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I’ve been watching people follow TwitPic, trying to become the Youtube of Twitter. I sure hope they have a good business model. When I was at my last company, video serving cost us roughly $4 per CPM, including hosting, storage, and bandwidth for a thousand 3-minute video clips. Basic ad networks can pay you a few pennies per CPM. That means you lose nearly $4 for every 1000 video views in an ad model. Maybe they can make it up in volume?

For yucks I put a webcam on the twitvideo.com domain (which I bought back in 2007 after iJustine introduced me to Twitter). The webcam uses the mesh tricks seen on this blog, reading a simple equation I threw together that mimics fisheye effect. The effect is modified by time and the position of your mouse. Go to twitvideo.com, play with the Flash 10 cam, click the picture, and send a tweet. I’d love to meet some of my readers (or at least meet a morphed version of their face).

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