January 2008
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Pictures explained: - home networking presentation from Netgear - dell cross-country gaming tournament - Blu-ray high def exhibit - slingbox view your media everywhere exhibition This message is the property of Draftfcb and contains information which may
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Skype is growing leaps and bounds
Skype launched partnerships to bring Skype technology today to a myriad of compelling hosts: Freestanding phones for the house, Nokia portable internet tablets, Sony mylo personal communicators, Sony PSP’s, and more. This could be a huge year for VOIP adoption. Skype Launches More Mobile Tools: Cell Phone Killer?
Google and Panasonic combine for TV internet...
Panasonic announced that they will be developing TV’s that offer the ability to stream photos and video live from the internet, in coordination with Google (their products are Picasa and YouTube). The Next Web - Now!
LG and Samsung announced portable television...
Both LG and Samsung have announced portable television technology that they are offering to television broadcasters to enhance their digital signals so they are received by portable televisions in places like seatback TV’s, portable navigation devices, and handheld cell phone. The problem is, since this a build implementation, broadcasters could possibly allign with only one of mobile...
Big announcements for Blu-ray
Warner announced a day before CES that they will be moving exclusively to Blu-ray over HD DVD, a position that has many analysts calling the tipping point of the format wars, with Sony’s Blu-ray the now inevitable winner (survivor). HD DVD canceled their CES pess conference. Confirmed: Warner Going 100% Blu-ray; Is This HD DVD’s Deathblow? Blu-ray also announced a new feature that...
LG and Nielsen partner
I don’t remember if this is news but LG is discussing a partnership with Nielsen to audit Mobile video streams This message is the property of Draftfcb and contains information which may
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Samsung
Ex NFL star Randell Cunningham is here as Samsung spokesman - says HD TV’s are changing TV watching because the game jumps out at him its like he is still playing (what a random choice for a spokesperson) This message is the property of Draftfcb and contains information which may
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Jerry Yang keynote
Jerry Yang gave his keynote in two parts - half about Yahoo’s new open platform mobile strategy and half about concept technology that could make its way into next gen Yahoo email in the future. I’ll post photos and videos with more detail tonight. This message is the property of Draftfcb and contains information which may
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Concept technology
Later ill post photos of some different concept technology - new display technology new motion recognition technology new fuel cell technology This message is the property of Draftfcb and contains information which may
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More picture updates
A lot of the major tech companies showing that visual space (tvs monitors screen space on phones etc) is getting bigger while everything else is getting smaller (hard drives mp3 players etc). I know these cell phone pictures are blurry - ill post real photos tonight. Pictures below are of thin lcd screens and ultra mobile pc’s that connect to tv’s. This message is the property of...
Web and Tech Celebrities
I just saw Robert Scoble of Podtech (former chief Microsoft evangelist) give a live video press conference via only a cell phone about Seagates new high density portable hard drives - he is talking about how you can always be connected and do everything you want in multimediqa now on-the-go with just a cell phone. This message is the property of Draftfcb and contains information which may
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Pictures below explained
Apparently the descriptions aren’t coming through on my photos - I’m about to sit in on Jerry Yang, CEO of Yahoo, give his Yahoo Insider talk.
Below in reverse description:
- yahoo insider stage
- kid friendly electronics out in market; mp3 players that you shake to work and sold in mass market stores like wallmart
- on the fly VOIP and video conferencing is a major theme
- cNet is...
CES Stats
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NBC and MSN will partner for the 2008 Olympics to bring all of the olympic performances on demand to the internet - for the first time ever providing viewers access to the “long tail” of the olympics - the sports that fewer people care about, so are rarely aired on TV. This will provide opportunities for Nich markets. One concern though is Microsoft’s use of Silverlight, their...
A note about CES
The Consumer Electonics Show is mainly about new technology, from the ground up - in many cases the marketing/advertising application will be more suttle, or several stages away. The technology announced in the next few days, however, will be the how people consume media in the near future - and how people consume media will be hugely significant to how we reach our targets. Walking through the...
Kevin flies to CES
I am leaving for a quick 48 hour trip to Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) - I’ll try to post photos and notes (all via cellphone) to this website during the trip - stay tuned.
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New k. b. skobac blog design →
After after a few days of playing around, I’ve launched the new design for this website - it will take a few weeks to get all of the features implemented, but in the mean time take a look and let me know what you think.
Editors: “the sadest thing that i have ever seen is smokers outside the hospital door”
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Driftr.com Travel Community - For Travelers, By Travelers
WeBot
remote desktop media sharing like orb
Real-time Twitter Search - Tweet Scan
Bought tickets to see the Editors in NYC - $55 before ticketmaster, $70 after (27% surcharge)
planning my 48 hour trip to vegas for CES and and a bit overwhelmed with the first-time experience
I'm working on a new blog design →
You can check it out over at my test site. The reason is mostly because I couldn’t correct this template’s view in Internet Explorer (although it isn’t so bad in IE7). This is based off a normal blogger template, so all of the links work correctly (there were bugs you might not have noticed if you went from page to page). Give me your thoughts - what do you like, not like...
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keybr.com - Be productive, type faster!
watching bulls vs. trailblazers - ben wallace rebounding is amazing, ben wallace shooting is embarrassing
2nd avenue deli gives you some pastrami while you wait was they make your sandwich - and the deli guys are very cool and friendly
eating a delicious pastrami sandwich from 2nd ave deli
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foobar2000
Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and...