There are more changes happening at YouTube (surprise! surprise!) and this time it revolves around the new embed player, which we’ve discussed

Forrester expects that 112.5 million adults, or one-third of the adult population, will own a tablet by 2016, a revision of its previous forecast of 82.1 million. That’s a huge jump, but it’s not just from the iPad3 announced last week. The increase is due to the success of the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet too, Forrester says

Avid just announced that the first version of Avid Studio for the iPad is now available on the Apple App Store. If you have been using Avid Studio at home for years and always wanted to use it on the road, now you will be able to, albeit in a lighter format. Avid Studio for iPad is priced at just $4.99 and is said to be easy enough for first-timers, yet sophisticated enough for more advanced editors.

Remember all the hustle and bustle there was to get HTML5 off the ground and implement immediately even though there was no standard codec, it lacks tons of functionality and all that? LongTail Video does and they broke down just where it all stands now in a nice, informative way in the LongTail Video State of HTML5 Video .

After YouTube's latest updates yesterday to the Browse page, many of you probably spent some time casually playing around with it to see what's new. If you did, you might have come across some of the selections in this week's round up of the best viral videos

With more and more people viewing videos on their mobile devices, it's becoming more and more important for video producers to ensure that their content is optimized for mobile viewing. Not just in how the videos are formatted, the bitrate it uses, or the video dimensions, but in how we shoot and edit our video so it's a positive experience on tiny Android, iPhone, iPod, and iPad screens and displays

Netflix has made an upgrade to their mobile app for iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad, and this update is especially good news for owners of the latter: the new Netflix app is optimized for use and viewing on the iPad, and it looks pretty slick. I know, I know... this isn't exactly breaking news--the update happened several days ago.

The simplest concepts I've long held that Shazam is quite possibly the most useful smart phone app on the planet--it's certainly the one I used the most out of all the apps I've ever downloaded. It's definitely a simple concept (hear a song you want to know more about, press the button on the app, and then discover the title and artists within seconds), and one that appears ready to make the jump to other forms of media beyond music

Friday is always a tough day to focus on work. With the weekend near, it can be hard to focus on the pile of paperwork in front of you. And since tomorrow's Christmas Eve, most of you are probably even more distracted than usual

Zencoder continues its rapid expansion of transcoding offerings and achievements with today's announcement that they are now ready to offer optimized HTTP Live Streaming encoding (HLS)