Jeff Pulver just posted to his blog about Twitter. I saw him mention the post on Twitter itself.

I’d just explained to Bronwen, from PerthNorg a few minutes ago what I thought Twitter was. Jeff explains it well when he says it provides someones “state.”

I explained it to Bronwen by saying it is like real-time, one-liner, blog posts, with the ability to respond instantly. It really is an interesting new networking tool, putting you in touch with people in a slightly new way.

As mentioned previously, I’m spending all my Time on Scouta these days.

Today I wrote a blog post that I think is fairly important.

YouTube is heading toward creating a model for copyright owners to earn revenue from YouTube. It’s an awesome move, and I think is going to really make a huge difference to the online video world. I realise that others currently share revenue, but we are talking about a market YouTube dominates.

My question, which I think is important, is if YouTube will share revenue with those people referring to the videos. So if you embed a video on your site, shouldn’t you share a little of the money they make from advertising. In a way, it’s a lot like adsense.

Anyway, check out the post, Will YouTube Share Revenue For Referral? over at the Scouta blog, and if you’re a regular or subscriber to Clique, it might be worth subscribing over there if you enjoy more commentary. I’ll be posting there regularly now we’ve made public a little about what Scouta is.

Blog posts to Clique aren’t happening often these days, because–as most of you will know–I’m focusing on launching Scouta.

Yesterday we announced a little more about the web service. Dropping more than a little hint. We’re rapidly approaching release, so you’ll start to hear a lot more. If you’re interested, subscribe to the Scouta blog where I will be more active from now on, or add your email to the Scouta private beta list, and we’ll see about a login in the next few weeks.

Jon, at AustralianBlogs has come up with a great idea. Australia has a bunch of bloggers, but we’ve got a major issue with land size. So that means we all can’t actually meet.

Jon’s idea is to have a Virtual Meetup, so he’s organised one.

It got me thinking that perhaps we could complement the face-to-face meetups with a virtual one, i.e. via a chatroom-style approach hosted by AustralianBlogs where users can do the meet-and-greet but also break out into user-created rooms for some private chit chat (where appropriate).
Let’s set an informal virtual meetup on AustralianBlogs Chat on the second Wednesday of every month starting on the 10th of January 2007. From 8pm AEDST till late. Users can come and go as they please.

Thank god for Daylight Savings in WA I say :).