Redesigned Howcast site offer comprehensive how-to videos. May 19, 2012 — -- Darlene Liebman holds up her neon-orange painted fingernails and points to her second finger. "See," she says, "It's ...

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 ...

Almost 3 million people clicked on a YouTube video showing viewers how to moonwalk like Michael Jackson. More than a million have checked out how to make a fireball in the past two months. And more ...

Of all the "next-generation video network"-type startups, one of the most promising is NYC-based Howcast, which was started by a group of ex-Googlers in 2007. Howcast produces, aggregates, and ...

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 ...

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 ...