It’s fun to watch all of the gadgets on 24. On tonight’s episode there was a scene that featured a video conference with three large flat-screen TV’s. This is an actual product called Cisco TelePresence. Check out this ScobleShow episode from last fall for more details. Any guesses on how much Cisco paid Fox for this product placement?
By now, just about everyone who is interested in Web 2.0 has seen the The Machine is Us/ing Us video. Here’s a video of the creator of that video (Michael Wesch, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University) speaking at the recent Web 2.0 conference. He breaks down each part of the video, explaining what he was trying to accomplish and how he went about producing it. The video cuts off part-way through his talk. I will post a link to the complete presentation if and when I find it.
Jobs: “Never say never, but customers don’t seem to be interested in it,” Hmmm, I’m an Apple customer and i love the subscription model. I guess Jobs doesn’t know his customers very well.
Last month I joined Robert Scoble, Thomas Hawk and several other talented photographers in Half Moon Bay for Photowalk 8. Robert has posted part 1 of that episode on ScobleShow. I was also shooting some video that day with my little digital camera…
“Coghead has a unique and very visual user interface which lets tech-savvy, yet non-coders, easily add business logic to create or modify applications.”
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