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Robert Scobble: “[Verisign are demoing] a peer-to-peer system for selling and distributing high-def videos. It really rocks. I downloaded a movie while there in the booth and the quality wasn’t distinguishable from the HD-DVD’s I get from Netflix […] It made me realize why would any of us go into a Blockbuster in the future, or wait two days for a DVD to show up from Netflix.”

I recently visited a dvd authoring facility. The people there were all extremely talented and they have to be because the one thing I noticed was how incredibly complicated it is to make dvds. If you can download HD quality movies in a resonable time, I can’t see a reason for dvds.

Remember photobooths?

I mean the old ones that took 4 pictures, one at a time so you had to choose which one you looked less rubbish in. When those dissapeared from the back of supermarkets a little piece of me died. One of the greatest things about getting back to reading feeds is that I’m able to keep track of great things people are doing again.

Bre Petis has been doing some great photography projects recently including the webcam photobooths, fauxtography [with Steve Garfield], the stranger project and the self portrait cult. Bre is awesome!

Mark Chandler: “Fundamentally we wanted an open approach. We hoped our products could interoperate in the future. In our view, the network provides the basis to make this happen—it provides the foundation of innovation that allows converged devices to deliver the services that consumers want. Our goal was to take that to the next level by facilitating collaboration with Apple. And we wanted to make sure to differentiate the brands in a way that could work for both companies and not confuse people, since our products combine both web access and voice telephony. That’s it. Openness and clarity”.

How interesting to see a guy at the top of Cisco calling Apple out like this in such a public way. Will Apple respond? I dought it. They don’t have a voice on the web. Steve Jobs certainly doesn’t. I have friends inside the company, if they decide to have a voice they get fired.

In the Cluetrain Manifesto, Doc Searls has this to say about companies having a voice on the web:

“The party’s already started. You can join or not. If you don’t, your silence will be taken as arrogance, stupidity, meanness, or all three. If you’re going to join, don’t do it as a legal entity or wearing your cloak of officialdom. Join it as a person with a name, a point of view, a sense of humour, and a passion.”

…and Memeorandum shows us that people sure are talking about it.

Robert Scobble: “I’ve never seen a blog used like this”.

UCL News: Professor Mette Hjort will give a public lecture on ‘The New Danish Model for Filmmaking: A Cultural Resource for Small Nations’ next Wednesday.

Al Jazeera: “US forces, backed by helicopters, have raided the Iranian consulate’s offices in Arbil, the Kurdish capital in northern Iraq.”.

Most popular Bre Petis snaps.

Hugh McCleod: Hollywood endings.

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