In industry-shaking online video news yesterday, 
YouTube Art Director David Scheyd said it changed the “director logo.” The director logo is a symbol of great prestige on YouTube held only for the best of the worst. “We new it was time for significant changes at YouTube to change our flawed business model,” said Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube. “We figured the best place to start was a cool director logo.”
Is NBC beginning to understand and embrace the vehicle it once squashed? It’s considering providing video moments of SNL rehearsals via the web. Brilliant. Says The Daily Reel: The very idea that rehearsals could be deemed as funny — or even funnier — than the actual production speaks not only to our changing predilection for…
You have until September 30, 2006 to enter the “Mentos Geyser Video Contest.” Prizes include enough Mentos to feed you for a year. Here’s the official website, and here’s the YouTube Mentos Geyser group that features the qualified entries to date. Here are my two entries. Mentos Jet Pack– kids had some fun strapping bottles…
I only had to read about one of the batch of dead birds to suspect Notradamus must have predicted this. But alas, it seems we’ve had a few (source: BBC): 400 turtle doves were found dead in Faenza, Italy, in the days after New Year. Turtle doves, of course, refer to the Old and New…
Just a Google is about to roll out a new design for G-mail, YouTube’s “Panda” is giving viewers a more modern, intuitive but “MySpace-like” design according to CNet’s Eric Smalley. What do you think? Most of YouTube’s iterations have been subtle adjustments to functionality, social features and emphasis (what appears on homepage, category pages and…
I’ve been long begging for a technology that allows amatuer videographers to populate multiple video sites with ease. You may like the popularity of YouTube and the money from Revver, blip.tv and Metacafe. But you can’t afford to miss sites like AOL Uncut, Yahoo or Google Video since they do deliver volume. I think I…