I saw KickApps 1.0 and it wasn’t something even worth mentioning or discussing.  A colleague of mine insisted that I had to check out KickApps’ latest version, 3.0, which, “KickApps 3.0 makes it easier than ever for web publishers and developers of all levels and experience to deploy Social Networking, UGC, Programmable Video Players and Widgets.”

Sounds like standard marketing BS right?  Can there really be a solution to the novice or amateur web developer’s needs?  According to their website, “[t]he new release dramatically extends your ability to manage media, members and reporting, all essential to growing a successful community. Additionally, it contains more site customization and syndication as well as features that are designed to create a more engaging experience for your community’s members.”

I decided to head over to their website and stumbled upon this video, which is worth checking out if you have not seen it…

To follow up on Kevin’s excellent article on the harsh realities facing those of us looking to develop a .tv site, I would like to add the following: Any .tv site that does not include a tv channel, will not only lack the content punch it needs to knock its stronger .com cousin off its perch, but will also, add to the number of developed .tv sites lacking a tv channel.

This hampers the .tv brand and thus the upwards pricing momentum of the .tv extension.

So let me first get the hypocrisy out the way!

We at Allthings.tv do not yet have our own channel that we make use of on a weekly or even monthly basis. We have been fortunate enough to have been able to cover the Always On conference, but short of that (without minimizing Kevin and Claude’s superb efforts) we have not yet featured any more of our own video content on Allthings.tv.

I am delighted to announce that Craig Meichen has joined Allthings as a guest blogger. I will be posting Craig’s introductory blog under my name whilst we get him set up with his admin rights, but for future posts Craig will be posting under his own name.

I will be interviewing Craig over the weekend so that everybody can get to hear his strong Aussie accent and learn a little more about his vision and passion for the .tv extension.

For now, Craig has asked me to post the following introduction…

A recent statement made by VeriSign VP Raynor Dahlquist that:

“Throughout the world, the phrase ‘TV’ means world-class entertainment, which explains why major broadcast networks, sports leagues, gaming sites and training organizations have adopted the .tv extension for their business. This trend shows every sign of continued growth.”

was backed up by another finding released by VeriSign, that “.tv had 100 percent year-over-year growth in registrations”, absolutely annihilating all other extensions as far as year over year growth is concerned.

Those of us that monitor the extension with any degree of interest would not be at all surprised – either by the fact that .tv has beat out all other extensions in year over year growth, or by that huge factor of 100%.

Here are my thoughts as to why .tv has had this huge surge over the last year.

I received a pleasant surprise in my email today that I thought I would pass on to the AllThings.tv audience.

An industry colleague forwarded a press release over email to me from Rider Research (http://www.riderresearch.com), which publishes a weekly digital media newsletter. 

Rider recently produced a report called, “Video Vision 2007: A Survey of Web Sites Offering Video.”

Rider concluded that it would be a vast understatement to say that video on the Internet exploded in the last year. 

Apparently, the conclusion is based on a finding in the report that “the number of Web sites that offer entertainment and information videos increased in the last year from about 200 to over 300.”

There is no doubt that Me.tv is in its early phase of development.

There are bugs that need fixing, templates that need improving, monetization and revenue sharing options that whilst at the time of the writing of this article are not yet available, they are in the pipeline and should be available very soon.

Innovative bells and whistles are being introduced daily, yet undoubtedly Me.tv will be the first to admit that they have plenty of work to do and that Me.tv is not a completed project, but a work in progress.

The question though remains – will Me.tv turn out to be just a cool alternative of a YouTube home page; those who want a little more exclusivity and a lot less spam?

Or perhaps it will be restricted to those who don’t mind shelling out $25 for a .tv name, giddy with anticipation that somewhere down the line they can turn a small profit through monetization of the site.

No website is perfect and neither is Tulsa tv, but it does come pretty close!!.

If you are holding with me from the start, I am in the process of reviewing existing geo tv sites and the opinions expressed are my own, not that of Allthings.tv.

So whilst I was disappointed with Boston tv, I am about to rave about Tulsa. Others may look at Tulsa, shrug their shoulders and say “whats the big deal!”

So here are some of the reasons I like Tulsa tv.

Take a look at the site and it looks like there’s nothing to shout about. This site clearly is a social networking site for people in the Portland Maine area and it would seem that its main objective is to get members to upload videos that matter to them onto the site for fellow residents or the rest of the world for that matter, to comment on.

One can see the power of local over global when you take a look at how many views a local band, “How to undress ” has had on PortlandMaine.tv - 1357 and counting. Yet on You Tube, it has had less than 800 views in total.

This site was started in the beginning of May and has had over 50,000 page views to date. The owner of the site, Jack Joyce, is fully expecting the site to hit 200,000 page views in the coming month, ( if not more) because he has just landed a deal of a life time.