mic, a virtual 3D stage and a training video for $49.99. The iBloks drag and drop interface supports photo, graphic […]