You only have to go a few years back to recall the days of expensive video editing equipment and software. These days, video editing software is readily available for free online, but many options are overly complicated, clunky and poorly designed. But if you are fortunate enough to have a computer with some [...]

Last week my boss approached me about a presentation she was putting together for a large audience. Her default play was to put together the typical Powerpoint slideshow which she planned to narrate.
Yawn. Snore. Boring!
Thankfully she has an open mind and I was able to introduce her to screencasts: simple videos that have [...]

If you’re a Facebook and Gmail user (who doesn’t anyway?), you’d be glad to know that Facebook now supports myOpenID. This means that you can now use your Gmail credentials to login to Facebook.  To put in in a simpler way, this simply means that everytime you are logged in to your Gmail account, the [...]

YouTube has recently rolled out a new feature which would bring television shows and movies of its content partner to the YouTube stream.   With this new feature, YouTube users would be able to enjoy watching tv show episodes and movies from content owners such as CBS, MGM, Lionsgate, Starz and Crackle.  And since these [...]

Yahoo’s answer to Google’s YouTube, Flickr Video has been around for quite some time now. Although it has managed to gather some membership base and loyal followers, Flickr Video still couldn’t quite take off primarily because it was available to premium members only. Now, hoping to spruce up its services, Flickr Video is opening its [...]

There’s no doubt that YouTube is the ultimate resource for cool videos on the web. And sometimes when we find cool videos, we wanted to download it to our PC to watch it offline or to transfer it to our portable media player. Here are 17 online tools and desktop software which can help you [...]

You’ve heard the joke a thousand times: Remember when MTV used to play music videos?

As a child of the 90’s, I’ve always been a fan of the low budget music video. Insert grainy black and white effect HERE.

A new venture between Next New Networks and Verizon FiOS, 99DollarMusicVideos, hopes to connect the bridge between rookie artists and independent filmmakers. The site plans to release a new music video weekly and distribute it through YouTube and iTunes.

If you are not technically inclined, and are looking to start a blog, Kontain might be for you.  For those who find Blogger or Word Press ‘difficult,’ getting started with Kontain is as easy as inputting your e-mail address.
Registered users are entitled to 50 items per entry, 100MB maximum size per file and 250MB total [...]

For those who upload their Powerpoint (or Keynote) presentation online, chances are your using either SlideShare or Google Docs Presentation. SlideShare has been around in this web 2.0 niche for quite some time now and has made great strides in making their service as useful and as functional as possible. And the latest feature [...]

It has been a busy week for YouTube with several news coverage reporting various changes on the number 1 video uploading site. These changes include the muting options for uploaded videos, YouTube TV Channel for game consoles, YouTube Channel for the U.S. Senate and House of Reps, and the most recent video download option.  With [...]

Update: The YouTube Blog has finally made a statement regarding this new muting policy.
One of the things that made YouTube such a big hit was the fact that it enables users to upload their originally recorded video, be it coming from their videocamera or a slideshow of photos created using Windows Movie Maker. Using [...]

There’s no doubt that YouTube is perhaps most widely used online service worldwide. Even the US Government has recognized its potential to reach large-scale audience not only coming from the U.S., but from other countries as well. And so the YouTube Senate Hub and Congress Hub were born.