Orphans Ponder the Future of Entertainment

Cinematech features The Complete Conversation of Hollywood Reporter's Future of Entertainment with Orphanage Co-Founders Jonathan Rothbart and Stu Maschwitz.

Video Everywhere from Jim Feeley

I was going to summarize trends in web video and sharing but Jim Feeley, a former editor of DV Magazine, wrote a great article called Video Everywhere not too long ago for PC World.
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Ning Jumpcuts over Yahoo

While SONY bought Grouper for $65 million and Yahoo just bought Jumpcut -- not Motionbox (pretty) or Eyespot -- you can roll your own YouTube according to Om Malik and Mashable.com.

Actually, Ning, funded so far by Marc Andreessen (creator of Mosaic and Netscape), lets you make your own YouTube, Flickr, and MySpace!
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Com+Option+Arrow=switch tabs in Firefox

Command+Option+Arrow (Mac) navigates to the next tabs in Firefox. I really like that one, in addition to Command-clicking on a link to open a new tab, and Shift-clicking a link to open in a new window.
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ffmpegX for 640x480 h.264 in updated 5G iPods

ffmpegX 0.0.9x was released, adding an "iPod H.264 w640" preset to support new high-resolution 640x480 h.264 in updated 5G iPods.
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Encoding Flash Video

Flash 8 Video Encoder's settings are explained in FLV Data Rate and Bandwidth... Demysitifed" at Community MX -- and republished as Encoding Flash Video by Adobe Design Center.

Word on the Adobe street is that FlixPro handily beats Squeeze with about a 4x compression time and good quality in default 2-pass VBR settings. We can do 1-pass just fine with the Adobe Exporter!
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Yur Fuhnny

hard to believe, considering Zune's wireless DRM system, from EFF:

"Microsoft's Zune will not play protected Windows Media Audio and Video purchased or "rented" from Napster 2.0, Rhapsody, Yahoo! Unlimited, Movielink, Cinemanow, or any other online media service. That's right -- the media that Microsoft promised would Play For Sure doesn't even play on Microsoft's own device. Buried in footnote 4 of its press release, Microsoft clearly states that "Zune software can import audio files in unprotected WMA, MP3, AAC; photos in JPEG; and videos in WMV, MPEG-4, H.264" -- protected WMA and WMV (not to mention iTunes DRMed AAC) are conspicuously absent."