How to Trim Podcasts and Movies in iTunes [ITunes Tip]
Save a little time by fast-tracking through podcast intro chatter and cutting off movie credits in iTunes by using the custom Start and Stop times on your songs and videos. Macworld explains that you can right-click on the item in question, and choose...

Incubator LaunchBox Digital unveils its first group of startups
LaunchBox Digital, an incubator/investment firm based in Washington, D.C., just announced the lineup of its first “class” of startups. After working with LaunchBox for three months, the companies are giving their East Coast demos today, and will be...

iPhone 3G launching in 7 new countries including India on August 22
On July 11, the iPhone 3G successfully launched in 21 countries around the world. After some initial launch blunders, like the massive activation system outage here in the United States, it’s now selling like crazy, but Apple is finally starting to...

Hulu gets more serious about HD content (still not that serious)
Hulu, the online streaming video site backed by NBC and Fox, has been nothing short of successful. The usage numbers are very good and the amount of free, ad-supported content is arguably better. If there is a knock that can be made against it though...

Eye-Fi raises round for wireless photo uploading cards
Uploading photos to web sharing sites — as fast as you can take pictures — is kind of a new obssession for the digerati. Eye-Fi is riding that wave with memory cards that have built-in Wi-Fi antennae that can upload photos to photo-sharing sites.The...

Creative Vado. See it, shoot it, share it - all in an instant.
'New Firmware' link @ http://support.creative.com/scripts/getprod.aspx?id=17761 :-)

Track, purchase and demand local events with Eventful’s iPhone app
When developing its new iPhone and iPod Touch application, online event tracker Eventful had a good idea: Don’t port the entire kitchen sink over, port only the most core features needed to make a good app. It worked.Utilizing the new iPhone 3G’s...

Zany iPhone app update: Abacus, Snow, Stock Command, Laval, BarHopper, lighter apps and Coin Flip
If you’re anything like me, the iPhone/iPod Touch 2.0.1 software update has you playing with your device even more than usual tonight. If you need some new applications, there continues to be no shortage of odd and potentially useless ones that are...

Total Immersion blurs real and virtual in theme parks
Home  video game consoles became so good at 3-D graphics that they nearly wiped out the location-based electronic entertainment business. But Total Immersion believes that it’s still possible to offer theme-park style visual entertainment to thrill...

8tracks makes it easy to mix your own music play lists, and do it legally; 3,000 passes to early beta here
The music labels haven’t made it easy for unauthorized web sites to stream music on the web. But David Porter, the founder of 8tracks, has figured out a way around the copyright law obstacles to deliver a useful and legal sharing service to music...

8tracks makes it easy to mix your own music play lists, and do it legally; 3,000 passes to early beta here
The music labels haven’t made it easy for unauthorized web sites to stream music on the web. But David Porter, the founder of 8tracks, has figured out a way around the copyright law obstacles to deliver a useful and legal sharing service to music...

8tracks makes it easy to mix your own music play lists, and do it legally; 3,000 passes to early beta here
The music labels haven’t made it easy for unauthorized web sites to stream music on the web. But David Porter, the founder of 8tracks, has figured out a way around the copyright law obstacles to deliver a useful and legal sharing service to music...

Use the web to get your 2008 Beijing Olympics fix
We’re one week away from the opening of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. Most of us stateside likely won’t be making the long trip, but there are a few interesting ways to keep up to date on the action around the web.First and foremost,...

@nstone cannot link to "Youth, Identity and Digital Media" from MIT. Would you be good enough to relink actual URL?

Recording the On Digital Media Podcast episode 71 http://odmcast.com - http://bkite.com/016a0

Italian Prime Minister’s media company sues Google’s YouTube
Some companies you don’t want to mess around with. It’s one thing for the media conglomerate Viacom to sue Google for a billion dollars over YouTube, but it’s another when a television company owned by the Prime Minister of Italy files a lawsuit....

Virtual goods starting to pan out for Facebook game app developers, and not just the venture-funded ones
Like grizzled miners panning for gold on a river high in the Sierras, Facebook applications developers have been toiling away, trying to figure out how to make money from the millions of people who use their apps every day. Those developers who focus on...

E3 trendspotting: Game publishers turning more to girl gamers
LOS ANGELES—With the influx of fresh new gamers, thanks in large part to the popularity of mass-market game machines, the DS and the Wii, more game companies than ever are jumping on the girl gamer bandwagon. Practically every booth at this year’s E3...

Google misses on second quarter estimates, shares plunge
“Strong international growth as well as sustained traffic increases on Google’s web properties propelled us to another strong quarter, despite a more challenging economic environment,” said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google referring to the company’s...

Inteset Unveils 15 Terabyte A/V NAS Storage Device
Hanover MA, July 2, 2008, Inteset, LLC has unveiled its new15 terabyte, TeraRAID™ XV-NAS storage server.The latest in its line of TeraRAID™ devices, the XV-NAS is anear silent, 15 bay, hot swappable, RAID 6, A/V focused, network attachedstorage...

Apple grants MobileMe users a 30-day stay of payment, kills the word “push”
Apple’s roll-out of MobileMe was pretty rocky to say the least. In fact, as Apple itself notes, it was “a lot rockier than we had hoped.” The service went down last Wednesday night after a delayed start to its transition from .Mac to MobileMe. When...