It’s been a lonely day at the office for us at camp GigaOM, with multiple writers headed out to Austin, Texas, for South by Southwest where they’ll have all sorts of fun while we remain in rainy San Francisco. Luckily, you don’t ...

I was inspired by the exclusive prints that everyone in webcomics is making for this con. Dave Kellett, Meredith Gran, and even Strauby are making these awesome prints special for Emerald City Con. I was all…”Man, I WANNA make a pri...

Political Lunch creators Rob Millis and Will Coghlin today at SXSW demoed a new tool for makers of content looking to distribute video under a micropayment system during a panel called “Beyond Advertising: Can Online Video Finally P...

Hey, so if you’ve been by a little unknown website called YouTube today, you might have noticed that we were invited as guest editors to pick out some of our favorite web series. Our list of picks, with links to our past coverage: ...

Devil's Panties comic for Saturday, March 13, 2010

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Last fall, I interviewed Pixar CTO/indie film producer Oren Jacob for a GigaOm Pro piece about using online data in the offline world. At the time, Jacob was considering the idea of putting his latest project, the Spellbound-esque ...

There won’t be a second edition of the Netflix Prize contest any time soon: The company announced today on its blog that it has canceled the next round of its competition to improve its algorithms in light of an FCC investigation ...

There won’t be a sequel of the Netflix Prize contest any time soon: The company announced today on its blog that it has canceled the next round of its competition to improve its algorithms in light of an FCC investigation of pote...

Okay, so last week I kvetched about OK Go’s newest video, which is visually awesome but isn’t much of an actual music video, especially since there’s no real effort being made to tell a story. This week, wow: Lady Gaga, with guest ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled today that cable companies can’t withhold programming from competitors, affirming rules put in place by the FCC to guarantee fair competition amongst pay TV service pro...

Execs Downplay Web Video Threat; Cablevision, Rovi and Disney execs dismissed cord cutting fears at the 2010 Media Summit in New York. (Light Reading) Pick Your Favorite Rev3 Shows & Create a Personalized Feed; Revision3 viewers...

Turns out, March Madness isn’t the only major sporting event starting this weekend: Cricket fans all over the world have been feverishly awaiting today’s start of the Indian Premiere League Cricket Season. In fact, the first game...

Though I am trapped in a seemingly inescapable suburban lifestyle, the rest of our motley crew is at [url="http://megaconvention.com/"]MegaCon[/url] this weekend in Orlando, situated prominently at Booth #713. Lar, Becker and Randy...

Here are just some of the first comments I saw yesterday on the Youtube user page of nuttymadam3575: “OH GOD IT’S AN ABOMINATION.”/”fat f–k.”/”i hate you. you insulted kristen stewart so i HATE YOU.”/”You made me laugh so much ...

New Comic: The Bar Mitzvah

Devil's Panties comic for Friday, March 12, 2010

Tycho: I've been trying to write this post forever, forever, but my cohort has been taking a "Blur Break" now that has gone on for the better part of an hour, and it's almost impossible not to look at the screen while these things o...

Microsoft launched a site dubbed the MSN Video Player in the U.K. Thursday that aims to be something of a U.K. version of Hulu, featuring TV shows like Peep Show, League of Gentlemen and Doctor Who. It’s pretty standard fare, as ...