http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/132/fast-talk-next-generation-remote-control.html

Comedy, Sexy and Sex Comedy this week

1. videos of saturday night live
2. kathy griffin
3. watch def comedy jam videos
4. watch free the girls of the playboy mansion
5. delicious of flavor' of love sex tape

Open Web Award blog partners response to our win over YouTube ranges from

• the quizzical
  

  Of interest YouTube came second for video, how weird is that?

• to the thoughtful
  

  FFWD- People’s Choice for Video Sharing. Why I like it: Quick and easy video management and syndication.

• to outright enthusiasm
  

  FFWD is the best video sharing network which gathers the best videos on the web, it’s cool that youtube didn’t get the 1st place.

I think the controversy arises because it's difficult to imagine why the lifestream world needs better video sharing without seeing it. So I've compiled these screen shoots to illustrate the difference. I've used friendfeed because it is complimented for handling media (like videos) better than other lifestreams (uh yes, unpublicized feature ffwd can be integrated with freindfeed and soon Facebook), so the gap I'm about to show ffwd fills is even bigger with relation to a more barebones service like Twitter.

The actual lifestream entry...

without ffwd

with ffwd

ffwd advantages are: bigger thumbnail, title not prefaced by unnecessary source site information

These are cosmetic issues and I believe when you use friendfeed's bookmarklet the resulting post looks more like the ffwd post. However, there is something to mention about the bookmarklets that is illustrative of why you might need both: friendfeed's is for sharing anything to friendfeed, ffwd's is for sharing videos to anywhere. I use the ffwd bookmarklet to share a video simultaneously to friends-on-email and Twitter and Friendfeed and Facebook (not available outside of the labs yet). Whereas the Friendfeed bookmarklet is more about who you are sharing to namely your Friendfeed subscribers and the conversation with them, The ffwd bookmarklet about the videos I'm sharing and others watching them.

This focus on watching the videos recommended by a person is reflected in the UI. When you link through Twitter to a video on YouTube, you reach a page like this:

Whereas the page you would reach if you used ffwd is:

ffwd Advantages are: a landing page all about you - your thoughts, favorites, personality, etc, where you as curator is recognized as the "source" of the recommendation rather than the site that simply hosts the video.

Even the ffwd button has been infused with the essence of you. It will guide the visitors exploration through previous videos you have shared, and videos from channels you subscribe to. It's like you had your own web TV station.

The last benefit is primarily for your followers. Instead of a nondescript TinyURL, the ffwd share bookmarklet posts a URL that explicitly indicates that the content is a video. It's a simple thing, but a key UI optimization when you are dealing with only 160 characters.

In summary, the ffwd bookmarklet optimizes sharing video on Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook or any lifestream (just let us know which ones) by making it easy for followers to recognize your video recommendations and watch them. Please read more, install the bookmarklet and Twitter connect (you'll need an ffwd account) or see it in action.

A week dominated by off-air and foreign shows. Interesting that people no longer assume that something isn't available and at least try to find it and in these cases they found it and more!

cosby show

videos of laverne and shirley

kashmiri comody

steven king gramma

the mighty boosh video

ffwd closes the loop between what a consumer wants to watch and where they want to watch it

San Francisco, CA – January 6, 2009 – ffwd (pronounced “fast forward”), the company empowering tens of thousands of consumers with a revolutionary personal remote control for channel-surfing video on the web, today announced that it is releasing an application programming interface (API) to aide in delivering ffwd’s award-winning adaptive channel intelligence to any web-enabled video device, including living room and mobile hardware, and within the manfacturers existing user experience. Groundbreaking open source media center Boxee plans to use the API to integrate ffwd into forthcoming versions of their products.

The ffwd developer API tools will provide standards-based methods of interacting with the ffwd service including:
•    making requests from the ffwd site using a standard XML-based protocol;
•    linking ffwd accounts directly into other applications, widgets and mashups;
•    and, getting live updates on what people are watching on ffwd.

The announcement comes right off the heels of another significant ffwd enhancement to the media service designed to reflect a user’s lifestream:  the ability to post videos found on any website directly to Twitter using a bookmarklet, as well as make posted videos available as passive recommendations in a Twitter-like stream on the users’s ffwd channel page.

“Building upon our vision to be the connector, or glue, for the  entertainment ecosystem, ffwd channels now have the potential to drive a truly ubiquitous experience that is accurate, relevant and consistent over social networks, living room hardware and mobile devices,” said Patrick Koppula, CEO of ffwd. “We make it possible for individual developers to access programming functions, and even apply them at the level of a single viewer – something that used to require a staff of hundreds to do.”

Licensing fees for the ffwd API have yet to be set. Developers interested in the ffwd platform can apply for free limited-time access to the API and read about ways to use it at http://www.ffwd.com/developers.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/06/ffwds-web-channel-surfing-api-goes-live-is-coming-to-boxee/

Happy New Year. Here's our little slice of how the world got started

what channel is homicide life on the streets on

inuyasha episode 83

afv animal videos

watch ren and stimpy space madness

download two and a half men episode

Average viewing time for these channel sessions was 1 hour 7 minutes.

If it were a rumor, I would rank an iSight HD pretty low on Gizmodo's Macworld 2009 rumor likeliness scale. Still, the other predictions are so incremental as to be begging for a "one more thing" so out of left field as a competitor to the Flip but with better onboard software and integration with iMovie. Even if it doesn't happen at MacWorld or later in 2009, a PVC (pocket video cam, personal video camera) is likely to come out of Apple's product process for many of the same reasons the iPod did. Here are some hallmarks:

• Apple goes after quickly growing hardware markets where it has the best software (iTunes for the DAP market and iMovie for the PVC market)
• Apple thrives on hardware design opportunities that "unlock" an entire ecosystem
  
• What Sony miniaturizes, Apple mass markets (update: Sony tried to buy Flip, releasing direct competitor in 2009)
• What Creative Labs's refines, Apple revolutionizes

If you have any doubt remaining let me offer some standalone reasons

• if the new Mac Mini rumors are true (full HD), it needs iSight HD as a companion to allow living room to living room iChat (I already do this with my brother whose TV is on an old Mac Mini and an old iSight)
• the original iSight was on it's way to being a hit and only got pulled because it violated European environmental protections
• it's another "take the Mac experience with you" opportunity to capture otherwise PC users
• What a great way to try to sell Me.com, again.
• Steve wants one, I know he does. He has kids!

(Final note: what I'm predicting is very different from from previous, scattered rumors of a HD update to built in iSight or that only works when connected to the computer. That previously spotted bit of code probably referred to the mid-2007 upgrade of built-in iSights to 1.3 megapixels (enough to do HD), even though most software (iChat, iMovie) wouldn't take advanatage of it What I'm proposing is new standalone device under the iSight brand that would be similar to the Flip HD but could also serve as a webcam.)

Now here is the funny thing: It all seems so logically obvious in retrospect, but that's not how I arrived at this insight. I've been thinking about buying a Flip HD and was abou to look for post-Christmas discounts when I was surprised to have the thought, "MacWorld is this week, maybe better to wait and see". I had a moment of pause because, I thought it likely enough that Apple would release a version of a product I wanted. Wow, I'm whipped.