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Revision3 is pushing its mobile effort for distributing video now, and it’s signed on transpera to power this mobile initiative. The new Revision3 mobile service will be available to mobile consumers across networks and hand-held devices. Transpera is a relatively new video company, having emerged onto the mobile video scene last summer.

The company has a distinct focus on mobile video, and develops ways in which brands and content owners can connect directly to the end users and consumers for marketing and distribution services. One way in which Transpera looks to provide added value by leveraging the viral nature of video and make that a prominent availability for mobile users.

Such a cross-platform strategy for video consumption and delivery is what Transpera hoped would make it attractive to other services, and it looked like it worked with Revision3. The Revision3 website has recently been relaunched with new featured content, and has been partnering with a couple of other services like Miro and Meebo in order to make its content more widely available as well.

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Facebook had planned on having a Facebook Developer's Garage this afternoon at 3 pm, where a few developers were set to present their experience in creating applications for Facebook's open platform, and other members of the audience could ask questions and learn more about the platform. After the Zuckerberg-Lacy Keynote revolt yesterday afternoon, however, Zuckerberg decided to use the Developer's Garage as an opportunity to address the debacle, and have an open Q&A session.

That made a lot of folks happy, and pretty darn excited about getting into the venue where the Developer's Garage is being held. I came an hour early to set up shop and see what Mark had to say in response to yesterday's keynote. I didn't get in early, but I got in.

After hearing an intro to the Facebook platform, an overview of the Facebook Fund, and some firsthand experience from Slide, drop.io and Joyet, Zuckerberg finally came on stage and opened the floor to questions from developers and other members of the audience. We all waiting for that one brave soul that would indeed ask Zuckerberg how he felt about yesterday's keynote, and he responded as such (my paraphrased version): Sarah Lacy asked some interesting questions, some of which are fascinating, but it seemed like the audience wanted to hear more about the Facebook features, the direction of Facebook, and the thing's we're doing for the developer and user communities.

Well, that's spot on, Zuckerberg.

The audience here at the Developer Garage was happy to ask about Zuckerberg's personal life (how Facebook has changed his personal life), about Facebook's past acquisition and how it will fit into Facebook's video, how privacy of feeds will be addressed, and if Zuckerberg could please grant more access to Facebook's API do developers for more robust and integrated applications. In response, Zuckerberg thinks his life is pretty cool since Facebook took off, while he's not sure how the acquisition will fit in, but he noted the importance of privacy as an ongoing goal for Facebook, and nicely diverted the request for a more accessible API.

Robert Scoble asked about Facebook's stance on the ability for third-party apps to export semi-private information like contact data and birthdays, and Zuckerberg noted that Facebook is devoted to protecting users from apps that scrape data, which is why Scoble's profile was in fact shut down. Equally important, however, is the follow-up question Scoble presented to Zuckerberg: what about the regular user (i.e. not Scoble) that can't email Facebook directly, and have their profile reinstated?

Zuckerberg spoke about the appeals system that Facebook has in place, which may not get back to you as quickly as it did for Scoble, but will eventually work out in the end (with the best interests of the end user in mind, of course). In all, I think it was a good move for Zuckerberg to present himself up for an open Q&A (no drama here) in order to appease the mob crowd that all but took over SXSW yesterday afternoon.

What do you think? See here for Brian Solis’ in depth interview, with Sara Lacy, after the storm.

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ValleyWag picked up a story from WTVQ in Kentucky today on a bit of proposed legislation by State Representative Tim Couch that has designs to make illegal the ability to post anonymously to the internet. The bill requires anyone who contributes to a website to register their real name, address and email address on that site.  Of course, the offender couldn’t be very easily prosecuted since there would be no way to track the anonymous poster, but the website operator would be forced to make their site compliant or otherwise face a fine of $500 per each offending post.

The goal of this legislation is to curb ‘online bullying,’ apparently, but it is a great example of the irrational backlash that I documented and predicted in the suicide edition of the Social Media Crime Blotter a few weeks ago.  In that situation, a string of suicides in a small UK town triggered lawmakers to work on legislation designed to keep Bebo users from ‘glorifying suicide victims.’

This time around, in response to recent suicides on MySpace and other events taking place online that resulted supposedly from online, US lawmakers are willing to suspend the right to speak freely to apply a bandaid to the problems of American young ones’ self esteem. Understandably, when the irresponsible actions of a few lead to the death of a family member, immediate and decisive action is wanted to rectify the issue legally.  Unfortunately, banning all anonymous commentary online is about like banning all gossip publications because Britney Spears became a bad mother due to overzealous paparazzi, or banning everything from pocket knives to nuclear arms because someone was mugged at the corner store.

Thankfully, though, even in the unlikely event this law is passed, it would be largely unenforceable.  I can’t imagine website purveyors around the world cowtowing to the unconstitutional mandates of Kentucky for their commenting and posting systems.

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Several weeks ago, we reported that Australian social network Faces.com had rather unceremoniously shutdown. Today, we've learned that the assets of the company have been acquired by 3BILL, the UK-based mobile content company that now appears to be moving into the social realm; you may recall that the company also snapped up Profile Heaven in recent weeks.

As for the future of Faces.com, for now the site has been brought back online – sort of. A message on the homepage reads:

“Faces.com and Tunefeed.com have recently been purchased by 3bill the mobile division of Symbios Group, we are in the process of trying to resume all previous services offered on these sites and will communicate in more detail in the next few days. It is likely there will be some disruption to some services but rest assured we are working on it!”

According to 3BILL, the plan is to integrate these recent acquisitions into one community and re-launch later this year, presumably under the premium Faces.com name.

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Sure, “moblogging” and “microblogging” is all the rage, but sometimes you get a great idea for a regular blog post while you’re out-and-about, you just have to put it on your regular blog as opposed to on some place special like Twitter. Well, no reason to wait until you get home and, as usual, forget what was on your mind: we’ve got 7 tools that’ll enable you to blog from just about anywhere.

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