Blue Microphones has announced that the second generation Mikey iPhone microphone is now available.

The Mikey is a prosumer mic that turns your iPhone or iPod into a portable media recorder.

Here are the details on the second-generation Mikey iPhone Microphone:

• CD-quality audio recording direct to iPod
• Includes free Blue FiRe recording app
• Unique compact design for superior audio recording
• 7 angle adjustments for any environment
• 3 gain settings to capture the clearest stereo sound
• Innovative design allows for superior audio recording
• Perfect for lecture recording, concerts, voice memos, dictation, field recording, interviews, and travel journals
• Works with iPod touch 1G, 2G, 3G; iPod nano 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G; iPod classic; iPod 5G
• Can be used with iPhone versions 3GS and earlier
• Compatible with most protective cases

Note the compatibility – unfortunately, the Mikey is not compatible with the latest iPhones.

Last week, Wizzard Media announced support for AdMob, Google’s Mobile Ad network. AdMob is the largest mobile advertising network with over 300 billion global impressions.

Additionally, Wizzard announced nearly 30 audio and video Apps, available now for use on the Android smartphone.   The latest Android version of Wizzard’s App adds the popular iPhone App feature, audio playback, with full background and multitasking support. According to Millennial Media, ad impressions for Android devices tied Apple’s iOS for the first time last month as each claimed 37 percent of the U.S. market based on revenue.

The newly launched Android Apps include some of Wizzard’s best selling Apps from Apple’s App Store and chalked up 9.2 million media downloads last month. Joining other familiar Wizzard Media Network names Grammar Girl and Zig Ziglar is newcomer 1938 Media. Loren Feldman of 1938 Media is a featured video blogger at The Huffington Post, making his debut in the Android Marketplace.

The Android smartphone continues to grow in popularity, outselling its closest rival, Apple’s iPhone, by a nearly two-to-one margin in the third quarter of 2010 as reported by NPD, a market research firm.

Wizzard aims to convert the 700 Apps it currently offers through Apple’s App Store to also be available in the Android Marketplace over the next month, in time for the post-Christmas sales jump from the surge in new devices hitting the market. The standard base-price for Wizzard’s App for Android will be $1.99, with additional features, paid in-App upgrades and ongoing subscription packages offered in the near future. Revenue from downloadable mobile Apps is predicted to surge from $6.8 billion worldwide this year to $29.5 billion by 2013, according to the research firm Gartner Inc.

Studio Neat has announced that the GLIF – a new iPhone 4 tripod adapter – is now available to order:

The Glif is a simple iPhone 4 accessory with two primary functions: mounting your iPhone onto a tripod and propping up your iPhone at various angles. The Glif is made from recyclable rubberized plastic that feels great and plays nice with your phone, and is small enough to fit snugly in your pocket, purse, or backpack. It has a 1/4″-20 thread that fits any standard tripod or camera mount. The Glif is designed to work with a “naked” (caseless) iPhone 4, to ensure a snug fit. Designed and manufactured in America.

The GLIF sells for $20.

Ambrosia Software has announced the release of WireTap Anywhere 2.0, a major update to the audio routing and mixing software – a popular tool for Mac-based podcasters.

WireTap Anywhere can take the audio output from any combination of Mac applications or hardware input devices, and route it into your favorite audio processing applications.

The new 2.0 version of WireTap Anywhere lets you:

• Create virtual input devices with an arbitrary number of channels of audio.
• Discretely map audio channels from software applications and hardware devices in any combination you choose.
• Adjust audio levels on a per-channel basis both pre- and post-mix.
• Preview your audio mix before you ever hit the record button.

WireTap Anywhere is available now for $129. Registered users of WireTap Anywhere 1.x can upgrade to version 2.0 for $69.

Video podcast network Revision3 has announced that it is taking its full line-up of more than 20 programs to the television screen.

The Internet television network, which produces Tekzilla, Diggnation and other shows, is bringing its online content to multiple platforms including Google TV, Yahoo! Connected TV, Windows Media Center, AppleTV, Boxee and Roku. Revision3 has developed a ‘lean back and watch’ experience for viewing through these platforms, by accessing the TV optimized website at tv.revision3.com or by using the applications available on the various platforms.

The application’s user interface is designed to make finding content simpler, as it sorts shows by name, category, featured content and most recent episodes. Viewers are also able to manually search for their favorite episodes and view new content.

Revision3 is taking the opposite approach of the major television networks. They’ve moved recently to block their content from being displayed on devices like Google TV.

“As online video continues to take viewing time away from traditional TV, we want to make sure that our programs look great anywhere they’re viewed, and across every screen – from the smallest one on a phone to the biggest one at home,” said Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback in a statement.

This video tutorial, via MacMost, takes a look at making a music video in iMovie 2011 using Beat Markers.

Beat Markers allow you to set points in an audio track and then drop in video with cuts that match the beats.

After timing out the beats in a soundtrack, all you need to do is drag and drop video or photos into iMovie and the video will be cut to match the markers. You can also add transitions that fit along with the beats.

via Oliver Chesler

Tim Berners-Lee, who created the World Wide Web in 1991, has published an impassioned article in Scientific American, arguing that the Web needs defending:

The Web as we know it is being threatened in different ways. Some of its most successful inhabitants have begun to chip away at its principles. Large social-networking sites are walling off information posted by their users from the rest of the Web. Wireless Internet providers are being tempted to slow traffic to sites with which they have not made deals. Governments—totalitarian and democratic alike—are monitoring people’s online habits, endangering important human rights.

If we, the Web’s users, allow these and other trends to proceed unchecked, the Web could be broken into fragmented islands. We could lose the freedom to connect with whichever Web sites we want. The ill effects could extend to smartphones and pads, which are also portals to the extensive information that the Web provides.

Berners-Lee goes on to lump FaceBook and iTunes in with China as some of the top threats to the future of the Web. He’s concerned that sites like FaceBook collect user data and that can be inaccessible to the general Web. He’s concerned that iTunes uses addresses that start with “itunes” instead of ‘http”, so that iTunes is not part of the Web.

While Berners-Lee’s intentions are good and he makes many excellent points in his article, railing against FaceBook and iTunes, two of the most popular Internet-based apps of all time, is misguided.

The Web has succeeded precisely because there isn’t a King of the Web decreeing what can and can’t be done. If there were, it would probably still look like the original Web page, above.

Progress can’t wait around for a committee to create a standard. Flash became a de facto Web standard for a decade, because it did things that HTML is just now catching up with. And iTunes succeeded where many Web-based services failed because Apple conceived of it, not as a Web application, but as a fast, Internet-enabled desktop application.

Trying to shoehorn everything into HTML and the Web stifles innovation.

When Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone in January of 2007, one of the biggest criticisms was that developers couldn’t create apps for it – it only supported Web-based HTML apps. People tried creating HTML iPhone apps, and they were slow and horrible. But, when Apple responded to the criticism and opened up the iPhone as a platform, it led to an amazing explosion of innovation.

We can’t take the World Wide Web for granted, and as Berners-Lee argues, we need to protect it from countries and companies that want to compromise it. But we can’t let the desire to preserve the Web as it is to get in the way of building the future.

EZ Grill seems to be taking a page out of BlendTec’s Will It Blend? playbook with their What Grills Faster? video.

The video is getting a lot of incredulous viewers, leaving comments like “waste of your money and my time :/” and “if u have the time and money to do this u should have sold those phone and donated it.”

But the video is getting 50,000 views a day….which is amazing when you consider what the promo probably cost.

Think a series of ‘What Grills Faster’ videos could put EZ Grill on the map?

via Engadget

The iSteady Shot ARC is a $179 camera stabilizer for the iPhone.

Features:

• Built in the U.S.A
• Adjustable
• Fits iPhone 4, 3GS, flip, point & shoots and many others
• Two axis gimbal for smooth 360 degree movement
• Hard Anodized finish
• Soft rubber bound comfort grip

It’s available for pre-order now. For an example of the results it can deliver, check out this iPhone 4 music video.

If you’ve used the iSteady Shot ARC, let us know what you think of it!

Vintage Trouble’s Nancy Lee music video was filmed using multiple iPhone 4’s.

Impressively, director Alen Petkovic worked around the iPhone’s limitations and incorporated them into the video’s retro look.