At the same time TeXtra is being shut down. Arrington highlights that there are rumors for which PodShow is looking for a second round of financing right now.

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According to Jon:

You should note that this is a non-profit initiative that Comverse has put together, but there is a group of charter sponsors involved - Intel, AudiCodes, Tilgin, BEA, Blueslice and others. They don’t pay to play - they contribute in-kind by providing content about all the various aspects of IP convergence - IPTV, Triple Play, FMC, etc.

Check it out. Very good job Jon.

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I don’t want to spend much time repeating what you can read in other news sites and blogs. Take a look at the NYT for a detailed summary of this news.

On the other hand, I want to share my thoughts on the first implication I saw after reading this news.

What about Apple to share revenues with Google on ads displayed on YouTube’s videos watched through the AppleTV? This said, is the web browser the next application expected to appear in the next release of AppleTV’s OS ? This way users can quickly jump to the advertiser’s website straight from their AppleTV.

Cool!

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While in the US the “traditional” unlucky day has always been Friday 13th, in Italy (and in other countries I think) Friday 17th is that considered the unlucky day.

Well, today has been unlucky for me since I accidentally deleted a couple of videos made during my recent stay in Amsterdam. Unfortunately I haven’t had enough time to make a backup as I usually do. At this point my last chance is a data recovery tool, that I’ll try out as soon as I get back to my office.

All this said, “thanks” to this unlucky event, I discovered a few weak points of my Apple TV, that I consider severe problems.

First of all, after realizing what I did, I was happy because those videos had already been synced with my Apple TV. Ok…those videos are there, in that small box below my TV… but… how can I take them back to my MacBook ?

It seems that there is no “official” way to do that. I’ve seen that there are many 3rd party tools to take data back from iPods, but not from the Apple TV yet. I believe Apple should release a recovery tool pretty soon, since I think I’m not the only one to have this problem.

That said, I thought to “hack” my AppleTV taking the HDD out and connecting it to my MacBook to recover the lost videos. Before doing that, I wanted to make sure that not other activity was performed on my AppleTV, so I disabled the synchronization from iTunes.

DON’T DO THIS!!! If you disable the sync with the Apple TV, all data is REMOVED from your AppleTV, and you need to sync it again. What ?!?!?!? REMOVED?!? If I disable the synchronization I suppose that all data is not deleted, but simply my iTunes content is not synced until I enable it again. No, this is not true, I had to sync 35GB again (painful…) and totally lost the possibility to recover my deleted videos.

Apple, can you hear me ? I hate Friday 17th.

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“Vringo set out with an ambitious goal to make video ringtone sharing finally work,” said Jon Medved, the founder and CEO of Vringo. “We are delighted to be working with Warburg Pincus, a firm that shares our vision and recognizes the enormous consumer potential in sharing video ringtones. Their extraordinary track record, truly global reach, corporate relationships and strategic insight will bring huge value to Vringo as it grows.”

The service is really innovative and I wrote about this service already in this blog a few weeks ago. Thanks to this round, the company confirms their intention to formally launch their product (now in private beta) and to expand partnerships worldwide with mobile operators and content providers.

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The AppleTV Jaman plugin can be easily installed and should be available for download pretty soon (according to Om Malik).

The folks at Jaman have developed a plug-in of sorts for AppleTV that basically installs on the AppleTV box, and allows your PC/Mac to find and sync content from Jaman’s client to Apple’s box. It still maintains its copyright protected status, and 7-day-rental policy. For legal reasons Gaurav Dhillon refused to talk about how they did the hack, but said Google is your friend… your will find the answer.

With Jaman (as with Babelgum) you can forget Hollywood but you can easily find very good content from international and indian directors. I look forward to trying it out from my ATV.

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After that, post it to YouTube, Blip.tv or other services like those and tag it with “everydayheroes“. Take it as your “summer homework”. I’m pretty sure we’ll find many videos tagged that way at the end of this summer…

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What about the ability to publish new videos from iTunes ? Or to download YouTube’s video on your iPod ? Or to make users pay for a particular category of YouTube videos ?

The second, at least, was right and also AppleTV is involved.

Who is going to write the future of IP TV? Guys, we’re speaking of Apple. Joost is the only missing piece in this picture…What if it was embedded into AppleTV?

UPDATE: Steve O’Hear made me notice this post on Last100. Om Malik asked a specific question to the new Joost’s CEO Mike Volpi:

Might the AppleTV be a candidate? asked Om Malik when he got a chance to put five questions to the new CEO. “We would love to put Joost on the Apple TV platform”, replied Volpi. “We know we can make it run on any operating system.”

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