The Vodpod WordPress plugin lets you collect videos from thousands of sites on the Net, and add them to your WordPress blog with an interactive gallery. If you’re interested in sharing a curated collection of videos, this could be a good option.  Readers can scroll through videos you’ve collected without having to leave your blog. […]

Apple today announced some minor updates to Apple TV: Feature How To HD TV shows Purchase the leading HD TV shows directly from the iTunes Store. (US only) Movie browsing by actor and director Browse movies on the iTunes store by actor and director. Select “More” on the movie page and browse the actor and […]

YouTube today announced YouTube Alive, “a celebration of the site’s vast user communities; everyone from bedroom vloggers to world-famous rock stars, musicians, comedians, athletes, artists and more. Part concert, part variety show and part party, the event will bring to life many of the amazing videos and talent that YouTube viewers have already made popular […]

Netflix today announced an agreement with Starz Play that adds around 1,000 choices to what you can watch instantly today, and will add another 1,500 by the end of the year. Movies include “No Country for Old Men”, “Ratatouille,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End,” “Superbad,” and more. A list of all the newly […]

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 […]

 xVideoServiceThief (a.k.a xVST) is a free tool for downloading video clips from a variety of video websites. xVideoServiceThief also gives you the ability to convert each video into popular formats, including AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, WMV, MP4, 3GP and MP3s. Features: Cross-Platform: xVideoServicethief is available for the following platforms: Microsoft Windows Vista, Server 2003, XP, 2000, […]

Vincent Laforet filmed this short video that demonstrates the image quality of the Canon EOS 5D MKII.  The footage is amazing enough – but the fact that it was shot with a consumer DLSR is even more amazing. The camera can shoot about 8 minutes straight of higher than HD video.  The camera is expected to […]

SporeTV (iTunes link) is a new video podcast from Electronic Arts that looks at the hugely hyped video game Spore.  The first episode is a discussion of the development of Spore with creator Will Wright.