Portable Video

In the ongoing web video wars — which have started to look a lot like Flash vs. Everything Else — the latest battleground could be Wikipedia. A coalition of forces, including Mozilla, the Open Video Alliance, Miro and Kaltura (which is the video partner for Wikimedia), has launched a site called Let’s Get Video on [...]

YouTube has had some troubles in the past with labels asking them to remove music videos and generally giving them a hard time for users infringing copyrights. But users are still looking for music on YouTube, and now YouTube has found a way to embrace this and help out budding musicians in the process via [...]

According to the Wall Street Journal, Google has partnered up with satellite TV provider Dish Network to test out a new set-top device powered by Google software. Although the WSJ doesn’t name its sources, they seemed to know an awful lot about Google’s plans with Dish.
The set-top device would reportedly allow users to organize [...]

Everybody loves the idea of Hulu, but a series of disappointing decisions and problems with content providers keep plaguing the service. Hulu is U.S.-only, it’s never gotten along well with anyone who wanted to provide a nicer client app for it (check out the Hulu/Boxee saga, which eventually landed in front of Congress), it’s not [...]

After years of torturing innumerable unsuspecting web surfers, YouTube has finally pulled the plug on the original Rickroll video. The reason: it’s simply one of the most horrible abuses of the music video medium ever perpetrated.
Ok, not really, it was pulled due to terms-of-use violations — which probably won’t come as a shock to most [...]

Do you yearn for a button that expands your application windows to full screen like those lucky Microsoft Windows folk? Full-screen can be extremely useful, especially if you’re using a laptop or any other shrimpy screen.
Megazoomer is a free, SIMBL-based bundle that fakes full-screen mode within any Cocoa app, including Safari and Textmate.
The only downside [...]

The Financial Times is reporting that, coinciding with tie iPad release in April, Apple may drop the price of US TV shows to just $1 each on its iTunes digital media store.
It seems Apple is ready to experiment with its vast pool of 120 million credit-card-on-file subscribers. After the massive success enjoyed by Steam in [...]

Smartphones are taking over! We certainly all knew that by now. Vimeo has decided to hop on board and start making their service a little mobile-friendly. A while back, Vimeo announced that their site was compatible with both the iPhone and even Android phones.
Yesterday, they took it a step further and announced that users [...]

First there was Wii Fit, now there’s the ultimate Wii couch potato app: Netflix. Starting this spring, Netflix subscribers will be able to stream movies directly to their TVs using Nintendo’s popular console. This should help the Wii catch up with the Playstation 3, which has a built-in Blu-ray player and the Xbox 360, which [...]

It’s been almost 4 years since Jordan Running first told us about KeepVid, a site that allows you to download YouTube videos for offline viewing. Since then, KeepVid has continued to evolve, now offering the ability to download from many other popular streaming video sites like Dailymotion, Metacafe, iFilm, and others.
KeepVid works by using a [...]