According to various news sources such as BBC News, Google will get into hosting content, specifically videos from video blogs. Larry Page supposedly said that the video uploading will be announced soon and be an experiment for the company. As reported earlier, iVeZeen is already being used for video blogging, so it would be a good match.

Tim Lauer runs a weblog with "News, Views, and Information About Technology and Education". In a post he describes his son's Science Fair project: "My son is in second grade at Gelncoe and his display was a bit of a hybrid involving a cardboard display and a laptop. We worked on an animation project that utilized traditional animation techniques such as flip books, and also a digital version using a program called iStopMotion. A very nice stop animation program from Boinx Software." In a comment on the flickr page he points out that the science involved is called Persistance of Vision as pointed to by the Wikipedia article on Animation.

Steffen Tröger of Go!Le Go! tested iStopMotion 1.8: "iStopMotion is ingenious! Very easy to use and clever invented. I really like the audio-support. Timing gags and the smoothness onto animation is therewith a walk in the park. The iStopMotion HR version renders my movies in a brilliance and size I´m nearly not able to watch on my old monitor. I guess it´s time to buy a bigger one! Go on Boinx and thank you again for bringing me so fast into my new hobby with such professional results!" Bricks in Love and the piece for SWR1 were done with iStopMotion 1.8.

The DV Show, a weekly Podcast with news about desktop video editing and production notices iStopMotion in their April 1st edition.

A minor update for FotoMagico is ready. Version 1.2.3 makes the export to QuickTime more reliable and has a couple of improvements in the titles engine. See the Version History for details and download here.

Famous german comics artist Karl A. Bihlmeier reviews iStopMotion for german technology news site "Industrial Technology & Witchcraft" (in German):

You can't get more creative fun at $40.

Check out the time lapse that shows the artist creating the best April 1st cartoon I've seen this year and the nice stop motion animation "Tinkerbell & Robocop".

Munich musician and composer Alex Vafiopoulos created this amusing (and a bit sleazy) german space adventure: "Raumschiff Lavendel X13 in Gefahr" (Warning: rated PG AND a mega big download) using iStopMotion, Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro. Real professional sound track, lighting, set and actors.

Jed Gibbs sends us the pointer to "Lego Pirate Animations" created by students who attended the City College of Southampton media stand during 'Bright Futures 2005' at Southampton Guildhall: "None of these films will win any prizes but there was a lot of interest shown by pupils and teachers from several schools. Each of these films was made in under 15 minutes by teams of up to 5 students aged 14 - 16. More than 300 students saw these being made over 2 days. Most asked question? "Can we do this using windows movie maker?" I said I doubt it."

iVeZeen 2.0 reviewed by Robert Pritchett: "Sweet, simple and very professionally done with features unimaginable a few short years ago."