It’s the Kindle’s first birthday, and, it still hasn’t become the iPod of eBook readers, as some predicted. Now Silicon Valley Insider’s Dan Frommer is wondering what Amazon can do to turn the Zune into a hit.  Here’s the answer: the Kindle needs to become a new media device. The Kindle is a basically an expensive […]

We love Halloween almost as much as we love Internet media. Luckily, there are lots of ways to get your Halloween fix with new media.  Here are some of our favorites: Watch Night Of The Living Dead On Hulu It’s an hour and 36 minute zombie creepfest. What more do you need?

RADUS today unveiled a new media hub platform that lets you simultaneously discover, search, share, and view rich media across leading computer, mobile, and social networking services, including Facebook and MySpace. RADUS (ray-dee-us) was designed to address one of the major issues confronting online content delivery—the lack of a consistent user experience. RADUS lets you […]

It’s time for corporate America to take a hard look at social media. According to the a new survey: 93 percent of Americans believe a company should have a presence in social media; 85 percent believe a company should not only be present but also interact with its consumers via social media; and 56 percent […]

The Ninja drops some mad wisdom about the future of Internet media & throws some new media facts at you along the way. And some of them are even true!

We’ve reported previously that newspapers are losing advertisers to Internet media, that young people are abandoning newspapers for Internet media and that newspaper revenue is tanking. The result of these trends is that the value of traditional newspapers is in a freefall: Avista, the PE-fund that bought the Minneapolis Star-Tribune for $530 million in late […]

Odeo, an early podcasting startup that has long struggled with its direction, is back, in beta and looking for feedback. While the original site focused on podcast creation, the focus of Odeo’s latest incarnation focuses on viewing and listening to Internet media. Give it a look and let me know what you think of the […]

Every day, at least one news item makes us pause, and say, “Well, duh” (as in, “yeah, tell me something I didn’t already know.”). Our “duh!” moment of today comes courtesy of a study on social networking by new media market research firm Grunwald Associates. Their scholarly finding: kids aged 9 – 17 are paying […]