I visited the shiny new offices of Jaman, an interesting destination site for cinema-quality independent and international films. Chris Baum, senior product manager, and Ji Kim, senior interaction designer, tell us how Jaman is different from short-form video services like YouTube. They give me a tour of their site ...

As videobloggingweek2007 comes to a close and approaching one thousand uploads, Irina shares her favorite picks - Perros, Ken’s H&R Block on YouTube, and a special shout out to Jim from The Clip Show who posted a video every day this week.

This week on the Vloggie Show, while still recovering from SXSW in Austin, Irina’s back in town hanging with the slightly funny (okay, hilarious) vlogger, Schlomo Rabinowitz. Schlomo dishes out his voting strategy for the recently-announced YouTube awards and Irina searches for the perfect hair. Also, in ...

NETGEAR has announced its new Digital Entertainer HD. It’s the next step in bridging the barrier between your television and the digital media on your computer. Listen to this conversation with Jamison Ching of NETGEAR, as he outlines all the cool features of this wireless device, which allows you to use your TV to watch movies in high-def, listen to music, stream Internet content, and more.

Irina Slutsky talks to Colin Devroe, of Viddler at SXSW. Viddler is a Web video sharing service. You can post large, high-quality videos at 500 mgb per file and the service is free. Look out, YouTube….

In a battle over the value of copyrights, Viacom recently asked YouTube to remove all of its content, including popular videos like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Professor Rich Hanley, at the Communications School of Quinnipiac University shares his views on the relative negotiating strength of content ...

YouTube recently licensed music and vintage television programs (shows like “I Spy” and “My Favorite Martian”) from Digital Music Group. Internet viewers will be able to watch and hear these shows as advertising-supported programming at YouTube. Mitch Koulouris of Digital Music Group spoke with us about the deal.

Gary Kim, managing editor of IT Business Wire, and Andy Randall, MetaSwitch’s vice president of marketing, chat with PodTech.net at the World Center Marriott in Orlando after a breakfast meeting sponsored by MetaSwitch. The breakfast panel focused on opportunities and challenges for the new competitive local exchange carriers, or ...

Motionbox is a New York-based personal video sharing startup. CEO Chris O’Brien talks about the company’s business model, and how it’s planning to scale up to compete with the dominant forces in the online video space. His experience with the startup shows him that the route to profitability can be ...

Can a video-sharing startup with a few key innovations like deep tagging and an attempt to make a very user-friendly interface for video editing compete against market phenomenon YouTube? Motionbox is a New York-based personal video sharing startup. CEO Chris O’Brien discusses how his company is trying to differentiate in ...

As one comic put it, referring to a drive across the U.S.: “This country grows a lot of freakin’ corn.” Corn, prairie grasses and an innovative use of radiocarbon mapping may be leading the way to reduced carbon emissions as well as furthering the push for U.S. energy independence. Catherine ...

One of the most significant things about the meteoric rise in popularity of user-driven video-sharing site YouTube is the huge opportunity it presents for producers of low-budget content. A key question for producers remains: How to monetize that content? John Mayerhofer is co-founder and CEO of VoiceIndigo, a mobile marketing ...

Fourteen years ago, in the early days of the Internet, it may have been hard to imagine shopping for a car, ordering food, or making other important consumer decisions all online. Organic saw an opportunity, though, and that’s when it began to work with some forward-thinking companies that saw the ...

Jordan Greenhall, CEO and co-founder of DivX, sits down with me at the Consumer Electronics Show. If you haven’t seen the latest from DivX, you should. Its new Stage6 video system brings dramatically better quality than, say, YouTube. Here Greenhall tells us a little bit about what else DivX ...

Successes like YouTube and MySpace are standout examples of the kind of enthusiasm that the market — and venture funds — have had for all things Web 2.0. One inevitable side-effect of all this exuberance has been skepticism — especially from the veteran investors who have seen this movie already. ...

PodTech.net’s Michael Johnson investigates the changing landscape of the home, thanks to Intel’s Core2Duo dual core processors, and the next generation of Core2Extreme and Core2Quad, featuring four compute engines on one chip, which is ramping up the possibilities of digital life from downloading and recording viral videos from YouTube ...

Copyright holders are anxious for YouTube to develop an automated way to screen for copyrighted content before it gets posted. Gracenote may be able to help. The company, which originated the CD database, is also developing ways for you to give voice commands to the entertainment system in you ...

PodTech’s Michael Johnson got his groove on at Intel’s YouTube exhibition where Intel technician, Russ Campbell demonstrated how the same effect created in Intel’s Multiply campaign could be done using consumer hardware and software thanks to Intel’s Core2Duo dual core processors, and the next generation of Core2Extreme and ...

When Deer Valley Resort wanted to reach the Gen Xer’s and Y’s to market the Freestyle FIS World Cup, they turned to social networking and new media distribution like YouTube. Erin Grady, Deer Valley’s communications manager, worked with the Park City Chamber and Visitors Bureau to create ...

It wasn’t highly anticipated. We all knew it. But if Apple’s new “Apple TV” appliance works as advertised, the company–now known simply as Apple and no longer Apple Computer–might have quite a juggernaut on its hands. With movie deals that include product from Walt Disney and Paramount, Jobs might be ...

At the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Seagate’s Senior Director of Marketing, Diana Cartwright, explains that Seagate is managing two well known brands: their own and Maxtor. Each, she says, serves in a very different and important capacity when it comes to managing personal data storage and ...

Matt Ragas is editor of The Value Raider Report. A dot-com pioneer, Matt was with Raging Bull, later sold to CMGI. He’s also the author of Lessons From the eFront and The Power of Cult Branding, both from Random House. He spoke about YouTube ...

Intel is one of many companies attending CES 2007 in Las Vegas next week. PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier visited with Intel’s Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Sean Maloney to explore top tech-lifestyle trends for 2007 and the impact of new innovations coming from the chipmaker.

It’s become old hat to suggest that the world of media is changing faster than the old media companies, and that the computer and tech world — long accustomed to turning sharp corners quickly — has the advantage of momentum in the new, post-YouTube climate. However, the opportunity ...

Some good coverage from the day’s activities in New Hampshire. Looks like our embed has recovered from a late night — by the way, a few other folks have enjoyed the phone call with PodTech’s Paul Lancour last night.

One topic today that’s occupying some space — is ...