Andy Plesser

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.

HP, the world's leading personal computer maker, is developing applications for its TouchSmart line of computers, including one for publishers which allows content to be browsed by touch.

Tweets from within Iran are gettting retweeted as much as 300 times, according to an analysis done today by Simon Owens. 

Those clever folks at JibJab have debuted an animated "superhero" clip of President Barack Obama.  It went live yesterday. It was shown to President Obama at the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association dinner Friday night

The long-anticipated integration of collaborative video editing software into Wikipedia will happen later this summer, according to a report by David Talbot in Technology Review.

Newser, a new news content aggregation site, has raised $2.5 million investment funds, its first, Rafat Ali at paidContent reports tonight. 

Earlier week, CBS News introduced a completely redesigned website with more videos featured and integrated into text reporting.