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Robert Scoble wrote an excellent post, discussing his decision to leave PodTech. As you can make out from all the posts on Techmeme and the comments on a lot of the blogs, he took a lot of heat as well. However, that’s not what this post is about.

The problem with the “Web 2.0” phenomenon is that it constrains innovation by perpetuating the assumption that the web is accessed through computing devices, whether PCs or smartphones or game consoles. As broadband, storage, and computing get ever cheaper, that assumption will be rendered obsolete. The internet won’t be so much a destination as a [...]

I am a big fan of SplashCast, and not just because the company is based a couple of hours down south in Portland. The company has been on a roll lately, beginning with participation in the launch of the Facebook platform earlier this year. Recently, SplashCast released a new and improved player [...]

Adobe fights back against Microsoft in the online video market with the support for H.264 video codec on its Flash Player. H.264 format will offer a HD quality video and it is based on open standards. The update will also support a superior AAC audio codec. Microsoft recently announced Microsoft Silverlight, a cross browser, cross [...]

At Gnomedex, Gregg Spiridellis, the “Jib” in JibJab talked about how JibJab has evolved from a low volume, high risk content creation company, to a platform that enables the long tail of content creation and distribution. They recently launched Starring You, which allows users to create their own content on top of storylines/shorts created [...]

Today I had the pleasure of chatting with Robert Scoble (and many others) on his Kyte channel. Previously I had wondered where Kyte would fit into the grand scheme of things, but after the last couple of days, I agree with Scoble; Kyte is very disruptive. The fact that you can embed your [...]

Not the usual fare on TechBizMedia, but too good to pass up. Om Malik is an idol of ours. From his roots in India, to his quality as a journalist and blogger, one could say that TechBizMedia owes its existence to Om. So it’s good to see that he will now have [...]

Fascinating story in Wired about a hand-written paper facing a digital future. Many people I know from South Asia appreciate the beauty of Urdu calligraphy, even if most of us cannot understand it. The story highlights one of the challenges facing us as we move into an increasingly digital world. The story showed [...]

Over the past week, I have been playing with kyte.tv, which could be labeled as a personal video publishing platform. How do the folks at kyte describe their efforts?

As recently as six months ago, I barely consumed any internet video, with the exception of tech talks on Google Video. What a difference six months makes. Today I watch at least some video every day, usually news sites like Beet.tv or some form of science/technology discussion (most of which I capture via [...]