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 ...

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 ...

Is there really a market for another how-to site online? "Absolutely," said Jason Liebman, who has partnered with an old YouTube colleague, Daniel Blackman, to redefine the how-to space with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

How-to startup Howcast Media on Wednesday reached key distribution agreements with AOL, Metacafe, Bebo, and blip.tv. Together, the new channels allow Howcast content to reach more than 87 million ...

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 ...

(Reuters) - The Web is full of user-generated video, but for Sanjay Raman's tastes most of it is too bland and poorly produced to actually watch. So last year he launched Howcast <www.howcast.com>, a ...