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Netflix today announced it has released its 2nd-generation media player, based on Microsoft Silverlight, which brings the company’s internet video service to subscribers with Intel-based Mac computers for the first time. The deployment, which will initially touch a small percentage of new Netflix subscribers, is the first step in an anticipated roll-out of the new platform [...]

Live streaming media startup Qik has announced an alpha client for the BlackBerry Pearl 8120, BlackBerry Pearl 8130, BlackBerry Bold, BlackBerry Curve and BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220. Qik on BlackBerry lets you stream live to the internet from supported Blackberry devices.  Here’s Qik’s demo video: Here are details on the Qik Blackberry alpha release: When you start Qik, a screen [...]

Revision 3, the video podcast production network launched by Digg founders Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson, today announced the elimination of three of its original shows. The layoffs are said to include nine staff members. The cancelled shows are Pop Siren, internet Superstar, and the longer-running Photoshop show Pixel Perfect. Of the two newer shows, Internet [...]

Ludicrous has released a new WordPress plugin, the snappily named MagpieRSS Hotfix for Enclosure Support and Character Encoding Issues, that enhances the WordPress RSS parser, adding support for RSS enclosures. This free plugin adds support for RSS enclosures to MagpieRSS, the RSS parser behind the fetch_rss() function in WordPress. It also forces MagpieRSS to use UTF-8 character [...]

The popularity of online video services has grown significantly with women and older consumers over the last six months, helping close the age and gender gap within the online video audience in the U.S. Recent data from Ipsos MediaCT's MOTION study document the widespread appeal online video now has with the majority of today's internet users, and [...]