I am not even sure what this is. Gizmodo rarely breaks away from their usual fare of programmable toasters and Apple news. So when they blog about a mysterious, non-English shopping site you have to look.

Take note: if you are on psychedelic drugs when viewing the site you may not notice anything special.

People are saying the broadcasters are in trouble, that the future consumers of video entertainment will turn to the Internet, and turn the TV off. I don’t buy it, at least not yet. There is a saying: “content is king”.

Right now the quality content is not online; it’s still in the kung-fu grip of traditional broadcasters. Sure you can see hundreds of clips online of people blowing things up, getting hit in the groin, or building epic Slip N’ Slides, but no one would ever waste their time watching if it wasn’t free, and they weren’t at work, bored.

There are, however, a few bright spots in the online video wasteland. These sites tend to be less popular than Youtube, and a lot edgier. Here is a small sampling of the online video underground:

www.heavy.com - Heavy has been around for a while, and features both original and third party content.

www.metacafe.com- They claim to have the very best video content on the web, a claim many would agree with.

www.vbs.tv - This is a site from the people at Vice, and is sure to generate a solid cult following.

After many months of speculation, today Google finally confirmed their intentions for the mobile device market. Some expected a radically new take on the cell phone, while others speculated Google would stay in its comfort zone, and begin their foray into the cell industry with mobile software.

The latter group was correct, Google announced a mobile software platform named “Android”. Android is part of the Open Handset Alliance, which aims to create an open and powerful set of tools that will power a new generation of mobile devices.

This all sound slightly familiar. I could swear a few years ago another company tried the same thing and failed. I would write the Open Handset Alliance off, but hey, it’s Google. I have a feeling things are about to get very interesting in the world of cell phones.