This just in. Via Kate Olson (kolson29 @ Twitter), Edublogs has recently launched a video endeavour known as Edublogs.tv, which is a forum for uploading and viewing of educational videos and audio clips.
There can be little doubt that the online video niche has exploded the last few years, so one might be tempted to ask how such a targeted site like Edublogs.TV will fare against mammoth industry giants like YouTube. Furthermore with other educationally-based video sites like TeacherTube already occupying the niche, Edublogs.TV does not reside in this …

Google has just entered the realm of the virtual world with the launch of Lively.
Via the Official Google Blog (“Be who you want on the web pages you visit“):
The Lively team wants to help people experience another dimension of the web. We hope you will use the product to express yourself with and without words, and to do this in the places you already visit on the web.
If you enter a Lively room embedded on your favorite blog or website, you can immediately get a sense of the room creator’s …