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First episode of the new series on your Internet channel. These are going to be a whole bunch of videos of me talking about all kinds of relevant and newsworthy topics. First topic is Joe Biden, the new vice-presidential candidate for the Democrats. I try to give him some good advice if he wants to help Barack Obama win the election.

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Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt just said Google is delivering 1.3 million minutes of videos on youtube every minute. Source is the second video on this page: http://cnbc.com/id/26182232

Which basically means Youtube has a constant bandwidth output average of 390 gbit/s if you consider each Youtube stream is at 300kbit/s and that more and more of the streams are in “high quality mode” which uses a bit more bandwidth and some of Youtube’s videos are delivered in H264 to devices like the iphone, Tivo, Apple TV and stuff like that.

So my estimates were way low.

That 1.3 million number basically means Youtube constantly has the equivalent of 1.3 million viewers. Which might be low compared to any big established TV station, but it’s huge considering the Youtube infrastructure provides a different customized on-demand stream to every user.

Let’s guess that the average Youtube view is something like 3 minutes long. Divide 24 hours by 3 minutes, you’ve got 480 times 1.3 million views on Youtube in average per day. That amounts to a current average of 624 million views on youtube per day. When Google acquired Youtube, there was about 100 million views on Youtube per day, so if the numbers are true, Google might have increased Youtube’s bandwidth by more then 6 times since they acquired Youtube about two years ago.

One source said average Youtube user watches something like 40 videos on Youtube per month.

So if that statistic of 40 views per user average per month is true, Youtube would have 468 million different users watching over 18 billion videos on Youtube each month. Which would mean each Youtube user watches in average 2 hours of videos on Youtube each month, which still would be low compared to the average 90 hours that the average person in USA watches TV each month (3 hours in average per American per day).

A constant 390gbit/s average bandwidth stream from Youtube would mean that Youtube uses 126 petabytes of bandwidth each month.

If Google is paying as much as $0.10 in average per GB delivered, they are probably paying less then that, but let’s say the worldwide average may be $0.10 per GB, considering there are lots of storage and networking equipment that they have to constantly add to their big Youtube server farms, then at 126 petabytes per month, Youtube’s bandwidth costs might be around 10 million dollars per month right now.

If you consider Internet Video-On-Demand might replace traditionnal TV at some point, Youtube might still have a potential to expand by a hundred times when that transition happens. And all the while people will require the videos to be delivered in HD quality directly onto people’s HDTVs using a Video-On-Demand set-top-box which will consume 10 times as much bandwidth with at least 3.5mbit/s per 720p HD quality video stream. So potentially Youtube’s bandwidth consumption could increase by 1000 times during that transition.

AMD doesn’t really push the low cost laptop idea as I think they should. AMD could have taken the Geode based OLPC and produced millions of commercial versions of it by now, but they don’t do it. AMD doesn’t like the idea of large quantities delivered at low if not non-existant profit margins to replace their own existing market share in much more expensive higher power processors.

If you need this size, then you’ve found the small laptop that is for you. But I don’t like that small keyboard, and to me 7″ is just too big for the pocket, and it’s too small for being really productive. For watching videos while on-the-go 7″ is a good size, but the latest AMD Turion based laptops probably are going to be much more expensive the similar size and weight 7″ Archos video playing devices which also have basic browser and WiFi for casual browsing.

That is my basic complaint with the whole Microsoft and Intel name that is the UMPC, or the netbook. Too big for pocket, too small for productivity.

What I want in a laptop, is at least 14″ and a full sized keyboard. Otherwise it’s just not going to be confortable to do stuff like posting this message to this blog post. Then I also want a pocket device that does everything while on the go in situations that I don’t want to use a laptop, such as in public transportation, while not going to/from work, while not going to/from study, while walking in the streets, while walking around in the city without having to carry a bag for the laptop.

And if I want to be slightly more productive using a pocket device, I want to use a full sized foldable USB or Bluetooth keyboard at least.

Small keyboards are not for adults to be productive. For children to play games and explore the web, given their small fingers, and given that they probably will not type text very fast before being at least semi-teenager, then small keyboards are ok for young children. For those types of children that do not want to type this type of post on this type of blog.

This very compact video player has a 2.4″ screen, VGA to Full DVD resolution DivX playback, 20GB, compact flash, TV output, games. Someone even found a way to install a Nintendo NES games emulator.

This video was originally released in 2004 at http://archosfans.com

When Lisa sees the John Bon Jovi in the supermarket, she figures she might want to kill him. This is a movie so everything is possible. Watch your hats.

I am the scriptwriter, third week at the European Film College around September 2002. I might add more credits to this film if I am allowed.

This is the war in Iraq before it happened, from the european point of view. Did Bush destroy evil? Does he escape?

Filmed, written by Charbax, at the European Film College in October 2002.

An ode to chinese kung fu, japanese samourai and blaxploitation. This is an ode to the ode. In this episode, the bride is looking for revenge.

Filmed by Charbax in Copenhagen in 2003, music used with permission by http://maf464.free.fr

Second in the series of ode to the ode. Released before Taranantino’s was released, but having based it on the same script.

Filmed and music by Charbax in Copenhagen in 2003.

Unlike Tarantino, this one has a third volume. Here the bride fights a guy with a frying pan.

Film and music made by Charbax in Copenhagen in 2003.

I don’t think this is difficult for Google to figure out. They should just allow any Youtube publisher to activate overlay advertising on all of their videos.

Google has voice recognition, they have annotations, invideo comments are comming up. They have comments, they should have some more and better usergenerated tagging, ratings and personal recommendations.

From there, while they re-encode all the videos to more and better formats, they can stream out the advertising features as a stream parallel to the video streams, which devices can then overlay on the video in all kinds of different ways.

Really the only perhaps difficulty Google might have with overlay ads, is that it might not be compatible with the current Youtube Flash version standard which is Flash 7.

Once Google activated overlay advertising, video makers are going to be making a living doing this. If you have more then 100 thousand viewers per month on your Youtube videos, you could be making a living doing it. And Google is going to be making billions of dollars each quarter on this. I expect Youtube to become Google’s biggest revenue source pretty soon. There is nothing better on the Internet then video.

I posted this as a comment at http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/06/google-goes-gaudy-with-youtube-ads/#comment-278139