9 Responses to “Bad Sinatra I”

1. Oh, Gillmor! (Fake Steve will hate this) « Scobleizer:
   July 10th, 2007 at 4:36 pm

   […] Oh, Gillmor! (Fake Steve will hate this) Bad Sinatra starts out with a walk into Marc Benioff’s office (CEO of Salesforce.com) and goes downhill from there. Heheh. […]

2. john:
   July 10th, 2007 at 5:39 pm

   You l0sers! Post it in mp3 not this ipod-only mp4 crap!

3. David Millsaps:
   July 10th, 2007 at 7:29 pm

   Steve,
   You should try advertising the videos on Gesture lab- I had to find about these from Scoble and Loren.. yeesh.

4. CrunchNotes » Gillmor Gang (Isn’t) Back!:
   July 10th, 2007 at 7:43 pm

   […] Glad to see Steve Gillmor doing something creative again, this time with video. The first episode of Bad Sinatra is live, and features a very uncomfortable interview with yours truly about midway through. Terrible stuff, but Steve’s a friend and so I have to post a link. […]

5. Chris Knudsen on life, business, and entrepreneurship » Web 2.0 girl fight:
   July 11th, 2007 at 11:51 am

   […] Oh, then Steve Gillmor gets a bunch of attention for launching a new video podcast on soon to be out of business PodTech. Old white guys in love with Apple making video of themselves trying to ”play it again” is getting a little old. Seriously, who cares! […]

6. Piotr:
   July 11th, 2007 at 12:49 pm

   how can i subscribe only to bad sinatra? not all the podtech crap
   like i did to scoble`s show?

7. Charbax:
   July 14th, 2007 at 1:04 am

   iPhone needs 800×480 4.3″ screen like the Nokia N800. It needs unrestricted wireless access for VOIP and IM, and it needs processing power for all the video codecs of the Internet including .avi and .flv

   Also it needs faster processor for AJAX and Flash in the browser.

   iPhone doesn’t got it, so it’s not a good idea to be locked 2000$ during two years with it.

8. macslut:
   July 14th, 2007 at 10:39 am

   Charbax, the Nokia N800 is a bulky tablet PC. It’s much bigger than the iPhone. Why not suggest that the iPhone have a 30″ Cinema display? As it is, the screen takes up almost every bit of the iPhone’s footprint and the iPhone is *just* the right size (based on pockets). And the screen is very bright.

   Unrestricted access for VoIP? For all those times when you have WiFi access, but no phone coverage??? I don’t see that being an issue with AT&T.

   Sure IM is missing, but will most likely be added soon. There are already web.apps that offer IM.

   “it needs processing power for all the video codecs of the Internet including .avi and .flv”

   Those are containers, not codecs. The iPhone plays MP4 files with H.264 encoding. That’s one of the most processor intensive codecs there is. It’s more processor intensive than Divx, VP6 or others (but does a better quality/size encoding). Sure it would be nice if the iPhone/Apple TV/iPod opened up to codec plug-ins so that anything obtained on the P2Ps would play, but more and more I’m seeing MP4 files on the net and if not, transcoding isn’t that big of a deal. It sure beats having hardware that kinda/sorta is compatible with some unknown mix of codecs.

   “Also it needs faster processor for AJAX and Flash in the browser.”

   Faster for AJAX? That’s really, really funny. Have you even seen the iPhone?

   And as for Flash, again, if it can handle H.264, it can easily handle Flash. Personally, I hope Apple doesn’t add Flash to the iPhone, but I think they will soon. This is unfortunate because by not adding Flash, they’ll influence web developers to not depend on it (and thus continue to create crappy interfaces). On the other hand, Flash will bring games to the iPhone so I guess it’s a trade-off.

9. technophobe-anonyme.com » Blog Archive » Bad Sinatra II:
   July 15th, 2007 at 7:27 am

   […] The reviews are in and it’s unanimous.  Bad Sinatra II will be better than Bad Sinatra I.  That’s a mathematical certainty.  My only consolation after watching the first one all the way through was that it cost Gillmor more time to shoot it than it cost me to watch it — granted, not much more time, but some. […]

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