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A great snoop from 45n5, a video with Google advertising in YouTube movies. The system is pretty smooth, the ads are not that intrusive, and the interactivity allowed amazing (be able to link an ad to a movie, and make that movie run over the YouTube movie is great):

Meanwhile, eMarketer expects online video advertising to nearly double in 2008 to $1.3 billion USD, and TechCrunch posted an excelent article, with a round up of the possible players in this market, worth reading.

Great times are expected in a near future.

What people in 1994 thought the future of the web would look like:

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Well, it's that time of the year were I go out, stay offline for a week and recharge the batteries. The next days I will be scuba-diving in the red sea, worrying with nothing than the meals schedules, the water temperature and colorful fish species identification.

Or maybe not...

After last year's amazing presentation of Gapminder, Hans Rosling has come back to another jaw-dropping presentation at TED. See it for yourself in the following video (19m09s) or at the TED website. And remember, what is seemly impossible is possible.

My thoughts exactly:

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