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Guy Kawasaki moderated this panel at the CommunityNext conference with the founders of six very successful web properties; hi5, Suicide Girls, Slide, HotorNot, PlentyofFish and Fark. If you’d like to learn how these companies became successful without “proven teams, technology, or business models,” you’ll love this video.

BabyTV.com is the first Internet-based television network dedicated to moms which allows new and expectant parents to tune in and watch broadcast-quality streaming television, upload videos to share with the community, interact with live events, engage in e-commerce transactions, browse links on the web, and participate in an online community.

According to this article the company is being aided by its largest shareholder and equity sponsor, Wyndcrest Holdings, who have also invested in Multicast Media Networks (“it costs less than $300,000 to build out a fairly robust online TV network and social networking community”) the technology company enabling this new site.

If you’ve spent hours trying to find a simple and free FLV file converter, then you’ve probably pulled out most of your hair already. The Internet is littered with products that claim to convert FLV files for free, but invariably come with nasty surprises attached, or insist you pay up for something that you probably feel you shouldn’t. Well there is a solution and Alex Klive over at WorldTV.com is gonna show you how to do it.. step-by-step.

Don’t forget to check-out his groovy Internet TV Charts while you’re there!

Ben Waggoner is program manger for video encoding at Microsoft and has posted a detailed article to help you get the best out the companies latest encoder tools.

Windows Media Video has been a leading web video format for many years, but good hands-on information for how to get the best results out of it hasn’t always been easy to come by. Also, Windows Media has an enormous breadth of ways it’s used, scaling from mobile phones to the PC to CE devices like the Xbox 360. This article strives to codify the best practices to get the optimum Windows Media encode, whatever the source and delivery environment.

Note, this presentation last year includes .PDF and Audio stream as well.

Jeff Han is a research scientist for NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Here at TED he demonstrates — for the first time publicly — his intuitive, “interface-free,” touch-driven computer screen, which can be manipulated intuitively with the fingertips, and responds to varying levels of pressure. Steve Jobs.. take notes..

Damn.. we’re def. gonna get one of those units for the home-office!

The Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium is the biggest fish tank in the whole world with a plaque from Guinness to prove it. They also have three whale sharks, the largest and one of the rarest fish species known to man, in that gigantic ocean zoo!

Check out this quick video [.wmv], to get an idea of how massive that aquaruim really is with 7,500 tons of water behind 5ft thick acrylic glass wall.

Thank Tokyo Mango for the tip.