Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion is wondering Why Yahoo is backing away from RSS. “Has anyone noticed that Yahoo’s love affair with RSS seems to be withering?” asks Rubel. “In the past few weeks Yahoo has rolled out three major new web sites – Yahoo! Food, Yahoo! Advertising and Yahoo! TV. They’re great sites, but […]

The BBC reports that the online video boom is starting to eat into TV viewing time. 43% of Britons who watch video from the internet or on a mobile device at least once a week said they watched less normal TV as a result. One in five people who watched online or mobile video at […]

Nielsen Media Research recently announced that it has begun gathering information on usage of Apple‚Äôs iPod, and has found that most iPod owners spend far more time using them to listen to music or audio podcasts than they do using them to watch TV or movies. This report, which is of qualified significance because its […]

TiVo has announced a major new initiative to let TiVo subscribers convert and transfer broadband video from their PC to their television sets. The move affirms the growing importance of video podcasts, vlogs and other Internet video to the future of television. Through an expansion of its Desktop PC software later this year, TiVo subscribers […]

Rocketboom creator Andrew Baron is distancing himself from Microsoft and a Zune cross-promotion, despite the potential for massively increased traffic. According to Baron, the promotion came with restrictions that were causing him to lose sleep. “Just by having the Zune logo on our page would mean we would not be able to make disparaging comments […]

Amanda Congdon, co-founder and former host of Rocketboom, is developing a comedy program for HBO. ‚ÄúHBO is exactly the place where I want to be,‚Äù Congdon said. ‚ÄúI‚Äôm most interested in playing in that new dimension with two parallel levels of programming, online and on TV.‚Äù According to Congdon, she‚Äôs aiming for a multiplatform property […]

“You have the right to choose – you have the right to vote” – Paul Van Dyk 9 Ways To Cover The Election MobileCasting Update: Veek The Vote

New Assignment’s David Cohn has suggested 9 ways you can blog, vlog or podcast about tomorrow’s elections: At Betsy Devine‚Äôs blog you can learn more about ‚Äúsnapping the leaflets,‚Äù a project to document what propaganda voters are subject to days before the election. Video The Vote is an organized effort, using camera phones and video, […]

YouthNoise, a social network for youth dedicated to social change, and Veeker, a mobilecasting service, have announced the launch of Veek the Vote 2006, intended to encourage youth to get politically active this November 7th by using the video cameras in their mobile phones to communicate their experiences on Election Day. YouthNoise, through its Web […]

The Vloggies, a video blogging award presented by PodTech, were held Saturday, November 4th, in a ceremony in San Francisco. The ceremony was hosted by PodTech’s Irina Slutsky, and soap-opera star turned vlogger Daniel McVicar. Winners included Rocketboom, Ryanne Hodson, Ask a Ninja, Diggnation and Galacticast. Josh Wolf, who is currently in jail for refusing […]