Al Gore’s two year-old cable channel, Current, relaunched its website on Monday to better incorporate user generated content and better target an 18-34 demographic. The updated site supports all the major “Web 2.0” bells and whistles, including photo and video sharing, comments and discussion forums on upcoming stories.

The site also now appears to be trying to become the Cosmo of Internet television. Current stories include Ultimate Male Hotties: from the 60s and Earlier, and a story about how Sibu the Orangutan got his sexy back with tattoed blonde babes (for real).

When we visited, the featured story was “Hotter Down Under”, what looked to be a revealing undercover look at Australian sexiness.

And, while the site is looking for user contributions for stories, it’s not to elevate the state of journalism. They’re looking for your stories about “Sex. Hooking Up. Going at it. Macking. Getting it on.”

The current theme is “Booty Calls…”

Al Gore recently got the Nobel Prize for his work on raising awareness of climate change. If the news hits Current, don’t be surprised if “Super Man Says It’s Going To Get Hot!” is the headline.

Google today announced that it has put in place a beta version of its YouTube Video Identification tool – a service intended to help copyright owners identify and limit how their videos are shared on the site. The tool continues Google’s policy of putting responsibility on copyright-holders to police the site.

Google has been criticized by some for its tardiness in deploying the tool. The delays have served to help keep copyrighted material on the site, which has contributed to the site’s popularity. Google’s announcement makes the case that the video identification tool is a highly complicated technology platform, and that the company is going above and beyond its legal responsibilities.

Interestingly, Google has introduced the tool as it promises to offer ways for copyright holders to make money off of their content. “We think YouTube Video Identification will be a particularly useful and timely tool as we begin extending revenue-sharing and other opportunities to a wider audience,” they note.

The Mac Observer is reporting that a 13 year-old nicknamed AriX has produced a “jailbreak method” hack for the iPod touch called iJailBreak. The program allows iPod touch users to install third-party applications.

The hack is especially interesting because of the way that Apple has intentionally crippled the device. For example, it’s been revealed that editing a changing of lines of text in a config file can enable the ability to add calendar items.

Also, Apple supports its “bricking” of iPhones based on the concern that rogue apps could disrupt AT&T’s phone network. This isn’t the case with the iPod touch. How Apple reacts to iPod touch hacking will be telling.

In its present early iteration, version 0.2.1, iJailBreak can be used only with Intel-based Macs running Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. No word yet whether using this hack will render your iPod Touch an “iBrick” when the next Apple update comes out.

iJailBreak is free, and can be found on the Google Code website.

At Podcasting News, we readily admit that we are not always the most clued-in about organized sports. We didn’t even know that Arizona had a major-league baseball team until the Diamondbacks won the World Series in 2001. What a surprise!

So perhaps you can forgive us for thinking that, at this time of year, college sports fans’ attentions were most focused on football. Maybe with the disappointing seasons of so many big-name schools this year, people are relieved to turn their focus to the upcoming college basketball prospects.

At any rate, the Florida State Seminoles offer some diversion in the form of a basketball podcast. The first in this year’s Seminoles Basketball Podcast features a short interview with college senior and player Ralph Mims. Mims plays guard and has an impressive .788 career free-throw average.

Information about the podcast can be found here.

Video search engine Truveo announced today that it is working with European video company Kewego to extend the reach of Truveo’s video search engine to hundreds of European major-brand video producers.

“In the past 12 months there has been an explosion of professional video on the Web,” said Timothy Tuttle, CEO and Co-Founder of Truveo and Senior Vice President of AOL Video. “Kewego is one of the leading distributors of major-brand video in Europe and we are excited to work with them to make it easy for users to discover all of their high-quality content.”

“Video search is becoming the primary way that users discover new video online, and Truveo is clearly a video search leader,” said Oliver Heckmann, General Director and co-founder of Kewego. “Through our work with Truveo we are looking forward to allowing our partners to reach millions of new users with our high-quality content.”

Led Zeppelin will soon have a Whole Lotta Love for digital music fans – they’ve announced plans to make their entire catalog available as digital downloads.

Starting November 13, Led Zeppelin will join the digital music revolution. They are one of the last remaining bands to hold out on releasing their music to iTunes and other online music stores.

“We are pleased that the complete Led Zeppelin catalogue will now be available digitally,” said guitarist Jimmy Page. “The addition of the digital option will better enable fans to obtain their music in whichever manner they prefer.”

Today’s Woot is the 30G Zune, for $100.

The Zunes are factory refurbished, and are available in white, black and lovely Zune brown.

NewTeeVee has announced the schedule for NewTeeVee Live, a new media conference set for San Francisco, November 14th.

It looks to be a very tightly scheduled one-day event, with speakers from Joost, AT&T, Turner, VideoEgg, Heavy, MySpace, Blip.tv, Revision3, Nnig, Cisco and Akamai. The lineup focuses on corporate new media.

PodTech’s Robert Scoble calls the lineup “severely lacking”. While Scoble points out lots of names that are missing from the agenda, it would be impossible to comprehensively cover the already busy area of corporate new media in a one-day event.

Podcast411’s Rob Walch has suggested a standard button for one-click subscriptions for the Zune portable media player:

This is a variation on the iTunes 1-click chicklet:

Both are released under a Creative Commons license.

Microsoft hasn’t yet released details on their implementation of podcasting or their one-click support. Ideally, they’d help move the podcasting world towards standardizing on one method for 1-click subscriptions.

Guitar Center has announced a deal with Dell to offer desktop and notebook computers specifically designed for use for digital audio recording. The company already sells Apple Macs, which are very popular for use as digital audio workstations.

Initial offerings will include workstations built around dual-core AMD processors.