TasteTV, a leading online and video on-demand food, wine and lifestyle television network, has announced that it is accepting viewer nominations for its newest program, Sexy Chefs.

The Sexy Chefs program will feature profiles of chefs nominated online. The chefs can be located in any city, any state, or any country. The Sexy Chef Award will be included as part of the program. Any visitor to the site can nominate chefs, as well as TasteTV’s community of Tastemakers, Tastesetters, and Taste Producers.

TasteTV’s city-based restaurant and food coverage has been expanding nationally from Northern California cities like San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, Santa Cruz and San Jose to include Chicago, Las Vegas, Seattle, Miami and Los Angeles. This expansion includes both its Chocolate Television program and the Million Dollar Dinner brand.

In addition to Sexy Chefs, the firm is developing new programs from its cookbook/travelguide, “Chocolate French, 2nd Edition,” and its business/relationship how-to, “Everything I Know about Dating I Learned in Business School.”

FUSA Capital Corporation today announced an updated video podcast directory at www.searchforvideo.com.

Searchforvideo.com organizes the most popular video podcasts into various categories including news, sports, comedy, technology, music, television and animation. Each category provides information about the video podcast publisher and one click access to subscribe to the video podcast or one click access to the video podcast publishers website.

For up and coming video podcast publishers, information about their podcasts may be submitted for inclusion in the searchforvideo.com video podcast directory. The service is free and intended to offer another online channel for video podcast publishers to increase viewership and build audience

MTV is looking for webcam stars to be on TRL:

Have you ever dreamt about being on TRL but can’t get to New York for the show?
Attention all TRL fans! Do you think you have what it takes to be a part of the hypest audience around? Now is your chance! TRL is looking for fun, outgoing fans to talk to some of the biggest names in music like Diddy, Nelly Furtado, The Killers, Ludacris, Jesse McCartney and many more… from the comfort of your computer. If you have a webcam, and want a chance to be a part of the TRL action email us at TRLWebcam@mtv.com, ASAP with the following info:
o Name: o Age: o Phone Number: o Attach a recent picture

Nine lucky fans will get a chance to be on the show via webcam. Must be outgoing, must have a webcam, and a computer with at least 1 GHz processor.

MTV doesn’t mentions this - but we expect it would help if you are a babe or a hunk.

via MTV

Leif Harmsen has directed a cool short film in the style of the Geoffrio Reggio classic, Koyaanisqatsi.

The soundtrack is even an homage to Philip Glass.

According to the director, “I directed TORAANISQATSI (5 min, 2006) by invitation to Splice This! 2005’s “Remake” programme where it received a standing ovation. After seeing the film there, Bob Wiseman then composed and performed the amazing original soundtrack. The 5 minute environmental epic is my remake of Koyaanisqatsi, shot entirely in Toronto, Canada on Super 8 film.”

The New York Times reports that Frito-Lay and Chevrolet are planning contests to capitalize on the buzz surrounding user-generated video:

Frito-Lay and Chevrolet, looking to capitalize on the buzz created by user-generated content, are holding ad-making contests, with winners getting money and prizes and their spots used as part of Super Bowl XLI campaigns. Some of the spots will also appear online, giving them a chance to be spread around the Internet virally.In addition, the National Football League expects to announce rules for its own ad contest in the next month.

The Super Bowl spots, unlike some other recent online user-involvement campaigns, will be heavily vetted by the companies and their ad agencies. Frito-Lay will allow consumers to vote for which advertisement should be shown, from five finalists the company will choose. Chevrolet and its ad firm will choose which ad idea to use themselves.

“In both cases, it’s a very tight grip,” said Drew Neisser, president and chief executive of the Renegade Marketing Group, a marketing firm based in New York that is affiliated with Dentsu. Frito-Lay and Chevrolet “are reserving judgment because they have a brand to protect.”

Let’s hope LonelyGirl15 doesn’t reveal her cultish Frito fetish in Danielbeast’s new Chevy.