Some of the coolest, most innovative features about ooVoo are not the most heralded. The thing ooVoo leads with is the six-person video chat that takes up almost no bandwith based on a special new technology.  However, Web Workers Daily really gets why ooVoo is surely cool, even if you don’t consider the five-plus-oneself video and audio chat:

“You can also record and send video messages, even to recipients who are not ooVoo users. In a nice touch, they’ve leveraged their infrastructure for this to allow ooVoo to serve as a general file sending mechanism: up to 20 files at a time, each up to 25MB, which is nice if you’re stuck with email that throttles you down to unreasonably small attachment sizes. There are various other bells and whistles like click-to-call “ooVoo Me” links for your blog and importing contacts from your address book, but the video conferencing and video mail features are the clear core.” Via Web Workers Daily

“The BBC has posted an online interface into catalog of 946,614 BBC radio & TV programmes, dating back 75 years.” Via Boing Boing and the BBC

“Grokster downloading service shuts down: Another one bites the dust. After they lost the Supreme Court ruling, there wasn’t much left to do, I guess.” Via Gadgetopia & USA Today

There are so many new books on blogs, blogging, the blogoshpere, corporate blogging, business blogging, Movable Type, and WordPress.

“BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer technology that has become one of the most popular methods for sharing files, has landed $8.75 million in funding.” Via BetaNews.

The rumor mill is going mental based on a posting by B.L. Ochman, “Here’s a tip I was given this morning from a venture capitalist who is ‘heavily invested’ in the blogosphere: Technorati is about to be sold to a large search engine company.”

“The deal should go down in about a week. My bet is on Yahoo!” This updates the rumor about Yahoo! developing a Technorati killer — I guess that means in this case buying it outright.

Piracy aside, BitTorrent is a phenomenal tool that is an exercise in paradox.

Traditional methods of large file distribution require that “the more popular the file, the slower the download” (from divying the bandwidth); “BitTorrent‘s architecture means that the more popular the file is the faster it downloads” — and more cheaply because every downloader becomes an active host (for bandwidth and storage). Via Wired Magazine.