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Tim O'Reilly's response to Andrew Keen and 'the cult of the amateur'

Great video from adders from the web 2.0 expo in Berlin of Tim O'Reilly's response to the question 'what do you make of Andrew Keen'

Tim O'Reilly on Andrew Keen from Adam Tinworth on Vimeo.

An anthropological introduction to YouTube

A really excellent and fun video on the ethnography of YouTube
from Michael Wesh who apparently is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University.

His original machine is using us video:

From: Johnnie Moore's blog

Why Social Media is like ice cream

Following on from U.A.Tea and cake we bring you more food and technology combinations.

A great video of Social Media in Plain English from Common Craft explaining why Social Media is just like ice cream.





Social Media in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.

Cooking with farmers weekly

Excellent, Farmers Weekly Interactive have just started a series of cookery videos....

Create your own online video station with feedbeat

I've collated some RSS and Widget videos together in one place here and I'll keep adding new videos to the list as I find them.

It's pretty easy to set up your own station with feedbeat and means that you can pull content from multiple sources including YouTube.

So far all the videos are from Youtube though so perhaps I should have just pulled together a collection there.

Worth a try for yourself.

Chad Hurley from YouTube presents to the US congress

Picked up from Scoble a very interesting video of Chad Hurley (the CEO and one of the co-founders of YouTube) presenting to the US congress on the subject of online video.

I wonder if Chad imagined some few years ago as a startup that he would one day end up talking to congress?

Chad states 3 objectives of YouTube as;

- Promoting community
- Advancing democracy and
- Driving economic growth

Although they sound like quite grand ambitions he has some pretty powerful use cases to back that up. Chad used his opportunity in front of congress to promote the idea of an open internet.

The future of online video? According to Chad;

1) More originally created content
2) A critical mass of content from small providers
3) Empowering users to create and consume media in different ways
4) Enhance understanding between different countries through the power of video!

Microsoft launches silverlight

Lots of positive reaction from the likes of scoble and techcrunch yesterday from the Mix 07 conference on the launch of Microsoft's silverlight cross platform solution for online video and multimedia. Basically a competitor to Adobe flash.

After downloading the plug-in for firefox (yes,  Microsoft is supporting all browsers) I tried this demo. The resolution looks pretty amazing.

Great to see a competitor emerging to flash.

One day will all our TV and video be via RSS

I liked this article on New TeeVee about delivering Video via RSS directly to Itunes.

It got me thinking that I would love to be able to subscribe to all the online channels and TV shows that I like and just subscribe to the programs that I want to watch.

It might just happen.