The quality of iPhone 4 video can be great – but it can also be nauseating because it tends to be so jerky. Tiffen has an interesting solution – the Steadicam Smoothee. It’s basically an affordable (under $200) iPhone Steadicam.  It’s available for Motorola Droid and Flip Mini, too.

The iPhone 4 is out, it’s selling like hotcakes and, if you’re like me, you’re wondering how good the iPhone 4’s HD video capture is.  Is it going to be good enough to take the place of a dedicated camera for making videos for your video blog, video podcast or YouTube channel? Fortunately, people are […]

When Steve Jobs introduced the new iPhone 4, one of the most interesting announcements was that iMovie was coming to the iPhone. As popular as the iPhone platform is, adding HD video capture and iMovie to it could create a new vlogging & video podcasting explosion. Now new details are starting to come out on […]

Adobe already has trouble on its hands over Apple’s decision to not support Flash on the iPhone and the iPad – and the general public’s “meh” response. Now Adobe’s got bigger Flash problems. The Open Video Alliance, which includes Mozilla, Kaltura, Miro, and Yale Law School, are joining forces to bring video to Wikipedia – […]

Microblogging site Tumblr has announced plans to make video sharing “crazy simple”. According to Tumblr: We’ll be rolling out crazy simple native video uploading to all accounts. This is designed to be an easy alternative to full-blown video sites when all you want to do is post a quick video to your blog. Tumblr notes […]

Longtime video blogger and media consultant Steve Garfield has a new book out, Get Seen: Online Video Secrets to Building Your Business, that takes a look at vlogging and video podcasting from the viewpoint of an pioneering indie content creator. The book: Examines success stories of how companies have used online video; Presents a series […]

NBC has put out a press release hyping its coverage of the 2010 Olympics. Some of the highlights: They’ve delivered 8.1 million video streams to date; They’ve had 13.6 million unique visitors; and Traffic to NBCOlympics.com is up 200% over 4 years ago. That sounds pretty impressive – until you consider that this Fred video, […]

Video startup Veoh Networks is dead, reports Media Memo: Veoh, one of several well-funded startups that have tried and failed to cash in on the Web video boom, is finally calling it quits. The company let go of the remainder of its workforce yesterday, and sources say it plans on filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy […]

My Urban Report‘s Amani Channel offers his thoughts on how to pick the best video camera to vlog or video podcast with. If you’re looking for somebody to tell you the camera to buy, you’re going to be disappointed. But Channel raises some of the main issues to consider. And he’s got a giant mic […]

Next time your podcasting/vlogging/new media mojo is failing you – remember that it would be hard to fail more catastrophically than live streaming yourself, screencasting yourself live streaming, screencasting yourself……… via BB