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So I had this brainfart thought last night while driving home about Sling Media and their recent influx of VC funding, some 46 million that is.  The more I slept on the idea the more i'm suprised that no one has gotten into competition with them over the concept. 

So slingbox simply compresses my tv signal from my home and makes it available on the web, the video side of me says "big whooop" really but i cant help but wonder, how easily is that duplicatable by say, another savvy chinese techno duplication firm?  Have i tried the tech?  No not yet, but its a perfect solution for my brother who can't get cable or sat tv at home in sunbury ohio.  He could get the cable at work and sling it home, and that'd fix his need for Alais, though they i heard on the net a few days ago they are going to cancel that show... sorry Rumbaldi, you had a good run. 

I like Sling, it makes TIVO sexier.  CNET had a bit blurb where they had Slingbox workin with TIVO runnin on mac, that was sexy but even sexier was that they also had it running on an EVDO powered phone.  30 FPS from yer tv set up at home running on yer phone, that is pretty frickin slick.  Course you need a smartphone.  I think Chris still has one of those actually. 

My orignial thought though was flawed, apparently u cant have multiple people all working off the same sling media stream.  But if you could.. you for example build one massive setup.  Say 10 people all chip in on a massive all channel multiple recorder setup, and then strap all that to a sling and then people simply chip in on the feed divide by 10 and that could be pretty sexy.  Sure we'd all be strapped to our laptops or pcs to watch our content but we'd get our shows at decent cost... and i thought that'd be a fun project to set up.  But then I read the bit about Sling's inability to support same time access from other users, so that kinda kills the idea. 

Competition wise the net tells me Orb and Sony's Location Free TV idea are the only other gigs in town.  I've got an ORB account and I guess I haven't looked into all it features in how it could be used as a full feature cable/tivo placeshifter like Sling can be, I'll have to look into that.  ORB is great at just making my pc media available to me anywhere I want, but it comes off as well.... in development still. 

...this just in after more digging.. TV2ME? ... it does seem to get bad reviews on the net especially considering its 5k price tag. 

In other semi-related news is the CISCO on the move dealio to get more goodness for the living room.  In the days of the first tech bubble CISCO was front and center with all the crazyness with their tech in routers, then boom they exploded, now a few years later they are making the scene once again, first they gobble up LinkSys a popular wifi brand for the home and bizness, then they get Scientific American (back in the november 05), and yesterday they were spotted on the net talking about eatin TIVO or Nintendo even.. or maybe even makin a play for Sling.  For more data on Sling, check out SlingCommunity.

Also a fun read is simply looking at Engadget's Award vote for best/worst of 2005, now there's a nice little tech download for ya. 

And in unrelated news, Puffin - check it - boodle.  Oh and listen to this.

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Scripiting News gets it right… I love the pic to the USA and california in red, seems like only the west coast gets all the events.

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Sometimes being ahead of your time sorta backfires.  HEAVY.com was/is/could be one of the bigger citizen media type sites on the planet.  Course it did sell out in multiple ways i think, but its a site that you have to go to, you don’t see it unless u go to it. 

Maybe that concept is confusing, maybe its more about how it used to be “in” and now it feels really out.  Other media outlets on the net seem to come to you more, you see them in the outlets, you find their content easier. 

Heavy was cool about two years ago, it was like a fringe mtv network, flash based and pretty frickin wild, they definately kept the actionscript community on the edge of their seats i think.  Now I dunno much about it any more.  They dived deep into original content and less “crappy” clips of the net feel.  But this is isn’t yesterday…You Tube has taken over their infected clips scene and things like RocketBoom and CurrentTV, fireAnt and more have filled in all the other gaps. 

Sure they just got 10million in funding but funding to do what?  They need to land on the TIVO or something.  I mean everyone moving into position for my attention these days.  TIVO, Apple and the Itunes dealio, fireAnt taking the vblog scene, CurrentTV taking whats left along with You Tube, I dunno where Heavy fits.  Om’s got some ideas, and I didn’t realize they had downloads for PSP and iPod, but I still their “classic freshness” that was cool about 2 years ago. 

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So its been just over a week now trying out Net Snippets.  I’ve been needing a tool to help me gather news and information on the web better with more gusto. 

So here are my “snippet” folders.

Folders represent my interests, its all pretty standard really.  I can drag and drop whole content into these folders, or links etc. 

Initally I was looking for a tool to help me capture the buzz and then create a report for me on the fly-ish for the team at work.  In the past i’ve looked at tools like Onfolio and PiggyBank, but never really got around to actually testing them.  Snippets seemed painless enough up front to play around with and its auto report generating tool, I think, could save me some time. 

So far so good with Snippets, now is it $129 or was it $199 bucks worthy?  I dunno yet. 

Let’s see, what did snippets grab for me last week. (the follow bits were captured & stored within snippets)

OSU researcher works to find patterns, – ya know everything in research these days is all about patterns.

“San Mateo start-up Sling Media thinks they will, and apparently so do its investors. The private company has just closed another "large" round of funding to help finance the distribution of its product, which enables people to watch shows they record on TiVo or other places on Internet-enabled cell phones.” – I haven’t played with a Sling yet, but I love my TIVO, gluck there Sling!

Mediaweek had a few articles on Al Gore’s Current TV site.  Current TV caught the eye of a few peeps at work last week, which broke out into a bit of discussion.  I do like those Google spots on Current.TV.

One of last weeks more pointless debates was the Yahoo “tossin in the towel about search” debate.  Personally I don’t care either way.  Yahoo however IS more outwardly obvious is positioning itself to care about search less and focus on owning 2.0 more if you ask me.  To me its more about them basically saying “we arent gonna go to war with google over search., we have bigger fish to fry..” kinda thing. 

PBS’a new mediashift blog got some airtime last week on the edge.  People from different media related blogs caught wind of the PBS effort and generated a bit of chatter about it. 

Eyetracking for usability caught some play on the usability and research blogs out there last week.  That tech becomes increasingly easier to digest and implement it seems.  May have to take a look at it soon. 

I spent a few hrs last week pondering a new cellphone.  I’ve been thinking about the “brick” from Nokia, the N90.  Now why a new phone you say?  I got a sidekick 2, be happy.  Well I am but I would like to play with semacode. And well the N90 screams video capture phone gizmo galore, and everyone knows i need more low fi video capture gadgets.  However N90 has had its share of mixed reviews out there, and ya its large, but still smaller than a sidekick2 im sure.  For more thoughts on the N90, check out a blog dedicated to it. 

Lastly, I’m a fan of the Ito’s, they tend to do the “good work” on the net these days… “ABSTRACT: Photo sharing via handheld devices has unique limitations and affordances that differ from paper-based sharing and PC-based archive and moblog sites. Based on studies of camphone use in Japan, this paper suggests an emergent visual sharing modality that is uniquely suited to the handheld space. Intimate visual copresence involves the sharing of an ongoing stream of viewpointspecific photos with a handful of close friends or with an intimate other. The focus is on co-presence and viewpoint sharing rather than communication, publication, or archiving." Intimate Visual Co-Presence by Mizuko Ito. 

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Kim shows me the art of M&M sorting.

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1000 Flowers Bloom have an excellent audio interview with David Berlind, one of the creators of the upcoming Mashup Camp next month.  It’s a great listen, definately check it out.  Mashupfeed is one of the websites David mentions, definately an excellent find.

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I've been having fun with different plugin extensions for firefox lately...

HEYA MIKE! 

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The ipod started as a music jukebox, in fact to me it started as a musical archive device, holy cats you wanna lug 60gigs of music around with ya.. wow.  Then it got sleek and sexy, 4gigs of “just what i need”, it then got really small, no screen please, just shuffle me, its all good.  Then it went back to the screen but a really really small one – the nano was the new sleek sexy ya ya ness.  Soon not just music but podcasts entered the mix, the ipod went from a music player to a quasi-media player.  Then the video ipod arrived, heck lets show movies on this thing.  Then vlogging got sexy on it, and now.. you can carry a bit college on it… woah..  This one idea just keeps evolving.  Very cool Apple, very cool.

Hmmm listen to some techno or.. hey lets listen to Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers.. woot!

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I often come off as a rabid dog when it comes to expressing my seemingly endless interest in the web to co-workers, friends, family and beyond.  Sometimes I get head butted with the notion that all my ramblings are for not, since it must be a small audience of folks out there in this small little world called the web, as if it was a niche ripple in a really big pond.  I also occasionally get the “well how do you make money” question, which part of me says – who cares about money, look at the impact!!  Alas it is about bucks.. which makes me wonder, is the 30 million for DIGG really true? 

 Web 2.0 Success Story

Idea: A social experiment in how masses of users could control and promote content without the external editorial control.

Site: digg

Founder: Kevin Rose

Last Job: Tech TV Screen Savers host

Startup Capital: $1500

Employees at the start: 2

Make up: idea guy + programmer

Recent rumored bid for acquisition: Yahoo – 30 MILLION

Not a bad profit. 

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Ya know I just tried to slap some tags in there, it really ticks me off that blogjet in the state of 2.0 goodness still hasn’t implemented an easy no brainer way to add technorati tags as part of its blogging software.  I mean come on jet, what gives?!!

Hmmm auto-replacer seems interesting but, tags these days, they should just be there.  Thing I dont like about auto-replace is that I have to educate the software on what is a link, when given the volume of my blogging, it could surely learn from me. 

Actually I get the feeling auto-replace in blogjet isnt actually working. 

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The delicious plugin for firefox 1.5 is wicked!  It’s seriously remaking the once poor usage i had at making delicious entries.  I used to never know what tags to use, and of course i abused the system with dozens of basic slightly modifed variations.  The new plugin for 1.5 solves all that with recommended and popular tags.  And I love the smart sensing drop down as i type in my own tags, its knows how many i got of each and so on.  Wicked plugin indeed!   

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A few good links...
flickr logo maker

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Gah exploring new apps is always painful.  Sure i do a whole entry on peformancing and then..  i play with some options and BOOM content i wrote is wiped!  GRRR, apps need to see, sense and know where crap is, if content is there, don't wipe without asking, just ASK!!  Ahh well performanicing works, seems ok i guess. 

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Small world indeed!  Liz, the fabled co-creator of Dark Kitty found me on the net last night.  After 4+ years, liz and I have reconnected!  Woah… Liz was the artist behind one of my many strange creations.  Rightfuly served, she is really the co-creator of Dark KiTTy.  It’s been a long.. looooonnng time.  Good to see her doing well, havin fun with her daughter and still as crazy as ever.  SLEEP now! 

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The video iPod has been done.  Archos did it long long ago, however now, with Apple doing it via an iPod, its totally new.  Gotta love it.  Its really pretty amazing how an idea can be reworked, reformated and tweaked to be huge, bigger than the original idea could ever be.  And now some folks even think the video iPod will lead to a new kind of MTV.

Yesterday I read an article on the web about how cell phones are considered by some to be the “third screen”, TV is the first, computer is second, and now cellphones, our third screen!  Made me think of Starbucks and their one liner about how Starbucks is the third place for consumers, home, then work, then.. starbucks! 

I wonder if the video iPod will be battling for the third screen prize, or just blow them all by and go to #1. 

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A music video put together about a year ago. I loved the track, just
dig that drum and bass. The song had a nice, if a bit depressing
kinda sound to it, that worked well with Yukikaze (anime) that also
has the same kind of strong emotional visual mix and a bit of
depression in it as well.

Combining the two seemed to just work well. I leflt the audio sound
effects in the mix cause, well I couldn't take them out.. but I think
they make the video personally.

When I worked in anime, I always thought the films had good effects in
the background that would easily complement whatever soundtrack i put
on top, especially if they didnt have any music.

As for the edit itself, just messing around. I like effects and audio
bits that sync up, pretty soon the music and the animation is one..
like they were meant to be togethger.. I like that alot.

One of my favorite videos for sure.

Music: Concord Dawn Take Me Away (All Skillz Remix)
Video: Yukikaze (anime)

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I got tired of the lame replies from google adsense department of “it could take several weeks” to get adsense ads to work properly on the site.  So, i dunno what’s wrong, but I know what’s right, banish them!  BE gone ads, that did me no good.  Gone for now, maybe try another day but i really hated ads that didnt connect with the content, and i’m not waiting another month for it work out.  Thats just silly, in fact, its lame, in fact its basically the reply that says “we dont know why it doesnt work.. but keep trying”.. i know that line, I give that line out myself all the time. 

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Everyone wants to bring me the latest these days.  What to hit first..well let’s start with the last.

#5 Tail Rank, brand new, just appeared for me.  I hate logins these days, do it with a cookie, dont give me yet another login and password, and if you are, show me why long before i have to sign up. 

#4 Digg, not that shiny and alot of crap goes here, still fun to digg.  Digg is like the paparazi on the net, sure some good stuff, but alot of crap as well, and when it turns ugly it stays ugly until proven otherwise.  Best place to see the collective intel of the planet working in reverse at times.

#3 Tech.memorandum, its the new hip news.  It’s like commander Data, no emotions, lotta logic, and it likes cats, so thats neat. 

#2 TIE, betweem Live Marks and Emily’s Hub, the hub is a must, very cool info here, and a great constant stream of 2.0 goodness to be had is here, the livemarks is more well, i love that real time feed sorta thing and some of my best finds come from livemarks. 

 LIVEMARKS

#1 Diggdotus, seems to have the freshest news out there.

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Google’s Music Search appears… well there but not…

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HECK ya baby!  TIVO’s got podcasts now!  And maybe i should Galleon next.

SWEET!  It was a pleasant suprise this morning to see podcasting on the TIVO!  Very cool!

2322 how are you!  See it can even play World of Warcraft. 

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You all keeping up with today’s flurry of updates?

Just updated to firefox 1.5, it is goodness on a stick!  AndI dig thenew delicious add on action.

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Yahoo buys a bit and now Google gobbles some more.  This just in from the alarmclock!

Google Pays $102M for dMarc Broadcasting

It sorta makes sense from the advertising angle i suppose.  I read this bit and immediate pictured “one world, one google” in my head.  That of course lead to a bit of art… search for a world clip art image.. ya.. ok and then i got this.. lol, so a bit of editing.. ok there we go!

Didn’t know there was a sexy smut mag named “one world” neat! 

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Do yer own research, with technorati!!  Check out these yummy charts for the word “imac” yes 2322!

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Gather, a new news– come create, we all like benefit-2.0 site that i checked out yesterday is getting its share of web2.0 slammage via the collective mind on the web today.  Seems alot of people really don’t like it.  I haven’t tested it enough to say what I think is up with it.  Intial impression wasnt too bad really, seemed like a cool idea, thought the site looked cool, but then again, haven’t used it. 

Everyone is screaming for content these days, Gather seems like it’d play right into the blogging scene but it competes with blogs themselves and other like sites. 

One thing I did like was this bit quote taken from Kareem Mayan’s Weblog.  Which is sooooo tasty, I just dig it.

“Marketing is no longer all about reach; it's now also about influence, conversation, and a good product.“

Why?  Conversation.  In research over the past two years or so there’s a growing need to present, have, discuss, and emphsize the “conversation” which to me is aka the story.  Its all about the story, the brand has a story, the product has a conversation, what is that conversation, why does it matter to me, how does it, should it influence me?  Its a tasty bit quote that reminds me, yes, conversation is good. 

Now whether or not gather blows?  I can’t say really.  Its a trend we’ll see more of, more and more of these types of sites will spring up as we all get a bit more connected. 

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In the WoW universe our server is #1 and will soon open the gates to the insectiods!  Sweet!!  And its causing some fuss on the net as well

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I just read on Tech Crunch that Yahoo has acquired the assets of searchFOX yet another cool bit of 2.0 like tech on the planet.  Actually this video shows it off nicely.  Personalization, well is that spiffy, I like it, and so does Yahoo it seems.  

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I just caught this on Terra Nova, yet more perdictions from folks..

 2) Apple's share of the PC market will double to 5%

I actually think that one is true and will happen. 

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YES OSU made the top 30! 

Just read this on oRrly, Make Magazine, had it last year, it was good, who are the top 30 associations that really dig it?  Well according to  Dan Woods, associate publisher of Make: Magazine these folks are the geekest of them all! 

1. Microsoft
2. Google
3. HP
4. Intel
5. Apple
6. Boeing
7. NASA
8. MIT
9. Cisco
10. Purdue University
11. Naval Oceanic Systems
12. Raytheon
13. University of Washington
14. General Electric
15. University of Texas, Austin
16. Amazon
17. Motorola
18. DaimlerChrylser
19. University of Wisconsin
20. University of California, Berkeley
21. Lockheed Martin
22. Sun Microsystems
23. University of California, Davis
24. University of Minnesota
25. Carnegie Mellon
26. Iowa State University
27. Yale
28. Bank Of America
29. University of Chicago
30. Ohio State University

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….is the price for a new toy.  Do I stay or do I spend?  I say spend! 

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Ok so its a bit slow today.  My chest cold is workin on me as well.  I think Mary has finally infected me, I resisted for along while there.  Ahh well.  Ok now OVT here, this is something i sketched out on the back of my todo pad.  I dunno I was thinking about a few things.  First I’ve gotten alot of good feedback from people regarding my web2.0 presentation, many folks want to know how where to go, how to start, they whole absorption into the 2.0 scene.  So I started thinking about my process and what grabs me and what leads me to.. well other things, ideas and thoughts.  So I cranked out this bit blurb.  

At first I called it a therapy cause its alot like that.  You get in and you absorb and explore and you get better cause you start seeing everything, its like redbull for the brain, you get it, you really start to see things.  LOL I guess that could be seen as good or bad really.  Its a theory in the sense that its well, an idea of how i do something.  

The name just came to me, the vibe is really want i’m after in the end, where’s this vibe going.  Vibe’s everything really, where are people, where is tech, where are the dreams, where they possibles becoming can dos, here, there, the web, and so on.  

Observational Vibe Therapy

Explore, Absorb, Assess, For See

One part therapy two parts theory, OVT is a series of steps to take you closer to what you don’t know in order to see where it may go. 

Right now a generation born into the digital age that you and I are just now beginning to cope with, thrive on the vastness of all that is capable on the web. 

You’ve heard the heard the buzz of the ipod, the file share, the bit torrent groupie.  Their after effects are felt in the products we own or soon to buy.  Their residue is exposed life a flash frame into all facts our everyday life.  What’s happening out there on the web, how can we possibly keep up?

Observation Vibe Theory (therapy), is a process I use to infuse the culture of the now, that digital signature of “in” to help me for see what is to come in brands, technology, trends, and new social norms. 

The end result – a stroke of the brain

Let’s break down the process:

First there are no initial defining principals; we are studying them, those people, that force you are curious about.  In most cases I’m looking at the force that pursues the web and pushes it along, forcing down the road of innovation. 

Explore

-         Where are they going?

-         What are they doing?

-         How do they do that?

-         What are their constraints/accelerators?

-         Is there an aura?

-         Document your findings via the map

Absorb

-         what brands are in play?

-         What products are in tow?

-         What attitudes are being motioned, voiced, and expressed?

-         What forms of communication are being ridden?

-         Does it have a color?

Assess

-         Define the persona

-         Define the tribe

-         Define the value

-         Define the audience

-         Define the effects

For See

-         Is it real?

-         Stand back

-         What can you see?

-         Inject and Participate

-         Skip a Beat and Rethink

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First up a taste of nanotech, I love big yummy PDF’s.

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Every month a member of the team here at work is assigned to present “something” at the monthly forum.  Its a laid back event usually.  We’ll discuss new design ideas, trends, biz strageties, research methods, data tools you name it.  Yesterday was my turn at the event.  I decided I want to present what seems to be on my mind 24/7 lately, and that is all this exciting stuff thats happening on the web.  So I gave the team my opinion on what happened in 2005 via the web perspective. 

I presented it to the team and we have a lovely exchange of ideas and questions and some folks really got excitied about the material.  Some people don’t tune into the same streams of ideas out there that I do and vice versa.  Some folks were like “wooooah info over load!” while others enjoyed the sampling and wanted more, LOTS more.  Very cool. 

One thing I thought was interesting is that I talk a bit about the players and what they are doing.  And keep in mind this is a brief overview, I don’t dig into the nitty gritty, i’m more of a “hmmm that’s interesting kinda guy”.  Anyways Yahoo in my view is on a buying spree to own the 2.0 space.  Sure they innovate within but they don’t really own the buzz persay, instead they are out to own what makes the buzz.  Today I read on Techcrunch on an article from the Red Herring (which i need to subscribe to again) regarding the theory or idea that Yahoo will soon buy Technorati.  Now wouldn’t that be just peachy?  I mean there’s another feather in the cap.  

You can see the presentation for yourself here: >> REcapping 2005

Slide breakdown as follows:

1. HELLO!

2. a taste of it, folks really wanted what the heck the 466.12 was, it was Google’s stock at the time I began working on this presentation, impressive and maddening at the same time. 

3. some big ideas and words surrounding 2005, innovation was everywhere, people used it like a bad candy buzz word to drive traffic to your website, innovation!!! woo,

4. a brief snapshot of what was happening, tagging big, rss big, web 2.0 which has gone by name terms and definitions but to me is basically a synery of minds coming together to revamp the web in a new way is obviously big

5. whats that leading to? the long tail which we saw in many of our clients, ready to spend, vc tracking is a hobby of mind, camps, the camp idea was really interesting to me and the team got it for the most part but there was still this air of “why would they do that” we need to do a camp this year and get that going, citizen media – blogging katrina was the grand example, that and ohmynews

6. leveraging 2.0, big fish playing off 2.0 like amazon, the lure of the beta, and how in a open system everything is free, taggable, findable and very reversable, basically talking about as news events happen we can track who talks about them, where they talk about them, how they talk about them, and how they tagged them, blogged them and so forth and we can even dig into other like associations, interests and dig deeper into those connections and more

7 – 10.  i snagged a few slides from technorati, i often get challenged on how real blogging is, i know, thats hilarious isnt it, well data folks like to see data, so here ya go

11. a brief listing of the players, these are some of the major players that made a buzz last year to me, i put fox in there not cause i dig them but i find it interesting to see what they buy, all the players on the scene right now hold certain positions it seems, we have the promise, the innovator, the buyer, the wanna be and so on

12. some of the battlegrounds, some of these are obvious, we had a fun talk about gold farmers in china working for a buck a day to farm gold in warcraft, and we talked about the millions of people playing these online worlds and the generational impacts, and how many unversities are offering gaming research classes, theres a big research + gaming connection that came together last year as well 

13. some playgrounds, places were team members could go and check out some offerings in the 2.0 space mainly, squidoo + rollyo that empower the everyday surfer to be a real voice, the new game with digg and delicious and how emily chang’s ehub is my first top every morning on the web, itconversations in how to stay informed and set a blaze without killing your eyes, open courseware and whats that doing, bloglines with helping the team get over the drama of sooo many blogs how do i keep up?

14. speaking of blogs, what are some tasty blogs to visit, i think this pdf may have broken some of these links, sorry about that, if yer savvy, u’ll figure it out, and yer reading this right, so yer savvy.

15. some books to read, books ive read and will soon read like a whole new mind which is coming, currently reading blue ocean stratgey and seeing whats next, blink is an amazing book, the world is flat is flat out awesome, freakanomics i couldnt put it down, so yesterday is a teen novel that gives ya good idea on how trends develop

16. the new mini is a go!

The End.

side notes: I didn’t know you could drag and drop in WSFTP?  Hot cakes