Archive for January, 2009
YouTube/Mashup Moshpit
YouTube, that irreverant conduit of free expression, has scored big as a forum for fans to enjoy their favorite media the way they want to enjoy it, not necessarily the way big media delivers it, and sometimes with far better results. Mashups of movie trailers and captioned music videos are two trends having industry take […]
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Tags: Block, Catch a Falling Star, Claire Dane, Dani C., EFF, Falling Star, imeem, Jet, LHINNEILL, mashup, MySpace Karaoke, Perry Como, Rhapsody, Stardust, YouTube
Sofa Blogging Sundance
Cupertino is a balmy 72 degrees and Park City is freezing. So in this age of the mobile producer, you’d think you’d be able to create a Virtual Sundance with all the tweets, postings and videos of those that do go. Not so. All I found was Ashton Kutcher’s www.24hoursatsundance.com, ten days of free shorts screenings at www.itunes.com/sundance, […]
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Tags: 24 Hours At Sundance, Adventureland, Alec Baldwin, Ashton Kutcher, BAVC, Bowie, Doors, Ewan McGregor, FilmSchoolRejects, I Love You Phillip Morris, Jim Carrey, Kara Swisher, Kevin Spacey. Big Fan, Lymelife, Michael Cera, Moon, Paper Heart, Patton Oswalt, Scott Kirsner, Shrink, SlashFilm, Sundance, Wendy Levy, When You're Strange
Browsers Battle Evil Everyday
It was a packed room at the Churchill Club last night in Silicon Valley as 280 suits from Microsoft, Cisco, Google, PwC and other tech cos dropped in to hear the latest on Opera, Chrome, IE & Firefox. Mike Shaver of Mozilla talked about its mission as a public benefit organization (goodspeak for nonprofit) entrusted with […]
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Tags: Browsers, Christen Krogh, Chrome, Churchill Club, Cisco, Dean Hachamovitch, Firefox, Google, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Mike Shaver, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, PwC, Safari, Silicon Valley, Steve Wildstrom, Sundar Pichai
Steve Jobs/Out til WWDC
I wish the news would have been “Steve Jobs is off to a warm beach to ride out the recession, reflect on all he’s done for the world, and let someone else worry about what’s next.” The man is a cultural icon who also happens to be the hardest working CEO in the industry. He’s on […]
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Tags: Apple, Steve Jobs, WWDC
Packing Your Parka?
Many Bay Area folks are heading out of town to Sundance, NAMM, Midem, Inaugural Ball, and NATPE. But if you’re staying in town, there’s lots happening to keep you plugged in. This week alone, check out: – M 1/12 6:30-8:30pm, Media Bistro UGCX Mixer, 111 Minna – M 1/12 6:30-10pm, SXSW SF mixer, Mighty, 119 Utah – Tu 1/13, SF […]
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Tags: 111 Minna, Churchill Club, Craigslist, EventBrite, Evernote, Google, IndieFest, Microsoft, Midem, Mighty, NAMM, NATPE, SF Beta, Sundance, SXSW, UGCX
At first glance, it seems very omninous, doesn’t it. Adobe not at Macworld, not at Sundance. But was Adobe even missed at Macworld? Although Macworld won’t be releasing numbers for two more months, the feeling was that attendance was off from the 48,000 attendees and 479 exhibitors in 2008. The aisles were walkable. There were […]
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Tags: Adobe, CES, Google, Macworld, Sundance, YouTube
As sleepy CES wraps, take note that baby steps are a good thing in a downtown. The biggest news at CES this year actually got a real-time gasp in the Macworld media room last week. The Palm Pre, a touchscreen phone with QWERTY keyboard, MMS, cut-and-paste, 3MP and Amazon Music Store, is definitely a leap in […]
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Tags: 3Dality, AllThingsD, Big Fuel, CES, Cisco EOS, CNET, ContentToCommerce.com, Digital Hollywood, Intel, Jeffrey Katzenberg, John Lasseter, LG Watch Phone, Palm Pre, Samsung, Tom Hanks, Toshiba, Yahoo! Connected TV
The Crunchies/Winners
Money may be tight but good times are still flowing thanks to TechCrunch, GigaOm, and VentureBeat and a great evening at The Crunchies. Check out the awards ceremony at UStream which streamed the event live, the Richter Scales performing their catchy rendition of RIP Good Times, and casino gaming at the MySpace After Party. Here are the winners, runners-up and […]
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Tags: 23andMe, Amazon Web Services, Android, Ausus, Bebo, Facebook Connect, Flip, Hulu, iPhone 3G, Lala, Meebo, Mino, Mob Wars, MySpace, Ocarina, Pandora, Qik, Richter Scales, ShopSavvy, SlingCatcher, SpaceX, Tapulous, The Crunchies, TopSpin, TruPhone, Twitter, UStream, Yelp, Zoho
