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Why Web TV Is the Future: Natural Disaster Edition

Once again, two examples of compelling video ubiquitously available, as this previous post also showed–breaking news as it is breaking. And blowing (in Kansas). And burning (Los Angeles’ Griffith Park on fire):

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  1. One other trend that is great to point out – video tagging. Now, whenever there is a new video on a topic, event, or story, the video is uploaded wherever (believe it or not, there are thousands of other places besides YouTube people are uploading video), gets tagged, and people automatically get updated in their iTunes, PSP, or wherever.

    For example, here is a tag on “Green” – i.e. green news, technology, information, how-tos, etc. – that is constantly updating as videos are uploaded to various sites.
    http://www.mefeedia.com/tags/green

    Pop the RSS feed in your iTunes and sync with your iPod – easy!

    Posted by Frank Sinton at May 9th, 2007 at 7:13 pm

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