I’m at the Barcamp event in Auckland today. This is a meet up for web developers where you turn up, and put your name and presentation topic forward and it goes up on the board in the available time slots.

There is a broad group of people from the industry here, including web dev/design shops, independent contractors, and guys/girls who work for corporates.

There is also a guy here from Mozilla, who are the organisation behind Firefox, who is presenting after lunch on what will be in Firefox 3. I’ll definitely attend that one.

My posts will be over on the Marker Blog, check out the photos on Flickr.

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Google have kindly sent me a gift. I can’t say it is a Christmas gift as the card was deliberately neutral and wished me the best for 2008. My guess is they sent the gift to many different countries and were wanting to keep religion well out of it.

Anyway, what they sent me was something I had not seen before, a credit card size flash memory device that plugs into a normal USB port. What is astounding is that the capacity is 2GB!

Very cool. Thanks Google, happy 2008 to you to. May it bring you many billions in profit and fewer lawsuits.

I have recommended brightcove.tv to a number of people as an additional option to YouTube because they tend to produce better quality videos once encoded into Flash.

It seems they are going to end consumer uploads (the free option) this month.

I can understand that this is obviously not profitable. I would say then that you should stay with YouTube for the best free option.

Dear Brightcove.TV member,

Beginning December 18, 2007, we plan to end support of direct consumer uploads to Brightcove.TV. As a result, you will not be able to upload new videos to Brightcove.TV after December 17, 2007. But videos you have already uploaded to Brightcove.TV will remain available on the site and through your Brightcove.TV channel. Videos you have embedded in other sites and blogs will also continue to play.

If you have a Brightcove Platform or Network account, which means you use the Brightcove Console, then you will still have the option to promote videos on Brightcove.TV.

Brightcove.TV will continue to be a guide to great video from Brightcove media and business partners. The site will have new videos added to it daily from these partners and these videos can be saved as favorite videos in your channel.

If you work for a media company, marketer, non-profit, or business and are looking to purchase the Brightcove platform to publish and distribute video on your own site, please visit the Brightcove Products Overview section of our website.

We appreciate your interest in Brightcove and apologize for any disruption this change may cause you.

Sincerely,

The Brightcove Team