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- Veoh raises $30M from Intel and Adobe

- ABC.com stats are out in the open

- Scott Kirsner, fellow contributer to the workbook project, discusses web video financing

- Cyril Zimmerman shares some EU video CPM

Have a great day!

Some of the more interesting links on the web today:

- Om Malik has an interesting view on the grim future of stand-alone boxes in the living room - have to agree with him on that.

- Newteevee published a short article about cool new P2P devices.

- Lance Weiler discuss his "lesson learned" from an interactive screening of his movie Head Trauma.

- My friend Tsahi send me an excellent legal guide for bloggers.

Recently I wrote a post about the importance of a good story, mentioning the amazing book by Robert Mckee with the same title.

Not long after that, Lance Weiler, an independent film producer, director and distributor, who directed movies such as Head Trauma and The Last Broadcast, published a great post about the relation between video games and movie scripts, discussing the same McKee book.

The post, written by M.Strange, and published at the Workbook Project blog, was a real eye opener, and simplified a lot of the concepts in the original book.

Here is a small example, comparing the idea of gradual increase in tension, with difficulty levels of Bosses in most video games:

I wanted to write about Lance for some time, as he is a multidisciplinary person with strong understanding of the power of social networks and online promotion. The Workbook project, one of zillion websites, is a great source for DYI filmmaking and thought leadership.

Lance, if you are reading this post - drop me a line, I'd love to e-mail interview you for my humble blog!

Here's the song from M.Strange first movie, "We Are The Strange":