Vimeo, one of the classiest players in the online video world, is now offering High Definition transcoding for user uploaded video. At 4 times the industry standard bitrate, the new

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The MP3 blog aggregator HypeMachine is set to relaunch with a whole new website once 10,000 people have the site's splash page open simultaneously. When they reach that number, I Continue reading »

Today we're a participant in Blog Action Day, a collaborative blogging event in which over 16,000 blogs across the web have marked off a single day to blog about the Continue reading »

As noted last week, a group of startups promoting themselves at Mobile 2.0. Part 1 was in the morning. Here now is the afternoon session (note it was just 5 Continue reading »

The BBC's much-maligned iPlayer online video player will be getting a companion streaming version later this year. Through a partnership announced this afternoon with Adobe, the BBC will begin offering

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There are hundreds, if not thousands, of blogs dedicated to the environment on the Internet. That's really no surprise given that environmental conservation is one of the most pressing issues Continue reading »

The most recent of the always interesting Pew Internet and American Life reports was released today and offers some interesting statistics concerning children online and their experiences being contacted by Continue reading »

Taptu is a new kind of search engine for mobile phones, being launched today at the Mobile 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. Taptu uses a new technique which they call Continue reading »