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 By lucaso for Silicon Valley Watcher

As hypertext transformed the written web, so too may hypervideo transform the multimedia web.

Imagine watching a video piece on the web. Up pops an image of Hunter S. Thompson. You click on the image and the video you're watching stops and takes you to a video interview with the Gonzo journalist and Johnny Depp. You click on the image of Johnny Depp and you're brought to a clip of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." You complete the clip of "Fear and Loathing..." and you're brought back to the original clip where you first saw Thompson. This is hypervideo: a non-linear approach to web video viewing that is now in the early stages of development. Thanks to Crazy Wanda for pointing this one out to me.

CG reality

Is this photo real or CG? Spirit Monkey posted this on his tribe blog today and I was definitely blown away. Check out the CG society for more info on CG developments.

Metroproper: On the radar

My friend Phil Tadros has been working hard on this project for over a year. He tells me they're very close to launch date. Metroproper is a social network for business or personal profiles with citizen journalism in 400 cities around the world. I like the design a lot and I had sneak peak at the interface, which looks hot. Sign up to be notified when they go live at Metroproper.