didn't I already hear the punchline on this one? OK, OK, I have an idea. Let's build an online social network. Let users participate by sharing videos and creating profile pages. Has that been...

ABC News is unique amongst the broadcasters' experiments online. They create a 15-minute daily newscast separate from "ABC World News" though using the same set and same anchor, Charles...

The Japanese love their mobile phones and services. But will they flock to mobile video that includes American film clips, music videos, and sports highlights. I don't know but Amp'd Mobile...

No, because Google believes that impoverishing artists and stifling competition is a good thing On Mark Cuban's blog last night he re-posted an anonymous post that hints at intimate details of the...

at the risk of sounding like the economist that has predicted the 7 of the last 2 recessions, here is my analysis An often debated topic is this: will Google continue to rise forever or will it...

I didn't kill that person, honest. I merely put a loaded gun in the real killer's hand and got him drunk ahead of time! There I was, trying to finish up work today when all of a sudden a...

rumor has it that the AMA will ask that channel surfing syndrome be classified as a mental illness, coverable by health insurance A month and a half ago I wrote about a post called Channel Surfs Up,...

and in separate news, GoogTube announces that Claude Rains is their new spokesperson. Uploaded film at 11 Late last week, Google preceded its decision to remove Viacom's material from YouTube with...

I see a report in Broadcasting & Cable about Microsoft dropping out of the 'It's Our Net' coalition. That is the group of companies that is pushing for net neutrality. The reason for...

in other news, we learned that Bram Cohen heads a sleeper cell of Al Qaeda You may recall my posting about Bob Wright's 'war' on piracy, even going so far as to link it to the fight on...

Can you see me now? Verizon reports its Q3 results on Monday. One thing that investors will probably hold their collective noses through is the shrinkage of the company's core phone business....

and second prize is 2 weeks in Philadelphia Another day, another user generated video contest. This time, the instigators are TBS and MySpace and the focus is on stand-up comedy. The name of the...

9 out of 10 people don't know what the tenth person is up to Video, video everywhere. But who is watching it? According to a new report by The Conference Board and market research firm TNS, only...

there are three types of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics Much has been made of Google's acquisition of YouTube and part of that story is predicated upon YouTube's statistics. The most...

Come on; let's just admit it up front. People who create their own content and post it online do dream of being discovered someday. Maybe that is not so far-fetched. One of Hollywood's top...

company would have compared its current size to Jabba the Hut but realized it did not own that particular copyright There's nothing like a large, bloated media empire saying to the FCC that it...

For those of you that are fans of Fox's O.C., here is good news for you. Fox will stream the fourth season premiere episode a week before it airs on TV. You can watch it October 26 on what......

steaming streaming only at sundancechannel.com In another sign of how the Internet is rapidly turning into the fourth video distribution platform (broadcast, cable, and satellite the other three) here...

Recently, I commented how most video on demand (VOD) service offerings still fall short of the Netflix value proposition. Some people did not like that comparison, thinking netflix had already seen...

Television piracy in Asia is costing Asian pay-TV broadcasters $1.13 billion this year in lost potential revenue, so says an article in the Wall Street Journal (subscription needed) citing an industry...