Video Podcasts - Your 5-Minute Info Digest

Just as we launch our brand new video podcasting channel at our company, I've just read an interesting article about the new US president elect "The YouTube Presidency" and how Obama will turn his weekly presidential address into a 4-minute YouTube video. Even the Whitehouse website is changing with the times by getting their messages out to a wider web-savvy audience with RSS feeds, podcasts and videos of press briefings. Speaking of videos and changing times, Skype is under pressure from Google who launched a new plugin to their mail application. Google has integrated voice and video chat into its Google Mail web application. I haven't tried it yet but with their rich customer base this can only help in cementing Google's position as a one-stop-shop for the internet generation. If you combine all Googles applications (so far free of charge), you start to wonder if there is any hope left for truely desk-bound applications.