Floozy Speak!

Check out this good read on kids of today.... engage or enrage.. I can totally see that.

Another good read.. the digital native.. :)

BoingBoing tells me of this new book on music and da brain.

I heard about Spike Lee's When The Levees Broke, a documentary on Katrina this morning on NPR. They say its really disturbing and that it will definitely make you angry and sad when ya watch it. I'll be airing on the first anniversary of the hurricane incident next tuesday, August 29th on HBO - 4 acts... 8pm to midnight.

Amazon is making semi silent strides into the video on da web scene with Unbox! Web2.0 ventures are having a hard time coming up with decent names I see... "Joey check out this video on UnBox!!" Ummm sure!

Sony gets in on the crowed video on da web space and snatches up Grouper for a mere 65 million bucks! HELLO, why am I working in research?!? 65 million bucks!

Some sites are suggesting that with the rise of YouTube and the other 40 like web site services, a whole new era of digital video cameras are coming to scene to empower the masses to record! Well thats old news to me, I mean I got a Sony M1, works well despite the bad lenses cover action. Still I've been a champion of lofi cameras for awhile now, starting out with a Kodak Mc3, and then a Mustek DV4000 and then going with M1. And technically why go lofi heck you can record in HD now a days with the new Sanyo - course YouTube is gonna crush that HD and turn it into 320x200 goodness for playback but hey. Now check out these additional cameras.

Video is gettin outa'hand on the web.. now DIVX has gotten into the YouTube space too.

And ummm then there's Dovetail.. weeeee my god.

Today I used my M1 over the DV camcorder to quickly grab some video, slap it in the mac and encode it to flash which was then put on a website for participants to review in a study happening next week - total time to do all that? about an hour... sweet!

Hmmm blogumentary... nice.

I've been in a startup mood lately juggling - touchgraph-finder, prime, sammy and dastimuls ideaers.

Experience Economist hits me up with a story about Ralph Lauren's interactive window, sweet stuff. I'm also a sucker for digital signage.

I had lunch with Matt this week and caught up on all the latest in SIGGRAPH like goodness from the master of graphics. One of the cool things he talked about seeing at SIGGRAPH was well.. ok here's a list from EXP econ folks...

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3D display using laser plasma. I'll explain this in more detail later, but it basically allows you to focus a lser light in the air to create floating images. Way cool stuff that you need to see to believe!

• Virtual Humanoid. This will be the Madame Tussaud's of the future. A head-mounted display and green screen robotic figure allow you to see, hear and touch the animated figure.
• Freqtric Drums turns the audience into drums so the perfromer can use the audience as their instrument. This was a hoot to watch and I can certainly see some of our clients using it in their experiences.
• Tablescapes Plus will be tough to explain without seeing it, but it uses objects placed on a tabletopas the display and allows them to interact together.
• Multi-touch Interaction Wall. This one was a big hit on youtube and it looks even better in person. And one nice element of this experience was the social aspect of the interactivity. People seem to like to experience this one together.

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Check out the Living User Panel idea.

I saw these is ... is not's and I thought of Marty.

I saw these bags and thought of Justine, JooYoung, or Wyatt.

Screw MySpace get into BakeSpace now!

Traineo the AJAX driven social networking kick me in the ass yet look seriously 2.0 about it site hit a few weeks ago. Is it another peer trainer?

RadiusIM is all about location, so yer chattin, well check out whos near by.. and of course if you actually run into that person.. PUT DOWN THE PHONE and communicate via live presence injection..

Here's a sweet blog all about patents.. very cool and then a blog about business bankruptcy.. dang.

I've been thinking about providing an API for PRIME.. here are some potential ground rules.

Too many ideas, but idea 5934 i had a while back was location based advertising - connecting people, devices and locational awareness all together.. awwww ya.. someone slap me 100k please gah and gimme some coders.

TJ's informs me of the Standford Educators Corner site.

Nice read on VOIP call recording.

Last but not least some yummy happy hour results to glance at....

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