Pascal Van Hecke – Daily Links

“User generated material accounts for over 40% of all online video streams but produces no more than 4% of the advertising revenue, long-form material only 2% of the total number of streams, 40% of the ad revenue” (wondering how it translates to views)

Original wireframe by Jack Dorsey

The idea of using XMPP/Jabber for syndication is getting traction. Report of a presentation by 2 Yahoo (Flickr, FireEagle) guys with telling numbers on the economics of pubsub versus continuous polling.

Like the Apache Software Foundation, but for (web interoperability) specs: “aimed at building a lightweight framework to help communities deal with the legal requirements necessary to create successful and widely adopted specification”