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Just played with the new Peerbox application version 0.95. I must say very impressed with the work they did. Very rich application with many options. A very complete library of music. The videos are still brand videos. Easy upload function. Ringtones download. Only strange thing is they say it will cost me 2,20 euro to download a song(ringtones aswell). Have no idea how they organised the billing. I downloaded The Scientist from Coldplay(yeahh) and expected a premium sms..NOTHING. Thumbs up for the effort of creating a user friendly and fast app. Now let’s wait until we have a nice business case..

Have a look at the screenshots..

Yesterday, we were The Venice Project™. Today, we’re Joost™. Tomorrow, we’re yours! Imagine having infinite choice, and TV that is truly interactive. TV anywhere, anytime…

Joost™ is a new way to watch TV, free of the schedules and restrictions that come with traditional television. Combining the best of TV with the best of the internet, Joost™ gives you more control and freedom than ever before - control over what you watch, and freedom to watch it whenever you like. We’re providing a platform for the best television content on the planet - a platform that will bring you the biggest and best shows from the TV studios, as well as the specialist programs created by professionals and enthusiasts. It’s all overlaid with a raft of nifty features that help you find the shows you love, watch and chat with friends, and even create your own TV channels.

Wow.. I just saw how I will watch TV in the future..

I love the interface(see the preview post).

The channel switching(hear Bill Gates at Scobleizer) is acceptable to me(3 sec).

The Plugins are great: You can add IM from Google or Jabber, RSS feeds, channelchat and votes

I have somehow the feeling The Venice Project is more legit than I expected. With other words, I expected a “Grey App”(between legal and illegal) but it looks they choose the “clean path”.

So the P2P part is very limited. I haven’t seen any way to “upload” content or to create my own channel.

Strong focus on music. Looks like MTV is a partner..

Can’t help thinking that it is JUST a “distribution of content platform”. One of the many(in the end).

Looks like the disruptive movement of TV will not be kickstarted by one product(like Skype and Kazaa/Napster did) but it is more an industry movement(evolution).

Some early feedback:

Make the preview icons bigger(or let me choose resolution of metadata).

Make a PC/laptop variant and a TV variant. Both need their own interface.

Create a communication platform for Preview Orientation: I need to know more about the shows. I need recommenders, forum, comments, preview, trailers. Now I directly need to go to the content and start to ZAP. This confronts me with the choice dilemma. The current set-up freezes me up. Zapping through the channels on the Venice Project is not as efficient as on “normal TV”. Somehow zapping looks not be the best way to orientate the supply of TV content. Such a communication platform would enrich the total product alot. It will create value on top of the distribution function(tough competition market).

Probably soon more..

At Brightlive you had the opportunity to start a conversation. This conversation is than translated into text which is displayed on a wall. The VTT machine makes some mistakes.. The result on the wall is new material to start new conversations (or continuing the original one). So what if you would do this with a mobile connection?

Project from O.K. Parking

Hi, Just finished watching a clip of Gemma on YouTube.. Gemma is a new character which popped up like a month ago.. In the beginning she reacted on posts of Bree(Lonelygirl15).

Heee…but what is happening now??? Lonelygirl goes outside and Gemma starts to see people watching Bree(lonely girl). Gemma is doing research about secret societies and a new order(that speaks Egyptian). MYSTERIOUS!!!!!
Seeing these developments I am sure that lonelygirl is going to be on the run and that Gemma is going to help her(through videomessages) to uncover the mysterious truth about something we don’t know yet. Involving the New World Order. Lonelygirl will probably travel over the whole world and piece by piece the mystery will be unraveled.

If they(the makers) have decided to go in this direction. The direction of a thriller/mystery storyline with multiple characters it might become even for me interesting to watch. Well at least it is a very new way of ‘telling’ a movie/soap/series.

Bytheway is their a word for user generated moviesoap made out of clips from different characters and distributed through potentially different means of media(they have MySpace account now aswell)???

Below the storyline sofar…

Gemma suddenly brings some information about The Order that speaks ancient Egyptian:

Gemma sees man in video of Lonelygirl:

Gemma sees symbol referring to knights and New World Order

Bree is fleeing from the watcher(enhanced with music..also new)

Everybody saw the first video of Eepybird(Mentos-cola).. Now Eepybird is building a complete new business model around these clips together with Google.. Free distribution and earning money on advertising together with Google(Google Sponsored Videoprogram). So much fun to see independent “producers” create revenue through free distribution of content.. More and more I love the no cure no pay type of business model UGC creates. Go and visit Eepybird instead of going to watch the clip on YouTube or GoogleVideo..

This is user generated content!!!! Great.. Very inspirational and shows what you can do with videoblogging and Google Maps API.

These guys are hitchhiking to all 50 state capitals in 50 days or less. Their position will be updated on a Google Map every 15 seconds, as well as geocoded photos, podcasts and videos. The cool thing about this project is that it’s all built using off-the-shelf technology - in particular a $50 GPS enabled phone. Drop by and offer them a ride..

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