• You Have The Right To: 1). Rip & Remix DVDs. 2). Jailbreak Your iPhone. 3). Use Your Phone With Any Carrier You Want.
  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, [...]
• YouTube Intros New Video Embed Format, Replacing Flash With HTML 5
  YouTube has announced a new option for video embeds, designed to support HTML 5 and to fall back to Flash where HTML 5 is not supported. According to YouTube, “If you use the new embed code style, your viewers will be able to view your embedded video in one of our Flash or HTML5 players, depending [...]
• Music Video Shot On An iPhone 4
  flakjakt (Steve Fallows) calls his Cascades music video the “first official iPhone 4 music video”. There are rivals to that title, but at least this is the first one with hipsters and flamenco dancers. Fallows says: In a fun weeklong experiment, my friend Marty and I collaborated on this video for an original song I wrote specifically [...]
• Make Your Own iPhone 4 Steadicam
  iPhone 4 video quality is great for a phone – but is limited by the fact that light hand-held video cameras deliver shaky video. While Tiffen has announced an iPhone Steadicam, you can also build your own. This video, by Spencer S. Watson, demonstrates how he built a DIY iPhone Steadicam out of a modified Nerf gun [...]
• Podcast Audience Now Half Of Internet Radio Audience
  Audio podcasts now reach about half as many people as Internet radio. Accoding to a new survey of Internet users, 31% listen to radio via the Internet and 16% listen to podcasts.
• Microsoft’s ‘Back Against The Wall’ With New Zune Phone
  Several readers were incensed last week when we highlighted InfoWorld’s early negative impressions of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7. InfoWorld’s take was scathing – suggesting that Microsoft should kill the project. Now Engadget’s Joshua Topolsky has offered his in-depth preview of Windows Phone 7, and he’s also skeptical about the viability of the platform: What we’ve been presented with [...]
• Old Spice May Be The First Brand To Really Get New Media – Because There’s Nothing More Disgraceful Than Being Whipped To Death With Your Own Ninja Shirt
  Do you need proof that Old Spice may be the first brand to really “get” new media? Then look no further than this video of the Old Spice man explaining how to defeat pirates and ninjas. Or his personal response to Rose McGowan: Old Spice published dozens of these response videos earlier this week and has had millions [...]
• Dude Intros The Boxee Box, Noms On The Wheat Thins
  You gotta love this – Boxee Chief Product Officer Zach Klein offers an introduction and demo of the first Boxee Box off the assembly line. Compared to the typical stiff demo or the hyper-prepped Apple intros, it’s sort of refreshing to see Boxee do this lo fi, even taking out time to nom on the [...]
• ProfCast Podcasting Software Half Price Through End Of July
  Developer Humble Daisy has announced a temporary price drop for ProfCast, the company’s flagship lecture recording and podcasting solution. For remainder of the month of July, ProfCast will be half priced. “We wanted to try something a little different. Rather than have a ’sale’, we thought we would just simplify things and drop the price across [...]
• Is Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 The Next Zune?
  Will Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Phone 7 smartphone be the next Zune? Could be – based on the latest Windows Phone 7, InfoWorld says Microsoft should just kill the project now: There’s no kind way to say it: Windows Phone 7 will be a failure. Windows Phone 7 is a waste of time and money. It’s a platform that [...]