David Pogue-Fora.TV Cellular Technology Trends 09

As a rollercoaster 2008 rolls to an end (much to the relief of many of us), we look forward to CES, Macworld and next years Tech Trends that will wipe away the economic blues.

Fora TV- Phone Trends 2009

Social Media Curry. A Recipe overview from Abhishek Bhardwaj

A 74 slide set on Social Media thoughts.

http://www.conceptcurry.com/social-web/a-sip-of-social-media-curry/

What The F**K is Social Media?

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: socialmediamarketing marketing)

Churchill Club - 6th Annual Gadget Fest

http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081119/a-video-smorgasbord-from-the-churchill-clubs-sixth-annual-whats-hot-and-whats-not-in-personal-technology/

Beta Records TV - Your Music Matters!

Independent Music TV Show...



http://www.betarecords.com/beta/tv/episodes/

Hiromi Uehara - Modern Jazz Piano & Keyboard Superstar

I recently had the pleasure of seeing the incredible Hiromi live at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, CA (a fantastic community non-profit jazz club even by worldwide big-city standards) where I am a member and have sponsored several fantastic shows over recent years including Pat Metheny with Keyfax New Media. Bobbi Todaro does an awesome job gathering the very best talent to add Kuumbwa to their west coast US tour schedules.

She really is one of the new great modern keyboard talents equally artistically comfortable and fluid on piano or synthesizer. Check out her new album "Beyond Standard" or the "Spiral" CD with Bonus DVD from 2007.



Hiromi Discography

From The Basement-Nigel Godrich

Nigel Godrich's live music TV show.

Taking thebest elements of what was the UK's "Old Grey Whistle Test" and bringing it up to date with modern visual production aesthetics and Nigels audio production genius.

http://www.fromthebasement.tv/show.php?number=01&page=welcome

David Fishof, Founder Rock N Roll Fantasy Camp

Brainstorm - Be a Rock N Roll hero for a day! Selling the experience of the "other" real-life guitar hero!

If you want the real alternative to Guitar Hero gaming and you actually want to play an instrument with other musicians, then this is it!

http://money.cnn.com/video/ft/#/video/fortune/2008/07/24/fortune.brainstorm.guitar.hero.2.fortune

Guitar Hero Metrics - Robert Kotick, CEO Activision

Fortune "Brainstorm" Conference Interviews.

6.5 Billion Hours of Guitar Hero playing this year!!

Note-tracking proposal to embed GH meta-data in all standard songs. Currently $6 for 3 songs.

Universal Music is now a partner for GH. GH is a platform that can also offer regular songs, downloadable performances and music creation.

See the interview

2008 Fall DEMO Gods (Recognizing the 6 minute heroes!)

Fora.tv, Guy Kawasaki @ The Commonwealth Club

The Power of "No Bull Shitake" lecture featured on www. Fora.tv which aggregates the best in todays thought leadership!



http://fora.tv/2008/11/17/Guy_Kawasaki_The_Power_of_No_Bull_Shiitake

Commonwealth Club, Silicon Valley

iPhone Music Applications - Best Sellers in UK & US

iPhone Music Apps are best sellers in UK & US

http://thumblounge.com/topapps/top-iphone-apps/

http://www.appcraver.com/category/music/

http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2008/07/top_5_iphone_music_application_1.html

iPhone Best Selling US Phone Q3 08

Brian Eno - Bloom for iPhone, Ambient Music Generator

Brian Eno - ambient thought leader, progressive technologist has created the hypnotic "Bloom" for iPhone visual composition of ambient music. What would Erik Satie - the original piano minimalist and "phonometrician" think after 120 years of technological advancement? Eno calls it "a music box for the 21st century"

Bloom supports single and multi-touch for melodic or harmonic composition and has its own song representation format.

http://generativemusic.com/



Press Coverage:

Intomobile

iPhoneBus

Amy Seefeldt- Contemporary Art Portfolio 08, Developed By MB

This is a beta version/partial compilation of Amy Seefeldt's (San Francisco artist) Contemporary art portfolio project I concepted and designed using Keynote/Quicktime and staged for the web on Vimeo (so here the encode quality/frame-rate is 2 stages degraded from the ultra crisp HD original).

The concept/brief was to deliver:

• A branded portfolio - immersive, kinetic but with a contemporary gallery/postcard feel rather than MTV fast-cut aesthetic

• Progressive visual assembly, paced to elegantly reveal the key information in series for optimum absorption

• Positioning thought-provoking verbal fragments about each work with a consistent design theme for the series

The earlier working versions stubbed Chicane's/Saltwater as a more ethereal soundtrack as opposed to Goldfrapp/Deerstop, both groups being amongst the best in UK progressive electronica. The Goldfrapp song has a timeless ambience with a piano motif similar to french romantic minimalist Erik Satie's "furniture music".


Amy Seefeldt -Modern Art Portfolio 2008 Beta from Mike Barnes on Vimeo.

LAVA (Live Audio Visual Animation) Madonna 3D Demo, 2000

This real-time rendered demo of LAVA (Live Audio Visual Animation) was made back in 2000 by Alan Seefeldt/Mark Buchanan/Mike Barnes/Alan Peevers.

All the movement is triggered by audio analysis linked to kinetically animated meshes and the camera and scene cuts are controlled by a custom real-time automation/scripting language.

www.LAVA.com was founded in 1999 by Alan Seefeldt/Mike Barnes (me) & Alan Peevers and incubated by Creative Labs Inc.

LAVA pioneered MV3 (Music-Video-3D), POD's (embedded webpages & 3Dobject hyperlinks) & a push ad engine ORBS (Objects with replaceable banners), Graffitti ( Text FX) and a multitude of realtime generated texture and scene visual FX implemented first in OpenGL and later in Direct3D.



Interview: 3D Sound Surge: Mike Barnes & Alan Seefeldt

PC World Story

CNN Coverage

ZD Net Asia Story

ALIVE Story

Ge Wang Presents ChucK/Audicle

Ge Wang, CTO of Smule (social sonic iPhone apps) presents the innovative ChucK audio/music live interactive programming langiage for computer music.

http://www.smule.com/

Tim Ferris- Do Lecture/Author Of "Four Hour Work Week"

Profile:

Timothy Ferriss, nominated as one of Fast Company's "Most Innovative Business People of 2007," is author of the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Business Week bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek.

He has been featured by dozens of media, including The New York Times, The Economist, TIME, Forbes, Fortune, CNN, and CBS. He speaks six languages, runs a multinational firm from wireless locations worldwide, and has been a popular guest lecturer at Princeton University since 2003, where he presents entrepreneurship as a tool for ideal lifestyle design and world change.

http://www.dolectures.co.uk/speakers/timothy-ferriss

Diane Warren/Realsongs-Publishing Leader/Songwriting Entrepreneur

Diane is the best in the business and completely independent. You likely do not know her name, but you will recognize all the songs she has written/published and the Artists that have recorded those songs. She is a musical genius and another hero that has succeeded as a businesswoman/songwriter on her own terms, with her own vision without diluting her artistry! She is unique in the industry.

http://www.dianewarren.com/

Richard Branson @ TED Monterey, March 2007

Well, Richard Branson (Virgin founder) is one of my personal heroes. This video extract is from the 2007 TED Conference. Another inspiring Brit (Thomas Dolby) was musical director for the TED conference and performed afterwards at the Kuumbwa Jazz Club, Santa Cruz.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/richard_branson.html

Janus Friis @ Midem

Founder of Kazaa, Skype & Joost...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_Friis

http://www.joost.com/

Flip Mino HD- Portable 720p Recorder

Here it is! 720P video, 1-click HD under $250 with custom graphics!

http://www.theflip.com/products_flip_mino.shtml#scene=sceneMain

http://reviews.cnet.com/digital-camcorders/flip-video-minohd-black/4505-6500_7-33392113.html

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/11/flip-mini-camco.html

http://www.obsessable.com/news/2008/11/12/flip-mino-hd-shoots-720p-high-definition-video/

Flip Mino Camcorder

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Jeff Smith, Smule.com, Under The Radar

Smule just launched the awesome Ocarina! Now this is finally the mobile musical instrument for everyone! No case, no roadies and no years of bedroom shredding required because it runs completely on your iPhone (for now... and maybe later Android, Nokia etc!)

From silence to making global melodies in moments! Absolutely anyone can learn to play this inspiring modern version of the traditional instrument! Ocarina makes innovative use of the iPhone mic input for breath control of loudness and the multi-touch screen for fingering notes. Smule.com even offers a cool FREE Ocarina "finger score maker" so you can download, print or upload your Ocarina tunes!

• From iPhone download to music maestro in minutes
• iPhone Mic input breath control, multi-touch music note phrasing
• Wi-Fi listen to Ocarina global melody streams via 3D earth music surfer.

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/smule

Music2.0 Thought Leaders

Gerd Leonhard's Slideshow for Music2.0

Music 2.0: a web native Music Industry, by Gerd Leonhard

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: riaa flat rate)

Zembly.com & Todd Fast, CTO

Sun's Incubator for social platform development- OpenSocial, Facebook.

A Social Development Ecosystem.

Web 2.0 Summit

A few keynotes/interviews from day 1 of Web 2.0 Summit

Blip.TV Web 2.0 Summit Feed

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10083937-2.html?tag=blogFeed

SF New Tech chi.mp Social Media

http://blog.chi.mp/2008/10/10/chimp-commands-the-sf-new-tech-stage

Google I/O '08 Keynote by Marissa Mayer

Google I/O '08 Keynote by Marissa Mayer

Blogged with the Flock Browser

Andrew Frame- Serial Entrepreneur, founder ooma.com

Andrew's talk at Stanford is one of the best of the whole series. Highly focused and succinct summary of what really matters in laying the core foundation for a successful venture. I completely and instinctively agree with his positive views on mentoring up and down. Wherever you are in your career, and experienced mentor to help navigate "You Inc" through rough or murky waters is utterly invaluable.

Andrew Frame

Ooma Demo

Andrew & Ashton

Interview

Reid Hoffman-Linked-In Founder & Valley Investor!

Reid is rockstar! He has a lot of great insights and makes very smart investments! Check out his seminar at the Stanford Entrepreneurial Podcast library. Linked-In will certainly be a massive success especially with the new open platform... it's "Resume 2.0"

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?author=229

Innovation & Ideas - Marissa Mayer, Google

Marissa talking at Stanford about the myriad of innovation paths at google.

Play Conference-Haas, UC Berkeley Nov 15 2008

http://playconference.org/faq.html


>play Digital Media Conference from Leon Wu on Vimeo.

Guy Kawasaki "Reality Check"

Loved "The Art Of The Start" and "Selling The Dream" this is his latest entrepreneurial marketing inspiration!

Chumby-Not Just For Teen Girls, Geeks & Those Needing Chums!

Chumby-Part 1 - First Thoughts...

Chumby (www.chumby.com) the friendly bedside Wi-Fi web2.0 appliance, iPod charger, Pandora streamer, music,video & widget player safely landed at my house today. Whoa! Touch-screen display, stereo speakers & dual USB ports built-in (charge your phone & iPod overnight!). The product marketing guys really though this one through!

You may not know it yet but you absolutely need one! That svelt bedside atomic-crystal world clock-radio/projector with iPod speaker dock that was "oh-so-hip"last year at Sharper Image now look like an abacus compared to an iMac!

Despite the name (which frankly conjures up images of some obese yet cuddly and charming character from Teletubbies), Chumby is not only "fun" to use but an ingenious and awesome feat of HW & Web engineering/interaction. 

It may "seem" like a Toy for Teens but it is completely configurable so you can easily setup channels with custom widget collections today for almost any practical business monitoring application: Google Calendars, LinkedIn, Stock Tickers, News, RSS, Blogs/Micro-Blogs.

Of course Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, eBay, Flickr and all the essentials of your social web life can all be accessed in summary form. The widget support out-of-the-box is most excellent and so far everything I have tried so far works flawlessly with simple browser-based configuration. However, this is day 1 so let's see how this all holds up under the scrutiny of daily use.

Extracting Chumby from his/her (it's?) cute pastel packaging complete with charms, you just plug-in the power adapter (shame it doesn't match Chumby's color like Apple!) and Chumby walks you thru a video greeting, basic use and Wi-Fi setup. This initial setup  (unlike almost every other Wi-Fi/Network setup) is actually delightfully simple considering how sophisticated the device is-all you need is your network login/password. I added it to my Airport Extreme network in just a couple of minutes-bizarrely way less time than it took to get my MacBook Pro configured!

In depth look at the audio/music/media streaming capabilities to come next when I have had a chance to really put it through its paces...

AlwaysOn Breakout Dec 15-17, Beverly Hills

http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/28841

http://alwayson.goingon.com/ecom/productview/28848

Stanford Venture/Entrepreneurship Guru's

Ron Conway- the startup king! 500 and growing including several with Sean Fanning (Napster) including Snocap & Rupture. Mike Maples (Maples Invetments) From the Stanford Entrepreneurship Corner.

Average Angel round is $500k-$1M, syndicated by lead angel investor once they decide they are going to invest.

http://www.amazon.com/Godfather-Silicon-Valley-Conway-Dot-coms/dp/081299163X