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Exhibit 10.1

                              CONSULTING AGREEMENT

         CONSULTING  AGREEMENT (the  "Agreement)  dated as of January 1, 2002 by
Tribeworks,  Inc.,  a  corporation  organized  under  the  laws of the  State of
California with principal place of business at 988 Market Street, San Francisco,
CA 94102 (the "Company"), and William R. Woodward (the "Consultant").

         WHEREAS, the Company is engaged in the business of design, development,
marketing and publication of multimedia authoring and deployment technologies;

         WHEREAS,   the  Company  and  Consultant  desire  to  enter  into  this
Agreement,  in order to  ensure  that the  experience  and  skill of  Consultant
related to the Company's business activities remain available to the Company for
a reasonable  period of time  hereafter upon such terms and conditions as stated
herein;

         NOW  THEREFORE,  in  consideration  of  the  covenants  and  agreements
hereinafter  set  forth,  and for other  good and  valuable  consideration,  the
receipt and adequacy of which are hereby  acknowledged,  it is hereby  agreed as
follows:

         Section 1.  SERVICES.  Consultant  shall  perform  business  consulting
services  according to specifications  and deadlines  mutually  agreeable to the
parties. These services shall include, but will not be limited to, the following
activities: MPEG-4 market assessment,  merger and acquisition consultation,  and
investor  awareness  consultation.  Both parties understand and agree that these
services  are separate  and outside of the scope of the  Consultant's  role as a
member of the Company's  Board of  Directors.  All services  rendered  hereunder
shall be performed by Consultant under the direction of the Company's management
and on a 'best effort basis'.

         Section 2.  COMPENSATION.  Consultant shall be paid a consulting fee of
three-thousand  three-hundred  thirty-three dollars ($3,333) per month. Payments
are to be made in cash,  although  the parties  agree to negotiate in good faith
for  alternative  methods of payment,  including  Company  stock,  or options to
purchase Company stock.

         Section 3. TERM.  This Agreement  shall commence on the date hereof and
shall  terminate on December 31, 2002. This Agreement shall not terminate if the
Consultant ceases to be a member of the Company's Board of Directors.

         Section  4.  OWNERSHIP  OF WORK  PRODUCTS.  Provided  all  fees  due to
Consultant  according to the present  agreement  have been  effectively  paid to
Consultant, all developments,  improvements,  discoveries, inventions, products,
product formulae,  drawings,  procedures,  processes,  specifications,  reports,
notes,  documents,  information and other materials made, conceived,  reduced to
practice or developed by Consultant alone or with others,  which directly result
from work performed by Consultant for the Company (the "Work Product"),  and any
information  Consultant  may receive from the Company in the course of providing
the Services hereunder,  shall be the property of the Company. The Company shall
have the sole right to make, have made, use, sell, license,  disclose,  publish,
produce  derivative  works or otherwise  disseminate or transfer  rights in such
Work Products.

         Section 5.  ASSIGNMENT OF RIGHTS.

         a.       Provided all fees due to Consultant according to the present
agreement have been effectively paid to Consultant, all Work Product, together
will all related rights (such as copyrights, patents, trademarks and trade
secrets) shall belong exclusively to the Company. In no case shall any Work
Product be considered a joint work or shall Consultant retain any interest in
it.

         b.       Consultant agrees:

                  (i)  to disclose promptly all Work Product to the Company;

                  (ii)  to assign, and Consultant hereby does assign, to the
Company all rights to such Work Product; and

                  (iii) to assist  the  Company  in  taking  steps  that  may be
reasonably required for the Company to obtain or perfect its copyright,  patent,
trademark,  trade  secret,  or other  rights  worldwide,  as the  Company  deems
appropriate,  and the Company agrees to pay Consultant for his time in assisting
with legal  formalities at  Consultant's  standard rate for such services and to
pay all reasonable  out-of-pocket  expenses  incurred by Consultant in providing
this assistance.

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         c.       The  obligation to disclose,  assign  and  assist set forth in
Section 6(b) shall survive termination or expiration of this Agreement.

         d.       Consultant  shall  obtain  from  his  partners, employees  and
agents, such agreements (which will be provided by the Company upon request from
Consultant)  as will permit  Consultant  to fully comply with the  provisions of
this Section 6.

         Section 6. PRE-EXISTING OBLIGATIONS;INFRINGEMENT. Consultant represents
and warrants that neither  Consultant  nor his partners,  employees or agents is
under any  pre-existing  obligation  inconsistent  with the  provisions  of this
Agreement.  Consultant  warrants  that he has the right to  disclose  or use all
ideas, processes, techniques and other information, if any, which Consultant has
gained from third parties, which Consultant shall disclose to the Company in the
course of performance of this Agreement, without liability of Consultant to such
third  parties.  Consultant  represents and warrants that he has not granted any
rights or  licenses  to any  intellectual  property  or  technology  that  would
conflict with Consultant's  obligations under this Agreement. To the extent that
Consultant  has  intellectual  property  rights of any kind in any  pre-existing
works which are subsequently incorporated in the Work Product, Consultant hereby
grants  the  Company  a  royalty-free,  irrevocable,  world-wide,  non-exclusive
license  to make,  have  made,  use sell,  license,  disclose,  publish  produce
derivative  works of or otherwise  disseminate or transfer such subject  matter.
Consultant will not knowingly infringe upon any copyright,  patent, trade secret
or other  property  right of any former  client,  employer or third party in the
performance of the services required by this Agreement.

         Section 7. RELATIONSHIP OF THE PARTIES.  Consultant  is  an independent
contractor.  Nothing  in this  Agreement  shall be taken to  create or imply any
partnership,   agency  or  employment   relationship  between  the  Company  and
Consultant.  Except as set forth herein, Consultant will not be eligible for any
benefits  applicable  to the  Company's  employees.  Consultant  shall  have  no
authority to enter into contracts that bind the Company or create obligations on
the part of the Company without the prior written authorization for the Company.

         Section 8.  EFFECT OF TERMINATION.

         a.       Upon termination of this Agreement, Consultant shall deliver
to Company  within ten (10) days from the effective  date of termination of this
Agreement:

                  (i)  Any property of the Company in the possession or control
of Consultant;

                  (ii) All Work Product, whether finished or unfinished,
prepared or produced by Consultant for the benefit of the Company under this
Agreement.

         b.       The termination of this Agreement shall not relieve Consultant
of his  obligations  under  Sections  4 and 5 of this  Agreement.  Any  licenses
granted to the Company  hereunder shall survive any termination or expiration of
this Agreement. Notwithstanding any contrary terms in the present agreement, the
application  of this clause is subjected to prior full payment to  Consultant of
all fees due according to this agreement.

         Section 9. NOTICES. All notices, requests, demands and other
communications  under this Agreement  shall be deemed to have been given if made
in writing and personally delivered or mailed, postage prepaid, to the addresses
set forth herein.

         Section 10. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. This Agreement shall be governed,
construed, and performed in accordance with the laws of California. Any dispute,
controversy,  or difference which may arise between the parties hereto out of or
in relation to or in  connection  with this  Agreement,  or any breach  thereof,
shall be settled amicably between the parties,  but in the event of a failure to
reach an amicable  settlement,  shall be finally  resolved by arbitration in the
city where the main office of the defendant is located, pursuant to the American
Arbitration Association.  Any waiver by Consultant or the Company of a breach of
any  provision  of this  Agreement  by the other  party  shall not operate or be
construed  as a  waiver  of any  subsequent  breach  by the  other  party.  This
Agreement  may be amended or modified only by a written  instrument  executed by
the parties  hereto.  In the event that any term or condition  contained in this
Agreement  shall be  declared by any court or other  judicial or  administrative
body to be null,  void or  unenforceable,  said  provision  shall survive to the
extent it is not so declared,  and all of the other provisions of this Agreement
shall  remain in full  force and  effect.  This  Agreement  contains  the entire
understanding  between the parties  hereto with respect to the matters set forth
herein and supercedes and replaces all prior and contemporaneous  agreements and
understandings, oral or written, with regard to such matters. This Agreement may
be executed in counterparts,  each of which shall be deemed an original, but all
of which shall  constitute  the same

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instrument.  The  section  headings in this  Agreement  are for  convenience  of
reference only and shall not be deemed to alter or affect any provision thereof.

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         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement on
the date first written above.

TRIBEWORKS, INC.

By:/s/ ROBERT C. DAVIDORF
   ______________________
   Name: Robert C. Davidorf
   Title: Chief Financial Officer

                                                   WILLIAM R. WOODWARD

                                                   /s/ WILLIAM R. WOODWARD
                                                   _______________________
                                                   Name: William R. Woodward
                                                   Title: IndividualEXHIBIT 10.24.2

                  Schedule of Omitted Documents in the Form of
                   Exhibit 10.24, including Material Detail in
                 Which Such Documents Differ From Exhibit 10.24

         Indemnification Agreement, dated as of June 28, 2002, between John
Milcetich and the Registrant.

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