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 :).

Things have been busy with my new web startup, Web2Thing, so much so that it’s now known under its official name: Scouta.

A couple of weeks ago we migrated the weblog to blog.scouta.com, we’ve shown off a little bit of the design, and today we’ve launched an email sign-up form for those who might want to be notified of updates, or be invited into the private beta we’ll be running in the next couple of months.

So, if you’re keen, swing over to Scouta and add your email, or just keep an eye on the blog.

Martin Well, from Tangler, flicked me an email the other day.

On a recent trip to the valley I attended a STIRR Mixer. It was a fantastic; great people and a fun format. I’ve known the organizer, Sanford Barr, for a while and really like the spirit of what he’s trying to do - help entrepreneurs - so rather than reinvent the wheel, Sanford and I decided it would be better for us to just host a STIRR event in Sydney (the first outside the valley).

So STIRR Sydney will be held on Wednesday 6th of December starting at 7pm. It’ll be standup, with finger food supplied, and a whole bunch of interesting and entertaining ’startup games’ for the night.

We’re also inviting 3 to 5 startups to show off their stuff. If you have a startup, or know of one who would like to get involved, please let me know.

What you need to do:

1. Go to the wiki page (http://stirr.dinner20.com) and register yourself (it’s first come first served so hurry up)

2. Pass this email on to people you think would be good to have at the event.

3. Think of an aussie internet startup that would like to demo and have them contact me.

4. Send me a web 2.0 joke. (Or simply provide an answer to “How many web 2.0 startups does it take to change a light bulb?”)

Also, a big thanks to the event sponsors:
· Tech Venture Partners (http://www.tvp.com.au)
· Atlassian (http://www.atlassian.com)
· Tangler (http://www.tangler.com)

I’d like to go, but we’re still to early to be showing of our project.

Boing Boing has picked up the story that Australian cricket supporters, The Fanatics, are being threatened by EMI because they say they “breached copyright because it included altered lyrics to songs such as Go West by the Village People and Daydream Believer by The Monkees.” (quote from an ABC article)

I found a copy by hunting through Google. If you want to see how ridiculous such a move by EMI is, then you can grab it here.

I suggest everyone download a copy, print it out, share it, post it to your blog or website.

UPDATE: Here is a torrent of the PDF.

UPDATE: The Fanatics have announced that EMI have retracted the threat of legal action.

After a slight misunderstanding with our good friends at EMI, we’ve been reliably informed that the songbook isn’t in breach of any copyright laws and in turn the songbook is once ahead downloadable and fully legal.

I was interviewed this afternoon by Singapore’s 938 Live radio station about Microsoft’s Zune media player. We chatted about the negative reaction, and the future of media players merging with mobile phones.

Thought I’d share the MP3 here.

OK, so I’m getting good at making calls about things that will happen :). I’ve always wanted to be a futurist, and I think I’m almost there.

I’ve been saying for years (a couple of recent references here and here) that Xbox should/would release television/movies via the Xbox.

Well, today they made just that announcement.

Beginning on its first anniversary, November 22, Xbox 360 will become the first gaming console in history to provide HD TV shows and movies directly to gamers in their own living rooms. Xbox 360 gamers will be able to download full-length TV shows to own, and will be able to rent movies via download from the Xbox Live® network, the world leader in online distribution of high-definition gaming and entertainment content.

It’ll be interesting to see if this is available in Australia.

Amongst all the horse racing today, that Japan obviously excels at, I received delivery of a Nike+ iPod Kit.

I’ve been waiting for this since their announcement at the beginning of the year. I tried to grab one when I was last in the US, but I missed it’s availability by a week.

Now I love running, but I lack motivation, and there is no better way than convincing me to slap on the (almost rotted) running shoes by providing a gadget, and an online community–two of my favourite things.

This evening I strapped the transmitter to my old Nike shoe, and headed out with a bunch of motivational tracks on my wife’s iPod Nano. It didn’t take long before I hit my stride and I plugged away for 43 minutes–probably a very stupid decision which I’ll regret for the next few days, given I haven’t run for a few months.

So there are several things that make the Nike+ kit fantastic. Firstly you can track your run while on the road. Having said that, I need to buy a pair of Nike+ shoes, because strapped to the lace it wasn’t registering my pace correctly. I was running at about 5 minute 30 per kilometer, but it lost track and at points wasn’t recording my pace at all.

The second great feature is being able to plug the unit into my Mac when I get home, and it transfers the data of the run to the Nike+ web site. I can then track each run, how I’m progressing each week or month, and even create goals and team challenges. And the user interface is a nice flash site that has all the right round boxes and drop shadows. It even shows my pace through the whole run (you can see from the screen grab that it lost track of me at about 1 km in).

The important feature for me though, is I’m hanging out to run again. There’s nothing more addictive than feeding a database with a bunch of data that I feel compelled to improve.

I’m also looking forward to buying a few PowerSongs or Workouts from the iTunes Music Store.

Anyone else using the Nike+ kit? Maybe we can team up and do a few challenges.