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Intel Blogfather — Internet Strategiest Bryan Rhoads

Lots of great people hanging (read: drinking) and learning from each other up at Portland’s Internet Strategy Forum Summit in July. I watch from Cali as pals like Josh Bancroft helped organize folks for dinner. And folks like Intel Blogfather Bryan Rhoads was their “tapping pools of knowledge capital.” He is a great guy to learn from — big heart, good experience and great stories. Nice to hear him hook up with our PodTech pals Jeremiah and Scoble. I’ve learned so much from these guys, yet sometimes it feels like it’s just the beginning.

Bryan is Intel’s first Blogfather — they’ll be sequels — who led the first successful Intel blog pilot IT@Intel that later paved the way for a family of Intel blogs like Technology@Intel, Research@Intel and a handful of others. He has coined some of my favorite phrases like “there were pioneers, but now the settlers” are diving into social media. One of my favorites was: “One of my roles is to get out of the way” and let the bloggers do their thing. But one to live by: consensus building helps you get management to “get your back” so you can run and try things.

Watch for much more wisdom and greatness from the Blogfather staring in a new role inside Intel.

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Video — Strike a Chord From Anywhere: Fun Intel TV Ads

I came across this on YouTube this weekend.  I think I first saw this about a year ago and I have talked about it many time ssince.  It was an ad that aired in Latin American countries promoting Intel’s Centrino Mobile Technology (now Duo Processor technology) for laptops.  I wish this played in America, but I guess there are so many reasons why it didn’t.  Heck, maybe it can be “re-purposed” somehow!  Well, I’m thankful that at least we have YouTube!!

Thanks to adavila78 for the video.

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Video — Orange County Chopper Makes Intel Quad Bike inside Second Life

Sure it’s a little corny, but I gotta watch every twist and turn in this video. The stiff script reading almost fits perfectly the 3-D robot-like work of Second Life. But to think that you or I can build a chopper like this — or even more quad or multi-corific — inside Second Life. Get your Intel jet-pack and OCC chopper and take Easy Rider to another stratosphere! I gotta get inside.

Thanks to Millions of Us for the video.

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IT Rock Anthem Videos by Director Christopher Guest

Intel IT team has the flava!  As a source for great stories about how Intel technology is helping companies advance and stay on the productive cutting edge, the Intel IT team continues to try creative ways of telling and sharing their stories.

I remember attending the Intel vPro launch event in San Francisco last year.  There were tons of other companies there — man of they service or software provider — talking about how they’re impressed with the new Intel hardware with baked in manageability and security.  The challenge was convincing some that hardware could actually help security and manageability software — the two would work better together.

Here’s what’s been happening since the 2006 introduction — more info.

Here are some videos the IT team created with rockumentray wildman Christopher Guest from Spinal Tap fame.  Here’s where today’s best built-in hardware (chips) teams up with the best software running today’s business.  Together the future looks better.

Better quality videos here.

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The Mighty Bong!

To most inside Intel, bong is that song you hear every five seconds somewhere around the world at the end of an Intel TV or radio.  Footage in this video spoof comes from a “Intel Inside Turns 10” anniversary tape we shared with TV producers a few years ago.  It was a collection of TV ads that put Pentium on the map and many people’s memories — Intel Inside.  And here with this video the fun irony rings true — even Intel has tweaked the bong over the years.  Every few years it has seemingly become richer, deeper, more robust.

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Video Inside Intel’s Integrated Graphics Lab

My Intel buddy Nick visited the Folsom lab to actually see what all of the buzz was about. People who game or go heavy on graphics and video tend to pooh=pooh integrated graphics — shhh…I’m one of them. But integrated graphics are advancing — nearly everything steps to Moore’s Law at Intel, or steps up to good competition. Here’s Nick’s blog post with some comments from integrated graphics dissers and believers.

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Fade Into You — Mesmerizing Mazzy Star Flashback on Facebook

When I can, I try blogging about things I’m learning or trying to understand…but I keep falling deeper into Facebook!  I’m not the only one (thanks Jeremiah/Shel for the data) having this kind of affair.  This time I fell back to my college music days and found a wonderful collection of music (thanks to the iLike application) and videos from one of my favorite tripadelic bands, Mazzy Star.  YouTube is fun, but Facebook pulls YouTube and thousands of other killer online services together into areas that you control and share with others as you please.

There are tons of great groups to join and learn from.  Get that Facebook account open and join the huge Intel Network and groups for Intel Software Network team and the Intel Developer Forum.  I just wish we could upload and embed a video player so we could offer some fresh eye candy during IDF.

Facebook is a place for watching, learning, sharing, connecting, reviving and energizing your taste, aims and personality.  For business professionals, here’s insight from Jeremiah Owyang.  There are some things to be aware of, especially for parents — see this story about a friend of mine.

Back to Mazzy Star  — wow!  I got to catch up with some of my favorite tunes, sure, but it’s the new (old) songs and videos that mesmerized me.  I’ve never seen before.  It was even cool to see how people created their own videos using Mazzy Star music beds.Two more for an encore…

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Topix.com Helping News Outlets Get Their Audiences Commenting

Topix.com is interesting to watch, learn about and mess with…even if you live in San Francisco, which like most biger American cities doesn’t have many local Topix.com users. But it is makeing a big impact in helping other, smaller cities across the U.S. to get their readers chatting and participating online. This is helping mainstream media companies to step into the online participation generation.

I got to meet Topix.com CEO Chris Tolles at the Social Media Club in San Francisco in August. I sat in front of him and the two other panelists — Evan Hansen of Editor in Chief of Wired News & Assignment Zero and Kevin Rose of Digg.com.

Chris has a great perspective — honesty with an edge. He even stopped to talk with me and Tom Foremski outside KQED studios and asked about what we were up to. Like a good salesman, he left us with an assignment to sign up as an editor on the Intel channel. Cool and savvy!

See Chris interviewed by Andy Plesser on Beet.TV:

There’s been a lot of concern among major media that this constitutes a further cannibalization of original reporting by search engines and content aggregators.

Brad interviews Topix.com CEO Chris Tolles.

Topix generates more that 60,000 comments a day from news. Many of these comments are generated around local stories and are syndicated to local newspapers and local news web sites. About a third of the comments generated every day go to sites owned by the Tribune and Gannett newspaper chains. So, maybe this is one link in the food chain where aggregated news can feed the original content creator.

Here’s my interview with Chris Tolles of Topix. We caught at Stanford earlier this month at the AlwaysOn conference.

— Andy Plesser

Here’s a link to a video by PodTech’s Rio Pesino, who talks with some interesting Bay Area news lovers, haters and players

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Pizzo, Italy — Summer Rush is on — Ma Fa Caldo!

(Written end of July)  We’re back to just before the mad rush of summer vacationing Italians from north and central parts of the country, plus Canadian-Italians (mostly from Toronto) coming to visit parents and grandparents…and the beaches!

It’s like 40 degrees C today and earlier this week the neighboring region Puglia was literally on fire. Even Pizzo and Tropea smell of burning hillsides on most nights.

Today is our fifth day at the beach and the kids have learned all sorts of swimming tricks and their skin is darkening like chocolate despite lathering sunblock every chance we get. We have the camera with us today, so the next chance I get to post will show how the beaches are filling up with families and how the nightlife in the Marina is hoppin’ again…even more than ever!! And what n amazing, spectacular sunset we had last night.

Here is a photo from Pizzo shot during spring up in the Piazza, which is quickly loosing masses to the Marina area just below.  The Marina has seen a revitalization — more improvements every year. My kids and I call this statue — no offense intended — Pesce en Facia (fish in the face) since the mustache is so robust it can only be that big for a reason — to hide something! OK, maybe its a huge chick magnet.

Off to the beach!

Pizzo in Pizza

Pizzo in Piazza

Pizzo in Piazza

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New Rules of Marketing & PR

David Meerman Scott talks with Jennifer Jones of Marketing Voices about his new book The New Rules of Marketing and PR. Engagement of a community, and having good content are key to success in this new environment.PR is focusing more on public relations rather than media relations these days, but the meaning of Public and Media are both important and ever changing.   It’s really about building and maintaining meaningful relationships.

There are lots of new rules out there, and this book hits an important moving target.

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