Yahoo! today introduced a new live video conferencing service, Yahoo! Live. We haven’t seen an official announcement yet; we learned about this from ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick via Twitter. Kirkpatrick’s take: The service combines many of the best practices developed by early explorers of the medium, tiny startups that must be very worried tonight. Part BlogTV, […]

Real-time video chat site ooVoo today announced the release of the newest version of its real-time video chat service, ooVoo 1.5. ooVoo 1.5 offers new ways to create and share content including recording a video conversation for friends or colleagues or for posting online. The video recording services is designed so that you can record […]

According to research from Accustream, user generated video (UGV) – things like video podcasts, vlogs and YouTube videos – scored 22 billion views in 2007. That’s a 70% increase over 2006. People’s attention is moving to online video fast, limited mainly by bandwidth and the availability of content. Other research highlights: Long tail videos getting […]

Tooble is a new program for OS X that automatically downloads, converts and imports any YouTube video to play on your video iPod, iPhone, AppleTV, or even on your computer with iTunes. Tooble’s browser lets you search YouTube, play videos, select the ones you want and then download them and load them into iTunes. Here’s […]

DRM’d music is dead. DRM’d video will be next. As CD sales plummet, the record labels have realized that they have to get with the 21st century. They have to have a place on your iPod, if they expect you to listen to them, and they have to get rid of DRM if they want […]

The Sex:Tech Conference wants you to create a video that answers the question “Why is sex so interesting and sex ed so boring?” They want you to make a video on one of these ideas: Theme 1. Share your sex ed experience so far. Show us how and why it sucked or rocked. Theme 2. […]

Pew Internet released an interesting report earlier this week that looks at Teens and Social Media. According to Pew, more teenagers than ever are creating content online. Here are the highlights: 64% of online teenagers ages 12 to 17 engaging in at least one type of content creation, up from 57% of online teens in […]

Kent Nichols, co-creator of the popular video podcast Ask A Ninja, has started a new blog, and it already looks like it could become essential reading for indie new media content creators. His first post takes a look at YouTube and why video podcasters and vloggers shouldn’t depend on it: “YouTube doesn‚Äôt care about any […]