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Miro, the open-source podcatcher/mediaplayer from the Participatory Culture Foundation, has launched a “branded” version, pre-loaded/subscribed with content from TED.

Interactive. iPhone/Touch Starbuck’s “Quickorder” application. No waiting. Pocket Guitar for iPhone/Touch. Interactive Architecture. Interactive building façades.

Web Trend Map 2008 Beta.

Film, video, music. The films of Joe Merrell. Good Copy Bad Copy (2007), Copyright+Culture. Hulu Discusses Private Beta, Suggests Public Launch Time Frame. Jem Cohen directs DVD for The Ex. Talking to the Music Industry, a MUST READ.

Jeff Nelson’s (Minor Threat) Hardcore relics and ephemera on Ebay. Why Last.fm’s free music won’t replace your music collection. Lame.

The big limitation is that any particular song can only be streamed in full three times. After that, Last.fm will show an ad for its upcoming subscription service and offer links to buy the track from other online outlets.

Downloadables. The Gordons, Live in NZ. New Bob Mould. Compiler 01 DVD Magazine.

Youtube’s launching a complete mobile (3G) version, including uploads and a downloadable Java app for supported devices, at m.youtube.com. SAI has the business/financial angle.

RELATED: 3 New Mashups for Finding Music Videos.

Engadget has a short blurb from CES about Imagion AG, one of the leading-edge HD disc-authoring companies, with an excellent gallery of example and screenshots.

Nice video on Banksy’s first NY show at NewArtTV.

It seems MSNBC really hit a home-run with it’s new embed-able player. Nicely designed, and the video quality might be the best of any of the networks’ offerings, rivaling CNN.

I’ve been subscribed to the Fora.tv podcast feed featured in the iTunes Music Store for a while, but I’ve never managed to check out the site (the feed is just excerpts). After spending a while browsing, I was really surprised by the amount of cool stuff they have archived. While the site is in dire need of a usability overhaul, and they could/should up the video quality a bit, it’s definitely worth it to spend some time browsing, especially if you’re a C-SPAN-type nerd.

Some videos of interest:

The Future of Music: Digital Rights or Wrongs?

Music, Technology, and Community

Miranda July, Becky Stark and David Byrne

Stefan Sagmeister: Creative Genius

Steven Pinker: Games People Play

William Gibson discusses Spook Country

UPDATE#2: Full story at NewTeeVee. Current.com is to replace Current.tv.

CurrentTV has a redesign new site in the works, and from the sneak peek, it looks well thought-out. Top-level sections dedicated to Browsing, Participating, Contributing, and Watching. A nice simplification/organization from the jargon-laden CurrentTV site below:

Adobe released a public beta of it’s anticipated Media Player. Content partners include CBS, Yahoo Video, PBS and Blip.tv among others. In addition to Flash video (flv) playback, it also catalogs, saves, and implements Media RSS feeds, as well as DRM. AMP is an AIR application, requiring the installation of the AIR runtime.

Adobe Press release.

Download the Adobe AIR runtime.
Download Adobe Media Player.

in other Adobe news, they also released an update to the mobile Flash plugin, Flash Lite.

John Maeda on simplicity—

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Glen E. Friedman discusses his work and methodology @ SweetTalk NYC.

Apple has a page in which it’s soliciting feedback on AppleTV. Identified as a “hobby” by Steve Jobs at the last WSJ D Conference, I think there’s an excellent opportunity to do something “cool” here. Taking user’s and potential user’s input is a great place to start, and hopefully Apple really does take the feedback under consideration.

Topping my list—

1.) (officially) Opening it up to 3rd-party developers.

2.) Probably some sort of DVR functionality and additional storage—whether internally or externally via the recently-hacked USB port.

Quoting Jobs at the D Conference:

We’re in two busineses today, we’ll be very shortly in three business and a hobby. One is our Mac business, second is our music business, third business is the phone business, handsets. And the hobby is Apple TV. The reason I call it a hobby is a lot of people have tried and failed to make it a business. It’s a business that’s hundreds of thousands of units per year but it hasn’t crested to be millions of units per year, but I think if we improve things we can crack that.

(hat tip: AppleTV Source)