Floozy Speak!

The wave is coming.  We're on the crest of another massive wave on the 2.0 scene.  We're about to take a massive ride down the slope of video groove goodness. 

YouTube kicked off this craze just a few years ago, but now its mutated into something I doubt many people could of really perdicted to occur in such a short amount of time.

When I first watched Justin.TV, i thought neat, thats like a dude on a webcam 24/7, I immediately thought to myself it will tank, how do you keep that up?  How do you stay wired 24/7 on the web with a webcam strapped to your head?  I bet people thought the same thing about Real World on MTV when it first hit, reality tv, what a joke.  Yet its alive and well, and sure theres a ton of crap out there but theres also some really good stuff. 

I still think Justin.TV is limited, an always on focus regardless of real content or not has gotta peek at some point.  So why am still excited about the overall 24/7 medium idea? 

Well after Justin.TV popped up, uStream.TV arrived on the scene, it was create your own broadcast show, be like Justin.TV 24/7.  Neat but not so neat for me

Then I heard about Operator 11.  A site where you create a channel, produce shows and even do live broadcasts with your own bin of content or folks you know online at that moment.  It also has myspace like personas with friends and more. 

At first Operator 11 was kinda like "yikes" here's another bizzare experiement to endure.  Yet another beta for me to play in.  But i figured what the hell I'll give it a whirl.

Flash based it seems, and its apparent that flash which used to be like "dont rely on it overall for your total site design" is back with a vengence, flash is in.  So ya Operator 11.  Interesting stuff.  I created a profile, created a few videos and it felt like youtube a bit.  Then I created a show live.

Right away I was kinda lost.  I don't know the rules of the system.  Like how long could you record for, hows the quality, whats the real deal?  You dont know any of that up front.  Operator 11 could benefit from a nice detailed experience tour or something showing you the real power of the site. 

For me, like others, learning the real power of the site was awkward but doable.  In the beta scene you're used to tripping over interfaces and being confused about what to do, after all the creators are probably doing the same. 

So after a few hours of kicking this site around, and thats unique right there, hours.. wow.  Operator 11 is pretty cool. 

The other day I signed up for another site like it called Mogulus which is like Operator 11 but looks like it has a bit more TV station like stuff you can do, add graphics, do lower thirds and a cool ability i wish Operator 11 had, import clips from the web, from google, from youtube and so on.  That would rock. 

Right there kids, thats the new frontier.  Youtube will always be an outlet for crazy animals gone wild or some dude who blows up his hand with a firecracker but creators, the next gen of vid punks who are gonna make names for themselves need a channel, need control of a channel and need interaction, and thats happening on these new sites. 

Now the only thing is price, bandwidth and overall experience, plus that all consuming viral stickyness of it.  Bandwidth issues can easily tank either concept in a heartbeat.  Charging users could too.  Overall experience, well like the beta scene goes, people will go through alot to express themselves. 

I think bandwidth will be the biggest issue to overcome.  Right now theres a handful of creators out there determined to make their mark, then theres the 5000 other folks screwin around, soon that will shift, you'll have 5000 diehard creators and 400,000 screwballs.. bandwidth should be really interesting then.

Lastly, the one last bit I got for ya.. Apple TV.  Someone has done it, they've hacked it to play youtube videos.  So now you can get all of itunes, all your general content, joost, and now youtube on that little box.  That's damn spiffy.  Go go apple TV! 

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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....

Technorati Tags: sony, lba, traineo, bakespace, SIGGRAPH, design research, spike lee, unbox, youtube

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This week in blogwatchin:

Atom gets bought for $200 million, woah.. anyone remember ole Atom from the pre bubble bust days?

Blurb book makers snack on some new funding.

Snagajob launches!

Asus is making a name for itself in the oddball router market, this thing looks pretty cool actually.

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I decided to share my brain with other backpakit'ers with my qualitative 2.0 ideas. Its a collection of thoughts that I scribble down, ponder, wonder etc, when it comes to research.

I feel like i have new found freedom with backpakit. I've been tackling stacks of notes, getting them into the tool and toss out the papers, my desk is kinda clear, kinda nice.

Technorati Tags: backpakit

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Ok so I broke down yesterday and got backpakit via the 37signals crew. What a killer little app this thing is, I already have about seven pages putting order to my chaos. I've been itching for wiki like solution for awhile now, some central place to save ideas, projects, onliners, you name it. I can share it with others, the masses, voice dictate to it, and it has a sweet widget enabler so it makes it really fun and easy to use on the mac. Their latest calendar addition is really nice too. Anyways, props to people at 37 for makin this killer tool.

Technorati Tags: mac, 37signals, backpakit

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So the other day i debated creating a youtube director account vs going to some other competitive service and well I tried. I tried revver and it looked cool, somewhat promising, still felt clunky with their uploader and general UI, but i tried.. and i failed cause my videos are not pure of heart.

Meaning that revver is great for totally pure of heart productions, that is productions that have none, nada, no infringements of any kind and its not really clear what all counts for infringements in this new hyper wired world we live in.. i mean what all pisses people off?!

People we are in a remix take this take that world. Personally it should been seen as flattery to use someone's music as yer intro piece, i mean yer doin this for fun.. ok and a bit of profit if you can, but mainly fun and fame.

Anyways unless i start humming my own intro music pieces i dont see myself on revver any time soon. Even then i wonder if the transitions i used in the editing software or the places i shot the video, do i really own everything in that shot? i mean i bought the music and that still wasnt good enough... I dunno.

Anal aspects like that kill the infective nature that those services really need to take off. There's a line between minor use and major rip off.

I think youtube is the same way they just take a different stance on it, its more of a "if someone gets pissed... we'll yank it" vs killin the idea right outa the starting gate.

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Well none of my ftp's are working this evening. I can't seem to remember my floozyspeak ftp, damn that info, it escapes me from time to time. Anyways...

I was going thru my list of "beta" bookmarks this evening, hell I have a huge stack of them.

Check this one out. This could be a killer little research tool for lextant. The power of video is compelling in research. When a client has the option between a 39 page report or a video, they almost always take the video option.

The problem with video is getting to the good stuff in a way you want too. Click.TV is dead on the mark - simply jump to it. Annotate as you watch. Woah, that is slick. I like. They even throw in bookmarking to make the video jump points even more interesting. You can even sub-clip a clip out and put it somewhere else to view.

This thing is damn cool in my book.

I could seriously see using ClickTV on a larger scale in some intranet or client review website concept. Folks at work are gonna digg this puppy.

Technorati Tags: annotation, design research, flash, clicktv, video

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Geeze the web is a zoo lately. Ya look away a few days and ya come back to the he said she said they said they do of the web.

What's up the all these R's

First up, the tech crunch zooomr story. First of all, do we really need yet another web2.0 beta app that ends in r. I mean really people, i thought web2.0 was a tad bit more original than that. But apparently not. What we got flagr, zoomr, otherr, themr, wer, tacor, etc.. Aside from that, ok so the kid made a nice clone, he had good material to start with. But should flickr be sweatin? Come on tech crunch, what do you got some stock in this project or anything. The whole point of web2.0 is to open, share and learn from each other. I dont see flickr in fear of this app any more than this app needs to be a clone of flickr to make it out there. And the 16 languages thing, come on, thats not a massive feature if you think about, probably some built in ajax magic'io library setup. Weak reporting.

Microsofts Oragami

I wasn't really impressed with ultra-tablet-pc unit microsoft announced last week.

It's basically a tablet pc with a 2hr battery life, touch screen, camera, mic, pen, optional keyboard, wifi, and optional gps (i think). So what. Is it another possible field research device? Maybe, could be good for medical folks too. They love that wifi portability of things. It's a bit like a newtons beefy brother from the future though, and not that much different.

Adventures in YouTube

Been on YouTube lately? They have a new and nifty notice when you upload stuff now. It's a big disclaimer that you of course agree to which is basically what yer uploading is all you, all original, nothing from any one else kind of agreement. I mean come on. Wired's told us, Apple's enabled us, Napster and Bit Torrent set us free, Delicious let us share and tag it, and now, yer saying WOOAH to the whole remix theme? Ummm isnt that a bit late YouTube? I mean, its what put yer site on the planet, you wouldn't be where yer at right now if it wasnt for people uploading whatever they wanted, whatever they deemed clippable, shareable, remixable. Yet now.. of course, after yer established, buzz-a-generated, deals imminent.. the warning appears. Lame YouTube.. lame.

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Ok first one is alot like MapBuilder.net

I had to see if I could do the same thing I did at MapBuilder with it, toss in some video content via audioblog.. and yes, wee it works! 

Next up, I told Tim to get a coffee.. and he did!

check out this excellent mashup >> Where is Tim Hibbard?

“Ha ha:-) funny, i just picked up some coffee.  Tim”

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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 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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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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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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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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