Where the Hell Is Matt (2008), above, is an amazing video that follows Matt Harding around the world, doing a funny little dance and getting lots of other people to dance with him. It’s also a fun example of the power of vlogging and Internet video.

Logitech today introduced the QuickCam Vision Pro webcam for Mac, an HD webcam which combines Logitech’s autofocus technology with Carl Zeiss optics. Features: Logitech’s autofocus system compensates for in image-edge sharpness and refocuses images in less than three seconds. A 2-megapixel sensor captures video images in high resolution,  720p high-definition (HD) video format (960-by-720 pixels). With iChat or […]

Would YouTube be better if you got rid of most of the videos, eliminated most of the features and gave the site a vivid, primary color interface? Maybe so – if your audience is young children. That’s the premise of TotLOL, a children’s video site based on YouTube’s APIs. Here’s how TotLOL works: When scouting […]

Social media guru JD Lasica interviewed Hayden Black, the creator and star of the Internet video hits Goodnight Burbank and Abigail’s X-Rated Teen Diary, at the recent Digital Hollywood conference. Black offers some background on his shows, but also touches on things anyone should consider when creating an Internet video series. It seems that Hayden […]

YouTube has announced The YouTube Screening Room, a dedicated area on YouTube that will showcase an international selection of films. The YouTube Screening Room will feature four new high-quality short films every two weeks, as well as feature-length films on a case-by-case basis. Filmmakers will have the opportunity to submit their work for consideration through […]

Internet TV site Hulu is fighting back at users that use ad-blocking software, warning them that they need to disable the software. “This program is brought to you by Hulu’s advertising partners,” notes the site. “If you see this message repeatedly, you may need to disable your ad blocking software.” The video then resumes playing […]

Internet video service TubeMogul reports that viewing for Internet videos tends to peak early and drop quickly – suggesting that the long tail of Internet video has a short shelf life. They found that most videos get a quarter of their views within 4 days and half their views within just two weeks: In other […]

comScore today released April 2008 data from its comScore Video Metrix service, revealing that U.S. Internet users viewed 11 billion online videos during the month, with YouTube accounting for more than 4 billion of that total. Other highlights: 71 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video. The average online video viewer watched […]

Mark Cuban has a must-read post over at Blog Maverick looking at Internet television service Hulu and Google‘s struggle to make its investment in YouTube pay off. Cuban argues that Google made a billion-dollar mistake buying YouTube, and that Hulu is “kicking YouTube’s ass”. It’s an interesting comparison, and one that may provide some insight […]

Alison and Lloyd of technology makeover show My Home 2.0 perform some innovative surgery on an old teddy bear. The result: a teddy bear that reads your Twitter feed. The Twittering Teddy also has a UStream channel, so you can tweet about something and then go watch a creepy animatronic teddy bear speak it on […]