A Few Good Channels

Now that Miro 1.0 is out, I thought I’d share a few excellent video “channels” I’ve been watching lately – TED Talks, Google Tech Talks and Google engEDU, Pop!Tech, and Ask a Ninja!. Between them all, they may just get you through the writer’s strike.

(To subscribe to any of these in Miro, you can just use the “Add Channel” command in the Channel Menu and put in the RSS url below. Be sure to look at whether you want to download ALL the videos in that feed or just NEW videos added.

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Miro goes 1.0

Miro, the open source video subscription management and player application about which I’ve blogged many many times (really many) , has finally gone 1.0!

Check out the announcement on the Miro blog: Miro 1.0 is here.

There’s also:

• Comprehensive Feature Guide to 1.0
• The official Press Release
• Explanation of co-branding potential
• A comparison of Miro and Joost

Why Make Miro?

Regular readers of Open Parenthesis know I’m a big fan of Miro (even back when it was the Democracy Player), the Participatory Culture Foundation, and Make Internet TV.

To help understand why, watch this video from Nick Reville, the foundation’s executive director, talking about the mission behind Miro.

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