Bad news for Flip fans, Cisco today announced it’s shutting down the production of Flip Videos. Yes Flip is over. It’s fallen as Cisco streamlines its’ business.

The question is would you still buy a Flip right now?

Personally I would grab one while they are still available, once they are sold out then that will be that. Treat them well and it can last you 2 or 3 years, but I am not sure if they’ll be any support for flipshare. Also forget about the warranty!

As a camera I still think Flip rocks and honestly I hope someone will buy the Flip part of the business and keep it going. Anyone here want to chip in?

UPDATE: The campaign to stop the Flip from extinction starts here > SAVE THE FLIP!

Flip are donating $10 to the Red Cross for every Camcorder bought from the Japan Earthquake relief category over at the Flip store. ( US + Canada)

The latest FlipShare software has been released today as well as FlipShare Mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android devices. Watch the Flip Video above from Peter Groom UK & Ireland Region Manager for Flip Video.

The FlipShare software now has enhanced video sharing capabilities including FlipShare Groups, a new and social way for consumers to share video more securely with friends and family. After creating a FlipShare Group you and you friends can access your videos from FlipShare.com and through the FlipShare Mobile. You can now comment, read and post messages on each other’s videos and Groups.

New Features for FlipShare:

• Create and manage FlipShare Groups
• Watch all your videos anywhere, anytime at FlipShare.com
• Comment on videos and read what others have posted in return
• Import contacts from your email address book
• Expanded greetings card library
• Enhanced video quality and performance for private email video sharing

The all new free FlipShare Mobile apps, make it even easier to share any mobile video or photo to Facebook, YouTube and Twitter or directly to your friends and family, with or without owning a Flip.

Features for Mobile Apps:

• Available for the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or Android – with or without owning a Flip video camera
• Share up to five mobile videos and/or photos at once to Facebook, YouTube or Twitter – or send directly to friends and family
• Post a comment, share, or “favourite” a video with the click of a button
• Built-in filters let users quickly navigate and organise their video library
• Compatible with iPhone 3G or higher, iPod touch 2nd generation or higher, iPad Requires iOS 4.0.0 or higher, and Android 1.6 or higher
• Available now at the iTunes Store and Android Market

To get their 90,000 co-workers to communicate and share knowledge Microsoft has it’s own internal YouTube meets facebook platform called Academy Mobile.

The company dishes out a Podcast-in-a-box to employees to create blogs, highlight solutions and successes in the workplace. The kit consists of a Flip Video Camera, a Zoom H4N recorder to capture better audio and a copy of Camtasia Studio for screencasts and editing the footage. Unsurprisingly iMovie or Screenflow are not in favour!   Via Reelseo

There are prizes up for grabs in the DoGooder Awards for non-profits. They have a new category: the Best Thrifty Video (videos produced for under $500), for a chance to win a $2,500 grant from the Case Foundation.

I know a lot of you guys use your Flip Cams to film at events like business conferences, product launches, birthdays, parties, and the like.

I’ve filmed some pretty big events in my time for TV shows. One big event I covered was a Wedding as Director for the BBC show ‘Don’t Tell The Bride’. It’s a hit Reality show where the Groom arranges the whole Wedding out of sight of the bride to be.

Another hectic show I made was an episode of MTV’s ‘My Supersweet 16′ where a rich teen gets the Birthday party of a lifetime.

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Check out this Video of Josh Freese performing with the Nine Inch Nails. Imagine doing that every night of a tour! Filmed on multiple Flip Video Camcorders.

Anderson Cooper and his CNN crew came under attack in Egypt, the authorities tried to grab the crews broadcast camera but ‘didn’t notice the Flip camera’.