Steve Jobs Hates Your Podcast. And Your YouTube Video, Too.
Wed, 08 Sep 2010
Remember when Apple was the king of tools for creating your own media and it was hyping podcasting and user-generated media?
When Steve Jobs bragged about the company hitting milestones with its iTunes podcast directory? When it added podcasting support to Mac OS X? And when podcasting was a selling point for Garageband?
It looks like the [...]
Microsoft Finally Does Some Intelligent Marketing For The Zune
Tue, 07 Sep 2010
The Zune has been the whipping boy of new media since the portable media player’s introduction, because Microsoft made the mistake of taking a iPod wannabee and throwing a bunch of marketing money at it.
The Zune has improved a lot, since then, but it still hasn’t made an impression with buyers. This is largely because [...]
Three Things About Ping That Will Make You Say “WTF?”
Sun, 05 Sep 2010
The iTunes Ping social music network was easily the most interesting announcement out of Apple’s special music even, last week.
But after using it for even a short while, most people are unimpressed or puzzled – with Fortune asking “Can Ping Be Saved?” and PC World calling it “Not so hot”.
Here are three reasons Apple’s Ping [...]
YouTube Adds Free Grindhouse Movie Section, Featuring Slashers, Zombies & Extreme Chickfights
Fri, 27 Aug 2010
YouTube has introduced a new YouTube Movies section, which offers about 400 free full-length films.
If you’re looking for YouTube to offer an alternative to Netflix or Blockbuster, this ain’t it.
On the other hand, if you want to take a trip back to the 70’s drive-in grindhouse, you have hit the motherlode!
The selection includes classics like [...]
Wired Figures Out How To Lie With Statistics, Or PODCASTING KILLED THE WEB!!!!
Tue, 17 Aug 2010
Wired today declared that the Web is dead, backing it up with this chart that shows the history of the proportion of total Internet bandwidth taken up by various types of traffic.
According to Wired’s Chris Anderson – the proportion of Internet traffic taken up by Web requests is getting smaller – so “the Web is [...]
Five Reasons Apple iTV Will Be A Hit
Thu, 12 Aug 2010
Apple will replace its Apple TV hobby with a new member of the iOS family, Apple iTV, according to an Engadget report.
Apple iTV will be priced starting at $99 and will be similar in size and specs to the iPhone 4 (A4 CPU, 16GB of flash storage). It is expected to support a new iTunes [...]
Wizzard To Provide Podcast Content To BlackBerry Users
Wed, 11 Aug 2010
Podcasting network Wizzard Media announced today their selection by Research In Motion (RIM) as a content partner for RIM’s new BlackBerry® Podcasts.
BlackBerry Podcasts is a new app and service that allows BlackBerry® smartphone users to discover episodic audio and video content [that is to say, podcasts] that can be downloaded directly to their smartphone, and [...]
70% Now Watching Online Video; 22% Now Want Internet-Ready TVs
Thu, 05 Aug 2010
Nielsen has released a new report on video and the Internet, based on input from people in 55 countries, and has found that most people, around the world, are now watching online video. Furthermore, interest in Internet-ready TVs is now at 20%.
“The research reveals how connected consumers all over the world are expanding their video [...]
Social Media & Blogs Now The #1 Online Activity
Tue, 03 Aug 2010
Research firm Nielsen reports that social media & blogs are now the top online activities:
Americans spend nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs, up from 15.8 percent just a year ago (43 percent increase) according to new research released today from The Nielsen Company.
The research revealed that Americans spend [...]
You Have The Right To: 1). Rip & Remix DVDs. 2). Jailbreak Your iPhone. 3). Use Your Phone With Any Carrier You Want.
Mon, 26 Jul 2010
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today announced that it has won three critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anticircumvention provisions today.
You now have the right to:
Rip and remix DVDs for non-commercial purposes;
Jailbreak your iPhone, or other cell phone, and load up any apps you want; and
Use your iPhone, or other cell phone, [...]
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