I wanted to share with you a video that was published today on TED.com. It’s a talk given by Kevin Kelly, the editor of Wired and well known author of many books on biology, business, technology and the internet.

Mr. Kelly talked about the fact that the world wide web we know today is only 5,000 days old. He describes how it was impossible to imagine the current day web back then, and also that we are unable to image what it will evolve into over the next 5,000 days.

Instead of me trying to describe what’s in this talk, why don’t you view it yourself? In less than 20 minutes you’ll get a birds eye view of the development of the web, looking back 5,000 days and 5,000 days into the future.

Just before the weekend, OpenX.org announced the availability of the new OpenX Consultants Directory. This directory helps OpenX users (and people considering to start using OpenX) to find an independent consultant. Consultants offer their services to help with various jobs such as installation, configuration, upgrading, training, and website integration.

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On July 4, 2008, I had the pleasure of attending the second ever OpenX seminar, held in Cologne, Germany. About 50 publishers (representing a wide variety of large and small sites) from Germany showed up, and 3 OpenX users from eBuddy in The Netherlands had traveled from Amsterdam to join the seminar. We were welcomed by Anna Skorupa and Simon Bailey from OpenX. Also present were Niels Leenheer (one of the original creators of phpAdsNew, OpenX’s predecessor), Heiko Weber (OpenX consultant) and Tobias Schwarz (another OpenX consultant).

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