NY Video 2.0: My impressions

First of all: It was my third time participating this Meetup, and again I was impressed by how many people attended. Yaron is a perfect host, thanks a lot for organizing this.

Regarding the presentations. My expectations are a little different from what I saw today. I stopped watching TV (following a song of RHCP: Throw away your television) years ago for three reasons:

1. I was bored by the programme
2. I was even more bored by the advertising
3. I felt a was a perfect waste of time

And I believe that's true for many others, too.

The Internet, and especially web2.0, the read/write web, seems to be different and I find it worth spending time there, because you can participate. So I wonder why lots of the Start Ups have tv in their name and focus a lot on transferring the old (advertising) and new (HD) TV world to the web. Even if I found the advertising approach of Adotube funny at the first moment, I'm sure that I would get bored and annoyed when I had to watch strange comic-like ads laying OVER the movie I'm about to enjoy. Could not imagine anybody being happy with it.

I liked the high quality of Vusions video distribution solution, but most of the User Generated Content would not need HD, because it's produced in a way that there's no need to dramatically improve the delivery technology. Quality was impressive, so it could be an big improvement for the distribution professionally produced content - depending on the price per minute.

BestTV's product offers a video management solution for design companies with little experience in video technology to enable them to quickly launch a professional platform for their customers. 

I really liked the idea of Magnify.Net. Their plug-in to increase multimedia blogging is not revolutionary, but I think an good step forward to help bloggers to make multimedia publishing way more convenient, so I'm looking forward to activate my WP blog and try it there.

I also liked the presentation of EkkoTV a lot. They presented an aggregation of all major IM, chat, youtube and up to five video-chat in one window. Since my interest is mostly in learning and communication, I'd love to learn more about their approach and have some conversation about how we can use a service like this in corporate intranets to connect employees or bring small learning teams together to prepare presentations or work on tasks cooperatively.

Overall, a lot of great ideas, people and presentations.