User-generated video. That’s our time. It is officially the Vlog Era.

Live video, or live vlogs, will be coming to YouTube in 2008. Straight from the horse’s mouth, in the video above, you can see Steve Chen of YouTube say that they are moving in that direction.

DailyMotion has recently opened up their high-def capabilities to a wider audience.

Recently-enacted laws meant to crack down on videos that would portray the country in a negative light would make it mandatory for video-sharing sites to be state-run. An exception has been made, however, for those companies that were already in business before the law came into effect.

I came across this nice video tutorial from Tubetorial.com recently about the plugin. While there’s no substitute for actually playing around with a plugin that you’ve installed, when it’s something that is a little involved on the frontend, and you aren’t sure whether you want to use it or not, a vlog on the topic is an excellent way to check it out.

According to YouTube, the 10 Most Viewed videos of 2007 were the the following. The only problem with the YouTube Top 10 is that they have only listed 9 videos. …. Umm, but maybe that’s appropo for YouTube.

I came across this video recently from Videomaker magazine about shooting video in the snow. Seems like a timely piece.