Written on 3rd June 2009
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Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
via Hacker News
Written on 25th May 2009
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Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
An interactive breakdance competition in stop-motion between the Joker and the Dark Knight – all via YouTube. Incredible work by French-Canadian writer, director and animator Patrick Boivin.
Written on 16th April 2009
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David Petherick, Contributing Editor, United Kingdom
Adding an RFID reader to an iPhone allows all sorts of possibilities, and this video shows how everyday objects can trigger a video related to that object.
iPhone RFID: object-based media from timo on Vimeo.
In the example, with an RFID reader attached to the iPhone, when holding the iPhone in close proximity to a certain object, that object tells your iPhone to play a particular preloaded clip.
There might be any number of nice applications where content could be pushed to a phone to act as, say, a flexible museum guide, or instruction manuals or videos could be played to remind you how to program your washing machine, or even cook a particular dish.
Originally Found by Gizmodo
Written on 3rd April 2009
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Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone appeared on an American TV show with host Stephen Colbert. For those who are unaware (as I was), Colbert is an “American comedian, satirist, actor and writer, known for his ironic style (particularly in his portrayal of conservative political pundits), and for his deadpan comedic delivery.”
It’s fair to say Colbert really does rip Twitter apart better than any other individual I’ve seen – it’s a must watch whether you’re a fan of Twitter or not. My favorite bit comes right at the end in regard to the Denver plane crash.
On a more serious note, Stone states clearly that a business model is on its way this year.
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Hat tip to Mashable for the video.
Written on 29th March 2009
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Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
We found a decent hands-on overview of the iPhone 3.0 OS and thought it would be worthwhile sharing. Remember it is buggy and a few months off official release but it’s fascinating to see the key features without all the hoopla of an Apple conference.
Written on 10th March 2009
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Ken Camp, Contributing Opinion Writer, USA
Video calling has taken on a new life in the past two or three years as we’ve seen VoIP be rebranded in a sense as unified communication. Video on the Internet gained attention with YouTube, but it’s become much more as sites like Facebook integrate video messaging too. With tools like Skype video is quickly becoming a routine part of our voice calls.
Video technology has made some amazing advances in the past few years. In business, not so long ago, a video teleconference required an expensive, high-end solution. There will always be a place in the large business enterprise for solutions like Cisco’s Telepresence, however, small and SOHO businesses simply cannot support the expense of those tools any more than a consumer.
But there are lessons to be learned from that large business use of video. There are three basic drivers for incorporating video into business work processes:
Everybody has had to cope with the unending chain of email messages that never quite seem to answer a question or reach a point. Email threads take on a life of their own and last for months. Many times direct human contact is a more efficient method of communicating. A phone call doesn’t provide the subtle nuance of eye contact or body language. Video makes conducting business more human. People want to talk to other people. When we’re trying to close a deal or reach agreement on some important issue, eye contact is a vital human element that we can only maintain through either meeting face-to-face or with a video call.
Our employers are playing catchup in many ways. When we’re at home we have high speed access to a huge range of services – Blogs, social media sites, podcasts, and video through YouTube and many other rich media delivery systems. We get content information in ways that have replaced the old mainstream media, like broadcast television. If our business workplace doesn’t find a way to incorporate rich media capabilities that deliver content and that we can easily digest, our ability to compete in the market will lose effectiveness. (more…)
Written on 1st March 2009
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Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
At the Wharton Business Technology Conference, Microsoft unveiled the latest vision video from their Microsoft Office Labs called “2019″. The video shows an array examples of how current prototypes may evolve in the years ahead within the worlds of education, healthcare and beyond.
Long Zheng over at istartedsomething.com managed to get his hands on the full version of the presentation which I have embedded below.
Written on 7th January 2009
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Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
TVTrip is essentially a hotel search engine. Yawn right? Well not quite, it’s actually both interesting and informative. TV Trip focuses almost exclusively on video to showcase hotels from across the globe.
Working with hotels, they send you on a guided tour of the hotel (not virtual tour by the way) and do their best to show you interiors, exteriors and everything in between! Currently the hotels are mainly Europe focused, however they are expanding and fast, clearly with the goal to have covered hotels on every corner of the world by the end of it.
Launched in June 2007 with headquarters in Belgium, the startup is founded by four executives of Expedia Europe – clearly the experience is there. Plus, they have the backing of renown VCs in Partech and Balderton.
TVtrip’s features include member reviews, interactive maps, links to booking sites, average room rates, photos and detailed hotel descriptions. To book however you need to navigate to one of the sites partners which include Expedia and Booking.com, fortunately they’re just a click away.
One noticeable issue could be videos becoming out of date, when a hotel renovates for example. I’m certain the sites founders will have considered the issue but one other startup may have found the solution to that particular problem, TVtrip’s main competitor tripr.tv. Tripr.tv is a very similar concept but focuses on user generated content rather than hiring their own staff to record the videos, it then compensates users by paying 33% of their commissions for every booking made via their contributed video. Other competitors also include Trivop and Travelistic.
Unfortunately you can’t embed any of TVtrip’s videos on other sites, however, if you click on the image below it’ll direct you to a good example of their video tours.
Written on 26th November 2008
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Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
Mobuzz.tv is officially closed down. The daily vid-cast startup, who recently gained a great deal of publicity after publicly begging for money from their users, is no more. Although they did not find the total amount of money needed from their viewers, they did claim they had found enough to keep them running – alas, it appears, only for two weeks.
You’ll see in their original video, they promised that should they not survive – they would return every penny to the viewers who sent in their donations – I’d be very interested to hear if that is the case.
A notice on their website says:
It is with deep regret that we inform our friends and fans that MobuzzTV has closed officially today. We need to take some time to see how best to reorganise our project. We have been talking with many interested parties but unfortunately we have not been able to financially sustain our operations until the agreements were closed. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have donated to save Mobuzz, and let you know that as we shall not be continuing we will be returning all the donations to you.
We are tremendously proud of all the shows we have produced over the last 4 years and we remain convince that online video has a great potential. When we started working on Mobuzz, we knew that it was an ambitious project. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Although we are deeply disappointed with the way this adventure has ended, we hope that it will not stop us from daring to act on inspiration.
The past few years have been an amazing journey. We would like to thank all of the fantastic people who have helped us along the way. All of our friends who provided us with valuable feedback about how to improve our shows; the blogging community, who has proven to us that “community” is more than just a word; and the friends and family who have supported us as we pursued what undoubtedly seemed like a crazy dream back in 2004.
We have met many incredible new people thanks to Mobuzz. We hope you will stay in touch as we move on to a new future.
See you in our next year!
The Mobuzz Team
Written on 27th October 2008
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
Always wondered where the great FAIL Internet meme came from? Rocketboom explains the phenomena in one of their videos. Enjoy!
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