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What will be a killer feature is when they filter filtered searches using an algorithm on the amount of likes users get for their items. This will filter out the good stuff from all the noise automatically.

For example:

- If I add some intelligent, precise, relevant items on my feeds that other users like on friendfeed, then my friendfeed activity should be rated more relevant than the random tweet that is going through all the feeds.

- Friendfeed should implement liking of comments on items, so a user can gain “points” by posting intelligent, relevant, precise comments in all sorts of real-time conversations on friendfeed.

- Real-time conversations on friendfeed should be filterable by relevancy of the comments. The interface should make it possible for thousands of users to be in the same chat room, yet still every user by default only sees the most relevant chat comment items, while the rest of the noize stays in layers further down which are hidden by default but can be shown as well.

- This will make it possible to type any topic of your interest on the friendfeed global search, then view a real-time stream of items and comments being posted about that topic. And even with thousands of users interested about the same topics and items, frienfeed should filter not only by friends, but also using those algorithms on general likes but also on likes by friends, friends of friends, friends of friends of friends, and stuff like that, including also based on likes of liked users, likes of liked liked users. And so on. To determine in fact a personal relevancy on the stream of news to each user and not only a general relevancy.

I posted this at http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/13/friendfeed-enables-peoplegroup-tracking/#comment-2747669

Google can just buy friendfeed back in a few months, once it’s working really well. And provide all sorts hosted micro-blogging of solutions based on the open-source Jaiku code.

Friendfeed is already much more powerful than twitter on many aspects.

It’s kind of the same way using Open Social and FriendConnect that Google is going to take over facebook. Even though all users are not going to migrate overnight, they can easily migrate in a few months. The more and more people will register accounts and import all their feeds in the Google products, the faster the migration of all the users will happen.

Though they need to improve friendfeed quite a bit for it to really make absolute sense. Though the ex-Google people who previously created Gmail, Adsense, are now working on friendfeed, if they make it right, friendfeed could replace IRC, IM and twitter. I would like it if it will be possible to filter the friendfeed chat room by users, to filter up highly rated users by the amount of likes that their entries get, and filter up quality entries in real-time. Especially it will be good to thus automatically moderate real-time discussions on topics when a lot of people are chatting about them at the same time.

At the Copenhagen Film Festival CPH:PIX 16-26th of April 2009, I have filmed 64 interviews with the film directors and regular people when they exited the cinemas and asking them what they think about the movie premieres that they just saw. You can see all my videos on this Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/filmviews

Copying is now free, uncontrollable and unlimited.

Copyright should be replaced by the author and artists basic right to get paid for their work.

The payment should happen through a collective licence fee that all households should pay. Approximately £5 per month will bring us a large way there.

The Government needs to then guarantee all authors and artists that the collected money is distributed fairly and directly to artists and authors. This will be based on very precise statistics on file sharing, on independent statistics made at file download and streaming portals (independent statistics at Youtube, Flickr, Google Books, Last.fm and at more such sites). Those statistics will also be made by hundreds of thousands of volunteer Internet users who will have installed Last.fm type of scrobling software which monitors the number of playbacks of music, video, even of text in the browser and reports that to the central statistics systems.

The Government will have responsabillity to make sure that all works of art, all articles, all texts, photos everything is catalogued and even backed up by the state as a means to safeguard a copy of everything as it being the national cultural heritage. Based on this database, digital and analog fingerprints are generated on all works. And thus every single use of these works of art can be identified and the artist or author can be compensated.

We need to admit that the issue here is to remove the established music labels, movie studios and publishor’s grip on the cultural industry revenues. We need to think about the artists and the authors and not about the intermediaries. We need to admit that these last 10 years have been a struggle by the old established majors to hold on to their multi billion pound yearly revenues. We need to recognize that the Internet is here to remove all intermediaries in the cultural industries. The faster we as a society admit it, the sooner cultural expansion will flourish on the Internet leading to much better arts and much better culture in general.

I have been saying this since 2006 and before: http://charbax.com/2007/12/19/studios-know-they-are-going-to-be-toast-on-the-internet/

I posted this as a comment at http://www.economist.com/debate/days/view/311/CommentKey:287082

My full Youtube account has been restored, perhaps thanks to the help in pressure and attention from the blogs at newteevee.com, techdirt.com and the support on friendfeed and twitter:

Dear Nicolas,

Thank you for your counternotification. Fox has retracted its copyright
claim with respect to the following videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb7iphIFyoY

This content has been restored and I have reactivated your accounts. For
technical reasons, it may take a day for the video to be available again.
Please let us know if you have any further issues.

Sincerely,

Harry
The YouTube Team

In a terrible mistake by self proclaimed Internet DMCA enforcer BayTSP, DMCA takedown notices were issued on thousands of Youtube videos that all were created by users legally for a video mashup competition on the Burger King sponsored Youtube channel, where users were invited to record their own voice-overs on Seth Macfarlane’s cavalcade of comedy cartoon series. I participated in that, and I recorded a kind of funny voice-over on the video with the two ducks watching TV.

from Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation about Duck TV Charbax 1 - Charbax
Video ID: Sb7iphIFyoY

Without warning, about 2 days ago, Youtube then suspended my account and have issued me with automated email replies when I tried to contact copyright@youtube.com and support@youtube.com with the following messages:

“Suspended accounts cannot be reinstated.”

“Your account has now been terminated”

“Note: In the event that your account is restored, your account information such as videos and comments will NOT be restored.”

This would be a totally catastrophic result for me if true. My Youtube account is a very important part of my online presence and a very important part of my freelance video-blogging business and of my prospects of making money doing freelance video-blogging. Youtube also says I may not setup any other Youtube account in the future. I cannot accept any of those scenarios, all resulting of a false copyright claim by BayTSP on behalf of Twentieth Century Fox.

“Federal law requires that we terminate accounts when there are repeated claims of copyright infringement.”

At the same time, Youtube also did surprise me with two other notices of supposed copyright violations that I would have committed on another Youtube account which I bought on Oct 15, 2008 from someone to then hand over to a french company named Archos who I thought needed a better presence on Youtube. I am very certain that Archos only uploaded totally legal videos about their products and also used the account to answer Youtube users comments on different Archos related videos:

from World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. about Edge’s WWF Debut - Archos
Video ID: Co1BuPIYrF4
from Viacom International, Inc. about Eight Man Tag: Steiner Brothers/Basham/Damaja Vs VKM/Team 3D - Archos
Video ID: 98WnaZ3od7I

I have though no idea what those videos are. I don’t know if those copyright infringements were takend down before the 15th of October 2008, the date when I took over that Archos youtube account from a user of which I only have his original paypal account on which I paid the $50 to get that account name.

Should Youtube penalize me for supposed copyright violations that a user did on a Youtube account more than 6 months ago, before I bought the account from him and handed it over to a french company?

Should Youtube suspend my Charbax Youtube account and the Archos one on the basis of that mistaken takedown notice sent by BayTSP on behalf of Twentieth Century Fox for a video that I created for fun using a flash based voice-over recording application hosted at http://youtube.com/bk and probably even developped by Youtube engineers as a promotional tool and which would upload the resulting video directly to my Youtube account for archival and for promotion of their voice-over cartoon promotion and competition?

Here I am hoping strongly that Youtube can promptly restore my full Youtube account, with all of my about 400 videos, all of their viewing histories, search rankings on Google and Youtube, all user comments on my videos, all my comments on other videos and all of my ratings.

All the while, my story is being covered at http://newteevee.com/2009/05/05/20th-century-fox-sics-takedown-notices-on-its-own-mashup-promotion/ and http://help.youtube.com/group/youtube-howto/browse_thread/thread/73da5e7e013ff2c7. I have sent the signed DMCA Counter notice as described in the Youtube DMCA Help page copyright@youtube.com, I have emailed copyright@youtube.com and support@youtube.com several times, I have left phone messages on the answering machines of BayTSP, Media Rights Capital and even at a Marketing representative of Burger King. So far, my Youtube account has been suspended for more than 2 days, and I still haven’t gotten any direct reply from any real person at Youtube, BayTSP, 20th Century Fox, MRC, Seth Macfarlane or anyone else about the resolution of this problem.

I understand that it must be hard for Youtube to handle the millions of Youtube accounts that upload thousands of videos everyday, the billions of video views and the thousands of copyright owners complaining about the insufficient monetization or just complaining about their content being copied without their rights. I though also think that Youtube should the responsibility to have implemented a global solution for copyrights, for the maximum monetization of independent and major studio contents and especially for the fair treatment of independent video-bloggers like me who are relying on Google to implement Adsense-like monetization on freelance and independent Youtube video projects.

DR should spend the normal TV show production budget on producing the worlds coolest Youtube videos on a new DR Denmark channel on youtube. For the whole world to see the potential of danish people in terms of comedy, funky moves and other awesome ideas. The concept is that every second of every episode needs to be so unbelievably awesome, that everyone in Denmark and everyone in the world will want to watch all of it on Youtube. Let Danish TV syndicate their TV concept to the rest of the worlds TV channels instead of it being Danish TV buying English and American TV concepts. This show needs to be inspired by Casper and Mandrilaftalen, the best TV show ever made, and mix that with the philosophy of Thomas Blachman on X Factor and with the awesome timing and cinematography of Ole Bornedahl or any other unknown and known danish talents that will contribute to this project. The goal being, to not suck, to be awesome, to hopefully attract millions of viewers on DR’s Youtube channel, and then sharing that Youtube overlay advertising revenue with the Danish artists who will be making all this innovative work. This should be one show that Danish people and a worldwide audience will be looking forward to each new episode, worldwide audiences will download this as podcasts, will stream it in HD quality over the Internet and it will bring many people from the whole world to Denmark to be a part of this project.