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3DSwym - also creators of TVnima. Upload your photo and it creates an avatar of you…then you can create your own virtual TV show importing all sorts of media- and then you export it as a video….mmm neat technology, but not quite convinced by that particular use of it. See more here.

Magwerk - Michael Maier demonstrates his People Magazine digital magazine. As digital magazines go..it’s very nice..feels a little more organic than Ceros Media’s solution for Monkey between that and some of their work is here

Skinkers - we know this one, don’t we? Ah..but LiveStation the result of their tie up with Microsoft. The aim is to be the equivalent of a satellite station for broadcasters..but over IP. (Read more here). Basically lets you have a broadcast stream of TV on your desktop, initial focus is on news…very, very neat..for people to keep running in the corner of their screen - works in Silverlight.

Wixi Object of some not inconsiderable Web 2.0 hype Now, I love this - just not sure how it’s going to compete with varoius other virtual desktops, photobucket, box.net etc. I think I might be too old. But I like it as a tool for showing off my wares onto social networks..See it here (still in beta)

Vpod.tv A very nice platform for ideo - seems to be having some success in selling to brands/ corporations and smaller media owners. They’ve also launched full screen online TV. Introducing Overlayz ads on their video streams. More here

Seesmic LoicLemur shows off his new venture - ‘a cnn of my friends’ - a video-twitter..which does to youtube what twitter has done to blogging..(read more here). Complete with youtube channel.

I don’t know whether this is legit or not (probably the latter), but all three episodes Adam Curtis’s excellent The Trap are on Google Video. Paul Robinson says he’s half way through a transcript, and here is a synopsis of the first episode.

NewTeeVee picks up on some research by Millward Brown which shows that recall of ads shown in TV programmes online is much higher than when shown on a TV or through a DVR. This sounds rather exciting, until you read the final bit of the release.

All platforms tested had positive impact, but the results show a higher level of engagement among the online viewers — leading to increased communications awareness, brand favorability and consideration. This is supported by the fact that online viewers were 53 percent more likely to pay attention to the ads during commercial breaks versus live TV viewers. Time-shifted viewers were 30 percent less likely to pay attention to the ads than live TV viewers. The study also shows that ad recall was four times higher among viewers of the online format versus recall of live or time-shifted viewers. This in large part reflects that the online ad format shows the same ad (and only that ad) three to six times during the course of a program. Ads on network TV are shown once, within a pod of several commercials, and there are several commercial pods during a single program.

OK - so much higher recall because, errr..they saw the ad three to six times! Amazing. Who would have thought it. Oh, well - at least it wasn’t lower recall.

Public.tv from TenAlps has launched - with it’s mission to be the YouTube of the Public Sector.
Fascinating to see the public sector sources of video. I never realised, for example, that the Food Standards Agency makes its board meetings available to be viewed online. Not quite sure who is going to watch it..but good to know it’s there.