Archive for March, 2007

Editor’s Choice, EyeJot

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

I selected some of the EyeJot intereview and demo in this Scoble Editor’s Choice video that will give you just enough of what’s in the long form to pique your interest and draw you into the bigger picture!

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Interview with EyeJot’s founder

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

EyeJot is a new service that lets you send videos through email and other systems. Does it in a cool new way using Web services. Since more computers have Webcams built in, this will prove to be popular. Here, I sit down with EyeJot’s founder, David Geller, and get the inside scoop on the service and what David sees happening in the email space.

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Editor’s Choice, Part IV, of Microsoft Research TechFest Tour

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Here are the best parts from the second tape I shot during my tour of Microsoft Research’s TechFest with Kevin Schofield. On this “short” you’ll see:

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Editor’s Choice, Part III, of Microsoft Research TechFest Tour

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

My editor, Rocky, picked the coolest stuff off of my tour of Microsoft Research’s TechFest with Kevin Schofield. Here, in the third editor’s choice from the tour, we pick out the best parts from the second tape I shot. On this “short” you’ll see: (more…)

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Second part of cool Microsoft Research’s TechFest Tour

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Passionate Kevin Schofield continues us on the tour of Microsoft Research’s TechFest. Interesting demos you’ll see on this second part? (more…)

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Editor’s Choice, Part II, of Microsoft Research TechFest Tour

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Rocky picked the coolest stuff off of the Microsoft Research TechFest Tour so if you only have 16 minutes, you can see our favorite stuff from the tour (part 1 of the full tour is about an hour long, so we’ve edited it down into three more shorter videos — this is the second part).

Here’s what you’ll find on this shorter version:

  1. Matt Uyttendaele shows off HUGE (4 gigapixel or so) photos with a killer “tiling” system that displays them wicked fast.
  2. Linking the real world to the Web with pictures (killer camera phone research).
  3. Richard Harper demonstrates a bunch of hardware concepts and trials for home users.

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Editor’s Choice, Part I, of Microsoft Research TechFest Tour

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Rocky picked the coolest stuff off of Part 1 of the Microsoft Research TechFest Tour, so if you only have 12 minutes, you can see our favorite stuff from the tour (part 1 of the full tour is about an hour long, so we’ve edited it down into three shorter videos — this is the first part).

Here’s what you’ll find on this shorter version:

  1. VIBE group shows off synchronizing via mobile phone research
  2. Andy Wilson shows off a cool set of apps that use video cameras in a new way (don’t miss this, it rocks!)
  3. Daniel Robbins shows off a new “tap UI” for phones.

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Cool tour of Microsoft Research’s TechFest, Part I

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Kevin Schofield invited me up to see Microsoft Research’s TechFest. We get to see a TON of cool stuff (some of the coolest research ever). Kevin is the guy responsible for moving technology from Research into the product teams, so he seems to know everyone working on Research and what’s cool about it. This is the first tape. It’s about an hour long, but you’ll meet some really great technologists who are doing some eye popping research. If you can’t handle the long version (a second one will come up in a few days) we’ve picked a few of the cooler parts and will put those out shortly.

What will you see?

  1. 2:11: VIBE group shows off synchronizing via mobile phone research
  2. 10:09: Andy Wilson shows off a cool set of apps that use video cameras in a new way (don’t miss this, it rocks!)
  3. 19:50: Daniel Robbins shows off a new “tap UI” for phones.
  4. 23:35: Matt Uyttendaele shows off HUGE (4 gigapixel or so) photos with a killer “tiling” system that displays them wicked fast.
  5. 29:52: Linking the real world to the Web with pictures (killer camera phone research).
  6. 34:04: Speech recognition for podcasts.
  7. 36:50: Frank Seide shows video exploration and discovery for Media Center PCs.
  8. 45:31: Richard Harper demonstrates a bunch of hardware concepts and trials for home users.
  9. 52:00: Vibhore Goyal shows using SMS to blogging and research in India.
  10. 54:25: Rajesh Veeraraghavan is doing research with farmers in India to find better education systems for them.

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Rocky Barbanica, my editor, goes “short” on Scoble

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Lots of people have been asking for shorter videos and since we have two hours of content from the Microsoft Research tour, Rocky thought he’d introduce a new series of ScobleShow “shorts.” Here’s his introduction.

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Hear how RedFin’s CEO and CTO want to shake up real estate world

Monday, March 19th, 2007

I sit down with Glenn Kelman, CEO, and Michael Young, CTO of RedFin, as we talk about this real estate industry disruptor. RedFin lets people buy and sell real estate online without paying real estate agent commission fees (or, at minimum, greatly reduced fees). But that’s not the only way that they are shaking up real estate markets. They are trying to change how the industry is compensated, which will, Kelman says, increase customer satisfaction with the process.

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