Last.fm rolling out new video service: “Last.tv”

Last.fm rolling out new video service: “Last.tv”

In the grand scheme of online streaming, three big names including Pandora, Spotify, and Last.fm could be considered the “big 3″ of their market. If you love the latter, you’re going to want to pay close attention to their new project titled: “Last.tv”. This new venture will revolve around (obviously) video content. Initially, CBS owned Last.tv will feature content from music festivals across Europe and is reported to be launching this...

UK YouTubers soon to get full length Channel 4 videos.

UK YouTubers soon to get full length Channel 4 videos.

While here in the U.S., labels and content owners are just getting around to actually using YouTube instead of banning artists’ videos and songs from it (ok, so a few stateside have actually taken advantage of YouTube), our neighbors across the pond in the UK are a few steps ahead of us. In what can be seen a extraordinarily large step forward for big media, Channel 4, a popular network in the UK is reported to be this close from signing a deal with YouTube. ...

Rupert Murdoch ruining Wall Street Journal iPhone/BlackBerry app. Sets Hulu in his sights. $$$

Rupert Murdoch ruining Wall Street Journal iPhone/BlackBerry app.  Sets Hulu in his sights. $$$

In what is certainly a shame, the free nature of the Wall Street Journal iPhone and BlackBerry app is about to become a little less free. Starting “soon”, users of said mobile apps will have to begin paying up $2/week, according to Rupert Murdoch as he spoke at a Goldman Sachs conference. Even worse, subscribers of the actual news paper who shell out over $100+/year will also have to pay albeit a slightly lower fee of $1/week. Well, so much for that stint on...

A world without YouTube?

A world without YouTube?

When one thinks of an “over night success” or a company or product that has become so big, so ingrained in our everyday lives that it begins to be used as a verb, you almost take for granted said service.  The service I’m talking about is YouTube.  While it has only been around a few short years,  YouTube has gone from a niche site on the web to an online video powerhouse with millions upon million of users and videos.  What would happen if all of a...