The Boing Boing TV video podcast is featuring author, PC, and minor internet personality John Hodgman in a new show segment, SPAMasterpiece Theater.  Hodgman describes the first episode as the dramatization of “true tale[s] of romance, adventure, infamy, and low-cost prescription drugs, all culled from the reams of actual, unsolicited emails, received here by us and […]

Google today announced updates to YouTube Insight’s analytics, adding a new feature, “Hot Spots”, that shows you the hottest scenes in your videos and also what’s not so hot.  The Hot Spots tab in Insight plays your video alongside a graph that shows the ups-and-downs of viewership at different moments within the video. Google determine […]

YouTube has announced an updated video uploader and bumped up the maximum file size for uploads. A random sample of YouTube users have already been using the beta version. YouTube is opening up the streamlined uploader to everyone; just login to your YouTube account and click this link to opt in. The new video upload […]

Viper’s Video Quicktags is a free WordPress plugin that is designed to make embedding videos into blogs quick and easy.  You can fully configure how the videos are displayed (width, height, colors, alignment on the page) and more.  Video Quicktags currently supports these video sites: YouTube (including playlists) Google Video DailyMotion Vimeo Veoh Viddler Metacafe Blip.tv […]

Popular Internet television site Hulu today introduced two new features. The first, Channels, aims to simplify navigation, while the second, Discussion Boards, introduces a social media aspect to the site.

One of the coolest things about new media is that it lets anybody publish content to the Internet and put it in front of the world.  That’s empowering for individuals and indie content producers, but it’s also empowering for people like William Shatner – who’s using YouTube to talk directly to his fans and explain […]

Yesterday, we noted that it looked like proprietary video viewers are dead, because Joost and blinkx were focusing on delivering video to your Web browser.  It looks like Veoh is moving in the same direction.  NewTeeVee reports that Veoh plans to release a browser plug-in that’s “significantly lighter than the VeohTV app.” “We continue to […]

It looks like proprietary web video viewers are dead. Today, both blinkx and Joost announced that they were following the lead of YouTube, Hulu and others and focusing on delivering Internet content straight to your Web browser: blinkx announced that blinkx BBTV will now be available without download, straight from your browser. BBTV simultaneously delivers […]

If you like ninjas and you like pirates, tomorrow may be just about the best day ever. Sept 19th is International Talk Like A Pirate Day – and this year, the Ninja from AskANinja plans to “attack swashbucklers and scurvy dogs.” The Ninja will be chatting live about pirates at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ask-a-ninja-live or http://fans.askaninja.com 3pm PDT/6pm […]

Think you need more gear to make that video podcast/music video/movie/viral video hit? Think again.  This video, for the Eskimohunter’s Surfing at 32ºF, was shot entirely on Nokia Nseries cell phones. “Each of the Nokia Nseries devices I used was perfectly suited to the kind of experimental, ‘out-there’ shots I wanted to capture for ‘Surfing at 32ºF’,” says […]