We've been working on it for the last few weeks. This is sort of the prelude of offering Plus members iPhone support; and in the future, an app. In the future, like the next several weeks—maybe longer, we'll be offering Plus users the option to transcode their videos to an iPhone version too."

Sounds good, but don't forget that with Flash 10.1 on the way, pretty much every phone (including Android handsets, not just the Hero) should get Flash support around mid-next year. Wild guess: except for the iPhone, probably. Ugh. [CNET]

Say what you will about the clips being effectively censored, it says something that the Army—which is mostly concerned with essentials, not luxuries—saw fit to invest in a video sharing site just for soldiers. It's not as good as YouTube (can they get Hulu?), but I'm sure they'd agree it's better than nothing. [MSNBC]

"There are things you cannot do in China because of certain regulations," says Wang. "TV is simply off limits. If you take away TV you didn't have a large market, so I began thinking how to bring entertainment to China, where there were already 10 to 20 million broadband users and I knew it would build up."

Of course, the 10 to 20 million figure is from 2004. Now, China boasts almost the same amount of internet users as the population of the United States. Tudou, which as grown threefold since just last year, now serves 100 million videos a day and garners about 75 million unique users a month. Though only about 5 percent of the videos on the site generate advertising revenue, that's already better than Youtube's 3 percent figure.

The biggest problems Tudou faces is, not surprisingly, the Chinese government. Wang employs about 100 people that focus just on vetting videos that are uploaded to the site – lest they be copyrighted... or, more importantly, contain banned political content. After all, since his servers and staff are all in China, a company shut down notice is literally always one uncensored clip away. [Guardian UK]

Unfortunately, the service isn't really videocalling. The video stream only go one way, so users will need to manually switch back and forth to see each other. Furthermore, AT&T is going to be charging a pretty insane amount for the privilege of using this crippled service: $4.99 a month for 25 minutes of usage, $9.99 for 60 minutes, or 35 cents per minute. All of this is on top of whatever data plan you already have, by the way, even if it's unlimited. At a time when we'd go out of our way to avoid giving AT&T our money, this seems like something that we can certainly wait to be done right before jumping on board with.

If you disagree and happen to live in Atlanta, Dallas, or San Antonio, you can waste your hard-earned money on this starting in late July. –Adam Frucci

Product Page [AT&T Video Share]

The devices themselves will come in two versions, one with a 30-minute capacity for $119, and the other 60-minutes for $149. When tested, Flip Video really was as easy as it sounds to use. So get ready for some grandma videos, and we don't mean the good kind. – Jason Chen

YouTube for soccer Moms [CNN]

First you upload your video or photos to the One True Media site, where you can either create video montages or online slideshows with soundtracks. Then you enter the secret code of a TiVo to which you'd like to send the montage, and it shows up on that TiVo just like any other content. But wait, it gets better.

You can also create your own video channel on One True Media, and TiVo users can subscribe to your channel by using the TiVo's Season Pass feature, and then with each video or slideshow you upload an edit will end up automatically on that TiVo user's Now Playing List just like any other Season Pass recording.

Whoever's on the receiving end of these videos or pictures doesn't have to pay anything, and the Web service will be free while in its beta period, ending at the end of April. After that, the company says subscriptions are $3.99 a month, or $39.99 a year.

Hey, this is a cool idea, putting home videos and photo sequences on equal footing with every other TV show recorded on the TiVo box. Might be a great system for grandma to subscribe to videos and pictures of her young 'uns—if she has a broadband-connected TiVo Series2 or Series3 box, that is. – Charlie White

Product Page [One True Media]