You have to check this out...news stories chosen entirely by the user…

News At Seven is basically a news aggregator being developed by college students. 

The program scowers the web for relevant stories based on your preferences, combining them with images and videos.  Its given voice using a unique text-to-voice engine and then presented through flash animation.

You have to see this video…

When you read…

The Internet is becoming the fifth major television network in the United States, after CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox.

Now creative professionals of TV Land and Hollywood are getting into the Internet.

...you can’t help but think more and more companies will opt for .tv domains names (since .com is taken).  I thought the article, “Professionals of TV and Hollywood get into the Internet video,” which is after the jump would be of interest to readers.

We are always looking for the next best thing.

Some people want you to look no further…

Its no surprise that .tv will become the second most preferred extension behind dot com.

What type of website can succeed in the future without video? Very few.

More and more companies realize that delivering a richer Internet experience with the use of video is critical to their company’s future success. The inevitable challenge that companies shall face is how to design their .com websites to accommodate delivering a rich Internet experience while providing all the company information that dot com sites historically provided without diluting a visitor’s overall experince.

In fact, several high profile companies concluded that the rich Internet experience they wanted to deliver to their customers should be separated from the corporate information provided on their dot com websites…

From time to time, I will post things that I notice, but don’t have much time to comment on.

Today, I noticed…

Did you miss me?

Forgive me for going MIA for so long; it was not my intention.  The last few weeks, I devoted my time to consulting on a few development projects, spent some time working on my own portfolio, and sold my first home. 

Some observations I wanted to share involve the future of the dot tv extension.  The extension has incredible promise, but currently the pace that companies adopt the dot tv extension is not as fast as many of us would like it to be.  This should change as the public’s awareness of the dot tv extension grows and understanding of the purpose of those letters that come after the dot in every domain name should mean.  Dot com was first, that is the default extension instilled in people’s heads.  The public was not taught what .com means or stands for nor were they told to question it. 

I imagine that over time and through repetitive visits to dot tv sites (or exposure to dot tv ads), they will either become enlightened that .tv implies interactive content or begin to wonder what in the heck dot com really stands for...leading them to the ultimate question of asking why not use dot tv if delivering video content to the world is the site’s purpose.  After all, video is the future and dot tv just fits better than dot com. 

Recently, Brightcove announced it would be using the dot tv extension…