Floozy Speak!

In this weeks episode.. A FIST FULL OF BETA

Anything and everything that has been cool as of late is in beta.  Slap beta on it and you are almost certain to attain immediate hype!  Hype is what makes the net world go around.  Beta is like the door mat to open source success, its the open arms of “were not sure whats happening but come join us..”, if anything really, beta is a sure success motivator for peeps.  I mean ya open yer code up, which is good, well within reason, then you get the masses to innovate for you, even better, and then you get the ride the constant buzz wave of being in beta.  Soon yer invited to all the beta parties and yer in the new buzz game.  Speaking of which I need to get back to the buzz game and see how my buzzstock is doing. 

What is on the flooz radar lately?  Spot any interesting trends?  Any must have gadgets?  Any drive by need be’s?  Hmmm as of late i’ve been consumed by work and being sick.  Not much trend festering happening really.  I have been thinkin about the mac video effort still.  I always get these grand ideas in my head.  I think its my brains way of telling me i really need to buy something, cause i’ll feel so much better then, but more often than not its like joy of spending that consumes me. 

Ok so back on trendwatch, what is happening, hmmmm.. we’ll I’d say gaming is up!  For world of warcraft that is, china’s release has exploded and now we have a whole new slew of folks hacking the heck out of wow.  I’d say hacking is in.  Not that it ever wasnt for the underground scene, but generally hacking is new cool word used in marketing, especially for book titles, you want to make sure yer book catches the spotlight, slap “hacking” on there and its gaurenteed a slot in the review list.  I used to think hacking was about phones or pcs, but you can hack anything these days.  I’m waiting for the 101 Hacking yer Home Blender book, i’m sure its coming.  I will say there are some ingeinous video hacks out there, I need to get that book. 

Video Blogging is on the rise.  Its trying hard to weeen its way out of obscruity.  Perhaps my talking crap videos could be syndicated for all to see.  Probably a good time to buy stock in Serious Magic, their creation tool is a snap for video bloggers, cool quality results too.  Next up I need to see if serious magic can read my MP4 sony videos.   

The fire ant beta is out!  Yes beta action boys and girls, get on board!  Pretty cool so far, i sorta dread the download all fuctionality, its clearly what i want to do yet with all the feeds you could be attached too, itd be like downloading a serious chuck of video to yer doorstep.  Lots o video that is.  Especially considering all the anime kids tied to the service.  Still I like idea, could be next big app to be analyzed, toyed with, and throughly ripped off by the masses, or msn, google, and yahoo.  I’d like to see tagging be incorporated into the app as well, a better system to help address the whole signal to noise issue would be nice.  I feel like i’m stepping into a whole crap load of video bloggers on the planet, who do i want, why do i want them and whats to offer etc.. its hard to tell.  Trial and error?  I suppose.

PS: I’m currently addicted to: Now playing: ILS - Angels  >> amazon

Let’s see watching wise, i’ve been consuming the Smallville and Carnivale DVD box sets.  Good stuff there.  Still playing World of Warcraft, I keep finding ways to spend gold and not save it, bad cow, bad bad cow. 

Man it is seriously difficult to keep up with all these blogs. 

iTunes

What is it about a lower case letter first that calms the savage consumer?  I seriously thing theres something to lower case, and i’ll make a case for it even.. ha!  seriously, though… don’t i see more.. human than CAPS?!  Anyways I finally got around to buying some tunes off itunes.. and damn thats addicitive.  They still dont have selection i’d want them to have when it comes to strange electronic and dj groove tunes, still, its getting better.  It’s so nice to pick and choose what you want, even at a buck a track. 

G5 on the horizon

I’m still eyeing the G5 iMac for video production.  I just got the bug for motion and final cut pro, heck even the iDVD app looks killer.  I dunno, we’ll see. 

GenerationNext

It was generation M, at least we’re seeing bits of the M and now known as the NEXT gen that must be online now.  Insta-nowness is seeping into all aspects of the culture.  Lagged in the drive thru lane, no its not that i had to wait, it was like i was lagged out getting my fries.  Must have now!  I like talking about generation now, generation next, generation woah what was that?  After work a few of us get together and discuss NEXT effect on our various projects.  Some little to no effect, others, ya.. some significant effect.  To better understand, to better know what is happening there, gotta go back to the source.  Need to do another day in the life study on how this NEXT gen is forming. 

Project Sammy

Deep in dan archives are hundred ideas that never manifested.  Why?  Like anything, time, attention to detail, attention to focus, attention to just do them, i dunno, several ideas written on a napkin.  Some of them are video creations, cartoons, show concepts, scripts, songs, beats, art ideas, live action gator murder mysteries, and some are applications, net projects, websites, ideas, expression, ideas without form and function.  Some are gems that just get parked away on the shelf, I can go right back to them cause the passion flame is fiery enough to easily get back into the “YA” that first created them.  Sammy is one of those projects.  At first the tech didnt exist to support Sammy, however now with mobile phones being what they are and the rise and total consumption of all that is instant messaging on the planet, and with tasty things like RSS running rampant, perhaps now, Sammy could flourish.  What is Sammy?  Yet another idea that well, wep couldnt support.  Heck, i dunno even if the infrastructure out there exists to pull what i need down to make Sammy happen.  Clearly Sammy clones are out there.  Now do they make any money?  Thats a big if…. how do I make free work.

Today's three rules are for those who want to be in the business of establishing a new category by providing free goods or services via the Internet. This is an exponential-curve hit business. The vast majority who try it will fail. The success of the few is spectacular.

The twin lessons of Internet Bubble One are that the free strategy CAN work spectacularly because of friction-free distribution via the Internet AND that the free strategy USUALLY fails.

The winners have three things in common:

1. They lead their category;
2. There is almost no incremental cost to them of providing another unit of whatever it is they give away free;
3. They change the way their users do something which is significant to the users.

The losers fail one or more of these three tests.

… taken from here.  3 will be tough since everything is soo fleeting these days.  So more on Sammy as it develops but a few peeps at work are interested in helping me develop it. 

Fish & Hami

Another idea, this time a comical strip much like Dark Kitty, which was like hello kitty meets dark city the movie, yet in the style of south park is on the table.  I created a rough story board in video, wrote up some descriptions and presto leah’s man Josh started drawing.  Its pretty incredible to see my ideas my words be manifested in to actual things.  Next up Chap here at work spotted them and asked about animating them, damn that’d be awesome.  The plan is to create a 2–3min intro to a series kinda thing.  Song is done, edit is a rough, just need about 10 background plates to choose from, a few cool characters, insert some compositing, some dynamic effects and we got material folks.  I love working with a talented artist.  It also pains me to see them struggle.  I feel like were on the opposite sides of the tracks.  I have all these ideas, TONS, yet i cant really draw, well you know, and josh is the opposite in a sense, he can draw really well but doesnt have all the others i got.  Perhaps together we can create and get into something even better down the road.  Maybe land him a animation job or something. 

Blog Spotting Round 1 FIGHT! 

Cool alternate use of quake, I LIKE IT! vs No FAKES >>> winner NO FAKES!, thats a hilarious spot, gives me a good idea. 

RFID is the mark of the beast vs Slave to Gaming Buck >>> winner RFID and 666 go together, i mean come on, we’ve known about gaming thing since EQ ever arrived really, but RFID the sign of the devil, thats material people!

RSS for feed chow vs DarkNet >>> winner DarkNet, first of all nice book title, second, its true, hollywood is coming! 

MySpace is now NewsCorp’s / FOX’s Space vs copilot? >>>> winner copliot, why? cause its in beta!  gratz tom on the sale. 

Storyboard for the tablet vs Strange Days & Extracting Cat Videos >>>> winner, damn this is a tough one, i’ll go with cat brains.