Do you have an RSS feed for your web videos or podcasts? Want to make that content accessible to iPhone and iPod Touch users?

You can either go on and create your own site that is compatible with the iPhone or just head on to VenueM, a new startup that takes your RSS feed and quickly (and on the fly) converts it into an iPhone ready website.

PaidContent.org is reporting that Flickr, which is owned by Yahoo, partnered with Getty Images to sell photographs from “hand selected” users of Flickr.

CNET is reporting today that YouTube will be adding pre-roll and post-roll ads to the videos that users uploads to their site.

If you are looking for someone (not something) then check out Whozat.com. The interface is pretty simple. You enter the person’s first name and last name (you can also enter a middle name and/or initial and some keywords if you want) and it will comb the following to search for that person:

Google introduced the Google Media Server, a UPnP driven application that offers a way to view any media that is indexed by the Google Desktop application on your TV or any other device.

MySpace is launching the ability for third party developers to build applications using their API. Most of the other major Social Networks have done that already, with the most famous of all being FaceBook.com.

TechCrunch reported today that Instinctiv, a new startup, launched today and simultaneously announced their first round of angel funding.

I was reading a very interesting article on TechCrunch about Facebook becoming the next Microsoft (as in OS).

My home page on my browser is set to CNN.com. I love reading their stories. So, as part of my morning routine, after getting my 1st cup of coffee, I turn on the computer and launch Safari.
A news headline catches my eye “Rotating car has no need for reverse“. […]

If you spend a lot of time on Facebook (not that I do!), you might want to think about getting compensated for it. A new application on Facebook called URTurn wants to compensate you for your time spent on social networks.

CNET News reported today that Twitter closed $15 million in series B funding with an $80 million dollar valuation and yet, has absolutely no business plan and no way of monetizing what they are doing (at least that they have made public).

If you haven’t yet checked out the social network browser Flock, you must do so immediately, especially if you are a social network junkie (or, like me, use social networks for your day to day business development).
Head on now (why are you still here?) to Flock.com and download the browser for your platform.
This browser was […]

A story in The Hollywood Reporter states that ABC.com has upgraded their video player with new features including:

• Full Screen Viewing
• Closed captioning
• Ability to send video links that can be embedded on blogs and social networks

Techcrunch.com reported today that Facebook will redesign it’s profile pages with a cleaner design.

Very interesting article in Website Magazine today about where should you place analytics code (such as Google Analytics).
Should you place it at the end of the page or at the beginning of the page?
Let’s talk about why at the beginning of the page.
If you have a slow loading page, by placing the code […]

Steven Spielberg, Harrsion Ford, George Lucas where on Seesmic promoting their new movie, Indiana Jones.

YouTube is now offering a new demographics section in their Insight analytics for YouTube. Log into YouTube.com, click on “my account” and under Performance and Data Tools, click on YouTube Insight.

There is really great company called Animoto that allows you to upload video and photographs and it will automatically create for you a very cool slide show (though it really looks more like a music video) to whatever music you give it.
It’s so cool, that it looks like the #1 Internet store in the world, […]

I ran into an amazing website called Sprout (they just got $5 million second round) which allows you to build Flash widgets easily using the sproutbuilder.com You don’t even have to create an account, you just click on “Get started” and you are off creating these widgets.

Google announced today that their Google Analytics application will now integrate with Google Audio Ads. This means you can track your Google Audio Ads and how they correlate to your web site hits.

MySpace launched their developer platform (check it out)

You have to register to build applications, but you can browser through the “Learn and Play” section without having to register first.

Microsoft Corp. made an unsolicited (yeah right) $44.6 billion cash and stock bid for Yahoo today.

Basically, Yahoo is desperate and I think this is Jerry Yang’s answer to Yahoo’s problem. Have Microsoft purchase you.

Who has not watched a video on the Internet?  YouTube anyone? Sometimes I get asked what is the difference between progressive video and streaming video?

We have an “intranet” web site (called SheaTV) in our company where we centralize all of our media assets (videos, podcasts, training on demand videos, etc.). From there, our users can easily find what they want to watch (or listen to) by searching through a variety of subjects.

So I took the plunge and migrated my ColdFusion MX 7 server into Adobe ColdFusion 8. Below, I’ve detailed the steps I took.

I did not uninstall MX 7 prior to installing 8 (this is the developer version since I did this first on my local machine before doing development and/or production to make sure that all of our websites work ok with version 8…I highly recommend you do the same.)

After downloading the developer version from Adobe.com, I went ahead and double clicked ColdFusion-8-win.exe. I then followed the wizard.

Shut down all CFMX 7 services, especially Verify, if you have any collections that need to be transferred over to version 8.
Make sure you have installed JDK 1.6 or above.
Splash screen - Choose language and click OK.
Introduction - Click next.
License Agreement - Accept and click next.
Configure Installer - Enter Serial #, select trial, or select developer edition and click next.

Wow! I can’t belive Coldfusion is in version 8 (and this version comes from Adobe).

I remember when I first used ColdFusion it came with O’Reilly’s Website web server (this is a long time ago). It was known as DBML back then. Before version 1. Then I went through version 1.5, 2, 3, 3.01, 3.11, 4, 4.01, 5, 6, 7 and now 8 (I skipped a few of the .01 and other updates in between).

The product started with Allaire (the original Allaire brothers created it), then it was purchased by Macromedia, and finally, of course, by Adobe (as part of the entire Macromedia merger with Adobe)

For those of you that don’t know ColdFusion, it’s a back end scripting language to create dynamic websites. If you heard of ASP.net (from Microsoft), then think of it as that, except, 10,000 times better (do you think I’m a ColdFusion fan?).

Here is a cool site I learned about when I attended the Adobe CS3 Conference:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/communityengine/index.cfm?event=homepage&productId=1&loc=en_US

This is the CSS Advisor site, where you can learn about all things “CSS”. For those of you who have no clue what CSS is, let me give you a quick explanation.

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets and it’s used in conjunction with HTML to create websites. With CSS you create the “look and feel” of your site and with HTML, you define your content (or display it). That way, you can keep the look and feel separate from the content of your site, which in turn, allows you to easily change and update how your site looks without having to redesign the content as well.

Adobe has announced seven upcoming online seminars (eSeminars) pertaining to PHP, Flex and Flex 3.0 development.

Flex for Java Developers (3 seminars dates)
Flex For PHP Developers (2 seminar dates)
Buzzword - Raising the RIA Bar with Rick Treitman
Flex 3 Beta Sneak Peak
For more information on these seminars, visit Adobe at

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=detail&id=462539&loc=en_us

What a fantastic conference! The Adobe CS3 conference was a two day (June 19 and June 20) networking, product immersion and just plain old fun “experience” for only $199; can’t beat that!

That price not only included a bunch of classes and networking opportunities, but also a fantastic dinner on the first day (I mean shrimp, prime rib, Chinese food and even an open hosted bar).

There were plenty of networking opportunities as well, including the lunches and dinners, the get-togethers after the days ended and a bird-of-a-feather meeting.

Pre-conference Sessions
The conference started with a “Pre-Conference Session”. There were 5 sessions to choose from, including Rich Internet Application for Developers, Video, Management/IT, Photographers and Print Service Providers.

As a company, you need to think of your online marketing efforts (aka emarketing) as “expanding the reach of your web presence” beyond your website. In order to do this, you, as a business owner, marketing person, or whatever your title is, need to see the entire Internet “as your web site” and need to start crafting and forming your message wherev