Bang & Olufsen have introduced BeoSound 8 – a high end $999 iPod dock sound system.

Apparently, that $999 gets you “Adaptive Bass Linearization” and other awesomeness.

Details on the BeoSound 8 below,

It looks like the Apple iPad has claimed its first victim – the Fusion Garage + TechCrunch JooJoo tablet.

e27 reports that the JooJoo is at its “end of life” – aka dead:

“With the new platform, the current Joojoo will be at its end of life,” says Fusion Garage founder Chandrashekar Rathakrishnan.

Chandra says that the Joojoo, a tablet designed to run only web applications, had failed to meet the company’s sales targets because the market didn’t want a web-only platform.

“It’s very obvious with the advance of the iPad that, while web remains probably the number one thing that we do with our devices, the lack of end-to-end connectivity means that there’s a need to have a hybrid, to have both a web and non-web experience. And that’s where we fell short with our product,” adds Rathakrishnan.

With the iPad, Apple is firing on a cylinders – delivering a category-defining product that has proven to be extremely popular and to have insanely high satisfaction ratings.

At this point, the iPad platform is already a juggernaut. Competitors are going to have to compete based on pricing or on enterprise integration. For content developers, the iPad will be the defining platform for tablets for the near future.

YouTube today announced that users are now uploading 35 hours of video to the site every minute:

That breaks out to 2,100 hours uploaded every 60 minutes, or 50,400 hours uploaded to YouTube every day. If we were to measure that in movie terms (assuming the average Hollywood film is around 120 minutes long), 35 hours a minute is the equivalent of over 176,000 full-length Hollywood releases every week.

Another way to think about it is: if three of the major US networks were broadcasting 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year for the last 60 years, they still wouldn’t have broadcast as much content as is uploaded to YouTube every 30 days.

And if you lined all those videos end-to-end, they would probably stretch to the moon and back three times.

YouTube attributes the growth to four things:

• They increased the time limit for videos uploaded by users by 50%, from 10 to 15 minutes.
• The upload file size increased over the last few years by more than 10x to 2GB.
• Mobile phones have improved dramatically in how quickly and easily they upload videos.
• Companies are adding “Upload to YouTube” features to their apps.

User-generated media continues to grow at an amazing rate, making the need for sites and tools that let you filter through this mass of media more important than ever.

IK Multimedia has introduced iKlip — a $39.99 multi-angle iPad microphone stand adapter.

This could come in handy if you use the iPad for controlling Garageband, as a digital audio recorder, for reading scripts or with other music and audio apps.

According to IK Multimedia, the iKlip is is constructed from dense thermoplastic molded components for “extreme durability and secure holding abilities under the most demanding situations”.

Features:

• Sturdy, durable thermoplastic construction with sure-grip touch points — securely holds your iPad without scratching or marring it
• Universal stand clip securely attaches to virtually any microphone stand
• Multi-angle adjustment allows precise positioning for optimal stage or studio viewing
• Quick-snap clips provide fast, secure iPad insertion
• Fast installation — iKlip installs on your mic stand in seconds with the twist of a knob
• All controls, buttons and connectors are accessible when your iPad is clipped into iKlip
• Multi-mount design provides both horizontal and vertical orientation of your iPad
• Can be mounted on the vertical part of a mic stand, or on a horizontal boom for limitless positioning
• Designed and manufactured in Italy

If you’ve used the iKlip, leave a comment and let us know what you think of it!

The first Canadian National Day of Podcasting Is December 1st, notes Canadian podcast pioneer Mark Blevis:

December 1 has been selected as the one-time, no money down officially unofficial Canadian National Day of Podcasting.

The idea is to have every Canadian podcaster, particularly those who have retired or otherwise killed their podcast, from all time dust off their gear and show to produce a one-off episode in the style they made their own.

Oh… and you don’t need to make a big deal of it. That is, don’t acknowledge why you’re producing the show (the Canadian National Day of Podcasting), just do it.

Remember, when you make the media….the Canadian National Day of Podcasting is as official as you want it to be.

See Blevis’ site for details.

Earlier in the year, when we said that Flash is dead & the iPad is its tombstone, our thoughts were primarily on the 100 million + iOS devices that people were happily using, Flash free.

Many thought that this trend towards people working blissfully Flash-free would end as people using the larger-form-factor iPad ran into sites with broken Flash elements.

But no – the iPad isn’t just the fastest-selling gadget ever, the device has the highest satisfaction rating of any product that a leading consumer satisfaction index has ever tracked.

The “Flash Tax”

Now Apple’s Macs are shipping Flash-free, and it’s highlighting the “Flash tax” – the hit Flash puts on your computer’s performance, browser stability and battery life.

According to testing by Chris Foresman of Ars Technica, Flash can cut your battery life by a third, just to display banner ads.

“Having Flash installed can cut battery runtime considerably,” notest Forman. “As much as 33 percent, in our testing.”

If you’re like most laptop users, you’ve got a browser window open all the time. If so, Flash is probably chowing through a large chunk of your battery life, so that it can keep some banner ads blinking.

With Flash missing in action on the most popular mobile platforms and now on the latest crop of Macs, Flash is dead as a de facto Internet standard.

Sources: digitaltrends, cnbc, ArsTechnica, AppleInsider

In this demo video, AdobeEvangelistTV’s Terry White takes a first look at Adobe’s new Digital Publishing Solution, which lets you publish magazines to multiple devices, including the iPad.

White does a complete walkthrough, demonstrating how to publish a magazine to the iPad.

See the Adobe Labs site for more details.

Vericorder has updated its $9.99 prosumer iPhone video editor, 1stVideo (App Store link).

New In 1stVideo:

• Import, Edit and Render video at up to 1280×720 on iPhone 3GS/4 and iPod touch 3g/4g with iOS 4.1
• Import videos in .MOV and .MP4 format using Sharing function
• Import videos and pictures from Photo Library and audio from iTunes library with iOS 4.0+
• Mix videos with different resolutions and aspect ratios
• Improved Trim tool, accurate to single Frame (1/30th sec)
• Faster background processing of new or imported videos for use in Editor

If you’re interested in using the iPhone for video editing, but find iMovie for iPhone’s limitations frustrating, you may want to check out 1stVideo.

1stVideo is designed for “creating news stories on the fly, and posting directly to a newsroom or to an automated video podcasting system.”

Here’s an example of news video coverage, shot with the iPhone 4 and edited with the 1stVideo iPhone video editor:

The OWLE Bubo is a camera mount for the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 that adds stability, optics, microphones and a tripod mount.

Features:

• Anodized aluminum case improves iPhone camera with upgraded lens and boom mic
• Improves video or still shots
• iPhone fits inside included silicone case, then mounts inside the aluminum housing for full protection
• Constructed from a solid block of milled aluminum
• Shoe mount on top allows you to add camera accessories (flash will not work, since there is no way to sync it to the iPhone camera shutter)
• Four screw mounts on the corners of the case enable you to mount to a tripod
• Comes standard with 37mm lens threading, as well as a 0.45x Wide angle/macro combination lens
• Add any other lenses with a 37mm mount

Mark Cuban shares some interesting thoughts at his blog on why the Internet is not disrupting TV:

If my memory serves me right, the common thread among industries (disrupted by the Internet) is that they all sold their products ala carte.

Music – By the CD

Newspapers – Single Newspaper (Dallas Morning News) sold by copy or subscription

Magazine – Single Magazine (Newsweek) sold by copy or subscription

DVDs – Single copy.

Blockbuster – Rent each DVD

In each of the above examples, the primary revenue stream from the product came from ala carte sales – the purchase of a single product.

Cuban goes on to compare this to TV:

TV is sold by aggregators who sell TV in bundles. Not ala carte.

Pick any TV distributor. They aggregate the channels they want to sell into bundles and sell them. From basic service to full service with every channel available. If you want to buy PPV or VOD content, you must first be a subscriber.

Look at Netflix. They sell NOTHING ala carte (like I said, smart as shit). You have to subscribe to their service, then you can select the content you want to watch.

Look at Spotify. Pay by the month or don’t play.

Cuban’s argument makes sense. It’s will be hard for devices like Apple TV and Google TV to disrupt traditional television when many traditional TV sources won’t make themselves available on the devices.