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This is interesting for me because living overseas almost all of my election news is online. I’m curious how the news is being absorbed back home. Most of what I watch is from Huffington Post, Crooks & Liars, DailyKos, YouTube. The vicious loops of stateside political coverage from CNN International (and mind numbing cross promotional ads on Astro Sat TV) leaves me thinking why have TV at all.

Cisco’s Visual Networking Index Pulse Survey, which includes data from Compete and responses from about 1,800 registered U.S. voters, found that the internet is second only to television as a significant source of political information this election cycle, and online video users tend to follow the race more closely than those who don’t watch online video.

Key findings include:

• 62% of respondents said that they regularly access information about the presidential election online through their PCs
• About 30% of registered voters said they watched video related to the presidential election online, and 75% of them felt it helped them follow events more closely
• Online video watchers seem to be more engaged in the election than other respondents; 62% of online video users say they follow the presidential election closely, while only 37% of non-online video users do

via Compete Blog

• 30% voted before election day
• comScore: India has fastest growing net population

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I’ve just heard from Ashod at MeBeam that he’s released personal MeBeam server. According to Ashod this is “full backend mebeam is now running on – single exe, no installs, 760k file.”

MeBeam is opening its network to the public, with a vast array of back end services, including dedicated servers, private networks, and co-location services.

Some of our more exotic services will include, flash to SIP telephony, 3G video gateways, Web to Polycom transcoding, and of course, high end video conferencing.

This is a bold and smart move. I’m excited to see how this performs on an intranet. Attention universities, law enforcement, medical technologists, this is one the most promising multipoint video conferencing platforms I have seen. Windows only for now.

• Icondial, Call any phone in the World
• YouTube HQ video by default

I grab most of my network TV from torrents and then pop the divx or xvid onto a thumb drive and watch it on the set in living room. If it’s a show only I am interested in, I might watch it on my macbook on the way to the office. I do see my wife filling in / catching up on shows with YouTube though. Interesting stuff.

50% of online viewing is panel members watching episodes they missed on television. They are either filling in an episode online when they had already seen the other episodes around it on TV (18.7%), or they are catching up on an episode online after seeing the subsequent episodes on TV (31.3%)
The other 50% of online viewing is viewers watching shows they don’t see any other way during the month. These are apparently viewers using the Internet to check out shows, replacing the channel flipping or sampling they might have done on the television in the past.

More here

via NewTeeVee

• Online video viewers better informed voters
• comScore: India has fastest growing net population

Nice use of social media. A friend posted this video via facebook. I now add to the tail and submit it to you.

BustinBoards

• Social Media 2009 – eMarketer predicts transactions for social networks
• 7 Facebook apps for Enterprise 2.0

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Porn practically invented online video. I remember trying to play .fli files in DOS downloaded ala BBS from a floppy (drive). Why do these stats surprise anyone?

Sure enough, in Hulu’s Top-20 film clips of the month, a theme starts to emerge:

Animal House: Topless Pillow Fight
Hitman: Undress Me
Casual Sex?: Orgasms
Knocked Up: Doggy Style
Casual Sex?: Penis Size
Epic Movie: Lazy Pirate Day Video
Quest for Fire: Captive Sex
Casual Sex?: Stacy’s Daydream
Bring It On: Bikini Car Wash
Epic Movie: Slow Motion
Casual Sex: The Good Trampoline
Reno 911! Miami: Night at the Motel
Bring It On: Having Cheer Sex
Casual Sex: You Want Foreplay?

via Silicon Alley Insider

• Snoop Dogg hits Bollywood
• Penang trip last weekend

Indeed, one of the more impressive achievements of Obama’s organization is the way it churns out video after video–more than 1,165 posted and 14.8 million views on YouTube alone. Much of that is the work of Obama’s director of field video production, 32-year-old Arun Chaudhary. Obama’s YouTube guru shared some of his insights at an event Wednesday sponsored by frog design, the NYU’s Tisch Interactive Telecommunications Program and Fast Company.

Obama’s biggest advantage, Chaudhary said, was that his organization took video seriously from the start. The campaign has 50 staffers shooting, editing and posting video, most of it for online. Where Clinton would have just one staffer videotaping an event in Iowa, Obama often had five to provide multiple camera angles. They posted new video constantly, and quickly — 19 minutes from shoot to post, in one case. And they’d ping community voters via email to alert them to new video.

more via AlleyInsider

• Obama / Webb ‘08
• Online video viewers better informed voters

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Today, TiVo started rolling out software upgrades to put YouTube video on TiVo Series3 and HD boxes. This takes away a slight advantage from AppleTV (AAPL), which already lets you do this (but doesn’t let you record TV and skip commercials).

There’s no direct cash payment here, but there is a marketing component to the deal, meaning YouTube will promote TiVo service, including a TiVo channel and promotion on the YouTube homepage. A YouTube spokesperson confirmed that TiVo “will receive promotional impressions on YouTube,” but said details had yet to be worked out.

via Silicon Alley Insider

• Take surveys for $150 per hour on LinkedIn. Kind of.
• Newsflash: Men like porn

Here is their latest creation, McCain/Obama

• Fox, fair and balanced from day one
• Ja Können Wir – People of the World. Yes We Can.