Macromedia will soon be competing for the attention of vloggers in a more serious way with the release of Flash 8.

Verizon Wireless and YouTube are teaming up to make uploading video a little simpler.

In a move to make friends with vloggers, Sony has recently announced their latest camcorder, the Net-sharing CAM , designed specifially with video bloggers in mind.

Revlayer is different from (so far) traditional video ads in that the ads are “layered” over already embedded videos from the likes of YouTube, Revver, Veoh, etc.

Vimeo has just released a very nice new “widget” that they call “Projector.” It’s an embed tool for a blog or MySpace. It allows the viewer to page through videos that you have selected to be seen in the Projector (be they your own videos or your “subscription” to others’ videos). You can also watch your subscriptions on places like your Netvibes page.

Some good news out of Apple recently for vloggers who happen to have Macs – iMovie (Apple’s video editing software) has recently gotten an upgrade and a makeover.

YouTube has just announced that they now have a tool that allows you to upload mulitiple videos all at once. In addition, they have upped the file size limit to 1GB. Previously files had been compressed to a size of 100MB (that’s 1/10 the size of current 1GB limit). The length of each video is capped at 10 minutes.

Revver has recently released an interesting new Wordpress video plugin for vloggers who want to run their video blogs on their own websites.

Google Earth and YouTube have teamed up so that you can now watch videos in the popular mapping program based on where they were created or where they take place.

Do you like the idea of forums but really don’t like to write? Vlip.com video discussions may be an answer for you.