BlipTV - YouTube competitor

[ejp626]

This may have come up already, but one of the main complaints about YouTube/MySpace was that in the Terms of Service you gave away a lot of IP rights (some debate about whether it has changed but nonetheless it is still unclear if you can permanently retrieve your rights). Obviously, this only mattered if you were uploading stuff that you actually had the rights to, which is probably less than 5% of the material on YouTube. Anyway, there is a low-key competitor that is geared towards actual content creators (and not freeloaders). It's called digg.tv (Digg.tv doesn't have any claim to the IP rights, other than allowing to webcast them. You can sign up to allow advertising which allows you to be paid for your content, though the rate is so low as to be irrelevant.)

I'm not directly involved, though a friend of mine is slowly loading in content that we developed years ago. One there are a few episodes up, I will post a link.

In the meantime, I thought this was sort of amusing: Kyle Piccolo

These are minisodes about a comic book store owner who dispenses wisdom. The geek factor is pretty high. It's shot on location at Midtown Comics in Manhattan (Times Square). I don't think I've been in this store more than once or twice (for a while I thought it was a store I visit more frequently in Union Square).

(Whoops - got the name wrong, but it works in the link.)

Edited July 22, 2008 by ejp626