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 […]

Podcasters from throughout North America gathered in Kingston, Ontario, last weekend for the third annual Podcasters Across Borders conference. Here is a quick rundown of some of the coverage of the event by participants and presenters at PAB08: Financial Aid Podcast and social media superhero Chris Penn talks a little bit about the “battle” (heated […]

In 4 steps, Jordan’s Queen Rania shows you how to create video clips designed break down stereotypes. It’s fascinating to watch what Rania is doing with YouTube and how she’s using it as a platform to encourage understanding between cultures. Does it still count as citizen media, though, when you’re the Queen of Jordan?

A midlife crisis inspired Gary Vaynerchuk to start his video podcast, Wine Library TV, which is primarily about wine, but also about action figures, the New York Jets, thunder, and Vaynerchuk himself and his quirky onscreen persona.

That quirky persona and unpretentious wine expertise has propelled “Gary Vee” to popularity on the Internet and in the mainstream media, leading to television appearances on “Ellen”, “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” and other shows. More recently, Gary Vee has authored a book, Gary Vaynerchuk’s 101 Wines: Guaranteed to Inspire, Delight, and Bring Thunder to Your World.

Podcasting News’ Publisher, Elisabeth McLaury Lewin, sat down with Vaynerchuk this weekend for an exclusive interview, which looks at how he got into podcasting, using podcasts to establish a person brand, great wines for flood cleanup and a few secrets, along the way.

The latest in the series of participant-organized, Open Space “unconferences,” PodCamp Seattle debuts today (June 21, 2008) at the University of Washington Communications Building. Colleague, friend, and Edelman Digital social media expert Eric Weaver is one of the event’s organizers. He says that the focus of the Seattle PodCamp will diverge somewhat from previous PodCamps […]

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 […]

Video conversation / social networking community Seesmic moved out of beta and opened up to the general public last week. The company launched in the fall of 2007, and raised $6 million in its “A” series of funding late this winter. Today, Seesmic founder Loic LeMeur announced that the company has raised an additional $6 […]

Time‘s Jeremy Caplan writes that the “iPhone’s next frontier” is – OMG! – porn. iPhone porn that threatens today’s youth. Check out the drippingly lurid intro to Caplan’s article: “Apple may be golden because of the iPhone, but the soon-to-be-updated device is also increasingly the source of forbidden fruit. Steve Jobs’ company is keeping a […]

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 […]