Last year Steve Rubel of Edelman spoke at Mesh and this year the CEO Richard Edelman is here. Click on his name and see his blog — he gets about 9,000 hits/month. He’s all about the story — loved his talk. He talked about giving up control of the message and taking the risk of [...]
The program for IL2008 is now up online. Once again in Monterey CA, October 29-31, Internet Librarian has a great line up of speakers for workshops, conference sessions, and keynotes — see below. Monday, Oct 29 — Lee Raine, Pew Internet & American Life Project on 2.0 & the Internet WorldTuesday, Oct 30 — Joe [...]
We’re going to be talking about YouTube for Libraries for the Education Institute as part of the Tech Tuesday series on Tuesday May 29, 3-4 pm EST. We have asked our listeners to check out one of the following YouTube library videos that were honoured recently at Computers in Libraries 2007 during the First InfoTubey [...]
Interesting to hear Martin Nisenholtz, SVP, Digital Operations from the 156 year old New York Times talk to the Streaming Media conference in NYC. He talked about their first video in 1999, How to roast a chicken, and how they partnered with cable TV to do documentaries and then gained more skills through a venture [...]
Just picked up C21′s magazine — FutureMedia: next-generation media and entertainment. The April/May issue has some interesting stories about Microsoft TV, JumpTV (live TV online…anywhere….anytime), Joost (a new way to watch TV), and a great story about virtual worlds, Virtual Worlds Get Real. Author Michael Mascioni says, The biggest indication yet of how seriously TV [...]
Interesting to hear discussions at Information Today’s Streaming Media conference focused on user generated content, digital rights management and copyright. To hear that companies are worried about copyright and working on audio and video fingerprinting. Dimitry Shapiro, CEO, Veoh Networks in LA said that the old adage “content wants to be free” is illustrated by [...]
I just met Sean Moffitt of Agent Wildfire, a word of mouth (WOM) expert in Toronto. Of course, I had to come to Montreal to meet him! And I just learned from his blog, that there are over 500,000 people in Toronto on Facebook! I also love his post on the regional anomolies of the [...]
Here at webcom Montreal Kate Trgovac of reInvent! Communications. Her blog. As she says, Second Life (SL) is not a game like World of Warcraft but a virtual environment, a metaverse or 3-D immersive environment. It is an economy where avatars roam, build relationships, try on different personas, shop & perhaps experiment with fashion, explore, [...]
Great to hear the social tools discussed in a business context. Liz Lawley is speaking today at Webcom Montreal. Always learn something from Liz — didn’t know that the BBC now has Twitter feeds, interesting. Link to slides when available.
IBM tops the list of corporate sites on Second Life according to John Brandon, writer, author & former IT manager. IBM has 230 employees actively involved and almost 2 dozen islands. Other sites include: Pontiac, Sun Microsystems, Dell, Reuters, Cisco Systems, H&R Block and Best Buy Geek Squad. For more check out this IT World [...]