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NetFlix To Stream Movies To Tivo

Oct 30th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Streaming Video

Netflix today said that it has reached a deal with TiVo to provide digital movie streaming to many of the 800,000 broadband-connected Tivo subscribers.
The companies are testing the new service in several thousand U.S. households and expect it to be broadly available in early December.
Netflix’s “Watch Instantly” Web streaming service, with a library of more than 12,000 [...]



New Startup Promises 6-Figure Blogging & Podcasting Careers

Oct 29th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Making Money with Podcasts, Podcasting

The Blogger & Podcaster Media Network is a new media network startup that promises a “six-figure income for all.”
It’s not clear from the site if they are promising a six figure salary for everybody that signs up, or if everybody that signs up will just be asked to split it up equally.
Here are the membership [...]



iPhone Update To Let You Download Podcasts Wirelessly

Oct 28th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcasting Software, iPods & Portable Media Players

Put this in the unsubstantiated rumor category - but AppleInsider is reporting that iPhone firmware 2.2 will add support for wireless downloads:
A tipster shared with us some screenshots of the new firmware, including what appears to be the ability to download podcasts directly to your iPhone (and presumably your iPod touch). This could tidily explain [...]



Blu-Ray Is Dead; Who Would Have Guessed?

Oct 28th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Video Downloads, Video

ZDNet’s Tech Bits is declaring Blu-Ray dead:
Blu-ray is in a death spiral. 12 months from now Blu-ray will be a videophile niche, not a mass market product.
With only a 4% share of US movie disc sales and HD download capability arriving, the Blu-ray disc Association (BDA) is still smoking dope. Even $150 Blu-ray players won’t [...]



New WordPress Plugin Fixes Support For Podcast Enclosures

Oct 27th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcasting Software

Ludicrous has released a new WordPress plugin, the snappily named MagpieRSS Hotfix for Enclosure Support and Character Encoding Issues, that enhances the WordPress RSS parser, adding support for RSS enclosures.
This free plugin adds support for RSS enclosures to MagpieRSS, the RSS parser behind the fetch_rss() function in WordPress. It also forces MagpieRSS to use UTF-8 character [...]



Internet Video Streaming Now Mainstream

Oct 27th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

The popularity of online video services has grown significantly with women and older consumers over the last six months, helping close the age and gender gap within the online video audience in the U.S.
Recent data from Ipsos MediaCT’s MOTION study document the widespread appeal online video now has with the majority of today’s Internet users, and [...]



NetFlix Brings Internet Movie Streaming To Macs

Oct 27th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Movie Store, Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

Netflix today announced it has released its 2nd-generation media player, based on Microsoft Silverlight, which brings the company’s Internet video service to subscribers with Intel-based Mac computers for the first time. The deployment, which will initially touch a small percentage of new Netflix subscribers, is the first step in an anticipated roll-out of the new platform [...]



Qik Lets You Stream Live From Your Blackberry

Oct 27th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

Live streaming media startup Qik has announced an alpha client for the BlackBerry Pearl 8120, BlackBerry Pearl 8130, BlackBerry Bold, BlackBerry Curve and BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220.
Qik on BlackBerry lets you stream live to the Internet from supported Blackberry devices. 
Here’s Qik’s demo video:

Here are details on the Qik Blackberry alpha release:



Get A Free Audio Recorder For Your iPhone

Oct 26th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Featured Story, Podcasting Software, iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players

Griffin has released a free iPhone application, iTalk Recorder (App Store Link), that lets you record audio with your phone.

You can use the software to record on your iPhone or 2nd generation iPod touch.



Hunt For Bin Laden Moves To Twitter

Oct 25th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Commentary

It looks like the hunt for Bin Laden is moving to Twitter.
A draft US Army intelligence report (pdf) looks at ways Twitter, social media and other new technologies could be used by terrorists. The posting of the report on the FAS site was reported Friday by Wired magazine contributing editor Noah Shachtman on his national [...]