Found on Hell Yeah Bitch, "Dell Responds to the MacBook Air".
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Stumbled across two great videos this morning. What a great way to start off the week!
Gabe and Max's Internet Thing
via Marc Andreessen, who also posted this gem about rogue trader Jerome Kerviel.
Google Maps Street View Extreme™
Much better than any of the Super Bowl ads…
NBC did a good job incorporating all four shows, but I wish it was longer.
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(A Winer-esque post, but I really like this quote so whatever.)
Fred Wilson: "Shut the Hall of Fame. Because YouTube is my Hall of Fame. Rock on." The game has changed. There's too much stuff out there for us to only care about "the best". Especially when we all have different ideas of what "the best" is.
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We briefly discussed the Google/YouTube deal in two of my classes (MGMT 230: Entrepreneurship and FNCE 250: Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation) this past week. In both classes, either I overheard or someone asked the professor, "What's YouTube?"
Now, I don't necessarily expect the average person walking down the street to know what YouTube is, but the people in my classes aren't particular average. For one, we're at the best undergrad business school in the country. Second of all, these are classes focused on entrepreneurship and VC, so I hope that the people in these classes have an interest in the subject. Yet there are some people in this very specific group who had no idea what YouTube is.
I'm still not sure if I've lost faith in my fellow classmates or gained faith in the power of the echo chamber.
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After a relatively great blogging month (29 posts in 31 days), August has started off a bit slower. The reason is Lost. I am hooked. I just started watching it less than a week ago but I'm already 4 episodes into the second season (that's around 3-4 hours a day for those keeping track at home). The show is just so enthralling that I don't know how people could have watched this on a weekly schedule.
Lost is just the latest in a string of TV shows I picked up this summer, starting with Curb Your Enthusiasm and later The Office (US). I've noticed that though I'm pulling away from the mainstream with regard to audio and news, I'm embracing it more and more in the realm of video. Perhaps its just that audio can be produced well for cheap, whereas video requires a much larger budget. I love Ze Frank and enjoy Rocketboom but these and other short-form shows are nowhere near replacing mainstream television shows.
What I do think will change for mainstream TV is the distribution method. We're already seeing this with more and more networks adding shows to the iTunes Music Store, with ABC shows appearing on abc.com for free and (legality notwithstanding) with shows popping up here and there on YouTube.
So how exactly am I watching these shows when and how I want? Here's a hint: not by turning on the television.
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Google Talk's one year anniversary is approaching, and a report has come out saying that it's not doing too hot, just as I predicted. The fact of the matter is, there's no use competing in the textual IM space anymore; the market is saturated. Everyone is pretty much ingrained in what their social circles will use and no amount of smilie packs or client skins will change that.
What AOL/MSN/Y! and Google should be concentrating on is audio (though this market is pretty much consumed by Skype) and video chat. Making an excellent service centered around great audio or video chat and being the first to release it will practically guarantee you market share. There's only so much you can do with text, but the possibilities are endless for audio and video. We already see Skype bringing people together from all over the world to record audio podcasts, but imagine being able to do the same for video. Or have your recorded conversations be easily posted to your blog or YouTube. The numbers YouTube is showing prove that video is the next (current?) killer app of the internet. As broadband gains even more traction and companies like Apple make webcams ubiquitous by building them into their machines, video is poised to find its way into more application "genres" than what we currently see.
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Here's a list of a bunch of TV shows available on YouTube. There's a good mix of old and new, you've got classics like Diff'rent Strokes and current hit shows like Lost. What really caught my eye, though, was the 30 or so episodes of TechTV's The Screen Savers from 2004. I was a big fan of TechTV way back when and I'm now a big fan of TWiT so to see Leo and Patrick on screen again was a real treat. So throw your crusty old copyright laws aside, sit back, relax and watch a classic episode of The Screen Savers!
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