Added to the podcast directory page: The Aloha Podcast Network, a site that offers a variety of Hawaiian podcasts. Description: Interested in life in Hawaii? Want to find out more about visiting the beautiful “Islands of Aloha”? Now you can sample a wide variety of Hawaii and Hawaiian themed podcast and vodcast via the Aloha […]

blinkx, a leading video search engine, today unveiled an updated site featuring “video walls”, a new interface for Internet video that combines the ‘sit back and watch’ element of traditional television with the interactive experience of searching and watching video online. Users will also be able to embed topical video walls in to Web pages […]

Former Rocketboom host Amanda Congdon got her start in video podcasting via an ad at Craigslist. These recent help wanted listings might not be similar opportunities, but stranger things have happened. Bikini Model Model for an outdoor viral video ad to be shown on YouTube and Podcast. Blogger a plus. Spaloo is looking for a […]

More evidence that YouTube as you know it is dead: YouTube and Universal Music Group (UMG) have announced an agreement that promises to remove videos from the site that use Universal music without authorization, and replace them with ad-supported content. Under the agreement, UMG will let YouTube users incorporate music from UMG‚Äôs recorded music catalog […]

Google announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction. Following the acquisition, YouTube will operate independently “to preserve its successful brand and passionate community.” The acquisition is likely to lead to rapid changes at YouTube. Google’s announcement places emphasis on the legal distribution of professionally produced content. […]

Organizers have announced another PodCamp event, PodCampWest, scheduled for November 18-19th, 2006 in San Francisco. PodCamps are free unconferences in the tradition of BarCamp, an ad-hoc gathering to share information in an open manner. PodCampWest will be free to attend and is inspired by the PodCamp Boston. Here is a list of sessions that organizers […]

The¬†Podcast Peer Awards, a podcasting award chosen by members of the Podcast Peers¬†site, have been announced. The most honored show was Digital Flotsam, which won in three categories: Favorite, Best Production, and Best Storytelling. “I am thrilled, amazed, and grateful for the votes I received,” said P.W. Fenton, the creator and producer of the show. […]

At the Podcasting and Portable Media Expo, held last weekend in Ontario, California, we had the opportunity to talk with Andrew Michael Baron and Joanne Colan of Rocketboom, right, before they headed out to LA for the evening. As you can tell from the photo, Baron and Colan looked exuberant to be at the Expo. […]

The Podcast Film Fest is an online film festival that hopes to help filmakers get exposure to their work. PCFF plans to build an online community of filmmakers and film enthusiasts where they will be able to share their point of views and critique filmmakers. Prizes will be awarded to filmmakers and film enthusiasts at […]

18 Doughty Street, a UK political Internet television station, has announed that it has 100 camcorders to give away to people with strong views and first hand knowledge of a pressing problem. According to the site: We want doctors to report regularly on their experience of the NHS… Ex-servicemen to talk about overstretch in the […]