Videos from the recent Le Web 3 conference

This is from TEDTalks

Profile of Ev Williams, founder of Blogger and Twitter

Some good tips if you’re looking to buy a DSLR

An excellent and balanced analysis of the Lane Hartwell / Richter Scales Bubble Video controversy

Interesting use of Twitter for sending virtual gifts to other Twitter users. Usage example: @tweetgift @mattmc beer for a job well done

“What is Google’s cloud? It’s a network made of hundreds of thousands, or by some estimates 1 million, cheap servers, each not much more powerful than the PCs we have in our homes.”

Rhapsody has created a Facebook app.

The Richter Scales have re-released their Web 2.0 Bubble video and provided this list of credits for the media used in the video

A good overview of Amazon SimpleDB

Fred Wilson is bullish on AMZN.

Derek hits the nail on the head with this analysis of the Lane Hartwell / Richter Scales copyright dispute

“Putting our productions online shouldn’t mean that we give up all claims and possibility of profiting from it and we should discourage those who abuse this.”

“U.S. Copyright law is and always has been a balance between the rights of original creators and the rights of the public and subsequent creators to use copyrighted material.”

“You no longer need to be an expert in large-scale computing, instead you can rely on your common sense and existing solutions.”