kenekaplan Intel, PodTech

Intel Core Processor Challenge: Then There Were Two

This is a fun video PodTech did for the Intel PC Design People’s Choice Awards.  This shows the final round of judging.  It doesn’t point out the winners of the industry $1 million Intel Core Processor Challenge, as that announcement just came out from the Intel Developer Forum in
Beijing.

 

Now we know that TriGem Computer Inc. from Korea was awarded the Core Processor Challenge grand prize for its three tall yet slender-towered Lluon “Black Crystal” home theater design — and Asono from Norway was picked as runner-up for its minimalist “Merium” system.  

Meantime, BICOM, mCubed, and SlipperySkip are battling to the finish with only a few days of voting left in the sepate, tandem PC Design People’s Choice Awards competition going on until April 20.

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kenekaplan Media, Social Media, Socialmedia, TV

TV & Radio News Facing Revolution

The Radio and Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) is happening this week in Las Vegas along side the annual gathering of the National Association of Broadcasters.

Well respected KGO-TV tech and business reporter David Louie is hosting a panel to help TV reporters file stories from wireless cafes.  A laptop with Wi-Fi connection to the Internet allows a reporter to edit and “file” a story or b-roll from the field.  The technology keeps getting better.  Maybe the wonders of WiMAX could someday soon take things to a new level.

Today I read in the broadcast industry newsletter, ShopTalk, a Television Week story by Elizabeth Jensen. Seeing and embracing change — here are some excerpts from Jensen:

  • “The digital revolution is really hitting home in newsrooms, we find this year, even more than in previous years,” said RTNDA President Barbara Cochran.

  • …the convention played on some of the newsroom’s technology fears with its slogan “Don’t let the digital revolution leave you behind,” Bill Roswell, RTNDA’s chairman-elect and convention producer, has a more embracing outlook. “There’s a brave new world out there that is very exciting,” he said. “We’re not just radio or television stations anymore; we’re information providers.”

  • this year, the topics of interest that came up over and over were such technology challenges as the conversion to high-definition, deciding what material to make available for podcasts or cell phone-casts, how newsrooms can best use Web platforms, the impact of one-person newsgathering, how to bring the audience into the newsgathering process, even the thorny legal issues raised by repurposing material for outlets other than traditional radio and TV broadcasts.

Players involved this year are a nice mix of seasoned journalists, new media pros and technology experts (from Jensen’s story):

  • ABC News video blogger Amanda Congdon: examine “what the next generation of news will look like. [Almost] all the people who are on that panel … come from media organizations or are doing jobs that we wouldn’t have imagined three or four years ago.”

  • Congdon’s session is moderated by CNN’s chief technology correspondent Miles O’Brien, and they’re joined by Zadi Diaz, new-media producer and co-founder of Smashface Productions; Terry Heaton, senior VP, Media 2.0, audience research and development; Elizabeth Osder, senior director of product for Yahoo News; and Michael Rosenblum of Rosenblum Associates, a pioneer in the single-person video journalism world.

For better or worse, in the Bay Area we’ve seen and felt the revolution for quiet some time.  At KRON-TV in the early to mid 1990s, launched their Website and were among the first broadcasters to make news video stories available online.  The station also launched a cable channel called BayTV, where I saw for the first time a “one man band” daily news pro producing, scripting, shooting, editing and reporting.  That was crazy to me!  In 2000, thing began changing even more dramatically and today we’re seeing “single person video journalism” on the flagship KRON newscasts inspired by Rosenblum.

Those may be fundamental changes, but what I learned visiting KNTV this month is even more exciting.  How can boradcasters work together with people — bloggers, citizen journalists — to make the daily news more meaningful to the community.  That pursuit has always driven the best local TV and radio newsrooms.  More people seem to agree that there may be potential benefits to “building community” “reaching out” “involving” the community, rather than just reporting on the community.  This was a major topic exlpored duing the first Silicon Valley Chapter of the Social Media Club, hosted at KNTV.  Here’s a link to my earlier post and links to more info from that meeting from Mario Sundar.

Lots of momentum for change and it’s inspiring to see professionals from different industries come together.  Maybe the real things to observe here:

  1. Technology is ever more important to every industry

  2. Social media is allowing more people to try new things, getting more people involved and participating 

kenekaplan PodTech, Social Media, Socialmedia

Social Networking is Like Air Says Market Guru Charlene Li

Forrester Research’s Charleen Li talks with PodTech’s Jennifer Jones. I first heard Li speak at a small gathering in 2005. She was on a panel along with Tom Foremski and a rep from AP. The panel was hosted by TheNewsMarket and explored online digital video and the trend of people are getting more information online thanks to new/social media.

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kenekaplan PodTech, Social Media, Socialmedia

Anything Goes vs. Civility Enforced

Late night rambling after a watching a great vloggies episode.

As someone who works for a publically owned company, I see the debate on blog codes of conduct as nothing new. It actually offers a chance for every to say who they are and who they want to be. Not having guidelines says you’re the type that likes to be free of “rules” — that’s me! But even without explicit rules, I still treat people with respect and interest. Yet human nature also includes being combatitive, defensive, jealous, vendictive… Maybe we all have our own rules which reflect our tastes and preferences.

If the investors own the company and the company is spending money to allow blogging — internally or externally — it seems important to outline the intentions of the blog. Intended uses and what it is not intended for. Seems things can stay pretty open, but a company does a services to its bloggers, readers and investers when it clearly defines what are its tastes and preferences. Guidelines are bad or evil. They can be limiting, stifling at times, or they can become a foundation for greatness. The Bill of Rights are the Constitution might be considered good examples. I’m sure there are way more bad examples, and there are even examples of guidelines that we never know or hear about. The latter probably serve us all the best.

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kenekaplan Intel, PodTech

Who’s the Scoble of China? New Intel Blog Live from Beijing IDF

Intel’s Stacy English and Bryan Rhoads talks about how Intel’s new blog Technology@Intel will play a big role at the Intel Devleoper Forum in Beijing this week.

In addition to a team of Intel pros, we might even see some special guests post to the blog from Beijing.

We’ll also see how some of our stories can come together thanks to social media technology.

For TV and Radio reporters, we always call IDF the ultimate geekfest. It really is, and I’m curious to see how social media can help the ultimate geekfest reach any interested person who is curious about the future of technology.

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kenekaplan Marketing, PodTech, Social Media, Socialmedia

Being There — Jeremiah Owyang Live UStreaming from Web 2.0 Expo

Man on the move Jeremiah Owyang is doing his verison of Justin.TV, but with a very appropriate business twist.  He will be presenting at the popular Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco this week (April 16-18).  If you’re there, check him out.  Unable to go?  Next best thing to being there is tapping in to the live Web video stream of Jeremiah in action at Web 2.0.  Here’s an embedded player from Ustream.TV:

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kenekaplan Marketing, Social Media, Socialmedia

Correcting Mistakes Can Build Trust

 Catching up on SiliconValleyWatcher and NewRulesCommunications.

The numbers aren’t what get me, but the fact that Wal-Mart has an audience in the blogosphere just as Edelman suspected.  That’s impressive.  Even if Edelman’s initial tactics may not have been pure — not transparent — they had a good idea, put it to the world, were criticized, eventually corrected themselves publically and humbly and moved ahead.  From Tom Foremski form March 12.

Beet.TV recently interviewed Richard Edelman, and he said that the Wal-Mart blog gets 600,000 monthly views. This is a very good given the earlier storm in the blogosphere.

And it is interesting that the people in Wal-Mart’s demographics are becoming blog readers–a trend that will undoubtedly change the overall demographics of the blogosphere. The blogerati influence on what is right and wrong will likely continue to diminish, imho.

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kenekaplan Intel

Pop Up Video Player Test

As Intel readied two new blogs — Technology @ Intel and Views @ Intel — we tried to speed up some new video posting capabilities with our frieds at FeedRoom.  Here is a test of pop up video player.

<a href=”javascript:void(0)” onclick=”window.open(‘http://intelpr.feedroom.com/?skin=oneclip&fr_story=7e5cfce8156e42b27a3884fee6bc51a56fdf3a84&rf=ev&autoplay=true&#8217;, ‘feedroom’, ‘width=320, height=277, scrollbars=0, resizable=1, status=no, toolbar=no, location=no’)”>See the “Views@10 with Genevieve Bell – The Luddite Retreat” video in popup window.</a>

kenekaplan Intel, PodTech

PC Modding in Germany

This is a good example of visual storytelling without an interview or video! It’s not new, but it shows that with a little creativity, good music and edit time you can let people see one of the storylines you’re talking about.

This is from PodTech’s Michael Johnson and is part of his efforts to invite the PC modder community to participate in www.intelchallenge.com. PodTech really helped Intel capture and share some great visual stories about Intel’s PC Design contest.

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kenekaplan Intel, PodTech, Social Media, Socialmedia

Intel’s Ken Kaplan Tells How Storytelling Impacts Social Media

Learning by doing. It’s a great way to put yourself out there among others — for better or worse. Sure you gotta bone up on background and methods, but the best learning comes from people who have more experience than you. The learning never stops, but at some point along the way you get to help others learn and grow their skills and passions.

That’s how it’s been working with PodTech for almost two years now. Sure we work, but it’s more like we challenge each other to step up and bust our our best each time. We see our limits as something to prod because we see and believe in the possibilities. I’m grateful to Jennifer Jones, John Furrier, Darold Massaro, Jason Lopez, Michael Johnson, Catherine Girardeau, Jeremiah Owyang, Robert Scoble and many others at PodTech for sharing lots of thier time, insight, constructive criticism and vision. There’s great variety of talent and flavor powering that PodTech site. Where else can you go and find West Coast hippy babble from someone like me next to the East Coast wisdom of a Loren Feldman and voices in between and beyond?

In this interview with Jennifer Jones, I didn’t drop much science but I let fly my enthusiasm for being part of “times they are a changin'” for the better. It’s about better communication.

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