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Mashing up YouTube and internet radio

Yesterday, during the most uninteresting lunch event of the year, I got a tip from Jourik from our colleagues at Moonboggle (did I get that right?). It's a mashup by Tim Bormans (a student) combining the playlist composition feature of LastFM with music videos from YouTube.
http://tv.timbormans.com
It's a really cool idea, imagine this in decent quality full screen video (e.g. from Google video).

I follow the internet radio scene with particular interest lately, and with a good reason. Keep an eye on this blog in the coming weeks :)

By the way Tim, if you read this, drop me a mail because I may have an opportunity for you.

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New features in YouTube ... coool

I (well, my colleague Kenneth) noticed that YouTube has some nifty new features. Start the movie below (as an example):
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVf2bUIv6FY]
At the bottom there's a Mac-style menu with related movies. You can simply navigate through all related movies ... which in this case gives a nice list of movies we (ONE Agency) have put online (and also some unrelated crap :)). At the end of the movie there's are some new features too.

UPDATE:
New features disappeared again :(

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"De Zevende Dag" about YouTube

Today I'm participating in a panel discussion on our national TV during De Zevende Dag. Watch met at 12h30 on één. The subject is YouTube, which was triggered by a movie of an NMBS controller giving somebody a fine for traveling without a valid ticket. That as such is not much of a problem, but there were two gun-shots at the end ... which is totally over the top.

They asked because I was interviewed in Het Laatste Nieuws on Saturday about the movies politicians put online in view of the upcoming elections. And that interview was the result of an article on Friday in De Morgen. Talking about a snowball effect :)

Ine made a nice roundup about 'new journalism' yesterday, ideal preparation for my 'performance' later today.

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Testing Microsoft's answer to YouTube

Microsoft (the MSN part) is testing Soapbox, a YouTube like video site. It seems to work quite fine, except for some 'stops' when looking at a video (but maybe that's my bandwidth falling short). The navigation is more intuitive then YouTube but it looks like it was designed 10 years ago, AND it has the horrible MSN-blue background ... yuck.

Access is invitation-only at this point, but syndicating movies seems to work OK. This YouTube spoof should be appropriate for the occasion:

http://images.soapbox.msn.com/flash/soapbox1_1.swf
Video: YouTube Stoners

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