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For a good example of using video for a social cause, check out 8 Wishes. Paul Sanchez is raising money for children with learning disabilities, and took a solo bike trip around the U.S. He’s now half way through his 30-day mission to have these 8 wishes met: Raise one million dollars 100 million views…

In an interesting update on the preroll formats on the world’s largest video site, Gigaom reports that 60% of prerolls are “skippable.” After 5 seconds the viewer can jump past the ad, and advertisers pay nothing. The piece also quoted CEO Larry Page as saying that growth wouldn’t necessarily come at the expense of TV…

Ah the curse of success. It’s so wonderfully evident in these comments reported by TechCrunch today: News Corp. (MySpace) chief operating officer Peter Chernin told company investors today that, “If you look at virtually any Web 2.0 application, whether its YouTube, whether it’s Flickr, whether it’s Photobucket or any of the next-generation Web applications, almost…