YouTube has rolled out a new experimental layout for its mobile users which is now available to view as manual opt-in. Once enabled, the new YouTube layout design provides a darker colour palette that show video against dark backgrounds together with white navigation icons on a dark background.

After finally launching back in the US a few months ago Spotify has now made its service available through Facebook allowing you to link your Facebook and Spotify accounts making it even easy to share the music you have listened to with your friends.

CVPCS, has this week announced that they have been able to compile a working pre-Alpha version of VLC media player for Android devices. VLC is an open source media player which is already available on Windows, Macs, iOS devices and has been designed to enable you to watch virtually any video format.

A new Chrome extension created by Conceptboard has been developed using the recently released Google+ Beta Hangout API, to allow you to add whiteboard functionality within Google+

Twitter has announced two new developer events, which will focus on the integration of Twitter into the latest version of Apple’s mobile OS, iOS 5, the first event will be held in London on the 10th of October and the second in New York on the 12th of October.

One of the biggest technology stories over the last few weeks has been the removal of Michael Arrington from Tech Crunch by AOL, after Arrington announced he was launching his own venture capital fund, and now he has another new venture, Uncrunched.