A quick announcement to all of our regular guests and those who have come to Allthings.tv for the first time.

We are but a few days away from where we want to be as far as producing quality, thought provoking blogs on a DAILY basis.

Right now, we are dealing with a huge project that involves upgrading our software to create a vastly superior look to our website aswell as giving us more powerful tools to allow for a more interactive experience for our viewers, authors and admin.

Hopefully, this will be completed by early next week and then I can concentrate on what I do best, providing my readers with the best Web 2.0 stories out there on the net, securing the best interviews to be had and being a part of the Web 2.0 forum that holds so much promise.

Allthings.tv is only a couple of months old and experiencing the challenges that any start up blog comes up against; how to get your voice heard in an internet soup of bloggers that are blogging about the same things you are blogging about, and whom have been doing it for a whole lot longer than a couple of months..

My answer is simple. I write from the heart. Many bloggers do not. Either they simply do not have the time, are not fully committed, are not sure what they are passionate about, or simply don’t care.....

Well, that helps narrow the competition; a lot.

And so Allthings.tv had its first major interview with Demand Media that I posted on Thursday evening to great reviews.

Friday morning however, I find out that Ron Jackson, owner of Dn Journal did a write up on the interview on “The Lowdown”.

Well, that narrows the competition further still!! Not everyone makes it on to Dn Journal. Ron obviously felt that the interview was newsworthy enough to warrant commenting on.

And quite possibly Ron recognized that I was speaking from my heart. And for that, I am very grateful.

Brad Stone of the New York Times has written an article today entitled “Vudu Casts Its Spell On Hollywood”

I would rate this article as one of the best in depth discussions on current and future trends of video over the net that I have read for a very long time.

All those who want to know more about the players and the technologies that make up the video on demand companies of today should read this article. I will post a link to the article at the end of my blog.

The gist of this article (and it could do with a summary given the length of the article) is that Vudu is betting the house on a set top box that uses peer to peer technology via the internet to enable instant viewing of videos on a tv screen....not a laptop, but the tv.

Thing is that whilst they may be using different technology to Apple Tv, is the end result any different?? Apple Tv also uses a set top box to take videos from the net and play them on the tv screen. Vudu say that they are not concerned.

I was sitting at my desk with two windows open on my monitor, working on AllThings.tv and HotNames.tv when the email came through. First, the small preview window of Microsoft Outlook popped up in the lower right hand side of my screen, displaying a message from Sedo with the subject relating to a six letter, single word .tv domain name for which I recently made a counter offer. That window contained quite abit of detail from the body of the email, including “Dear Mr. Tidwell, We are pleased to inform you that your [counter]offer of $250,000 for garage.tv has been accepted.”

If you can imagine for a moment what it feels like when you first learn that you have won the lottery, then you can imagine the emotion I felt at that moment. 

It brings us great pleasure to announce the launch of a community to compliment the AllThings.tv blog. As both Kevin and I have come to realise, having a blog about everything to do with TV on the net is a fantastic thing. It allows the both of us and the contributing authors to speak about everything we are so passionate about with regard to the new internet age we live in – the Web 2.0 age. 

A very warm welcome to Cate.Tv who will be blogging on Allthings.Tv as part of her marketing strategy to promote the Cate.Tv network. You can find her bio under the “ view authors” tab.

In the short time that I have known Cate, her enthusiasm for life and making each day count is what comes across loud and clear.

We look forward to your first blog Cate.!!

Okay, so I had just confirmed my first power interview for Allthings.TV.

Not that this was my first interview, I had already done an interview with Bangarang TV, (http://www.allthings.tv/articles/33/...gtv/Page1.html) to favorable reviews and comments.

But interviewing a student film crew about a pet project and the spokesperson for Demand Media regarding the upcoming promotion of the .TV extension are two different ballgames. Especially when you take into account the fact that Allthings.TV didn’t get off to the best of starts with Demand Media.

Today, Afternic reported that NEW-YORK-CITY.TV sold for $150 to the sole bidder for the domain, which was placed in the “Places / Cities” Category.