Do you like to talk about the news? Want to find other people in your neck of the woods that also like to talk about the news? If so, you should check out Topix. At the spring Digital Hollywood, I interviewed Chris Tolles, CEO of Topix, to discuss the social news site. Chris describes how Topix takes news feeds from a vast array of news sites and uses sophisticated algorithms to process the news into locations and categories. The result is the Topix news feed. Want to find local news just put in your zip code and you get a filter which presents news relating to your area. The really interesting part about Topix is the conversation about the news.

Saturday's NY Times Television story, You’ve Seen the YouTube Video; Now Try the Documentary, describes a viral video's journey from YouTube to National Geographic Channel. It's an extraordinary video of a herd of buffalo fighting off a pride of lions and a croc to save one of its calves, and the video's adventure is almost as fascinating as the battle footage, with its viral popularity and National Geographic's interest triggered by an incidental upload to YouTube because it was cheaper and easier than burning a DVD and mailing via USPS. The New York Times story speaks to the growing power and influence of the internet and YouTube relative to broadcast television. But there's also a meta-story that reinforces the challenge that traditional media companies face as they come to terms with the internet.

In what was certainly the funniest and most enjoyable presentation at Web 2.0 Expo, Dan Lyons AKA Fake Steve Jobs, discusses how he came to start the Fake Steve blog and explains why he thinks it works. Thanks to the Web 2.0 team for putting together this video and the other videos from the Web 2.0 Expo.

Tim O'Reilly interviews Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun. Sun pioneered the phrase the network is the computer. Tim asks Jonathan about how he uses blogging to help run Sun, what he thinks about cloud computing, the acquisition of MySQL, the challenges of power consumption and the importance of data in the world of the networked computer.

Yahoo's CTO Ari Balogh opened his speech at Web 2.0 Expo speaking about about 3 big bets: being the most important starting point for the web, being a must buy advertising property and being open. In his speech Ari, describes Yahoo's New Open Strategy called Y! OS.

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