Ross Dawson has blogged about hot new Web 2.0 companies from Australia here.

Good to see that Vquence was included! Thanks, Ross.

As you can see from the blog entry below, Vquence is now embedding ok.

If you start playing the video in the blog entry below you can see underlying thumbnails of the subsidiary content. You can click 'through' any one of the slices and will be taken to the underlying YouTube page.

So once the authoring tools are released you will be able to created video playlists (as opposed to text with thumbnails) of your favourite videos and then embed them on your blog as one single video object. It takes up minimal real estate on your blog page. It gives you the opportunity to reference more than one story in an entry with supporting video. It has the ability to be able to include ads. And soon will be able to also be sent to mobile phones.

Pretty nifty, eh?

Here is another try at embedding a Vquence.

This one features the Top 10 YouTube videos of the last week as at May 29th.

Apparently there are still some bugs in the Vquence embedding. The Vquence that should be below is showing up an error message.

Should be fixed during the morning. I will be blogging about it again once this problem has been sorted out.

After a huge amount of effort by the dev team at Vquence, the first iteration has gone live!

For an example you can see below:

It is a video that is made of thin slices of other videos. And you can click through the videos to get to the underlying content. And of course since this is here on this blog, clearly you can embed the vquence too.

In a month's time the company will be releasing the authoring tools that enable anyone to do this. In the meantime you will have to be satisfied with embedding staff created vquences - essentially playlists of videos that are made using the underlying content to create a mashup that is clickable/linkable.

Over the last week the team at Vquence has been working to get all the bugs out of the IE version of our Alpha. Doesn't it say something that a product like Firefox which is open source can be so cool and IE, built with the phenomenal resources of Microsoft and all the engineers they can throw at something, should take so long to get all the bugs fixed in an web application.

And the truly painful thing is that so many corporates have IE locked into their systems. So until we have all the IE bugs sorted out, we just can't announce a launch....

On June 6th the Web 2.0 in Australia event takes place.  The driving force behind it is Ross Dawson, and I applaud him for the focus and energy he has put into making this event happen.

Unfortunately I am not going to be able to attend. Going to be back in the US meeting with VC's once again....  (Silvia Pfeiffer will probably be there from Vquence and either Karl Rodrigues or Robyn Gilbey from OneMinuteWorld).

One thing I learned from previous incarnations in various businesses about doing business in America, is that if you keep going there long enough, you build relationships and those relationships turn into deals. And the deals turn into profit for everyone. It is just a matter of staying on track....

Speaking at the Web 2.0 event will be Randall Leeb-du Toit who is the CEO of Yoick. (Very talented guy who deserves to do well with his company), Allan Aaron (great guy and one of the founding partners of TVP. And TVP has a tremendous history in picking winners from Australia), Brad Howarth (also a great guy - and a journalist who is very knowledgeable about tech), and a bunch of other people. Should by a great day.

Why Truemors ? an extract from the About us section of Truemors.com

Take a note of their belief in demonstrative technology — products/solutions that enable the open exhibition and expression of information, emotions, and opinions. 

" First, call us romantics, but we believe in the democratization of information—that is, access for everyone to everything. A long time ago royalty and religious leaders had scribes. Around 600 the Chinese printed using negative reliefs. Around 1450 Johann Gutenberg combined hundreds of years of progress into the screw printing press.

Fast forward to 1985 when Apple (Macintosh), Aldus (PageMaker), and Adobe (PostScript) produced “desktop publishing.” A few years later people could create web sites. Then blogging appeared on the scene. Still, people needed a computer and a blogging tool like WordPress or TypePad to disseminate information.

As Steve Jobs would say, “There must be a better way.” Not that Truemors is in the same league as Gutenberg, Apple, Aldus, Adobe, etc., but now people just need a phone or web access to tell the world.

Second, we also believe in demonstrative technology—that is, products that enable the open exhibition and expression of information, emotions, and opinions. Where democratization implies that the many can read the content of the few, demonstrative technology enables the many to create content too. Thus, Truemors is the melding of democratization and demonstration—and you thought it was just a web site. "