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Late last month, one of our readers caught something interesting: a redesign of YouTubeYouTube. It boasted a new masthead, a trim and streamline interface, and new navigation. However, only a few users could see it at the time. Now that redesign is going live for all users. If you take a look at YouTube.com, you will see the new interface for yourself. YouTube has also blogged about the redesign, explaining some of the new features and a few that were removed. Click here for a screenshot. Read on at mashable.com

GoogleGoogle and On2 Technologies jointly announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire On2, a developer of video compression technology. The acquisition is expected to close later this year. On2 markets video compression technologies that power high-quality video in both desktop and mobile applications and devices and also holds a number of interesting patents. Some of its codec designs are known as VP3, VP4, VP5, TrueMotion VP6, TrueMotion VP7 and VP8. Its customers include Adobe, SkypeSkype, Nokia, Infineon, Sun Microsystems, Mediatek, Sony, Brightcove, and Move Networks. On2, formerly known as The Duck Corporation, is headquartered in Clifton Park, NY… Read on at TechCrunch.com | Read full press release at Google.com

YouTubeYouTube may be testing changes to its navigation design, according to reader Eric Calouro. While visiting the site’s homepage today, he grabbed a screenshot of a previously unseen design that puts a large search box at the top of the page, removes the “Broadcast Yourself” tagline and de-emphasizes all menu items. In other words: the site looks increasingly like a video search engine. However, the change has not been rolled out to all users: Eric’s is the only report we have so far, seen in Google ChromeGoogle Chrome on the PC – in FirefoxFirefox, he sees the old design… Read on at Mashable.com

YouTubeYouTube has always given you the chance to show off how well your videos are doing, but only to a limited extent. Aside from a star rating, view count, and of course, the infamous comments section, there hasn’t been an easy way to share more meaningful data with your audience – something that can make it harder for content partners to attract advertisers on the site. Tonight, that changes: you’ll now be able to publicly share select pieces of information from YouTube Insight, the site’s powerful analytics tool… Read on at TechCrunch.com

You have insightful tweets, write amazing blog posts, and can make a viral video like it’s nobody’s business. So why don’t you have 500,000 followers, 50,000 views per video, and your own personal social media army? Read on at Mashable…

For most of the population, online video is an addition to the typical TV experience. For a small but growing chunk of people, however, online video is not only more entertaining, but it’s also replacing their normal TV-watching habits. Details…

Yes, Microsoft has a promo video for Microsoft Office 2010, and we’re posting it. This isn’t slapped together by some corporate PR hack with iMovie (oops, did we say that?) Microsoft gave self-described YouTuber Dennis Liu of Traffik Film Works a free hand, and the results are pretty amusing. Details…