Andy Plesser

HP's line of fashion-oriented notebooks, designed by Chinese-born, American-based fashion designer Vivienne Tam, are being marketed globally around the world, including China.

Msnbc.com, the first major U.S. news site to provide embeddable videos, is moving to monetize its embedded videos and has a new association with YuMe, the Redwood City, California-based video ad network.

Firefox 3.5, the next big release of the popular browser, will be released to the public on Tuesday, a spokesperson for Mozilla confirmed today.

BoingBoing, the popular and influential blog about culture and technology, has had video for sometime and now it's bigger than ever, literally.

TMZ, the Los Angeles-based Time Warner-owned entertainment gossip site, is getting quite a lot of attention for having first broke the news of Michael Jackson's tragic death earlier today.

News reports today indicate that Mozilla's Firefox 3.5 will be publicly available next week.  One of the most significant elements in the new release is the ability to play web video without a plug-in.

NEW YORK , NY — There is a powerful movement underway for open video standards for the Web.  The biggest implementation will be seen very soon on Wikipedia where you will watch videos in an open source video application called Ogg Theora.

CNN's iReport popularity as a destination has surged with the Iran crisis. A CNN spokeswoman citing internal numbers told me that page views for the iReport reached 1 million on Monday. 

Truveo, the big global video search engine which is a unit of AOL, unveiled a redesign last night along with its expansion into several new markets. 

Live video, one of the fastest growing areas of the Web, could get a big boost with Facebook's integration with Ustream.  It's part of a new Facebook application called Live Stream Box.

We wonder why Dan Lyons, author of the "Secret Diary of Steve Jobs," the clever, stinging first person send up of Apple CEO Steve Jobs, has restarted is blog. Particularly now that his identity is known and he is a staffer at Newsweek…

RealNetworks has just released RealPlayer SP, a downloadable application which allows users to save Web video, including YouTube clips, to several mobile devices. 

With western news organizations banished from covering street demonstrations in Iran, the role of "citizen journalists" has become essential.

Andrew Heyward, former president of CBS News, has expanded his consulting to include an engagement with NBC News, the New York Observer reports.

Qik, the mobile video platform, is being integrated into Brightcove, the big video services company.   Initially, mobile users will be able upload files, but soon after they will be able to stream live to Brightcove-powered sites.

Paul Slavin, who heads digital operations for for ABC News, explains the difficulty of news gathering in Iran.  We spoke last Tuesday (June 16) about news gathering in Iran; this was before the government imposed strict restrictions on foreign journalists.

The horrifying of the death of a young woman shot during protests in Tehran was uploaded to YouTube, sent to CNN and the BBC, and posted to Facebook by a young Iranian asylum seeker living in Holland. 

Today in New York, the Huffington Post launches its New York local site.  This is part of big roll out of local and "hyper local" sites planned, says Arianna Huffington in this video interview with Kara Swisher.

Six Apart, the San Francisco-based blog hosting and software company, has linked up with VideoEgg, the video ad network, to offer bloggers the opportunity to integrate interactive video ads.

Well, now, this is not really complete coverage, but we covered a bit of the waterfront and produced 14 segments from the conference and put all the clips together here on one directory page.