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Metarand Unplugged: Seesmic’s Loic Le Meur On Platforms, Hollywood, Twhirl And Opening Up

Seesmic has quietly moved out of invite-only status as the video conversation startup has busied itself integrating its recent acquisition Twhirl into its platform play.

In this session of Metarand Unplugged we also explore the social media landscape with Loic Le Meur, Seesmic’s founder, and talk about open APIs, Hollywood and whether the G-spot exists.

Loic is pictured here on the right with Michael Arrington and Robert Scoble.

Stream the Session in Quicktime:

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Stream the Session as an mp3:

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Tags: Loic Le Meur, Seesmic

Animoto Moves To Monetize Personalized Video

Animoto, a New York-based user-generated video creation tool company, has added features to its web app that will allow for the sale of DVDs or DVD-quality formatted video from the Animoto website.

An increasingly popular way of creating highly personalized, professional quality videos from a users own photos and music, Animoto is built on a Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology that emulates the thought processes of a director and an editor with respect to post-production skills.

This technology takes into account the full gamut of features in a song – genre, song structure, energy, rhythm, instrumentation and vocals. No two videos produced on Animoto are the same, even if they have an identical set of raw materials in the form of images and music.

Videos are produced in widescreen format, can be emailed and embedded in social networks.

DVDs cost $20 and DVD-quality formats $5. It will be interesting to see the level of uptake they get.

iPhone Gets Kicked Into Orb(it)

Orb Networks has enabled TV on the iPhone. By installing the OrbLive app users can stream any video format to their iPhone.

There are a few hoops to go through before you can stream your favorite basketbal game though:

• You need a PC or Parallels
• You need a TV tuner card
• Your iPhone must be jailbroken.

We understand that iPhone 2.0 will support video – will it go so far as supporting live TV streaming?

Metarand Unplugged: Ryan Junee, CEO of Y Combinator Graduate, Omnisio

In this session of Metarand Unplugged we explore the Y Combinator experience with Ryan Junee, CEO of recent graduate, Omnisio.

Based in Palo Alto and set up by Ryan and co-founders, Julian Frumar and Simon Ratner, Omisio provides users with the ability to annotate, add slides and share videos.

Stream the Session in Quicktime:

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