FORA.tv supports Facebook Connect

You can now log-in to FORA.tv using Facebook Connect. By logging-in with your Facebook username and password, you can choose to have the comments you make and the programs you save to your profile on FORA.tv also shared on your Facebook wall.

Cool, right? You can keep all your Facebook peeps in the loop about what you're enjoying on FORA.tv.

Very soon, you'll also be able to see all your Facebook friends who also log-in using Facebook connect when you're on FORA.tv. We'll tell you all about that when it's ready.

Here's the step-by-step:
Click on the "Login using Facebook" button on the top right-hand side of FORA.tv
Enter your Facebook username and password
Choose whether you want to your your Facebook name or create a FORA.tv nickname and voila - you're logged-in to FORA.tv with your Facebook credentials and privacy settings

More deets about Facebook connect are available here on their developer page if you're interested in learning more about this automagic way to bring your Facebook identity and privacy settings around the web with you.

FORA.tv contributor, Phil Bronstein, on Colbert Report

San Francisco Chronicle Editor at Large and FORA.tv contributor, Phil Bronstein, stood toe to toe with Stephen Colbert. Phil even brought out his sardonic side suggesting that folks should go to jail for viewing news for free.

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Phil has also hosted a couple of compelling interviews on FORA.tv. My favorite is the interview with David Ewing Duncan, "The Experimental Man."

Twanks to great tweeps

We like to say 'Twanks' – our thanks to FORA.tv’s wonderful Twitter friends. This week we want to give shout-outs to three great tweeps; @willpate, @TRICIAGOTTESMAN and @jeremiahcsmith.

Will Pate is an impressive entrepreneur who founded Raincity Studios in Vancouver, served as community ambassador at Flock, hosts the technology video show commandN and has just joined the Board of Visible Government. To top it all off, he has a ridiculously cute dog named Beta. You can read more about Will on his blog. We noticed this tweet from willpate yesterday:

Just discovered the brilliance that is FORA.tv

That is so darn nice of you Will. And we are thrilled you feel that way.

New to twitter this spring, Tricia Gottesman from New York City has begun tweeting insightful comments about the state of media and the economy. A quick search on the google indicates that she has had a long and distinguished career in product and marketing for cablevision. She humbly describes herself as a

Media exec with a great husband, four great kids and three great dogs

This tweet from @TRICIAGOTTESMAN caught our eye:

And loving fora.tv--a rewarding low-key video news source.

Thanks Tricia. We look forward to hearing more from you and getting to know you better.

Jeremiah Smith is a marketing consultant and SEO specialist from Atlanta who runs his own freelance consulting agency, which you can learn more about on his blog. @jeremiahcsmith tweeted:

@gregbond Great video, I love TED Talks. I accidentally found this one a few days ago: http://fora.tv/ BIG thinkers, I love it!

Thanks Jeremiah. We heart big thoughts too :) And most of all, we heart our FORA.tv fans.

SocialSite in the house

How fitting that we connected with Mike Grishaver, the talented entrepreneur behind the SocialSite widget system, on twitter. Mike has developed a very cool widget that reaches out through the interwebs and brings back dynamic updates on where people are mentioning us, from twitter, to digg, delicious, YouTube, flickr and inbound blog posts. It's a great way for us to get to know our FORA.tv fans even better, and we heart any tool that helps us do that.

Mike is a delight to work with and we think he has a great thing going with Thingfo's SocialSite widget. It's easy to implement, customizable, free (!) and as he says:

With SocialSite, you can leverage the extended social network for your blog, your website and your interests. Get great content. Connect with great content creators.

We knew we needed to put SocialSite here on our blog where we could be continually amazed by all the fantastic and far-flung places that FORA.tv programs and conversations turn up. Check it out.

FORA.tv On-The-Fly: Rapid Fire Q&A @ last week's Web 2.0 Expo

At last week's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, FORA.tv sat down with Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Founder and CEO), Joshua Ruihley (Sunlight Foundation), Sarah Milstein (Co-Author, The Twitter Book), SEO Expert Vanessa Fox, Jen Pahlka (Web 2.0 Expo Conference Co-Chair), Alexander Kolpin (Berlin Partner), and Brady Forrest (Technical Evangelist and Web 2.0 Conference Chair),

In a rapid fire-style Q&A session, several on-the-fly questions were asked of these brilliant industry insiders. The results are spontaneous, fun, surprising, smart, and very interesting answers. Check it out:

Brainstorming Fwitter

Lots of late night whiteboard sessions while brainstorming our newest iteration, Fwitter. Our crack team of talented product developers really stumbled onto a truly innovative and game changing product!

In the spirit of transparency, check out this iPhone pic documenting what will surely prove to be a defining moment in the FORA.tv success story.

Fwitter: Get Smart Faster

The Economist and FORA.tv

Yesterday, the FORA.tv audience saw what happens when a 166 year-old media giant joins forces with a fast-growing online video start-up. The result: The Economist and FORA.tv publishing videos from The Economist Marketing Forum.

The Economist, in the words of one of its legendary editors, is famously dedicated to throwing "white light on the subjects within its range." In this case, the subject was marketing in the midst of an incredibly challenging economic environment. And given the brainpower present at the event, much white light was thrown. But the chief marketing officers and executives also discussed such news topics as the fate of AIG.

We leave it you, FORA.tv members, to continue the conversation: