YouTube has announced a new version of its home page – making it cleaner and more attractive, but also showing less information, which may make the update less appealing to power users. The new layout features a “river of news” reverse chronogical view of new videos in the main column and promoted content in the […]

David Lynch wants you to direct his music video. Lynch – best know for directing cult films like Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet and the TV series Twin Peaks, has released an electronica single, Good Day Today / I Know, and launched a music video competition to promote the track. There will be 10 finalists chosen […]

It looks like it will be downhill for old media from here on out – people in the US are now spending as much time using the Internet as they do watching TV. According to Forrester research, people are spending equal amounts of time online and watching TV: Generation Y has long reported spending more time […]

YouTube has released its list of the top videos of the year – the most-watched videos of 2010, compiled based on the view counts of videos uploaded during 2010. November 2010, the most-watched YouTube videos (excluding major label music videos) were: BED INTRUDER SONG!!! (now on iTunes) TIK TOK KESHA Parody: Glitter Puke – Key […]

Mechanical Engineer and rocket tester Destin has solved the problem of jerky video forever by creating ChickenCam – the chicken-powered Steadicam. Now we just need a chicken big enough to carry an iPhone……

According to new research from The Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) that looks at how the iPad is affecting how people get news, the iPad tops both the Web and print for getting news. Highlights of the research: iPad news consumers prefer newspaper apps to newspaper websites; less likely to use print. The vast majority of […]

Zoom has introduced a new portable video recorder, the Zoom Q3HD, that offers both high quality sound and 1080 video in a portable package. The Q3HD uses the same microphone capsules as Zoom’s H4n Handy Recorder, a portable digital audio recorder. With two on-board, studio-quality condenser mics configured in a wide 120° X/Y pattern, the Q3HD […]

Blue Microphones has announced that the second generation Mikey iPhone microphone is now available. The Mikey is a prosumer mic that turns your iPhone or iPod into a portable media recorder. Here are the details on the second-generation Mikey iPhone Microphone: CD-quality audio recording direct to iPod Includes free Blue FiRe recording app Unique compact […]

Studio Neat has announced that the GLIF – a new iPhone 4 tripod adapter – is now available to order: The Glif is a simple iPhone 4 accessory with two primary functions: mounting your iPhone onto a tripod and propping up your iPhone at various angles. The Glif is made from recyclable rubberized plastic that […]

Ambrosia Software has announced the release of WireTap Anywhere 2.0, a major update to the audio routing and mixing software – a popular tool for Mac-based podcasters. WireTap Anywhere can take the audio output from any combination of Mac applications or hardware input devices, and route it into your favorite audio processing applications. The new 2.0 […]