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Azureus beat Bram Cohen's Bittorrent venture to the punch when they soft-launched a Torrent-powered content platform in December. Zudeo.com features film trailers next to semi-professional HD content and has since seen 1 million visitors. All these folks will soon have to learn a new moniker, because Azureus is about to pull a Venice Project on us.

ItοΎ’s been a year since the first official release of the Democracy player and podcast client, and the Democracy team is celebrating this birthday with the release of version 0.95. So whatοΎ’s new, whatοΎ’s coming up, and when will we see Democracy version 1.0? I checked in with Democracy co-creator Nicholas Reville to find out the scoop.

Looking ahead to the future, I think that one of the problems that will be solved is how to 'program' web video content. Not in the technical sense, but in the traditional television sense. I still think that one of the things that OldTeeVee is good at that NewTeeVee can learn from is 'findability' or 'discoverability,' as well as that kick-back-and-relax passivity that's so comfortably mindless.