To know what is the latest on politics strategy go to My.BarackObama.com social network website. The Senator from Illinois running for President 08 has launched a social network. It allows create a profile, start a blog, add friends, set up groups and coordinate events. This is the next level in high-tech campaigning. Some analysts think it will be tremendously successful.
A television listing website with web video and user generated content
MeeVee.com, a television listing website, added this week Network Video and Community Video sections, which include sharing site clips alongside streamed episodes on network sites. They show also the results of searches you set up by adding interests.
“We’re the first ones who are kind a putting the whole thing together,” Neil Kjeldsen, MeeVee VP of marketing and content, suggested. His hope is that this could be “what convergence might look like.”
The Network Video tab on your guide shows ‘legal’ content like official streams from the TV networks and news outlets (See for example the new Fox On Demand section on MySpace, developed for HD streaming). The Community Video tab is for user clips — both unofficial clips from television and user created content. Clicking on a clip opens it in a new window or tab with a MeeVee header frame.
Location matters when it comes to tech and great ideas
The much-hyped prediction of the death of distance has not occurred. “Geogle’s astonishing rise and Apple’s reinvention are reminders that, when it comes to great ideas, location is crucial. “Face-to-face is still very important for exchange of ideas, and nowhere is this exchange more valuable than in Silicon Valley,” says in the New York Times, Paul M. Romer, a professor in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford.
Venture capitalists, who finance bright ideas, remain obsessed with finding the next big thing in the 50-mile corridor between San Jose and San Francisco. About one-quarter of all venture investment in the United States goes to Silicon Valley enterprises. And the percentage has risen, to 27 percent in 2005 from 21 percent in 2000.
Great technology ideas can come from anywhere, but they keep coming from Silicon Valley because of two related factors: increasing returns and first-mover advantage. The best and the brightest technologists from around the world make their way to northern California, says, also in the Times, tech columnist Pascal Zachary.
“In terms of creativity, the Valley remains as far ahead of the rest of the world as ever.” “People in the Valley generate new ideas and test them much more quickly than anywhere else. They aren’t a super race; it’s their environment.”
AP will integrate citizen content into its network
AP news agency has jumped into citizen journalism, making it one of the biggest development so far in the history of the user-submitted content.
AP has teamed up with the citizen journalism site NowPublic, a site based in Vancouver with 60,000 contributors from 140 countries, and growing fast.
This agreement may include eyewitness accounts to originally-produced content. Recently Reuters struck a deal with Yahoo’s You Witness News.
CBS expands its mobile offerings
CBS has launched a mobile store, CBSmobile.com, where users can download a variety of mobile content, including games and special wallpapers and voicetones created specifically for the mobile phone from CBS programming.
The network plans to launch mobile sites in the coming months for CBS Entertainment, The CW, “Entertainment Tonight” and CBS’s online entertainment news service Showbuzz.com.
“If there is a killer app, it’s video”, says Cisco Systems
“If there is a killer app, it’s video”, John Chamber, Cisco’s chief executive said last week, after its company reported a 36 percent jump in profit in its second fiscal quarter, benefiting from growing demand for bigger, faster networks that can handle video.
Cable companies, telecommunications carriers and others are increasing spending to upgrade their equipment to send and receive video programming.
