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YouTube - Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us

Can we make this video searchable, linkable, machine readable? Unfortunately, not yet.. Hopefully soon.

Over at Shelly Palmer’s blog I wrote a comment in response to his thoughts on a recent Google presentation where it was noted that kids and teenagers weren’t consuming YouTube as much as previously assumed. He discussed some possible alternatives (video games, comic books, Long Tail) but missed one very important point. (I […]

It is too hard to share.
When video is consumed in a web browser, the URL is always there, always available and easy to email.
After all, although we watch might watch these videos in isolation, we consume them in groups. It is a social activity.

Recently, I had a chance to discuss what online video might look like in the next 10 years with a group of very smart people at the Video on the Net: Beyond YouTube? breakout session at the Beyond Broadcast conference.
There are those who beleive that the video internet is currently going through it’s growth spurt […]

First of all, major kudos to Steve Schultze and the rest of the folks that took on the organizing this year. Great job!
Some other things I knew but was reminded of regarding events and conferences of this sort:
1: It is much better to be a participant (audience member) than organizer just for the fact […]

Beyond Broadcast, a conference that I was involved in organizing last year is happening again this year. It is coming on the heels of the Integrated Media Association’s Public Media Conference in Boston which is definitely a good time to have it.
Last year was great (despite the rain) with a series of fantastic talks […]

Tom Vilsack has posted a video on YouTube that is his first foray into “videoblogging”. He definitely has someone knowledgeable advising him as he says the right things, encourages conversation and wants to hear from us. Good deal.. Let’s see if he follows through.
Tom Vilsack on using the Internet and Videoblog

Interactive Tele-Journalism
So.. I have finally released ITJ on SourceForge.net.
With support from Konscious and Manhattan Neighborhood Network we have packaged and uploaded the latest version and it can be downloaded at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/itv-ism/.

Pheeder

“Pheeder is a whole new way of using your cellphone: it lets you communicate with all of your friends simultaneously, with a single phone call. To use it, you just call Pheeder, leave a message and hang up. Seconds later all of your friends, or anyone you want, receives the message at the very same […]

Yahoo, Microsoft IM Beta Joined at The Hip
Definitely a good thing. Perhaps a standard will emerge.. Nah.. That is just hopeful thinking. Besides, I would rather Jabber was the standard.