<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">The commercially orientated XMedia Lab held a conference in (Melbourne) in August on “DIY TV”: Video, UGC, Mobile and IP TV content and services. http://<a href="http://www.xmedialab.com/drupal/?q=node/16">www.xmedialab.com/drupal/?q=node/16</a> The key notes from international guests are available on video <a href="http://www.adikted.tv/tech/x-media-lab/show/315588564/">http://www.adikted.tv/tech/x-media-lab/show/315588564/</a></span></font><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">The focus tended to be mainly around online video with some consistent themes emerging across the keynotes. User generated content featured in most of the presentations along with the objective to attach advertising to video in as many ways as possible. Also, almost every speaker saw YouTube as being a centralised repository of video that cannot be matched. Therefore strategies included setting up publishing mechanisms that distribute video content out to as many major platforms as possible with the idea of trying to pick up return traffic. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">There is a lot of funding being put towards elaborate online video players and social viewing platforms. My notes on these on my blog:</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/2008/08/05/abc-multiplatform/">http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/2008/08/05/abc-multiplatform/</a> (ABC iview player)</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/2008/08/04/american-fim-institute/">http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/2008/08/04/american-fim-institute/</a></span></font></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">The Kangaroo Project in the UK - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_(video_on_demand)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_(video_on_demand)</a></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/2008/08/05/view2together/">http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/2008/08/05/view2together/</a></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; 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