Okay, okay, I know that mayoral proclamations are a dime a dozen, or 365 per year, but since the NYC Online Advertising Community is now getting an entire week, I think proclamations have to be the coolest thing since bananas.

Fiesta time everybody!

Greeting attendees of the Future of Online Advertising (FOOA) conference at Gotham Hall today was this Official Proclamation signed by the Mayor himself (will this also be at the uber-sold-out PaidConent Mixer tonight?):

(sorry for the quality of the picture, it’s taken with my MacBook’s built in camera, which evidently flips images)

Charlie O'Donnell makes a great point today about what it takes to join the ranks of venture capital. Yesterday I was having beers with Dan Putt and we got to thinking about the best and brightest (and the youngest) of NYC's tech scene. There are so many talented people out here and you only get to know them through interactions on blogs, tech meetups, discussion boards and co-working. Its the

If you’re in NYC and working on a Facebook app (or want to be) come and chat with some likeminded folks next Wednesday at 7pm. Location TBD.

RSVP for NYC Facebook Developers Meetup

Congrats to SoHo/Chinatown-based Blip.tv and its founders for their new round of funding.

News of the round was first covered by NewTeeVee, and then picked up by the NYTimes.I had the pleasure of hanging out with CEO Mike Hudack in their offices last week and I’ll join in the chorus of folks saying “they get it.”

Also, if you want an opportunity to hang out with the Blip team and congradulate them in person, check out this fun event going on in NYC on Sunday, June 10th. They’ll be showing some of their favorite Blip.tv clips on the big screen at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater, on 3rd and Ave A in the East Village.

Perhaps classifying the just-announced YouTube/Apple TV partnership as a small step understates the issue. This is big, no matter how you slice it. While it may push the limits of acceptable video quality with 320x240 pixel videos stretched to HD proportions, the millions of YouTube devotees and the as yet unwashed masses are about to change the nature of living room entertainment. Is YouTube the 800 lb. gorilla that is the special case here or does this signal days to come when you might tune in to the For Your Imagination Channel on your Apple TV to catch the latest from Patrice Oneal, bschooltalk and Design2Share. Setting up playlists to do just that is possible but not necessarily something the casual living room video browser wants to deal with. (In a future post, we'll outline a step-by-step guide to setting up your own iTunes video podcast playlist.)