Digital Media - Digital - Excellent Presentation Worth Viewing

This has to be one of the best designed, and compelling presentations on the digital hemisphere that I've seen in a very long time. It's worth your giving it a view. David Gillespie did this and he did a great job.

Digital Strangelove (or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Internet)

View more documents from David Gillespie.

Ultimate Gadget - Internet, Radio, 10,000 Channels in your ear

I'm amazed at what we'll be hearing in the near future!

There's a video at the link at the end of this snippet from Lab Spaces with one of the investigators if this story interests you.

"MIT engineers have built a fast, ultra-broadband, low-power radio chip, modeled on the human inner ear, that could enable wireless devices capable of receiving cell phone, Internet, radio and television signals.

Rahul Sarpeshkar, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and his graduate student, Soumyajit Mandal, designed the chip to mimic the inner ear, or cochlea. The chip is faster than any human-designed radio-frequency spectrum analyzer and also operates at much lower power.


"The cochlea quickly gets the big picture of what's going on in the sound spectrum," said Sarpeshkar. "The more I started to look at the ear, the more I realized it's like a super radio with 3,500 parallel channels."

Sarpeshkar and his students describe their new chip, which they have dubbed the "radio frequency (RF) cochlea," in a paper in the June issue of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. They have also filed for a patent to incorporate the RF cochlea in a universal or software radio architecture that is designed to efficiently process a broad spectrum of signals including cellular phone, wireless Internet, FM, and other signals.

Copying the cochlea


Above: Rahul Sarpeshkar discusses research and education in his group and the intellectual challenge facing engineers at the frontiers of bioelectronics Credit: MIT
The RF cochlea mimics the structure and function of the biological cochlea, which uses fluid mechanics, piezoelectrics and neural signal processing to convert sound waves into electrical signals that are sent to the brain.

As sound waves enter the cochlea, they create mechanical waves in the cochlear membrane and the fluid of the inner ear, activating hair cells (cells that cause electrical signals to be sent to the brain). The cochlea can perceive a 100-fold range of frequencies — in humans, from 100 to 10,000 Hz. Sarpeshkar used the same design principles in the RF cochlea to create a device that can perceive signals at million-fold higher frequencies, which includes radio signals for most commercial wireless applications.

The device demonstrates what can happen when researchers take inspiration from fields outside their own, says Sarpeshkar."

Here's the link to the video:
http://www.labspaces.net/97881/Video__New_MIT_radio_chip_mimics_human_ear

I typically close with
See You on the Net!
In this case...Be Hearing from you on the Net!

Sincerely,
Peggy

Roundup of Webcasting - Iraq Based Soldier Witnesses Birth across World and other webcasting fun things!

The first webcasting site noted is a pet website in beta. Along with your thinking....yep, seen that, done that. Still, it can put a smile on your face or amuse the kids (be they adult or young) for a few minutes - - Introducing My Pet Videos.TV http://www.mypetvideos.tv/

Here are some of the stories about the soldier who witnessed the birth of his child from across the world via webcasting!

Internet helps soldier witness son's birth Barron News Shield - Barron,WI,USA But Nate and Racheal are also technology savvy and were familiar with webcasting-a process by which video and audio signals can be transmitted over the ...

<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20337358&BRD=1132&PAG=461&dept_id=157667&rfi=6>

More stories about this:

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No matter what you think about watching a live birth, it's fabulous that our technology today allows such to happen for those that do want to watch! We were dreaming about things like this - a parent seeing his child's first step, and other webcasts of importance to families and the world....just years ago. So Well Done Fellow Webcasters! Pat yourself on the back...and dream about what's next!

See You on the Net!
Peggy

The Internet isn't what it used to be -Pew at PM09 Atlanta

We're in a multitasking world, as if we didn't know.

For example - 58% of readers are multitasking. Research from the Pew Institute sees this group multitasking with other media at the same time...such as a TV being on in the background. I'm an example of multitasking live, blogging while listening to a presentation by the Pew Institute at the Public Media Conference 09 presented by the Integrated Media Association. I grabbed the graphic from the Net at the same time.

On virtual worlds, Lee Rainie of the Pew Center says "You haven't seen anything yet!"

And the statistics are rising on different uses of virtual worlds, including the fact that some find immersive settings more meaningful. He added there's no reason to not see more use of immersive environments in education and other areas.

The graphic from the Pew Institute shows the differences between Internet use in 2000 and the latest statistics in 2008. 5% had broadband at home in 2000, and in 2008, 55% had broadband at home.


In 2000, 50% of us owned a cell phone, and in 2008, 80% own a cell phone.

A more detailed version of this will be available at the Pew Institute website.

Internet Radio Device Adding FM (FM Adding Internet Radio?)

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Uh, shouldn't this be the other way around?



This new internet radio adds FM, an Ethernet RJ45, built in Wi-Fi and wpa2 wi-fi sec. protocol.

With radio becoming more and more versatile every day, Tangent has tweaked its popular and critically acclaimed Quattro Internet radio.

To everything there is a season - turn - turn - click.

NBC Olympics 2008...Pivotal Internet Video Points

I was shown a sneak peek of the NBC Olympics 2008 Beijing website set to launch this summer.

I think we'll look back and say this site launch was a pivotal point in time in the history of video on the Internet. (Another one will be the election in November in the US.)

What's in story this summer from NBC?

Hotspots in Video
In Video Navigation
Multiple Live Cameras (as in 4 or 5!) showing on your screen
Picture in Picture - where you can actually see and enjoy the small and large screen
Extensive search database - alerts of breaking news you want in video based on your preferences, and more.

I hope NBC does well with their website. It'll set a benchmark for other media companies, and I hope user generated content producers. To advance video quality and content distribution, let's hope all the bells and whistles on the website are 'best practices" for 2009 budgeting for all the media companies.

AOL and ESPN are doing great in the interactive sports race that includes video and portability on the Internet and beyond. We'll see how they cover the Olympics.

Now - this isn't web 2.0 or web 3.0 or web 4.0. It is just one of the things the net does and always what those of us in media envisioned. What will you call it? Who knows, but I hope you call it "good." Microsoft Silverlight was used to power the video portal multi-browser, multi-use Olympic website.

See you on the Net
Peggy

NBC Amazing.....TransMedia or Integrated Media - Heroes distributes

NBC's Heroes gets around in the integrated marketing playground. In their case, one might call it a galaxy.

Here's where they play:

Video Commentary -web version goes live in 24 hours post show.
Clips - two-minute summaries, walk through, and video dossiers
Behind the Scenes - Mini-Docs
Wiki - Yep there....user generated content
Fan Site...user generated content
Innovative Video Content - Global News mock news reports
Weekly Comics and Interactive Graphic Novel
Mock Websites - links go to story related websites that really don't exist, but appear to do so. (This is a fun idea - primatech paper is an example)
WebCam Use - (Let the folks think they are back stage or snooping)
Mock Characters have pages on the social networking sites

Does this look real:
http://www.activatingevolution.org/

It's not - it's a fake PR site for the book on the show. At least I think it's fake?

You can't escape politics too. A characters has a site to run for congress at votepetrelli.com



Which brings me to the question. I was playing with a Carnegie Mellon interactive artificial intelligence online robot last night. Why not use this technology so the characters come to your crib or dorm room at say Zwicky, or second life, or face book to chat.

Or am I just way behind on this and it's been done?

If so - send me a link, and please connect with me. I want to know where you're surfing and what you're watching?

For a great chart of the interactive components in which I found out some of these features, you'll have to go to page 96 in the My 2008 issues of Fast Company. Sometimes print is easier to read, unless your screen is 19 inches or more.

The writer was David Kushner. I like. However, what really grabbed me was the cool layout of all their interactive elements and how they connected. You could see how print linked to recaps, web extras, video, fan generated content, mobile, online play, comics, even corporate spying!

If Fast Company would have put a link on the page to where it was on the Net, then perhaps Fast Company could say they're into integrated marketing. (Hint!)

See you on the Net

Peg

900 Channels or Video Applications on Facebook

70% of discovery of new videos is done on Facebook Profile pages, according to a Facebook executive I was talking to in London a few weeks ago.

I was snooping around Facebook applications. There were 900 plus links for video related applications. Are search engines ever going to catch up with video search, or do they need to do so?

I can tell you this. I tried to find any of the live NAB webcasts, now on archive on the Net and can't find a thing. Where would you look? We've got a long way to go in the search process.

No one sent me a link, but I am pretty sure it is up on the net. I remember that Mogulus http://www.mogulus.com/ was webcasting something, so I wonder if I can find anything on their website. Then, there's tvworldwide but they're doing only the military operation to help the troops, and I can't find the video anywhere on the NAB website.

There's an NAB 365...which for some reason isn't letting me sign up to get further information from a couple of their vendors.Back to the drawing board.

If I do find NAB session videos - I'll post them to the NAB Blog and also to one of my blogs.

Cheers! See you on the Net

YaGoogle the Marketing of MicroHoo on the Net T-shirts....

Yes. Ebay was a natural.

Sorry, no underwear found yet!

Microsoft-Yahoo - MicroHoo - www.microhoo.com a Microhoot.....and MicroHoo T-shirts too.

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I ended up by accident on an image search...and ran into a microhoo logo, not one, not two...but if I spent all day searching with you...we might find about a 100 logo mashups of the hoo with the mic or the ya with the micro from around the world.

Okay, I'll vote for "Microhoo" as the buzzword of the year (anything to upset 2.0 and social), but it's actually older news than I would have imagined.

I don't know who grabbed the microhoo.com domain website, but I was curious. To the early cyber squatter who's trying to sell it today and get a few bucks from his adsense ads!

I salute you Mr/Ms. "cybersquatter" for your sense of humor and/or your drive for a buck.

But I don't know if you're the person poised to make all the money off this deal on the Net. (Let's leave the Yahoo execs aside for now.)

It's spawned a micro industry of merchandising, but I'm saving the textile mashups until the next post since I have to get back to the original research I set out to do on Microsoft and Yahoo. I found this distraction, this exercise in branding, line extension rather amusing.

Oh by far...we're not done with this. I started running into MicroHoo Logos by the dozen. My vote for the #1 of the top 10 microhoots is not in yet, but the graphic that has got my vote....the fish eat fish one! What a Microhoot.

Forgive me for that, so moving on,

I had to see who was the microhoo.com mogul.
Domain Name: microhoo.com - Status: Client Prohibited - Godaddy.com
Expiration Date: 2008-05-04
Creation Date: 2006-05-04 (2006 registered? Geez, it's a toddler.)
Last Update Date: 2008-02-06

No luck, so it was back to logos.










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Yacrosoft and Yahwin, better luck next time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------





Cheers! See you on the Net!
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PS T-shirts and Undies next? Good thing Microsoft has not been interested in buying that bar and restaurant where an "owl" so to speak is the mascot. Come to find out, guys think it's another mammal.

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I found references in more languages than I knew existed. I guess it's a trip to wikipedia to read about the history of "microhoo".Dvice.com had the vision to post the fishy graphic. I found a logo www.kizilotesi.net/?q=haberdetay&haber=40

The pics were from Japan, Italy to Denmark and more.
http:// www.kizilotesi.net/?q=haberdetay&haber=40
from http://www.winfuture.de. There's yahwin, and www.tie-blog.com calling it Yacrosoft.