Several documentaries have been made about Second Life, but now there’s a film that actually takes place inside this popular virtual world. In the film ‘My Second Life‘ the main character sets out on a journey and the viewer tags along.

The story goes like this: In January 2007, a man named Molotov Alva disappeared from his California home. Recently, a series of seven video dispatches by a Traveller of the same name have appeared within a popular online world called Second Life. In these dispatches Molotov Alva encounters everything from Furries to Cyberpunks to Neo-Luddites to Sex Slaves to the King of the Hobos, Orhalla Zander, who becomes Molotov’s guide as he searches for the creator of their brave new world. [Read more…]

Minic Rivera, an editor and blogger, today announced the launch of Short Movement.

Short Movement is a monthly online video festival based on themes. A new theme is open at the start of each month. Entries not longer than 1O minutes may be submitted and will be up for rating from website visitors. The video with the highest rating at the end of every month gets the theme prize. The site also recommends online videos under a section called Staff Picks. [Read more…]

Michael Eisner of The Tornante Company announced the formation of Vuguru, an independent studio that will produce and distribute original content for the Internet and emerging digital platforms.

“In the past few years, the development of exciting and innovative digital media platforms and technologies has outpaced the creation of truly great content,” said Michael Eisner. “Vuguru will produce and showcase original and third party content in all genres and formats to meet the new demands of the evolving media landscape.”

Vuguru’s first production, Prom Queen, is a scripted, serialized mystery told over 80 episodes – each running 90 seconds long. Set against the final two months of the school year, Prom Queen has a blend of love, gossip, and betrayal – all of the twists and turns of high school leading up to the biggest night of any senior’s life: prom night. Prom Queen will be distributed through YouTube and Veoh.

Pageflakes Ltd., the community-driven personalized homepage, announced the launch of the most comprehensive collection of universal video widgets available. These video Flakes, which are small, movable versions of all of your favorite video sites that you can arrange on your personal homepage, are now available to search and display videos from popular sites such as YouTube, Google Video, Revver, Metacafe, and others, including broadcast network sites. Pageflakes’ video Flake collection allows anyone to easily create customized web pages, within seconds, that display continuously updated videos from virtually all sources and can easily be shared publicly or with friends.

“The Pageflakes community of users is passionate about personalizing their homepages with videos. Now everyone can add, search, and watch the largest collection of videos on the web, all on their Pageflakes page,” said Dan Cohen, CEO of Pageflakes. “It’s never been easier to create a personal homepage that features videos from all over the web – even if you’re new to Pageflakes. Combined with the thousands of other available Flakes, the possibilities for personalized video pages are truly endless. You can even share your video ‘mashup masterpiece’ with your friends.”