Diversion Media, publisher of broadband channels, announced the launch of Snowision, a video site for the snowboarding community. Snowvision marks the second niche video site from Diversion, a New York-based company founded by Nicholas Butterworth, former CEO of MTV Interactive Group, and Tatum Lade, … Read More »
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March Madness is much more than a some spring college tournament. It is the nail biting, single elimination tour de force that, by months end, has crowned the NCAA’s top team. The winning squad has to out perform 63 of the nation’s other top performers. While the … Read More »
Popular social network Facebook is adding video uploads in very limited fashion, asking users to submit their own clips on topics like “who am I?” “heartbreak,” and “life during wartime” to be compiled into a television show. The company is formally announcing the project tomorrow, but … Read More »
Ok, so Apple Corps (the Beatles’ Music company) and Apple Inc have worked things out and no lawsuits remain on that subject. After Steve demo’d the iPhone with some Beatles music in last month’s Keynote, I would have expected the Beatles collection to be … Read More »
“Copyright infringement is still a theft. A crime. A felony. Plain and simple.” – Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone, Aug. 22, 2006 Given Sumner Redstone’s recent opinion on unauthorized Internet video-sharing, Friday’s call from Viacom for YouTube to take down 100,000 video clips was probably inevitable. What … Read More »
For me, the best part about being a web worker is that I can listen (and watch) podcasts and videos on my second display as background noise while I get work done and no one complains. While it’s easy to have hundreds of feeds in a … Read More »
A lingering question since Google’s acquisition of YouTube has been what the parent company will do with its own video product, which it effectively announced was not good enough back in October. Three months later, we are seeing the first integration. Google writes today … Read More »
Everyone inside the United States is crazy jazzed about the forthcoming (4 months and 13 days till June) Apple iPhone. Those outside the States are less than excited, because what do they get?? Well in February most of the rest of the … Read More »
Yesterday, Techcrunch reported on Conduit, a customizable toolbar engine. A search of Mozilla’s Extension site for Firefox add-ons with the word “toolbar” returns 439 choices! That’s a lot of little icons competiting for space on your browser window. Is your browser interface clean and … Read More »
With all the hype surrounding BitTorrent, it’s easy to forget the other mainstream P2P network, Gnutella. While LimeWire still rules that roost, Phex should make a strong showing with their first major software update in a year and a half, version 3.0. The … Read More »
VeriSign has been active on the content delivery front following its announcement of a hybrid P2P-traditional CDN service based on its acquisition of Kontiki. VeriSign says via email it will be collaborating with Adobe for delivery of Flash video “including movies, TV shows, broadcast media … Read More »
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