guess i didn’t realize my response was going to be included in a NewTeeVee post, however it’s accurate that we may have overlooked including more video-focused talks on the agenda.

still, there is a good bit of content throughout the show that includes online video as a significant component of most of today’s ‘Web 2.0′ development & marketing. in particular, several of the sessions & workshops on social media & marketing discuss how video is driving customer acquisition & promotion, and at least one of the launchpad companies will be featuring video as a distribution & media-sharing platform.

that said, online video might have been a good topic for one of our 3 mini-track focus areas. the ones we chose (mobile web, social platforms, and web operations) are pretty high-interest areas, but you could easily make the case that video is just as important.

certainly something for us to consider emphasizing more in future events, given how many startups are in the space & how much news is being generated there.

thanks for the feedback & we’ll try to expand our horizons going forward… (and likely recruit you to future program advisory boards as well! :)

regards,

• dmc

Group curated channels of video – like “Wikipedia for Video” – that can aggregate people around niche topics. This seems very Web 2.0 and is becoming bigger and bigger.

Engaged audiences + niche content + targeted advertising = Web 2.0 at its buzzword best!

http://www.mefeedia.com/channels/ for an example of channels curated by users to find “best of” feeds in specific topics.

Only recently are companies adding features like live chat on video (Ustream and Joost), interactive video polls (Ustream), seeing who else is watching a video (Youtube), and interactive advertising (Revision3/Videoclix).

I also think it’d be interesting to look at what content creators are doing on the web that is different and better than TV. Suggesting this is self-serving since we think we’re also innovating in this area but I’d love to hear from creators like Rev3, iChannel, and Ze Frank.