YouTube has been the place to go for video content, garnering over 2 billion views a day.  Arguably the most popular video streaming site to watch and share originally created videos, the company has launched a new service: Live Streaming.  As a beta version, content is limited, but YouTube plans to slowly allow its partners to stream live content on the site.  That means not everyone will be able to stream live through YouTube, but the limiting factor will mean more refined live broadcasts than the ones offered in other live-streaming sites where you’ll often find people talking random giberish.

Journey through the site yourself at http://www.youtube.com/live.

You can find the official announcement at YouTube’s official blog right here: http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2011/04/youtube-is-going-live.html

It seems too soon for a reboot on the man of steel considering his last appearance was only five years ago in Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns.  But it was a disappointing performance for the last son of Krypton.  Now its Zack Snyder’s chance to reintroduce the world to the iconic hero.  The director of Watchmen and 300, Snyder has described the reboot as a modern take on the loved character.  Often defined as the epitome of a hero, Snyder aims to make Superman much more real and relevant to today’s audience.  Snyder has a daunting task ahead of him, to make the perfect superhero relatable.

But he seems to be heading in the right direction.  The story was co-written by David Goyer and Christopher Nolan, who worked together in creating the storylines for the successful Batman reboot.  They seem perfect for the challenge, considering they took the same strategy with Batman as Snyder is taking with Superman.  Goyer and Nolan were able to make the Dark Knight a more real character that the audience could understand and relate to, despite not being a millionaire whose parents were murdered in front of them.  In terms of storyline, Superman: Man of Steel is in good hands.

But it takes more than a good story to make a good film.  Snyder has been busy casting the roles that will carry the story and has recently announced his choice for the spunky journalist of the Daily Planet and Superman’s love interest.  Beating out stars like Rachel McAdams, Dianna Agron and Jessica Biel, the role of Lois Lane has gone to the talented Amy Adams.  A three time oscar nominee, this will be Adams first role in a major studio franchise.

Adams will be sharing the screen with Henry Cavill as Superman/Clark Kent.  Diane Lane and Kevin Costner will also be present as Martha and Jonathon Kent.  It is yet to be revealed which villain Superman will be facing in this installment, but we eagerly await the announcement of who this foe may be.

In a world full of choices, people may or may not be so decisive.  What external hard drive should I get?  Which restaurant should I try?  What’s a video game I should check out?  During times like these, a recommendation would really help.  Thankfully, there’s Hunch.

Hunch.com is a recommendation site that eliminates the need of going around the web and putting in time-consuming research.  The site aims to personalize the internet by getting to know you and making smart and concrete recommendations about what you might like.  There are thousands of topics to get suggestions on from email service providers to bucket list ideas.

Begin by signing in with your facebook or twitter account and answering 20 (or more, if you’re into that) questions about yourself.  Hunch then creates a taste profile that maps your unique preferences based on the collective knowledge of people similar to you.  The company’s mission, taken straight from their website, is to “build a taste graph connecting every person on the web with their affinity for every entitiy (camera, car, book, anything!) on the web.”

Of course Hunch doesn’t gaurantee the acuracy of the recomendations. And it seems doubtful that reliable suggestions can be generated for some of the topics through a few seemingly random questions.  It’s almost akin to those Facebook quizzes people love to use, but much more accurate.  If anything, its fun to see how wrong, or very right, Hunch is in their knowledge of you.  There’s also fun in comparing your recommendations with a friend.  Remember they’re only suggestions.  Don’t believe that these recommendations define you in anyway, but you should check it out for yourself to decide if these hunches are helpful enough.

Are your photos looking a little bland? Want to sweeten your pictures to be better eye candy? There are plenty of ways to make a good photo better, but editing software like photoshop can get complicated and time consuming. For the quickest and easiest means to improve a picture, effects are a great way to go. There are free online photo-editing sites like Picnik and Pixlr that come with basic filters, but if fast and simple is your preference, try out Rollip.

Rollip.com is a quick and easy website that allows you to tweak your photos with some attractive effects while retaining the photo’s original size. The site doesn’t look like anything special at first glance, but Rollip has some great filters that will make a photo look professional. It’s as easy as 1, 2 3. Simply pick an effect, upload the picture, then download it. The site provides 40 different high quality photo effects, such as their vintage and stylized lense filters. It’s as minimal as photo-editing goes, but a simple effect can affect a photo incredibly.