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The company I work for, Océ , is looking for new colleagues. For this reason they launched a couple of video interviews with some colleagues of mine giving you insight in what we are about. And what it's like to work for Océ. Pretty nice!   More info can be found on our jobs site .

Ton Zijlstra on his Interpredent Thoughts blog pointed to a very interesting presentation by Michael Welsh on "The Anthropology of YouTube" . The presentation is interesting also to the extent that it explains the facets of 'web 2.0' (again). Welsh also made the amazing video called "The Machine is Us", remember ?!

Wow! Have a look here: the first episode of WebbAlert . It's a new video blog that gives you a tech round up in 5 minutes. The first episode is wonderfully done. It says that feedback is appreciated. Well, I was looking for a way to subscribe to the feed, but couldn't find it... UPDATE: One day later... WebbAlert has a news feed . Thanks!

How do you discuss a video and comment on it? Mostly you see the video and the comment and/or rating section separated. This works, but it's hard to comment on a specific part of the video. And if it is possible, it's because the publisher indexed the video for you. And now there's Viddler ! It was new to me. Has it been around for some time or is it actually new? Viddler makes indexing, commenting, tagging and rating video's easily. Really easy. And of course you can search through everything. I hope they integrate this in Google Video and YouTube . This is also interesting for internal corporate video's. For instance, I've been writing about story telling . A problem with recording stories is how to make them useful for the organisation. Can employees easily access them and browse through the video's? Usually they can't. But by using Viddler technology they can. We can.