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Web 2.0 Expo

wmseto | 26 April, 2008 06:07

I was in Web 2.0 Expo for 3 days, working... The expo was held in Moscone West, San Francisco.  I didn't have time to walk around until the last day of the conference and took some snap shots while I was walking around. The usual conference suspects were there, IBM, Google, Micoroft, Nokia, Oracle, Sun, Yahoo and etc (sorry if I didn't name your compies here). I would say the expo was developer focus. Companies showed of thier platforms, APIs, out-source services. Though some of the hip/hot compaies like Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter were no were to be found. I was hoping to see them there... Then for small startups, they probably didn't think sharing their secrets/products in such expo/conference would help thier business, because the conference was not for consumers.

Plus, isn't Silicon Valley itself already a big Web 2.0 expo?  Whlie many of them already live in the "expo" everyday, why relive it again? Laughing Just a thought...

Nokia this time around had shown off its Internet Tablet, Map 2.0 service, Ovi share, Mobile Search, N-Gage, Web Run-time, Widsets... The main theme was "Share more. Experience more." Well, as you can see from the booth picture below.

If you want to look at some of the prestnations, follow this link to Slideshare.net

Pictures from tagged with Web2Expo08 @ flickr are here. Pictures of Fake Steve Jobs, Sun's CEO Jonathan Schwartz, Tim O'Reilly, Marc Andreessen etc...

Oh, and here is another article on Fake Steve Jobs, here... 

Reported by the Symbian-freak.com Plusmo announced widgets for S60 devices, here. 

If you want more details, why don't you do a search yourself. Tongue out

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Flickr Adds Video Support

KevinKo7 | 14 April, 2008 10:42

Probably many of you have heard by now about Flickr adding support for video uploads, here are my thoughts on the new feature. First off some interesting facts, Flickr chose to put some restrictions on the Video uploads to begin with:
- Max filesize upload 150 MB
- Max length of video 90 seconds
- Only Pro accounts can upload videos

I have a Flickr Pro account that I use to upload many of my photos, I feel like videos are a welcome addition as long as it does not disturb the photo sharing part of Flickr. In general I'm not sure what I think about Flickr adding video support we'll see how it works as time goes on, but I did find the restrictions they imposed an interesting approach to video sharing. The restrictions certainly encourage video editing to make sure the videos are no longer than 90 seconds and to keep the interesting part of the video quickly accessible for the viewer, it saves on bandwidth costs for Flickr streaming all of those videos, it saves on storage costs for Flickr having to save all of the uploaded videos, also it definitely cuts down on the likelihood of members uploading TV shows and/or movies that they do not have permission to upload.

I think it's understandable for them to limit it to Pro accounts for 2 reasons:
1. It is a new feature and they have a huge user base. Generally rolling out new features can cause problems to the existing system, so limiting it to the Pro users first in a Beta phase for the paying members makes sense. Whether they will open up video uploading to Free users in the future or not I don't know.
2. Looking at the monetary side of things, Flickr might keep the video feature Pro only and thus use the new Video feature as a way of encouraging new Pro Account purchases.

Check Flickr's Blog for more details on the new video support http://blog.flickr.net/en/2008/04/09/video-on-flickr-2/

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