Hi guys,

At Pubcon, I was able to hang out with the boys from Microsoft Video, and they are definitely up to some crazy stuff that nobody else is doing. I suppose it is their way of attempting to get an edge on a unique aspect of the business. They are definitely way ahead of the curve when it comes to creating video timelines for consumer-uploaded video content. What I mean by this is when you upload a family video for example, Microsoft video technology will automatically break your family video into a piciture-by-picture story board which will give the viewer an idea about what the video is about.

Also, they are working on some powrful Smart-Video-ad technology:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/02/06/microsoft.ads.ap/index.html

- Russell Wright