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We are thrilled to welcome long-time friend of the program and award-winning filmmaker, Daniel Stedman, to the AOL Artists Guest Curator series! His collection of canvases on the AOL Artists site features work from artists Cate Parr, Dave White, Matt Moore, Megan Whitmarsh and Tim Gough.

In addition to being an AOL Artists guest curator, Daniel Stedman is also the founder of The Northside Media Group, which publishes Brooklyn Magazine, The L Magazine, BAMbill, and organizes the Northside Festival, SummerScreen in McCarren Park, Taste Talks and Northside Creative Group. Daniel can also add award-winning filmmaker to his resume with ten short films under his belt, including "Celebration," which won the Teddy Award at the Berlin International Film Festival.

The AOL Artists Guest Curator program rotates on a monthly basis and invites influencers working in the arts to curate a collection of existing AOL canvases, lend their voice to our Tumblr page and takeover the AOL Artists Twitter account. Past curators have included Annie Werner, Arts Evangelist for Tumblr, and Kathleen Massara, editor for HuffPost Arts.

To view Daniel Stedman's collection and the rest of the guest curator series visit the AOL Artists site!

The Huffington Post Media Group launched HuffPost Live, the site's live streaming network, and starting today, anyone with a smart phone, a tablet, or a webcam can instantly join the conversation happening on HuffPost Live.

On HuffPost Live, users' voices can be heard on the issues that matter most to them, right along with the network's other guests, including newsmakers, celebrities, pundits and experts. HuffPost Live operates out of studios in New York and Los Angeles, with a satellite studio operating out of HuffPost's Washington, D.C. bureau. HuffPost Live will live-stream 12 hours of programming, five days a week, with highlights shown overnight and on the weekends.

At launch, HuffPost Live's host/producers include Marc Lamont Hill, Abby Huntsman, Alicia Menendez, Alyona Minkovski, Nancy Redd, Mike Sacks, Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, Jacob Soboroff, Janet Varney and Josh Zepps.

This innovative new launch is supported by our founding partners at Cadillac and Verizon. Throughout 2012, both these partners will enjoy the opportunity to be directly integrated into the live programming as well as the in the surrounding media across platforms, and syndicated across AOL brands.

Follow HuffPost Live on Facebook (Facebook.com/HuffPostLive) and on Twitter @HuffPostLive. Watch HuffPost Live now at live.huffingtonpost.com.

Our friends on the AOL Mail team today unveiled the new AOL Mail. They've been working all year on this roll out, which provides a cleaner, more modern mail, SMS, and AIM experience, and as of this week, every AOL Mail user is now using the same great new mailbox. The team has posted a great article that will help new and old users find their way around the new look, sharing some tips and tricks to help users get the most from their mailbox.

.@AOLMail Gets a Fresh Look aol.it/Mo87yj

- AOL PR (@AOLPR) July 26, 2012

Goviral was sponsor this week of the Internet Advertising Bureau UK Great British Social Media Festival, which attracted a sold-out crowd in East London. Mads Holmen, goviral Planning Director, spoke to delegates at the annual event, designed to inform and educate about the importance of a robust, well-thought out, relevant social media strategy through new case studies, research and first-hand insights.

Mads' presentation, 'Engaging Generation Social,' was well received and sent Twitter wild. He discussed the prominence of social media, with the social generation forecast to become the biggest consumer group on the planet by 2015. Mads also discussed how the role of advertising will adapt to engage, impact and give generation social a reason to be receptive. Representatives from Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Samsung were also on hand at the event.

Learn more about Goviral and its video offerings here and read about more social insights Mads presented at Social Media Week in February.