Participatory Culture Foundation Presents...

Sound the horns! After keeping it on the DL for a number of weeks I'm finally able to announce that the recently formed Participatory Culture Foundation is making its debut.

Announcing a new platform for internet television and video. Anyone can broadcast full-screen video to thousands of people at virtually no cost, using BitTorrent technology. Viewers get intuitive, elegant software to subscribe to channels, watch video, and organize their video library. The project is non-profit, open source, and built on open standards. Today we're announcing the project and releasing our current sourcecode. The software is launching in June.

Hot Damn! The internet is on fire about this. Not only did I read about it most of the sites I regularly visit (including MacHTPC) but this weekend at the "Grassroots Use of Technology" conference at MIT, it was brought up to me 5 times and was referred to in 3 sessions! It was pointed out by a presenter demonstrating del.icio.us that 221 people had it bookmarked!

(sorry for the exclamation points, but I think I'm actually more excited about these programs than I am QuickTime 7. And that's saying something.)

So yeah, this is big time stuff here. I've never compiled a program before but I'm going to spend some time trying to learn so I can try to start playing with it before they have real packages.