From the Whispers and Rumours Department, ClickZ is saying that a mid-April YouTube redesign will prominently feature premium and long-form content — and will segregate the professional videos from the vast storehouse of user-generated content. ClickZ’s Zachary Rodgers writes: “According to two sources familiar with Google’s plans for YouTube, the new design will do away […]

From the YouTube blog yesterday came word of changes to how the video site announces updates and new features. “[A]fter watching you guys take to the forums and Twitter to discuss what else has changed, we figured more frequent, casual “release notes” would be good to publish as well. That way you can get a […]

Has anything blown your mind lately? If not, it’s time you check out Kutiman’s Thru You – an Internet album of music videos completely made out of remixed YouTube footage. Kutiman takes YouTube footage of people giving gear demos and doing their music thing, and then turns them completely inside out, recontextualizing them and turning […]

Updating a story we first told you about in January, wireless memory card maker Eye-Fi today announced the release of two new wireless SD memory cards that will upload videos directly from a digital camera to a computer and the Web. In addition to automatic photo uploads, the next generation Eye-Fi cards can deliver users’ […]

Digital measurement service comScore today released January 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, showing that U.S. Internet users viewed 14.8 billion online videos during that month. These figures represent an increase of 4 percent over December 2008. YouTube led the growth charge, accounting for 91 percent of the incremental January-versus-December gain in the […]

Paul Graham has published an interesting post that looks at Why TV Lost, arguing that the Internet, especially sites like Facebook, have “killed TV”. He highlights four reasons for this: The Internet is an open platform. Anyone can build whatever they want on it, and the market picks the winners. So innovation happens at hacker […]

YouTube has announced that it’s looking for video bloggers to discuss some of the little-used features of the site, and that it plans to feature some of these user-generated video: Every week we release new tools, or enhancements to current ones, to help you make better videos, connect with one another, and understand your audience. […]

Check out artist, composer & producer Brian Eno‘s predictions for The Future Of Television, from 1991: Future TV will be made with simple equipment unqualified people small budgets and bad taste Adjust your set as much as you like Sounds a lot like YouTube, doesn’t it? How do you think he did on his predictions? […]

The Wall Street Journal has published a decent look at the elements of viral videos. They identify three main elements: Great content – Many popular online videos are short – under three minutes – and have some elements of cognitive dissonance. Excluding celebrity videos, many popular videos are deliberately bizarre juxtapositions, such as HotForWords – […]

When tragedy strikes, the 24-hour news networks are there, to bring you the catastrophe in immediate, agonizing detail. But Thursday night, when a Continental Airlines commuter plane crashed near Buffalo, NY, the major networks’ coverage didn’t come from a local affiliate camera crew dispatched to the scene. News networks, including Fox News, CNN, MSNBC and […]