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.

In his post, Robert writes

I’m also seeing significant changes to how you all interact with each other. Over the past year we’ve seen Twitter, Facebook, Kyte, Seesmic, Ustream, Justin.tv, Pownce, Jaiku, and quite a few other technologies get popular.

This interview with Mogulus’ CEO and Chris Pirillo’s pioneering efforts with his own live TV channel played a key role in getting me to see that there’s a new kind of TV channel possible — one that’s participatory instead of one-way — and one that would be very low cost and potentially have high revenue possibilities compared to the cost.

In recent months I have come to believe that video is going to make a huge impact on the future of communication via the web. While Kyte.tv was a big reason for that realization, by making me realize that video can be a conversation, not a one way discussion, there is no denying the influence of Chris Pirillo. While not all of us can do what Chris does, his ability to use video as a two-way medium and incorporate into his brand has been fascinating to watch. Incorporating video into blogs also generates a wonderful conversation in the context of other material, something I have been exploring myself.

With h.264 support in flash and increasing support for HD video, advanced solutions like Mogulus, and fun ones like Seesmic, ones gets the feeling that 2008 is going to be the year of video. Are we going to see the tipping point next year? The year after? What do you think?

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