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As a drummer [amature] people often send me videos of people playing drums and they are cool and all, but the video stream below is an amazing bit of video editing that turns a video clip of someone banging drums and pinging piano into a song that is pretty impressive. Editors, give this a shot in your spare time. Enjoy.
Today at FOOA the host Ryan Carson whipped up an impromptu presentation (because a speaker cancelled at the last minute) where he took the covers off of how FOOA was marketed, promoted, designed. Ryan humbly talked about what they did and didn't do right leading up to the show. I know that for me, the design elements they put together, the speakers, the format, the location (new york city & the beautiful Gotham Hall in midtown), helped me make my decision to attend. Everything is first class...like me :-)
anyway, getting to the point...during the presentation, Ryan popped up his live email inbox in front of everyone and he started to panic. you could feel his anxiety level rise...thinking to himself, "why the hell did I do this?". Meanwhile nothing bad happened, but I thought to myself, would my inbox, or anyone's Inbox stand up to public display? Its almost like standing there naked...everything you read, subscribe to, people you correspond with...you at the core level. I always say if the gov-ment wants to monitor my online traffic, emails, phone calls, go for it...i have nothing to hide. But, what about the general public? What opinion of someone would you have if you had immediate access to their inbox? You could probably learn just about everything about someone just from seeing what comes across their screen. What powerful information (gMail and Hotmail sound familiar here?).
Think your inbox would pass the auditorium test?
Anyway...ryan, no harm no foul. The
conference is great and I can't wait till the next one. More detailed show feedback to follow.
WBV
(this is another Treo post from FOOA07NYC - sorry for the typos)
Today from the FOOA show, we received a demo of a fantastic new tool for websites who have been chomping at the bit to tag and put links in their fancy-dancy videos. The folks at VideoClix showed us their new tools that are about 5 years in development which allows you to take a segment of video (which you own [key point]) and tag links into the video which will allow the viewer to click elements in the video and go to different web pages.
This tool has a SUITE of features that i couldnt possibly describe here. For instance, if you tag a cast member in the video and the cast member leaves the screen, but then comes back on, he is still tagged. If you are an eCommerce person, your wheels should be turning. A demo shows the system functioning during a swimsuit fashion show...as the models walk down the runway, clicking their apparel will spawn a detail window...linked to a buy button. Really amazing. This means it could be possible to have a fully VIDEO BASED commerce front end (Tivo and Broadcasters salivating yet?).
Even more amazing is the full suite of analytics that runs on the back end of the system to track literally every action going on. If VideoClix can work out a deal to have this tool function in the YouTube codec arena...the sky is the limit for them.
Give them a look...i know we will start working with this tool as soon as I return.
WBV
Up, up, and away again...I am excited to be heading off to the Future Of Online Advertising Conference this week in New York, NY. I had the pleasure of being invited to addend this event by Ryan Carson, via Seth Godin - so i couldnt resist. Ain't that the social media/network connection thing working at full-throttle.
I attend many, many national shows and speak at many events nationwide - events like Search Engine Strategies (New York and San Jose), Ad:Tech (San Francisco), Miva Conference (San Diego), various SEMPO events, various Silicon Valley Web Guild Events, the BSSP's M-Squared conference & Influx Insights, and on, and on. This is my first Carson Systems event and I have heard nothing but phenominal feedback about these events being the best in the world so I am particularly excited to see how it goes.
I am also excited to get back to New York and look forward to a great several days in Gotham. My wife and I are both going on this trip and are really looking forward to an adult [no innuendo] holiday away from our beautiful baby Cole, some great meals, and a visit with friends and family. Watch my Plazes to see where we're exploring.
There's still time to register for the event. Just click the graphic above to join me at FOOA.
A report from the event to follow.
WBV
The other day I stumbeled across the ol' southpark studio...a place you can create a version of you as a southpark character. It's relatively meaningless, doesnt take too long, but i needed the distraction. Give it a shot.
There are other options for sure...but note the eyes...that's a perfect representation of how i feel these days.
Here's a link to Planearium.de/SP-Studio - the goodly folks who have too much time on their hands that built to engine. It's viral, so that makes it relevant right?? :-)
Give it a try if you want to build "you".
WBV
Well, wallet is a little lighter, arms can stretch a little wider, and clients can feel a little more comfortable...now that our office remodel is complete. Have a look at our gallery images [if you care] to see where, how, why we work here. Dont hate us cause we're beautiful.
WBV
