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While John Edwards’ pre-announcement of his candidacy on YouTube Wednesday night has online video enthusiasts excited, vloggers are learning today what newsy bloggers have come to expect — when you scoop the mainstream media, don’t expect them to recognize the feat. Perhaps it’s a bit of […] Read more »

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Video search startup Dabble is branching out into providing conversation tools for groups, including corporate sponsors. The company plans to beta-launch a new product, Dabble Groups, in January. This is a deviation from Dabble’s strategy to date, which has been building an audience for video search […] Read more »

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It was only ever a matter of time — while difficult to confirm, it looks like the AACS DRM meant to protect HD-DVDs (and Blu-Ray disks) from unlicensed copying has been cracked. The tale of Muslix64 is particularly entertaining, as is the rockin’ YouTube movie demonstrating […] Read more »

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Besides being one of the providers selling BCS games as part of Fox’s announcement, online video distributor CinemaNow announced last week an agreement to sell Showtime and A&E programming at the popular price point of $1.99 an episode. But according to Forbes Magazine, Cinemanow only enjoys […] Read more »

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As blogosphere watchers already knew, John Edwards is making no small plans to conduct a lot of his expected 2008 campaign for President online. But in what is undeniably a first, Edwards pre-announced his announcement (hey, did he once work for Microsoft, or what?) in a […] Read more »

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Lou Cabron of 10 Zen Monkeys offers a list of the five worst vlogs of 2006. The choices are all over the map, with gratuitous swipes at Rocketboom hosts past and present. It’s deliciously harsh. Amanda Congdon’s new show is the equivalent of deciding that Lite […] Read more »

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Fox Sports will begin offering full video downloads of their Bowl Championship Series coverage on Thursday, December 28, 2006, the company announced today. Starting at $1.99 for individual preview shows and highlight videos to $19.99 for a full package of all game coverage, Fox promises to […] Read more »

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Converting, transcoding, re-encoding — these are just some of the words to learn when it comes to collecting and viewing your favorite videos. Want a YouTube clip on your Xbox? Convert and re-encode. How about DVD video on an iPod? Convert and transcode. Or is it […] Read more »

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Retail stores are where you sell things, right? Not in this century, they’re not! Verizon has opened two mall-front properties to showcase its FiOS IPTV offering “with little advertisement or fanfare,” says this AP story. FiOS is the fiber-to-the-home service Om reported on yesterday, saying its […] Read more »

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Three months ago in San Francisco, Steve Jobs did his “One last thing…” trick and the prototype Apple has codenamed the iTV emerged from behind the curtain. The world was assured they could get their grubby hands on them in the first quarter of 2007. Well, […] Read more »

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We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: online video discovery can be a challenge. Now, in the vein of Digg, StumbleUpon, and newcomers like Viral Video Chart, memetracking sites Megite and Tailrank are adding video sections. Both sites portray online conversations by clustering related […] Read more »

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Is building better video backbone technology a story that will play on Wall Street? That’s what BigBand Networks hopes, as the company filed for an IPO on Dec. 22. Previous reporting from Light Reading said BigBand may seek to raise $120 million or so; according to […] Read more »

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James Brown’s signature funk is so ubiquitous that the scent will likely linger on the winds of the collective consciousness forever. Enabled by mass media, he became the root rhythm of remixer turntablists and samplers. One of the great cultural capitalists, he’s produced a grossly outsized […] Read more »

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Rocketboom founder Andrew Michael Baron has posted another proclamation regarding his new Abbey Corps studio network project, which we mentioned last week. Baron says he thinks the networks like PodShow and PodTech are too focused on the business side of things, at the expense of creative […] Read more »

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Betting that the backbone is a business that’s going to get better, Level 3 added to its ante by purchasing the content delivery network business from Savvis today, for $135 million in cash. Om has more details and analysis on the GigaOM site. Whether or not […] Read more »

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Tom McInerney, one of the co-founders and chief executive officer of GUBA, a San Francisco-based online video sharing and download service, has resigned and is leaving the company. Eric Lambrecht, Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer of GUBA is going to take over as the CEO of […] Read more »

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The holidays are a time of giving…the gift of self-promotion! In the unintentionally funny department, the Yahoo Publisher’s Group yodels to their customers, while Edutainment Media offers the gift of gratuitous green-screen graphics. Read more »

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Rocketboom founder Andrew Michael Baron and VoIP entrepreneur Jeff Pulver are putting together a network studio called Abbey Corps. Hey, why let collaborator-turned-enemy Amanda Congdon have all the pre-Christmas weekend bucketloads of attention to herself today? Baron promises a slow reveal of the project on his […] Read more »

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This week, online video has won attention from the Canadian police, the Swedish government, and a Texas judge. Only thing more legit than that is if we get a soundbite from George W. about watching clips on “the YouTube.” Or not… The Hamilton, Ontario police who […] Read more »

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A browser-based interface for viewing YouTube and Revver clips on your television set is what SofaTube promises to deliver. The user experience is super-simple, with fonts big enough to read at a distance. It certainly shows that there’s still plenty of untapped potential for third-party interface […] Read more »

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Update: Congdon’s first video is up on the new site. In it, she asks New Yorkers “Why do you think you’re Time Magazine’s Person of the Year?” Her conclusion comes in a voiceover; she’s taking “you” back. “Not everyone participated in the media revolution. Gosh, many […] Read more »

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Heavy.com is easily most mature online video site in terms of venture capital funding. According to PE Hub, the company has just raised its fifth round. The round, which came out through one of PE Week’s signature habit of rifling through regulatory files, is valued at […] Read more »

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It’s that time of year again — time for Christmas television specials. And thankfully the tradition has carried on into cyberspace. The latest episode of “Will it Blend?” answers the age-old question of whether you can blend an entire Christmas dinner into a delicious milkshake. From […] Read more »

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Web-made heroine Amanda Congdon will launch the next of her projects, a “a behind the scenes look at her life in L.A. as she juggles new projects in the traditional and new media,” tomorrow. The show, Starring Amanda Congdon, has already hooked up deals with a […] Read more »

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Michael Calore of Wired News writes about a coworker who called their ISP, RCN, after having trouble sharing a file using BitTorrent. Instead of being told that RCN was blocking his ability to seed torrent transfers, he was scolded for being a copyright infringer. Most instructive […] Read more »

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Lost Remote mentions a new category in Nielsen’s year-end statistics: top 10 time-shifted prime-time television shows. It’s dominated by NBC and CW, with a more-than-healthy dose of chick TV. And no American Idol, of course, by far the winner in primetime TV. Lost Remote writer Cory […] Read more »

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Given their history of successes with Skype and Kazaa, it’s no wonder that there is plenty of anticipation about the online video startup coming from Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the Venice Project. Thanks to some friends who have access, Om was able to get a […] Read more »

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In a short item earlier this week, I linked to the announcement that the BBC would be distributing some of its shows through the new Azureus portal, Zudeo. The P2P Blog suggests correctly inferred that the shows will come with some form of DRM: I would […] Read more »

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An old friend from high school sent me a link to a story he’d written about Nate Robinson for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. But his lede was uncannily prescient: With his role in the brawl at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, Nate Robinson continues his quest to […] Read more »

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Not much is better than watching Will Ferrell, waist-high in a hot tub cracking himself up during an Saturday Night Live skit. I just watched the 2-minute long clip on Cingular’s video service, which Cingular and SNL officially announced today. While the content and concept are […] Read more »

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Online video startup Veoh is revving its product tonight, borrowing liberally from its competition. It’ll be hard to stand out from the crowd by becoming more like the crowd, but Veoh’s looking for a boost to take it out of the middle of the online video […] Read more »

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Michael Arrington is breaking up. With Netflix, and switching loyalties to Blockbuster, the video rental store which conjures up late fees and bad customer service in my mind. Mike is making good arguments for switching to Blockbuster, but for me the future of video is not […] Read more »

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In a follow up to the story about Verisign’s Intelligent Content Delivery Network, former Kontiki customer AxiomTV will stick with the technology when they roll out their family-friendly movie download service on Feb. 1. AxiomTV is a division of Axiom Entertainment, a project of Daniel Brian […] Read more »

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AdAge has the scoop that two of online video startup Revver’s founders are leaving the company. Steven Starr will remain CEO, but co-founders Ian Clarke and Oliver Luckett and other members of the staff will depart (though apparently some will have consulting roles). Revver pioneered the […] Read more »

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Governor of Iowa Tom Vilsack is running for the Democratic Party nomination for president. On Monday night he chose the Daily Show with Jon Stewart to make his first television appearance of the campaign. To close the interview, Vilsack promoted his site: Vilsack: Shameless plug — […] Read more »

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Video search site blinkx seems to announce at least one new content deal per week, so we don’t even try to cover all of them. Today CTO Suranga Chandratillake called to say the company had tied up Dow Jones Online, pulling video feeds from WSJ.com, MarketWatch.com, […] Read more »

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New CBS Interactive head Quincy Smith has drafted more Silicon Valley help for the big-eye network, signing former Yahoo exec Michael Marquez as VP of strategy and corporate development — New York speak for “he’ll be the guy signing up the startups who will help us […] Read more »

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While walking the streets of San Francisco, Podtech CEO John Furrier took a few minutes after a meeting to answer some questions about Podtech’s business plans. Public announcements have been rare of late, and only hints have been made by star blogger hire Robert Scoble. The […] Read more »

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Remember all of this talk about big media companies making their own YouTube? Well word got out today from Broadcasting&Cable that Viacom, owners of MTV, Nickelodeon and other big channels has backed out of the talks with NBC Universal, News Corp. and CBS. It looks like […] Read more »

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Finding news so you don’t have to: Crisis TV: Josh Spear finds a non-profit that funds and distributes reporting on humanitarian crises around the world. “WEdia.tv covered the famine in Mali and Niger, and its footage was picked up by every major American network as well […] Read more »

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