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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 […]

Rebooting Java Media, Part III: Conclusion - O’Reilly ONJava Blog
Chris Adamson has put together a nice 3 part series of posts that explore the state of media support in Java. Long has this been a point of frustration for me and many of my colleagues (we tend to use QuickTime for Java but that […]

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 […]