Media

I have no problem with new-media networking and news outlet AlwaysOn. In fact, I'm going to their annual media summit in NYC next week (from which I'll be reporting on some cool webware). I'm impressed by the speakers they've snagged for it. But I nevertheless have a little bone to pick with them.

You see, in anticipation of the AlwaysOn summit, the company sent me a copy of their print publication. Note that I didn't say "magazine." That's because it's a blogozine--AlwaysOn calls itself "the blogozine on innovation."

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With competing high-definition DVD standards HD DVD and Blu-ray, a clear line has been drawn in the sand. Major technology companies are beginning to line up with their support for one side or the other. But it won't necessarily be the Sonys or Microsofts of the world that determine the winner in this standards war. In the end, it may come down to an often overlooked technology influencer: the porn industry.

Adult film producers have a long history of being early adopters of new technology. When the porn industry pushed hard for VHS in the 1980s, Sony took a … Read more

Featured on YouTube Thursday morning was a humorous rap song about a young man buying a prized Wii, a self-explanatory clip titled "Scottie Tails: My Date with Barney, the First Dog," and, seemingly out of place, a video on world peace from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Featured on the new FORA.tv video portal are clips from a VIP dinner the night of the State of the Union address, a talk by former President Jimmy Carter on C-SPAN and a presentation on global warming by a quantum physicist.

With content from the likes of the … Read more

Box.net is a file hosting service for individuals and groups. They've got a really great customizable widget you can put on your blog or Web site that lets you share files with anybody. Even better, the Box widget provides instant previews of images and music. The files reside in your Box.net storage area, which provides its users with 1GB of free storage and more with paid plans. As the widget owner, you can even upload files through the widget, without having to manage things at Box.net. It doesn't get much simpler.

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Google Earth 4, released January 8, continues to improve the landscape of Google Earth's digital globe with 3D representations of famous buildings from the Eiffel Tower to Fenway Park. Along with the free application Google SketchUp 6 (click to download), the latest model of Google Earth helps star modelers create the thriving, textured 3D metropolises you see with the 3D building layer turned on. If you've got a yen for accurate modeling, some of those contributions could come from you.

Contributors to Google's digital landscape start their modeling magic in Google SketchUp. An intuitive toolset and a new feature … Read more

What, ultimately, will be the Web's role when it comes to the distribution of film? That was the question posed to a panel of big Web 2.0 players at a Sundance Film Festival forum Sunday afternoon. Responses varied. Some predicted Hollywood blockbusters might one day premiere online. Others see the Web primarily as place for marketing films and doubt it will ever become a viable revenue-generating distribution tool.

But on this, they all agreed: we're only in nascent stages of an unstoppable media revolution--or at least a media "evolution," as moderator Kara Swisher of The … Read more

The team behind the popular browser extension FoxyTunes is hard at work on a new mashup site that integrates the music controls of FoxyTunes with an aggregation tool to give you more information and media about your favorite musical artists and new discoveries.

Each FoxyTunes Planet artist page has several customizable widgets. There are Flickr photos, YouTube videos, albums for sale from Amazon, and even various Internet radio stations such as HypeMachine and Last.fm where you can listen to the band's other songs. If you're like me, you might be listening to a Shoutcast feed on iTunes … Read more

Please join CNET News.com reporter Daniel Terdiman as he interviews Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle.

The interview will take place at the CNET Second Life bureau (free Second Life account required) on Tuesday, January 23, at 11 a.m. PST.

The conversation will cover a wide range of topics, including the importance of archiving the breadth and depth of the Web's content, as well as municipal Wi-Fi, free reading projects, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and much more. Come take part and ask Brewster a question.

Plenty of blogs have recently been buzzing about Joost, the new online video site devised by the creators of Skype and Kazaa, which was formerly known as the "Venice Project." I've been beta testing it too, but rather than posting a basic walkthrough, I'd like to know specifically what kinds of questions you have about it. So, post your Joost inquiries in the comments of this thread, and I'll answer each one in an upcoming thread about my experience with the beta.

You can be as general as you want ("Is it really going … Read more