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Jeff Jarvis Talks About "Exploding TV" Worth Watching....

Jeff Jarvis talks about Exploding TV at the recent VON Conference.

Yes, it runs a bit over 30 minutes.  Set aside the time.  Highly Recommended.

Interviewed at VON Spring 2007:

Jim Kertz's The Clip Show clip show is a weekly news and revew show of Podcasting videos.  Imagine something like MTV's Behind the Music or Talk Soup, but for internet television.

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Jim reviewed Cooking With Rock Stars giving it a 9 rating which includes an interview with Pete Townshend from The Who.  Oh....support The Clip Show in anyway you can....like getting their awesome T-Shirt!

View The Clip Show via Network2.tv.

Interviewed @ VON Spring 2007's Network2 Pavilion:

Like SciFi? 

You gotta see Galacticast.  Casey McKinnon is the Executive Producer of the show, and talks about her vision not only about the show, but the concept of consumer sponsorship. 

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Yup, you don't have to have a SuperBowl ad budget to sponsor Galacticast.

View Galacticast via Network2.

Interviewed @ VON Spring 2007's Network2 Pavilion:

Here is an interview with Josh Kindberg, CEO of FireAnt,  who's comapny offers a free, downloadable desktop video player.

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Watch him demonstrate watching RocketBoom on a desktop and to any portable device. 

His company even offers a private labled  skin for businesses who want to have  value added services.

Interviewed at VON Spring 2007's Network2 Pavilion:

Justin Kownacki is not only the producer of Something to be Desired, but is also a Web Video Producer and new Media Consultant.  I had a chance to visit with him at the Network2 Pavilion during VON.  Check out his blog and role in BootCamp / Pittsburg.   View

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View Something to be Desired via Network2

Interviewed @ VON Spring 2007's Network2 Pavilion:

The Future of Sex is not quite a racey as it sounds.

Melissa Gira, who produces and stars in the show.....

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What's worse than letting the workaday world get in the way of making time for sex? Letting the ways we manage our sex lives take more of our time than time spent having sex!  Melissa points to a sample Future of Sex episode where she offers up a few simple suggestions for how to best get sex done, putting some of those tricks of the self-organization-scheme fetishists out there to a hotter purpose.

View The Future of Sex via Network2.tv

Interviewed at VON Spring 2007's Network2 Pavilion:

In my old age, I hope to have enough money to live a good life.  Want a good way to make sure you have plenty of money left over to lead a good life? 

Read The Wall Street Journal, get a good financial consultant, and view WallStrip everyday.

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Though funny and entertaining, the producers of WallStrip take investing very seriously.

Sure, they spoof the likes of Jim Kramer, but behind the humor are some very smart, and experienced business people, including one of the creators of the show who in his own right, has a real hedge fund.  These guys are very serious, very smart, and are on to adding the element of humor and creative content into something I personally take very seriously- my money.

WallStrip may be viewed via Network2

Video Share Takes Real Time Video to Your Third Screen: Your Wireless Device

The phone company as we no longer know it-  AT&T, has just announced that wireless customers will soon be able to use their phones to share live video and audio of the moments in their lives with their very new and cool service that will be launched this summer, called Video Share.

Having just come back from VON and showcasing some of the artists at the Network2 pavilion, it's great timing that AT&T is now exending the idea of sharing video into my 3rd screen: the wireless device.

Video Share lets users  send a live video stream to a recipient during a standard voice call.

So, beeginning with a normal wireless phone call, you will be able to can hit one button to add a live video stream, allowing the person you are calling to see what you are seeing while you are talking.  The service also allows customers to switch the direction of the video stream during the same phone call.  Note:  you gotta be in an area served by the company’s 3G network and have a Video Share-enabled phone.

For example, a real estate agent in San Antonio could use Video Share to show prospective relocating clients an apartment in New York City. (Note to those of you in New York:  $1,000,000.00 in our city gets you more than you certainly get in Manhattan.)

While the New York agent is showing the apartment, the clients can immediately tell the agent to show them the kitchen again or scan the view outside the front window, all in real time and saving travel time and expenses in the process.

Alan's Take:

1. Teens and kids will be the biggest consumers and content producers using VideoShare

2. AT&T should offer content creators the ability the create broadcast channels, especially as serialized content develops.

3.  I would suspect that like Messaging packaging, AT&T will develop various plans based on how much video you create- and consume.  Want a great gift idea?  Give you kids the max plan they offer once the service is available.

In the near future, the company will provide information on markets where Video Share will be available and on pricing and devices.

Interviewed @ VON Spring 2007's Network2 Pavilion:

Sarah Atwood's Nontourage has a mini-sitcom called "Almost There," which is about the  realities of living and working in Hollywood.

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Glamour?  Hardly so.  Sarah makes a point of showing what it's like to be a struggling writer in hope for her big break. 

Nontourage may be viewed @ Network2.tv