I was trying to submit a story to Netscape and saw a link to upload videos. It was interesting. Netscape now allows you to upload your own videos to the portal. Netscape had already started some syndicated video features back in 2006.

Recently, many memediggers, including Digg had added video memedigging functionalities to their sites. But netscape allows you to upload the entire video (max limit 150MB) to be uploaded. Currently supported formarts are mpg, .mpeg, .mov, .avi, .mp4, .wmv *, or .m4v file. There is no limit on the number of videos you can upload. Just like YouTube, the format which the videos are displayed is flash. Netscape really want to build it’s own YouTube.

Till this moment I am not able find any open videos.

Yes. Micheal Arrington’s Techcrunch is celebrating it’s 1st birthday. In one year it got into top blogs lists of many blog tracking services. Steve “Persuasion” Rubel has posted a nice post including traffic details of TechCrunch here.

The unique advantage of TC is in it’s focus. Micheal carefully showcases technologies and people (which makes great companies) who are going to transform our lives tomorrow. TC really had created a cool geek community which otherwise would have scattered around Myspace clones.

I really liked the way he had handled Edgeio. Even if its his baby and its a start of a new era (Yes Yes Microformats search), he had launched it normally; without misusing his fame or subscription power.

I say thumbs up to Micheal Arrington.

BarCamp / BarCampBangalore rocked.
It was my first public geek meeting. I talked less and heard/saw more :). I was amazed to see real life geeks and their attires. Cool!

Some of the interesting stuff I heard

Anuj Khurana: MMS market in US is very less and MMS is a failure there.

Puneet : Oops! Then I should look for another job (Puneet works for Verizon ).

I: How much traffic are you expecting in the first phase of Taazza.com?

Arjun Ram: Well, You decide! (Ha Ha, nice answer)

Footnote: I really wanted to know how rails scale. I am pretty sure that Taazza.com, an indian memedigger with maps, is gonna get good traffic when they comes out of alpha. Arjun and Arun, brothers and partners of Taazza.com gave us an excellent demo of the website there in barcampbangalore.

More photos here and here.