This one gets my imagination zoomin’! The springboard sights and sounds video from the Intel Developer Forum in Shaghai, April 2008. Great storytelling is the art engulfs the heart of my imagination.
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Invent the New Reality, originally uploaded by kxande2.
On the streets of Shanghai, April 1, 2008.
Us taking a photo of us with a Gigabyte MID, originally uploaded by Hugger Industries.
Hey, that’s an Intel Atom processor Gigabyte mobile Internet device in their hand!
This is a good visual because it shows what I’ve been seeing in my minds eye: new mobile Internet devices will make ultimate social media swiss Army knives we can bring anywhere to capture and share your stories, photos and videos quickly.
And then WiMAX will come!
Josh Bancroft @ IDF2008, originally uploaded by Hugger Industries.
The hardest working man in socio-business! Josh Bancroft inspires by doing and being involved and it seems he’s always there to help you reach higher ground. He is a very special person. One to whom I’m grateful. A legend in my social media posse.
Here is in Shanghai working his magic at the Intel Developer Forum on April 2, 2008.
Here’s a link to a cool blog post he did while packing up his social media gear before hitting the airways to Shanghai.
MID Replicants, originally uploaded by Hugger Industries.
From the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, April 2, 2008. That’s today, the day engineers and tech lovers from around the world got to see new mobile Internet devices (MIDs) for the first time. These are the newest pocketable, full-Internet experience devices running on Intel’s tiniest new Atom processor.
See more photos and join the IDF Group on Flickr.
Here’s a cool video Lenovo made, showing their new device:
IDF Shanghai Tout, originally uploaded by Hugger Industries.
I’m looking forward to the kick of the 2008 Intel Developer Forum April 2-3 in Shanghai. Lots of my admired teammates will be there. I coined this event as the best, most integrated, cross team, cross geography social media team effort for Intel to date.
Here’s a post I wrote for the Technology@Intel blog. It features tech topics, links to how we’ll be sharing the the IDF experience.
Here’s a cool video my pal Annie and I directed with PodTech. It looks back and a ahead at IDF, where great people get together to build the future upon the latest incremental tech advancements that start at the the computing core…the microprocessor.
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VLab&GDC2008 003, originally uploaded by KenEKaplan.
A Intel pals Annie Rodkins and Bob Duffy turned me on to last week’s VLAB gathering on Stanford campus. “Shaking the money Tree of Multi-Platform Social Networks” hit the sweet spot of my current curiousities…then it peeled back my skull and poured in a heavy dose of reality. Wow! The more you get involved with social computing technologies, doors just keep opening to fascinating work and business opportunities.
Here we learned about social networking applications maker RockYou, Google’s Open Social, Bebo, Social Media advertising agencies and how people are hustling to create low cost, rapidly deployed services for Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and other socially connected online services that use open APIs.
I’m not at all techie, so here’s what I found scribbled in my notes:
* Social “not” working on the job — a term moderator Jeremiah Owyang of Forrester Research blurted out describing how some bosses diss the use of social networks/media at work.
* We’re in a new social media economy
* Social advertising, where we can influence getting ourselves or friends in Ads (and get paid? why not?!)
* What’s a platform? RockYou says it’s the ability to add functionality; distribution; monetization (development and maintenance cost, stickiness and openness to other networks/platforms). Reward =distribution x revenue and Risk = development and maintenance costs devided by stickiness + openness.
* Build for “Multiple & Open” platforms/networks
* Steve Cohn had a great sense of humor and quick wit. He used “Make a Baby” with me application that’s widly popular now in his company’s Bebo social network.
* Words from venture capital guru Ken Guillicksen: cutting down costs gets more ROI…open social means more distribution but need keep down development and maintenance costs….if you share a niche product distribute widely while driving down costs and increasing ROI.
* “Social netowrks are the homepage of this generation,” said Jia Shen of RockYou.
* Have a pleasure model
* Higher rate of success in social networks than Web sites
Jeremiah Owyag ignited a Super Bowl Twitterthon and many are stepping in to use social media to engage more with the Super Bowl. Join the fun and Twitter your take on the TV ads hitting you on Super Bowl Sunday.
Instructions below and pre-game buzz here.
There’s just three steps:
1) Sign up: Get a twitter account, got that? Good.2) Send your vote to @superbowlads: When we’re watching the game in real time, simply send a reply to superbowlads. I created this Twitter account just for this virtual event. Reply to the superbowlads account, name the commerical, and give it a rating of 1-5 stars, 5 being the best.
examples:
“@superbowlads That Pepsi commercial was funny 4 stars”
“@superbowlads The Hillary Clinton advertisement was bunko 2 stars”
“@superbowlads Bud-wise-er, that was so 10 years ago, weak. 1 star”
3) See what others rated: You can then see everyone who’s rated the ads by doing a search on any of the Twitter search tools, I like Terraminds. See this example, it’s showing all the people who have replied to superbowlads.
My friend Rohit also is rallying people to engage online in new ways with the Super Bowl.
Cool video highlights of Intel inside and all around CES 2008. “Don’t be encumbered by history…go off and do something wonderful” is an Intel inspirational quote from co-founder and first CES Robert Noyce.
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Leaders from many countries are meeting in Davos, Switzerland this week to share wisdom, pain and real plans for making the world a better place.
We have more access to who’s there, what they’re saying and what are the real big ideas that can really be put into action. I’ll be tuning into YouTube and sharing some on Facebook (Intel World Ahead) some of the things Intel Chairman Craig Barrett and his team are doing at Davos. There’s a cool “The Davos Question” YouTube site where people can upload videos and share the stories they want world leaders to hear.
The Power of Collaborative Innovation is this year’s theme. What’s powerful is when we can begin to see leaders join forces and integrate their great efforts to make a bigger, quicker and more meaningful impact in places around the world.
Dr. Barrett will show how he is leading commitments to invest in teachers, education tools and even healthcare efforts around the world. In the February issue of Fast Company, Dr. Barrett tells it like it is — he’s working hard with many leaders around the world, and making real progress.
“The various ministers and presidents always ask Intel to build a plant in their country to create jobs,” says a former Intel senior executive. “That is obviously not possible, at least not in every country around the world. So the Intel execs give an answer along the lines of, ‘We understand your desire to join the digital revolution, and we are going to do even better than building a plant. We are going to train your teachers in the use of technology.'” That, says the former exec, means “more good PR at a reasonable cost.”
The Fast Time story — “Intel’s Amazon Ambitions” — focuses on Intel World Ahead efforts called “The Most Remote Digital City,” a WiMAX equipped city of Parintins located in the heart of the Amazon.
“The demonstration projects are a rip-off of the Nike slogan, ‘Just do it,'” says Barrett. “I’ve given presentations around the world about the latest broadband wireless technologies. People will say, ‘That’s very interesting,’ and go away. But if you do a demonstration like Parintins in their backyard, people take notice. And they start to say, ‘This is not theory. Look, it’s real. You can touch it.'”
The Fast Company article ends:
Hardly the hyperbolic digital makeover of Intel’s initial press release. “These kids now have a little more opportunity than they did before,” Barrett says, “and we’re seeding the forest for the next billion trees.” Not to mention the next billion customers.
Here a related videointerview with Dr. Barrett from February 2007. You can hear his heart’s in it!
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Movin' Ahead 