Re: [videoblogging] Pixelodeon attendees
Sorry for the delay on this everyone -- I was able to find two group discount options in the area for Pixelodeon through the travel agency that helped us with bookings for the Frederator Awards. Here are the details -- if there's interest, please let me know and I will coordinate with the Pixelodeon gang to get these blocked off. 1) Magic Castle -- no block needed for discount. Our corp. rate at Magic Castle is $149 for a queen room and $159/nt for a 1-BR suite. But the 1-BR suites are very shareable -- they have a sleeper sofa in the living room and either 1 king or 2 double beds in the bedroom. 2) Hollywood Celebrity Hotel -- $129/nt for double queen rooms $119/nt for king rooms If the group falls below 10 rooms, the rate would go up $10. per room. We would need a credit card to block the space, but specials terms would apply -- 2 weeks notice for cancellations. Taxes are addl 14%. Here's their website: http://www.hotelcelebrity.com/ It's a basic, but clean, comfortable motel type place; recently renovated. Double queen rooms can be shared, max of 4 people.
Re: [videoblogging] Pixelodeon attendees
Some more Magic Castle details -- only 6 king rooms left available there. These have 1 king bed in the bedroom and a full/queen sofabed in the living room. Unfortunately, none of the 3 suites with 2 Queen beds is available; neither are the 2-BR suites. I'd need to grab quickly -- best, Tim On 5/11/07, T Shey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the delay on this everyone -- I was able to find two group discount options in the area for Pixelodeon through the travel agency that helped us with bookings for the Frederator Awards. Here are the details -- if there's interest, please let me know and I will coordinate with the Pixelodeon gang to get these blocked off. 1) Magic Castle -- no block needed for discount. Our corp. rate at Magic Castle is $149 for a queen room and $159/nt for a 1-BR suite. But the 1-BR suites are very shareable -- they have a sleeper sofa in the living room and either 1 king or 2 double beds in the bedroom. 2) Hollywood Celebrity Hotel -- $129/nt for double queen rooms $119/nt for king rooms If the group falls below 10 rooms, the rate would go up $10. per room. We would need a credit card to block the space, but specials terms would apply -- 2 weeks notice for cancellations. Taxes are addl 14%. Here's their website: http://www.hotelcelebrity.com/ It's a basic, but clean, comfortable motel type place; recently renovated. Double queen rooms can be shared, max of 4 people. -- --- Tim Shey http://shey.net/ Check out the Next New Networks! http://nextnewnetworks.com/networks.html ---
Re: [videoblogging] On a different note than Wikipedia...
I already direct Twittered Schlomo about this, but let me just say for the record I love this show. Video Instructables on Webshots? Brilliant. On 5/3/07, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I started a new show for CNet last week and we've put up the second episode. http://weknowhow.tv --- Tim Shey http://shey.net/ Check out the Next New Networks! http://nextnewnetworks.com/networks.html ---
Re: [videoblogging] Pixelodeon attendees
A lot of web 2.0 types I know love the Farmer's Daughter. Not too far from AFI (I used to spend a LOT of time there). http://www.farmersdaughterhotel.com/ I'd say consider staying in Hollywood or West Hollywood rather than downtown -- it can make for a bit of a trip in the morning across Hollywood but it's more fun. There's a couple affordable decent places there like The Standard (if you want crazy loud and tragically hip) and a couple of Best Westerns -- one on Highland, one on the Sunset Strip -- that aren't bad at all (or weren't last I stayed there). Also, we were able to get a very affordable hookup for everyone at Next New Networks coming out for the Channel Frederator Awards at the Magic Castle, which is very close to AFI, and everyone on our team seemed to love it. If people want to band together and get a bunch of rooms there, I know a travel agent who could possibly get a discount block there. http://www.magiccastle.com/
Re: [videoblogging] Pixelodeon attendees
Forgot to mention -- Erin on our team here at NNN worked at AFI for several years and ran their Digital Content Lab there. I am sure she has a go-to list of places for people to stay -- it's how I found most of the places above. I'll ask her and re-post her recommendations. --- Tim Shey http://shey.net/ Check out the Next New Networks! http://nextnewnetworks.com/networks.html ---
Re: [videoblogging] Blip / Alive in Baghdad / Josh Leo in the news
That's so cool, Mike, congrats! It makes so much sense for advertisers to get involved with and support those shows; they can reach audiences on a much more personal level, as many people on this list have shown. If Walt likes watching videoblogs, and found it easy to find some favorites on Blip.tv, the big audiences can't be far behind. On 3/6/07, Mike Hudack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will tell you that the Mossberg article led to a ton of e-mails from media buyers, unsolicited phone calls from recruiters and some of the biggest traffic days that blip.tv has ever seen. Our ad sales pipeline doubled. We're super proud of the article. Walt highlighted some of his favorite shows and some of ours (GNB, AIB, Josh...), validated videoblogging and called blip.tv his favorite. Wh! We spent months talking to Walt and working on this story. We couldn't be happier! By the way, if you get a chance, definitely watch Walt's video that accompanied his column. You can find it at the bottom of http://ptech.wsj.com/ptech.html until Thursday morning. -Original Message- From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Garfield Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 9:11 AM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Blip / Alive in Baghdad / Josh Leo in the news I'm interested, how much email did the people in the article actually get. How many web pages views compared to a normal day...? On Mar 6, 2007, at 8:40 AM, T Shey wrote: Wow, had no one linked this yet? It was none other than Walt Mossberg -- him writing about videoblogging is a Big Deal. Capitalized. Congrats to everyone he mentioned, whom I imagine have all gotten a bunch of email. Lots of people read Mossberg. Original link: http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20070301.html -- Steve Garfield http://SteveGarfield.com Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links -- --- Tim Shey http://nextnewnetworks.com/ http://shey.net/
Re: [videoblogging] Blip / Alive in Baghdad / Josh Leo in the news
Wow, had no one linked this yet? It was none other than Walt Mossberg -- him writing about videoblogging is a Big Deal. Capitalized. Congrats to everyone he mentioned, whom I imagine have all gotten a bunch of email. Lots of people read Mossberg. Original link: http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20070301.html On 3/6/07, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp?a=286422z=23 Just found this piece. Jan
Re: [videoblogging] Joost for Mac in Beta
I downloaded and played with it a bit last night, we have a few beta testing accounts via our company. The video quality was pretty impressive over my wifi connection... froze up once or twice but in general videos started playing pretty quickly and looked pretty sharp and smooth. It beats any progressive Flash video out there I've seen, and as more people download it, it'll only get better. That said, the user interface and the content they've signed on so far leave a lot of room for improvement -- but those to me seem like the easier things to fix. The minute they give me some extra invites, I'll be happy to spread them around. On 2/18/07, Ryan Kawailani Ozawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Noted on BoingBoing: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/17/now_in_beta_intel_ma.html Links here: http://www.joost.com/betatest/ A quick review here by Bryan Wyrick: http://blog.brianwyrick.com/?p=7 Any Joosters try the Mac version? I know Windows folks have been playing with it for a while. Meanwhile I'm still scrounging about for an invite code (sheepish grin)... Ryan HawaiiVog http://www.lightfantastic.org/imr/extras/videoblog [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
[videoblogging] Thanks from Channel Frederator
Just wanted to thank everyone in the LA vlogging community who came for the Channel Frederator Awards party. It was lots of fun, and we've cut together some fun little things we did during the night with the award-winners into an 8-episode series for the site, starring videoblogger Justin Johnson, who after the awards moved to NYC to become our first full-time associate producer. The first four parts went up this week, the most recent including a special appearance by my hero, John Lasseter of Pixar, who has a lot of nice things to say about animation and independent media on the internet. If you'd like to check them out: http://channelfrederator.com . Best -- and many thanks -- Tim --- Tim Shey http://nextnewnetworks.com/ http://shey.net/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: viewer feedback
When asked about this once, Ze Frank was quick to say that it's only a very small percentage of his audience -- a fringe, really -- who interact with the show. But it's enough to be a really vibrant part -- and it ebbs and flows who participates, and he really cultivates it. The thing that I really like about this medium is the opportunity to work the audience in more. That said, it's not unique to vlogging... the Colbert Report uses some of the best tricks, too. (more here if interested: http://blog.nextnewnetworks.com/index.php/2006/12/13/an-evening-with-the-colbert-report/ ) Sometimes it's just your friends, or the real nuts, who comment or send things in at first... but the people like Rocketboom and Jet Set and Ze who have worked them into a big part of what they're doing usually find it builds up. We don't get many comments on Frederator and VOD Cars -- people still usually use the 800-number and email to talk to us, and they're a definite minority every time -- but when we saw all those people come to our party last month, we realized they really were out there. A lot of people just like to watch. On 2/10/07, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Study Ze Frank. J On 2/9/07, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, bestdamntechshow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do all of you feel about the user feedback that you get? is it enough (like there is such thing as enough), or are you concerned that people are just watching and not getting involved. how do we turn that trend around? what type of tools do we need to really break the wall down and gain one on one relationships with the people who watch our videos? _drew www.pluggd.com That's an interesting question. I think we have to start out with the understanding that anywhere you go on the net, there are WAY more lurkers than posters. I think I read somewhere that the circulation for this list is something like 2500, and there aren't even 30 people that post on a regular basis. Even if you try to make a claim that there are 100 people that post, it's still a horrible ratio. I would suspect that the relationship between hits on a site and comments won't be changing any time soon without some sort of restructuring of the blogs themselves. On top of that, I think a lot of blogs are closed-ended, by which I mean there really isn't anything in them that calls for discussion or debate. It just IS what it IS. I'll watch Scriggity to see Shauna's antics, and I'll watch it to see your editing. By the end of the show, I feel a statement was made, and I watched the expression of that statement, and I don't have anything to say about it. There are other shows, like this one about a chick that lies to every guy she ever meets and then wonders why she can't get a decent guy, where I don't have anything POSITIVE to say, so I just skip it. :D Increasing viewer feedback is a tall order for both of those reasons. The video itself would have to prompt discussion, and then the viewers would have to actually participate... most of whom are lurkers, who don't participate practically by decree. This is why our friends inside YouTube have so many hits. The culture over there is to watch something and then comment on it and then tell your friends or your groups about it and have them comment on it as well. Now, they have video comments, so by commenting, you're creating another branch that's going to spawn the same type of responses. Also, the whole I'm sitting in my room in front of my webcam with nothing better to do than make videos for YouTube mentality is a sort of cry for help. It begs for someone to respond to it, and other people sitting in their rooms in Arkansas with a webcam can empathize with them and feel the desire to respond. That won't happen outside of social sites, because there's no community like that. It's like David said, it's random viewers pressing random buttons and very seldom latching on to anything. I think Zadi Steve have some good ideas @ JetSetShow, like having their viewers send in items that they actually use on the web site. I'm sure it makes the viewers feel like they can be a part of the show instead of just watching it. Actually, the whole format of their show invites teens to get involved and make media, either for their own purposes or to submit to JetSetShow for possible 'airing'. -- Bill C. http://ReelSolid.TV Yahoo! Groups Links -- The Faux Press - better than real http://fauxpress.blogspot.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- --- Tim Shey http://nextnewnetworks.com/ http://shey.net/
[videoblogging] CNet's Project Spotlight
Just read an interesting post on NewTeeVee about CNet's efforts to incubate videoblogs with cash grants. It sheds a little more light on the Project Spotlight campaign they announced last year -- for one thing, that Schlomo is involved, whom I mainly know from reading his posts on this list. Ryanne and Jay's PodTech deal is mentioned in the article as well. http://newteevee.com/2007/01/26/cnet-video-incubator-getting-started/ Sounds really promising - especially the way they're planning on supporting complete 'seasons' of a show. More companies competing to find and fund worthy projects is a good thing. The WINK show looks good, too. Congrats, Schlomo! --- Tim Shey http://nextnewnetworks.com/ http://shey.net/
[videoblogging] Special Vloggers Invite - Channel Frederator Awards Party
For any of you who will be in the LA area next Wednesday, I'd like to extend you an invitation to the Channel Frederator Awards party at Cinespace on Jan 24, when we'll be celebrating and thanking the many animators who have contributed cartoons over the first year of Channel Frederator video podcasts (which we've also recently made available online). Our emcee for the evening is videoblogger and Frederator promo creator Justin Johnson (http://onetrick.net), and many of us from the Next New Networks crew will be in from NY and would love a chance to hang out with you. Details are up on the site at http://channelfrederator.com -- tickets are $10 in advance for the general public (and include food and drinks), but I have a limited number of guest passes I can extend to members of the videoblogging group, so please email me off-list if you'd like to come (please don't reply here, as I know everyone's inboxes are crowded enough). My email's tim at either of the URLs listed below. Really hope to we get to see some of you there, and we'll also be in the area all week if anyone wants to meet up, but can't make Wednesday night. Best -- Tim --- http://nextnewnetworks.com http://shey.net
Re: [videoblogging] Re: [video_vertigo] iPhone
-critical applications. I guess this is all to say... it's an evolving class of applications yet. One day it very well may be a killer device... but we're still way to early I think. It's still ahead of its time. Just my opinion. There is one final observation I have. I've been running around saying this like a broken record. It's about personal communication. The iphone, and indeed nearly ALL the killer apps so far lie in the realm of personal communications... and at the very least with the iPod in the realm of personal media. Nearly every function on the iPhone is a communications feature... the only ones that aren't are about personal media. i.e. my photos from iphoto... my songs... my videos. That apple sells TV shows, or movies... is really incosequential to this device... I doubt people will watch to many films or tv shows on the iPhone unless of course it plugs into the TV. ;) Even podcasting and videoblogging as early an iteration as they are fit into this sliding scale of personal communications and media. They're somewhere less personl then my photos, but somewhat more personal then tv shows and movies. The point is... personal communicaitons and personal media are the killer class of apps for personal computing... after all, can you think of a many reasons to have Word or Excell in your pocket? The pocket space is slowly getting figured out. -Mike On 1/14/07, Robyn Tippins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Off the top of my head, the N800 has a faster processor (330mhz), additional memory (though the 770 could be easily hacked to have comparable memory -2g I think). Both run linux and there is a good community of people who develop for the 770. The 800 will have a similar community, no doubt. It's not a full-fledged UMPC, but it's close. For a real UMPC, you could look at the Samsung Q1 or possibly one of the nicer models from TabletKiosk. The tabletscape (like the blogosphere but tablet afficianados) is a great place to start looking for reviews on devices like this. I've watched at least 3 unboxings or full out reviews of the N800 this week and last week, so if you need some help locating some videos let me know. The video blogs from some of these guys are amazing. Take a look at the LG KE850: http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/13/video-of-lgs-ke850-its-no-poser/ Robyn From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 4:30 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: [video_vertigo] iPhone A friend of mine bought the N770... that's the small handheld tablet device that runs a form of debian linux right? I don't think it panned out for him... ended up in a drawer like most such devices. I'll have to check out the specs on the N800 and see what's new. The only problem I think it has is that noone knows what to do with it. There aren't any clear use cases or models... you can do all sorts of stuff with it, but it's not clearly defined... it's an undifined market niche. Thanks for the links! -Mike mmeiser.com/blog On 1/14/07, T Shey [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:timshey%40gmail.com wrote: Hey, just caught up with this thread... for the record, tongue was firmly planted in cheek when talking about Apple being arrogant. Sure they are, but who can't like seeing Apple give a jolt to a mobile phone business that seems to conspire together to tolerate bad user experience. There was one nice product at CES that probably didn't get its due as a result. The new Nokia N800 tablet looks nice, will probably be relatively affordable, and seems to have a clean and well-thought-out OS. Anyone had a chance to play with one? I tried out its predecessor, the 770, at a store in NYC the other day and was pretty impressed. http://www.nseries.com/products/n800/#l=products,n800 http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/nokia-n800-internet-tablet-unboxed/ On 1/13/07, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:steve%40dvmachine.com wrote: lol whoa yeah it does look like Cisco might have blown it, har har sticking a sticker that says 'iPhone' on the box of an existing product, does not seem likely to me to have preserved their trademark, fools! Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com , Ryan Ozawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/11/07, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh yeah and the supreme arrongance of Apple winds me up - just why did they think they could get away with using the name iPhone when its already been trademarked? I'm an Apple fan, but also felt the same way. It seemed so blatant, so ridiculous, I was similarly confident that Cisco would have the rare opportunity to prevail over
Re: [videoblogging] Re: [video_vertigo] iPhone
I actually played with the N800 over the weekend at the Nokia store. Its built-in videoconferencing over Google Talk was pretty cool - by far the best feature, though I still can't even find enough people to do videochats with me via Skype or iChat (anyone?). And it has nice video playback, audio, and a very sharp web browser (it seems like the screen has at least 100-dpi resolution). I couldn't help, when pulling out the stylus, thinking of Steve Jobs' dismissal from the MacWorld speech, something to the effect of nobody wants a stylus. It all looked pretty but the interface was decidedly not intuitive. I was actually stumped for a little bit trying to navigate around, a definite learning curve on all the menus, which were Windows-like, and a bunch of buttons on the device that are not clear at all as to their use. Ultimately, it's not a laptop replacement or a phone replacement -- it's yet a third device to have (or fourth, if you carry a MP3 player). So, for all its slickness, it may unfortunately go the way of the Newton, which also had a stylus, I believe. p.s. I still have, and love, my Newton, which works, though it's more a museum piece than anything else. Confessions of a Machead. On 1/14/07, Robyn Tippins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Off the top of my head, the N800 has a faster processor (330mhz), additional memory (though the 770 could be easily hacked to have comparable memory -2g I think). Both run linux and there is a good community of people who develop for the 770. The 800 will have a similar community, no doubt. It's not a full-fledged UMPC, but it's close. For a real UMPC, you could look at the Samsung Q1 or possibly one of the nicer models from TabletKiosk. The tabletscape (like the blogosphere but tablet afficianados) is a great place to start looking for reviews on devices like this. I've watched at least 3 unboxings or full out reviews of the N800 this week and last week, so if you need some help locating some videos let me know. The video blogs from some of these guys are amazing. Take a look at the LG KE850: http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/13/video-of-lgs-ke850-its-no-poser/ Robyn From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 4:30 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: [video_vertigo] iPhone A friend of mine bought the N770... that's the small handheld tablet device that runs a form of debian linux right? I don't think it panned out for him... ended up in a drawer like most such devices. I'll have to check out the specs on the N800 and see what's new. The only problem I think it has is that noone knows what to do with it. There aren't any clear use cases or models... you can do all sorts of stuff with it, but it's not clearly defined... it's an undifined market niche. Thanks for the links! -Mike mmeiser.com/blog On 1/14/07, T Shey [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:timshey%40gmail.com wrote: Hey, just caught up with this thread... for the record, tongue was firmly planted in cheek when talking about Apple being arrogant. Sure they are, but who can't like seeing Apple give a jolt to a mobile phone business that seems to conspire together to tolerate bad user experience. There was one nice product at CES that probably didn't get its due as a result. The new Nokia N800 tablet looks nice, will probably be relatively affordable, and seems to have a clean and well-thought-out OS. Anyone had a chance to play with one? I tried out its predecessor, the 770, at a store in NYC the other day and was pretty impressed. http://www.nseries.com/products/n800/#l=products,n800 http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/nokia-n800-internet-tablet-unboxed/ On 1/13/07, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:steve%40dvmachine.com wrote: lol whoa yeah it does look like Cisco might have blown it, har har sticking a sticker that says 'iPhone' on the box of an existing product, does not seem likely to me to have preserved their trademark, fools! Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com , Ryan Ozawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/11/07, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh yeah and the supreme arrongance of Apple winds me up - just why did they think they could get away with using the name iPhone when its already been trademarked? I'm an Apple fan, but also felt the same way. It seemed so blatant, so ridiculous, I was similarly confident that Cisco would have the rare opportunity to prevail over Apple and make the company eat a little humble pie. But it turns out, Cisco may have shot itself in the foot: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=236 You know what? It'd be worth Apple losing the case anyway. Just seeing that fake product box makes it all worth
Re: [videoblogging] Re: [video_vertigo] iPhone
Hey, just caught up with this thread... for the record, tongue was firmly planted in cheek when talking about Apple being arrogant. Sure they are, but who can't like seeing Apple give a jolt to a mobile phone business that seems to conspire together to tolerate bad user experience. There was one nice product at CES that probably didn't get its due as a result. The new Nokia N800 tablet looks nice, will probably be relatively affordable, and seems to have a clean and well-thought-out OS. Anyone had a chance to play with one? I tried out its predecessor, the 770, at a store in NYC the other day and was pretty impressed. http://www.nseries.com/products/n800/#l=products,n800 http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/nokia-n800-internet-tablet-unboxed/ On 1/13/07, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lol whoa yeah it does look like Cisco might have blown it, har har sticking a sticker that says 'iPhone' on the box of an existing product, does not seem likely to me to have preserved their trademark, fools! Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ryan Ozawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/11/07, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh yeah and the supreme arrongance of Apple winds me up - just why did they think they could get away with using the name iPhone when its already been trademarked? I'm an Apple fan, but also felt the same way. It seemed so blatant, so ridiculous, I was similarly confident that Cisco would have the rare opportunity to prevail over Apple and make the company eat a little humble pie. But it turns out, Cisco may have shot itself in the foot: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=236 You know what? It'd be worth Apple losing the case anyway. Just seeing that fake product box makes it all worth it. Digg It! http://www.digg.com/tech_news/iPhonegate_Cisco_s_sneaky_sticker Ryan Yahoo! Groups Links -- --- Tim Shey http://nextnewnetworks.com/ http://shey.net/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: [video_vertigo] iPhone
To me, it just shows how arrogant Apple has become. For over a decade now, thousands of people in the mobile business have been putting out hundreds of variations on the mobile phone that were dependable for being mediocre, baffling to use, and ultimately unsatisfying for the customer. For every new innovation we got in a mobile phone, we usually got two steps back. Blackberry finally makes a decent email experience, then they (or the carriers who approve their designs) refuse to support IMAP.We finally get phones that can play music, and they lock us down with restrictions on what music and where we can download it. We finally get a nice thin phone in the RAZR, and it still has the same OS that was on your Motorola three years before, that can't have two phone numbers for one person. We finally get WiFi, but they decide to leave out a camera or music player (some of you N Series phones, we're talking about you). And so on, so we end up buying a phone, rapidly getting sick of what it can't do, and counting the days til we can get a new one, which for most people actually means years. But then Apple comes in and thinks they can wipe the slate clean and make a phone that looks beautiful, is also an iPod and camera and a fully functional internet-ready computer, and has a brand new user interface that emphasizes how people really want to use a phone. And they don't even have the courtesy to do it with RIM or Nokia or Motorola or some other company that really knows how to make unsatisfying phones and keep us buying them with tiny little improvements from year to year to year. They do the whole thing in secret with their in-house teams, the same people who make MacBooks and iPods. Seriously, who do the people at Apple think they are? And what are they trying to do, make us never want to buy another kind of phone again? On 1/9/07, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ha, I'm here. I just have so much to say I don't even know where to begin. Mostly I'm excited because this is a HUGE leap forward for not just the mobile web... the extension of network neutrality principles to the mobile web. But also because it illustrates apple REALLY, REALLY get's mobile computing. Specifically mobile computing is ALL about communications. This device is heavily hevily focused on personal / inter-personal communications. voice, IM, SMS, picture sharing and so much more it also supports audio and video podcasting but apple hasn't yet cut the sync cable. This is to say... it makes no sense... that you should be walking around or sitting at your desk at work with this marelous piece of tech with wifi and GSM in your pocket or sitting on your desktop with the same old podcasts and videos from when you left home in the morning. Why should it be teathered to one desktop computer with a sync cable. Why should such a marvelous piece of tech NOT aggregate your latest audio or video podcasts directly from the web so that anytime you pick it up it has new stuff. And for that matter why when you buy anything from the itunes store why should it not be automatically delivered to the device. Why should you have to carry it home each night to sync it? And what if you go out of town for a few days... why should you not have access to your latest podcasts, videos and media wherever you are? These are the same questions people have asked of email and I expect they will come to the same conclusions... building both webservices for audio and video podcast management... and building support onto hardware devices much like the blackberry. In fact, I dare say, that much like mobile email. Mobile podcast aggregation will one day be a killer app on the mobile computing platform. At this point... do to the questions the new iPhone asks... though the answers have not yet been given this vision that media should flow directly from the web to your device is pretty much inevitable. It is inevitable because it is where the questions lead, and have been leading since Microsoft put wifi in the Zune, though they did nothing with it. Indeed, the editors of the Chicago suntimes, the Wall Street Journal, and the NYTimes even asked such questions. Why should I have to sync the such a device when it has wifi built in? The answer is you shouldn't. The answer is... there's no reason why you such a device should ever be teathered to a single desktop computer again. That said, direct to device aggregation of podcasts and purchases probably wasn't an extremely high priority with apple given the tremendous amount of features in this new iPhone device... but I suspect that one way or another aggregation will be coming to this device soon. Especially since it appears to be running some basic version of Mac OSX. I would hope in fact that Fireant or Democracy will be ported to it soon. I think i'll be a SUPERB platform for Democracy in particular. The Democracy interface was made to
Re: [videoblogging] John Edwards to Run for President (announcement on YouTube)
What was it like for you all to visit New Orleans? Any plans to post more footage from your trip, there or on Chuck's site? Ten years ago I was spending a lot of time in the ninth ward, and would love to see more accounts of how people are rebuilding. Really interesting that you were the ones that posted his video yesterday -- more behind the scenes on that would be interesting. Oddly, the views on that video haven't picked up much, and it's not easy to find via a search yet. Four years ago, Edwards announced on the Daily Show -- now he's announcing on YouTube -- you'd think that YouTube would seize on this and promote it on their front page. On 12/27/06, andrew michael baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today Joanne, Chuck and I are out in New Orleans. We just filmed John Edwards' first announcement that he is running for president. I just uploaded the video to John Edwards' YouTube account. a href=http://youtube.com/watch?v=1etlZaf6zUw;http://youtube.com/ watch?v=1etlZaf6zUw/a (BTW, it may look like a photo op, but Edwards has been working out here all day and has been providing major support since last year when Katrina hit).
