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MScBA Marketing, web 2.0, etc.New Job, New Adventures
It has been a while since I have last posted anything and for a reason. The last year or so has been wasted in trying to finish my MBA studies and I’m happy to report no real advances on that front. So basically I have started my thesis from scratch, again, and will continue to see if I ever pass.
In other news, I have gotten a job as the marketing manager of a video game developer! Yay, awesome, and this thing seems to be working out fine so far. Of course it is going to take some time getting used to and a couple of months to work out the kinks, but in the end I’m sure it will be worth it plus some.
So hope to keep this account more active in the future again and maybe with some more video game related posts.
Larry David reinvents sitcoms even before the Seinfeld “reunion” show.
The season finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm will air on the 22ndof Nov on HBO and will likely be one of the biggest things in TV lately. This is of course due to the return of the infamous Seinfeld gang in something vaguely resembling a reunion show.
Still the second to last episode (#69 The Table Read) was simply a stunning piece of comedy and almost had to be watched immediately again. I’m sure fans of all kinds are excited about this new episode of an old friend and it remains to be seen if the new installment comes even close to the actual Seinfeld finale that is still remembered well by many.
Even the Michael Richards stand up issue is very well parodied in episode 69 and lets the audience like Kramer again.
Thesis time
So I have now been working for who knows how long on my thesis project and everything else in the world has failed to get my attention. So much so that I even forgot to pay my tuition to my university and will like have to go on a hunger strike in front of the main building just to get my credits back.
Anyway I’m doin my thesis about Online Video Environments and if you would possibly like to help out the survey is available here.
http://videoresearch.wordpress.com/
Hopefully this will change the way we look at online video or at least give me a passing grade.
Google Ketchup is easy 3D for all
This reasonably new 3D modeling program from Google seems to be another winner from a company hell bent on eventual world domination… In a good way it seems.
The Google SketchUp, as it is really called, allows a user to easily create 3D models with almost as easy to use interface as that of original MS paint. It just requires you to watch the basic instructions in the form of a youtube video for each subject matter (about 40 all-in-all) and then you are pretty much and expert user.
The unique Google-esque addition is the possibility to add real life textures easily to your own houses 3d mock-up and then upload your model to Google Earth for everybody to see. So this is how they planned to fill all of the buildings on earth… user created content hmmm.
Nokia N97 so far…
Here is a little list of sites and news related to the N97 launch.
TED.com: Just launch related advertising
A nice and informative piece on TED.com that really shows how the device wants to be on the cutting edge, but doesn’t even say if you can watch the TED shows on the N97. Also something about the new TED translations, but not really related.
Qik blog: Streaming online from the N97
Here Qik is showing how the newly redesigned live streaming software will work on the N97. Looks pretty nice and apparently the program is pre-installed in the phone so you can start live video right after unboxing it.
Nokia Nseries blog : Facebook integration demo
The official Nseries brand-blog has something to say except mostly the same regular information and imminently biased reviews. Still this clip about their Facebook application shows how well popular third party apps have been finalized.
Bangalore blogger event: N97 buzz in India
Oh yeah, and also this blogger event from Bangalore, so not too much real buzz around the launch so far…
Shaheen vs. Susan and the power of Youtube
Britain’s Got Talent has started its newest season with a big bang and this time it’s going global by the power of Youtube.
Susan Boyle became an instant sensation after the first week of auditions and started a whirlwind in the blogosphere and pretty much in all of the old medias also.
Her youtube video has gotten 33 million hits to the current moment and that’s about a weeks worth of buzz so far.
Another sensation who is sure to get at least almost as much attention is a young 12 year old named Shaheen Jafargoli. He was first stopped by Simon Cowell for apparently not picking the right song. Directly after that he went on to wow the audience even more and even Simon got on board this time.
See the two hype worthy competitors on your friendly neighborhood youtube site and only on youtube itself since it seems that embedding of these videos is banned. Maybe the owners didn’t want it to spread even more than it already has on the internets, but still embedding is our livelyhood and we needs to keep it free. Please remember to share kids.
All in all I really think this kind of success is just tell tale signs of the next shift in internet tv, in which access to media is instantaneous. I mean, numbers like 33 million viewers wouldn’t be as cool if this had aired months later globally, like in the good old days.
Cloud Computing: the legal answer to digital entertainment distribution
So those of you who have heard about cloud computing might know that it has a huge potential but has been pretty much restricted by modern broadband technology.
Now a company called Onlive claims that they have achieved the ultimate holy grail of interactive video streaming that can supposedly make any old PC, Mac or even a TV into a high-end gaming machine.
To many these claims may be hard to believe but if Onlive is capable in delivering what they promise this could very well be the biggest thing for video games in terms of connectivity and user friendliness. Not even considering the potential to the rest of the entertainment industry.
This service (if it works) would basically establish zero latency interactive TV over the internet. People would be able to interact with multiple forms of streaming video, no matter if it is a HD movie or an interactive advertisement alike. The possibilities seem to be endless.
Oh yeah, it will also help eliminate piracy. Since the media is never physically (or even digitally) transferred to the end user, piracy is sort of preemptively prevented by just keeping the games only on the servers doing the cloud computing.
A new era for online media distribution or a big FAIL! in the wake of false promises? I guess we will see when they launch.
E.T. found in upper atmosphere, again.
A story about new species of bacteria first caught my attention on CNN and it got me really interested but was just too short in itself. So I googled the topic and found another article about it.
This Yahoo India article describes the experiment in better detail and pretty much satisfied my thirst for info… Until I saw towards the end that this was actually the second time that the experiment had been conducted. And wait a minute, it was first done in 2001 also with positive results?!
Yea, so then I found this article from July 01 and it went even further and declared that Panspermia was now almost proven since these bacteria clearly came from space and inhabited earth.
Cool, so apparently eight years ago they found out about E.T. bacteria that just might be the cause of all the living things on earth and now you just kind of wanted to remind us again. Nice and thanks for making a big deal out of it 🙂
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Should Obama get angry? Jon Stewart sure does!
SNL and The Daily Show both feel that peoples expectations for Obama are becoming more or less absurd in terms of managing the financial crisis.
The Rock Obama is the incredible Hulk alter-ego of Barack, after being harassed by the Republicans about the crisis. Yet another hit from the latest SNL cast.
Jon Stewart is also getting pissed off about the way the new administration is being judged according to the DOW industrial average. Funny that the internet generation actually needs news updates so often that the daily stock market has become the indicator for how well the President is doing. Hell, I would sure hate if my job performance was directly related to anything like that.
Well as we wait for the slump to turn the Dow INDU seems to be up by over 200 points, making it yet again just a bit over 7000. Looks like it was a good day for Obama and hope that tomorrow we go up some more.
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