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TechCrunch50 is broadcasting the conference live with their partner UStream which means our fans and supporters can watch our presentation live this morning during the 10:30 Pacific time session on gaming. We've included the live broadcast of the event here. Wish us luck and we look forward to welcoming you into the Akoha community of players soon. Updated 14:39. Our presentation went really well. If you missed it, you can watch the recorded version below.

Panda, an open source project, will let any site owner willing to do a little coding and integration work to allow user video uploads and playback. Think YouTube in a box. The software itself is free and will run on Amazon Web Services EC2, S3 and SimpleDB. You'll have to pay for the Amazon services, but this is a nice step forward from a variety of existing paid services out there like Zencoder, SesameVault and Hey!Watch. Panda handles all aspects of uploading, transcoding and streaming, handing things off to a Flash player like JW FLV Player by default.

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The basic premise of the system is that users can tag items into their online archives and befriend other users to share access to part or all of their items saved. The real differentiation, however, is found in the feature set.