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 […]

YouTube today introduced its Video Speed Dashboard – a free service that shows you your video speed compares to the average for your ISP, your region, your state and more. The service also plots your video speed over time: According to YouTube: The goal with this dashboard is to give you insight into what your […]

Kevin Nalty (Nalts) has published a free eBook on How To Become Popular on YouTube Without Any Talent Nalty explains, “The original motive in publishing this was to help people avoid getting scammed by stupid products or services that promise to boost your YouTube views.” He originally published How To Become Popular on YouTube Without […]

Nicholas Gramenos came to the Las Vegas Courthouse Monday morning to report for jury duty – but found himself witness to a shootout between court security and Johnny Lee Wicks, who is reported to have been upset over a reduction in his social security benefits. 65 year old Court Officer Stan Cooper was shot and […]

Ustream today introduced the availability of Ustream Live Broadcaster (App Store link), a free app for the iPhone that lets you stream live video from your iPhone 3G or 3GS: The Ustream Live Broadcaster is a free app that enables live streaming on 3G or Wifi, and users can notify their Twitter communities when they […]

Open source media platform Boxee has announced plans to partner with consumer electronics manufacturers to create a Boxee Box platform – an open Internet video hardware set top box. Here’s the text of their announcement: We launched our public alpha for Mac/Linux in January at CES. During the show we met with several device manufactures […]

YouTube has announced that they are now supporting HD Internet video sharing up to 1080p: We’re excited to say that support for watching 1080p HD videos in full resolution is on its way. Starting next week, YouTube’s HD mode will add support for viewing videos in 720p or 1080p, depending on the resolution of the […]

Justine Ezarik put together her take on how to make a YouTube video. Ezarik talks about her gear, which is a pretty sophisticated setup: Nikon D90 Nikon Coolpix S70 Blue Snowflake Microphone Random tripod I bought at Radio Shack 10 minutes before shooting Joby gorilla pod iPhone to playback audio SanDisk Extreme III 4g / […]

The original Star Wars (aka Episode IV: A New Hope) is a classic – cheesy acting and all. But the crowd-sourced Star Wars Uncut may end up challenging the original for the position of second best Star Wars movie ever. Organizers cut the original movie into 15-second clips and 473 indie moviemakers are recreating the […]

Check out this demo of the Livestream Livepack – described as “a satellite television truck in a backpack.” Plug in a camera and you can stream HD video to the web, wirelessly.