Live webcasting startup Flixwagon announced today that it was testing live “high-quality” video streaming from unlocked iPhones to the web, using Flixwagon’s alpha client. Here’s Flixwagon’s announcement: While we don’t condone or recommend unlocking iPhones, as avid iPhone users ourselves we wanted to experiment with ways to enable flixwagon on the iPhone, until the official SDK […]

Rocketboom host Joanne Colan is leaving the show, according to a report in Valleywag: According to a source at the Creative Artists Agency, host Joanne Colan is leaving Rocketboom, one of the Internet’s first prominent news videoblogs. During her tenure, Colan never managed to transform the show (directed by creator Andrew Baron) from a quirky […]

Reddit today announced that it was working with PBS to create a new weekly television news program, Your Week, that’s “powered by you.” Material for the show will come from hot stories on the reddit front page every week. Meta discussions about that content and the show itself will all take place at yourweek.reddit.com: Whereas […]

YouTube’s newly-minted News Manager Olivia M. has announced the launch of a citizen journalism channel on the site, called Citizen News. Explains Olivia, the proliferation of inexpensive and easy-to-use media tools (blog engines, video cameras, multi-function mobile phones, etc.) has sparked a boom in user-generated news coverage. “[T]here’s an amazing amount of news being reported […]

Former Rocketboom host Amanda Congdon gets profiled in the New York Times, and somehow the NYT doesn’t even cough up a link to her new video blog, Sometimes Daily. “It’s weird,” says Congdon. The Times article also seems fairly dismissive of everything that Congdon has done: Ms. Congdon, 26, became the closest thing to an […]

Magnify has introduced a new service that promises to make it easy for Movable Type and WordPress publishers to incorporate media from a variety of sites. Magnify Publisher is a native blog application that lets you search for video, text, and images, using key words and tags, and embed the content directly into a post, […]

Storybids today announced the launch of a product placement marketplace, where online video content creators can get paid to feature physical products in their user-generated videos, serial mini-dramas, videoblogs and webisodes. Yep – now you can do a product placement sell-out like the big guys. Advertisers can use Storybids’ searching capabilities to find video creators […]

EQAL, the faux reality show startup of LonelyGirl15 creators Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried, has raised $5 million in capital to help it produce new shows and international versions of its show: Per Becket & Goodfried: We’ve spent the last year and a half working hard at producing lonelygirl15, launching KateModern, and figuring out a […]

Online video site Viddler has announced a new plugin for WordPress 2.5 (currently in beta testing) that lets you browse for and embed videos directly from WordPress. Here’s what’s new in this version: Dashboard widget You can now watch, and help promote, our daily featured videos right from within the WordPress administration dashboard. There is […]

Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur, who’s got to be the A-1 top of the food chain numero uno most charismatic French new media entrepreneur ever, announced today that his company had acquired Twhirl, a Twitter client. Not just any Twitter client, though – le plus grand Twitter client. Seesmic is a video blogging and conversation […]