Well is it LiveVideo.com?

Perhaps you've seen LiveVideo.com....maybe you haven't but the social network is making a strong play to position itself as the place to see and be seen for webcasting and live blogging on the internet.
I signed up shortly after the site came out of private Beta and have been dipping my toe in the pool to get a feel for what the site is capable of. I gotta say there are lots of reasons why LiveVideo may just come out on top of the heap.

LiveVideo offers more broadcasting options than any of its competitors. As a matter of fact the newest high quality video option in its basic player gives you the clearest image available currently, outside of Mogulus. They also offer a LivePro option but when using a program like WebCamMax to control graphics, overlays and to play streaming video the signal degrades significantly. It is my understanding that they are feverishly working on incorporating their High quality option into this streaming interface and when they do...well they'll be pretty much the best system out there.
LiveVideo will make social networking freaks VERY happy. Not surprising since that's where they have their roots. Options like integrated forums, gifts, earnable "points", blogging, widgets and more make this the friendliest of the webcasting neighborhoods. There's also an 18+ ONLY option for broadcasters which ostensibly offers much more cover to creators who want to dance on the edge of political correctness. While the sites TOS are reminiscent of everyone elses, as long as your not broadcasting hardcore porn, or straight nudity, you can pretty much do what you want.
So is LiveVideo.com the final home for the Geek Cool Webcast?
Hmmmmm...YouTube? Exactly how long til you guys are ready for streaming video?
Fall?
Maybe I shouldn't just wait?!?

Pandora Internet Radio at it's BEST

I have to tell all of you about a very cool internet Radio site Called PANDORA (I guess you can call it radio) there are NO Commercials and you pick either the song title or group and a computer analyzes your tastes and spits out a playlist. If you use the Opera Internet browser there is a cool widget for pandora there, and Firefox foxytunes also supports Pandora. MSN Internet radio is powered by pandora as well. Heres a little bit ablut their project:

The Music Genome Project®

On January 6, 2000 a group of musicians and music-loving technologists came together with the idea of creating the most comprehensive analysis of music ever.

Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or "genes" into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song - everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It's not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records - it's about what each individual song sounds like.

Since we started back in 2000, we've carefully listened to the songs of tens of thousands of different artists - ranging from popular to obscure - and analyzed the musical qualities of each song one attribute at a time. This work continues each and every day as we endeavor to include all the great new stuff coming out of studios, clubs and garages around the world.

It has been quite an adventure, you could say a little crazy - but now that we've created this extraordinary collection of music analysis, we think we can help be your guide as you explore your favorite parts of the music universe.

We hope you enjoy the journey.

Tim Westergren
Founder
The Music Genome Project

If you want Pandora just CLICK HERE to get it or visit: http://www.pandora.com/