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March 30, 2007
Sun Microsystems Project Blackbox made a tour stop at the University of St. Thomas' Minneapolis campus earlier this week, and Technology Evangelist was there to cover it. Project Blackbox is a portable data center built in a standard sized shipping...
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Least Dangerous Game kicks off tomorrow in Minneapolis. What's that? Sounds dangerous, eh? Least Dangerous Game is a Twitter-based scavenger hunt where a Twitter users hides somewhere in town, then send out hints via Twitter leading people to his or...
March 29, 2007
What trip to the Video on the Net conference would be complete without a discussion with the Founder of VON, Jeff Pulver. Jeff talked to Ed about the some of the big announcements made at VON. Click To Play...
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Jeremy Toeman from LIVEdigitally is living the jury duty lifestyle, and has filed the following report on the WiFi status in the jury waiting room: Doing time… (on jury duty) - The good part is, the summons waiting room has...
Yahoo's getting crushed by Google in search right now, but maybe they're on to something with the interface they're testing over at livesearch.alltheweb.com. The site offers real-time updates to search results as you type, so searches become more relevant as...
March 28, 2007
Joshua Kinberg, the founder and CEO of FireAnt, was at the Video on the Net conference showing off their latest upgrade. He talked to Ed about that and the differences between FireAnt and their competitors. Click To Play...
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Outside.in, as I've written about before, is a local news aggregation site where content from local news sites and blogs are organized by city, neighborhood, and / or zip code to build a create a unique collection of news from...
March 27, 2007
One of the latest trends in user generated video content to hit the scenes at last week's Video on the Net Conference was user generated testimonials. The idea being that video is hard to beat when it comes to generating...
March 26, 2007
VoIP service company Vonage last week suffered another setback in its patent litigation with Verizon Communications when a judge entered a permanent injunction against Vonage using disputed call-handling technology. Vonage said it had a work-around for the Verizon technology...
March 25, 2007
The great challenge of video on the web is how to make it fair for everyone. Viewers want content that is cheap or free yet retains high production values. Producers, networks, and movie studios want to be rewarded by ALL...
March 24, 2007
NeoKast was one of the more talked about technologies at the Video on the Net conference. Frank Huebbers, their Lead web engineer talked about some of the changes that have already happened in the two weeks since we talked...
March 23, 2007
We at Technology Evangelist have been using MoveDigital's services for awhile now for our video and podcast distribution. Ed was able to talk to the President of MoveDigital and get into what makes MoveDigital different from other companies that do...
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Video is great, but the world really still runs on paper, right? The inventor of the inkjet printer was a guy named Stephen Sears, whom I knew half a lifetime ago in California. Steve Sears worked at IBM and enjoyed...
While it's very common to have WiFi available at hotels these days, this is the first time I've seen laptop rental as well. At $15 per day, it's approximately the same price as a simple WiFi connection at some hotels:...
March 22, 2007
It was the final day of the Video on the Net conference and Ed Kohler gave us a quick rundown while running to catch his flight. We talk FireAnt vs iTunes and Democracy as well as Magnify.net and how they...
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March 21, 2007
Ed Kohler's coverage of the Video on the Net conference continues with todays Podcast. We chat about the trouble with video on the net today, chapters in video, streaming live video via NeoKast and other cool blogging conversations on the...
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If you're looking for photos from VON, check the tag VON07 on Flickr. I'm currently watching Scoble and Arrington talking about video on the web. Scoble says the trick to quickly editing web video is to, well, don't edit it....
Diversion Media CEO, Nicholas Butterworth, presented at VON explaining the thinking behind the series of niche video sites his company is creating. The concept is to build video sites in niche markets (first two are travel and snowboarding) using a...
March 20, 2007
The Video on the Net conference floor opened today and Technology Evangelist's own Ed Kohler was there to cover all the action. In this Podcast we cover video sharing sites, getting video online and business models for the over 350...
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Technology Evangelist's Ed Kohler is at the Video on the Net conference in San Jose, California this week. Every night Ed and Benjamin will be doing a live Podcast recording using TalkShoe.com. If you would like to join in and...
March 19, 2007
Technology Evangelist's Ed Kohler is at the Video on the Net (VON) conference this week. While the show floor opens tomorrow, Ed was able to meet some interesting people and chat about some really cool products that we're going to...
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I had a chance to grab lunch with a couple guys from ComVu today. Their company makes a live streaming application for cell phones. We're talking streaming video directly from your phone to the web in a matter of seconds....
Daniel Scheinman, Senior VP and GM, Cisco Media Solutions Group, brought up an interesting point about the challenge of reaching early adopters using traditional advertising strategies: "The people who cross the chasm aren't watching the ads." He raises a good...
Jim Wuthrich, Senior Vice President of Electronic Sell-Through at Warner Brothers offered a peak into how digital distribution of video content could change the variety of videos available to consumers. At this time, Warner Bros. publishes approximately 1500 titles, which...
PaidContent mentioned a WSJ report that Google's not making Comcast enough money from the search traffic on Comcast properties: Comcast Unhappy With Google On Search Deal; Talking To MSN; Other Ad Inventory Talks "Comcast thinks it should get a larger...
A panel moderated by Om Malik, with Dina Kaplan, COO, blip.tv with Dina Kaplan, COO, blip.tv, Robert Petty, Chairman & CEO, ROO, and Dmitry Shapiro, CEO, Veoh took on some common questions about online video business models. - Longer form...
The first session of Video on the Net brought up a different twist on the Network Neutrality debate: when are content creators or video hosting services going to start knocking up infrastructure companies for revenue? But wait a minute, aren't...
How often do you go to a conference only to find no power or WiFi access? Neither are a problem at the Video on the Net conference. EVERY SEAT has easy access to power strips running underneath the rows of...
It seems like everything you ever read about Silicon Valley makes the place sound like it's overflowing with multi-millionaires, manicured dot.com campuses, and bumper to bumper traffic. If you'd like to see another side of the Valley, here's your chance....
I was so proud that I beat our own in-house Web 2.0 guru Ed to Twitter. I didn't really have to explain Twitter to Ed, he just got it. Now my family and friends, they don't seem to get it. ...
March 18, 2007
I've gotten a kick out of Loren Feldman's videos at 1938 Media for a while now, so when I picked up a new video camera as an impulse purchase earlier today, I had no choice but to do my best...
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It's an application Tony Soprano would love. Say you have up to four mob bosses, all from different families, who want to have a special sit-down meeting. All four men have huge egos and their reputations to protect among...
MoveDigital has added a great new torrent feature that, in my opinion, makes it the best hosting solution for videocasters and podcasters. We at Technology Evangelist have used MovedDigital services for a while. They have been very fast, very stable,...
March 17, 2007
If you take a look at my bio page you'll see that I use Twitter. It's a great service and I have completely replaced Dodgeball with it. I am following a bunch of people including Leo Laporte and Robert Scoble. ...
March 16, 2007
Peter Csathy from SightSpeed talks to Benjamin about a new product they have, Vlip.com. This is a website that allows you to record a video message that can be used in many different ways, including recording video messages for...
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The following outline is from a seminar I conducted yesterday on Blogging for Real Estate to a group in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Blogging is a great marketing strategy for real estate since it allows agents to prove their expertise through market...
March 15, 2007
When it comes to video over the Internet bandwidth has always been a hangup. We found a group of programmers in Illinois who might have a solution. Neokast is finding a way to give us the immediacy of streaming...
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Apple users will probably find this interesting. Duel Systems has released a PCMCIA and CardBus to ExpressCard Adapter called the DuelAdapter. Probably the biggest benefit to this in the short term is the ability to use PCMCIA based wireless cards...
March 14, 2007
Robbie Paplan posted an interesting article over on Rain City Guide last week proposing new fields in real estate MLS (Multiple Listing Service) systems that cover the interests of today's home buyers. While it comes from a tech perspective, there...
March 13, 2007
The European Union has just reached agreement with its 27 member states on a historic climate and energy policy: By 2020, CO2 emissions across Europe are to be cut by 20% as compared to 1990 emissions. Renewable energy sources are...
March 12, 2007
The launch of the iPhone will be a tipping point in web development, marking the day that web developers start taking the Safari browser seriously for developing web applications. When building web sites it's pretty typical to develop for Firefox...
March 11, 2007
Jules of Floobergeist breaks down a particularly insidious domain name transfer marketing tactic that's spreading across Canada. For those of you in the US who own domains, you've probably seen this one before: The Domain Registry of Canada is sending...
March 10, 2007
Steve Borsch over at Connecting the Dots has a great article on switching his father over to a Mac from a PC after growing tired of removing spyware and adware from his father's computer. My Dad + Macintosh = Ahhh......
March 9, 2007
I find it interesting to track what makes certain posts rise to the top of the heap each month. In February, we have Slashdot to thank for picking up on Bob's Microsoft Dirty Tricks articles. A lot of Minnesota bloggers...
On January 1st, 2007 I vowed to have a new Podcast every day. I purchased three Blue Snowballs to do this task and created a small podcasting studio to make this happen. It worked fairly well for a while but...
March 8, 2007
LeeAnn Prescott of Hitwise put together an interesting snapshot of the local search market from a national perspective. Will national sites like the ones graphed below win the local search game? Prescott's analysis of the data includes: Based on traffic...
March 7, 2007
Thanks to Rex Sorgatz for pointing out this awesome directory listing the WiFi status of 219 airports. I wonder how many travelers in and out of JFK choose JetBlue over other carriers based on the free WiFi availability in Terminal...
March 6, 2007
I followed the Microsoft prescription for fixing Exchange for the Daylight Savings Time change. The VM, on installation, asked me to set a new password and then confirm it. But after entering the new password in setup, I couldn't...
In case you haven't heard, daily savings time changed this year to this coming weekend. While this isn't exactly big news for most of you, people responsible for running servers have to make some updates to prevent potentially screwy issues...
Email is a powerful business tool, but unfortunately ends up being used for many tasks that are better handled using other applications. Below is a list of ways email is abused: 1. Non-time sensitive information: Email's strength is in sending...
March 5, 2007
Netflix has an ongoing contest to award $1,000,000 to a programmer who manages to increase the relevancy of the site's movie recommendations by 10%. I'm not programmer, but thought it would be interesting to throw out an idea on how...
March 4, 2007
Following up on yesterday's free WiFi post, I was wondering what strategies you think restaurants and coffee shops should use to deal with customers who take way too much advantage of free WiFi connections. Jeffrey McManus thinks places like Panera...
March 3, 2007
I need to get a little work done while out on the town today, so I headed down one of St. Paul, Minnesota's shopping districts, Grand Avenue, in search of a coffee shop with WiFi access. Finding a coffee shop...
March 2, 2007
The first sentence of Jeff Jarvis' post about the BBC's deal with YouTube reminded me of something: The embargo just came off a BBC announcement that they’re putting video on YouTube to reach more audience, worldwide. It reminded me that...
March 1, 2007
Entrepreneurs seem to be catching on to the fact that many bloggers are creating compelling local content that deserves a larger audience. And with a larger audience, they could generate some significant local ad revenue. Here is a quick look...
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