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On Thursday, a fun new instructional site called HowCast is launching. I was able to take a peek around the beta version of the site and came across a bunch of useful videos as well as lists and wikis ...
The mobile version of the Web service, which does have some shortcomings, includes a neat feature that gives users a random video every time they shake their Apple smartphone. Josh Lowensohn joined ...
In the do-it-yourself culture born of The Great Recession, making things yourself is chic, and Howcast finds itself in the zeitgeist sweet spot. It has more than 100,000 videos on its site so far—some ...
Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...
Redesigned Howcast site offer comprehensive how-to videos. May 19, 2012 — -- Darlene Liebman holds up her neon-orange painted fingernails and points to her second finger. "See," she says, "It's ...
Of all the "next-generation video network"-type startups, one of the most promising is NYC-based Howcast, which was started by a group of ex-Googlers in 2007. Howcast produces, aggregates, and ...
High-end content produced on a low budget. Jason Liebman says that's the key to success for Howcast Media, a digital media company he cofounded in 2007 after a five-year stint at YouTube and parent ...
A New York City startup called Howcast is launching today that wants to be the YouTube of instructional videos. In fact, the three founders—Jason Liebman, Daniel Blackman and Sanjay Raman—are ...
Howcast, the instructional video site founded by three ex-Googlers, today announced that it has formed distribution agreements with AOL, Metacafe, Bebo, and blip.tv. Howcast provides professionally ...
Howcast is a resource for how-to videos that don’t take themselves too seriously. To be sure, some of the topics or instructions are so specific or random that they become slightly tinged with ...