Marco Tempest performs magic. But not your Houdini style of magic. Nope, he performs magic WITH technology. You might have seen his TED video. But here's the secrets BEHIND his magic that he shares at www.marcotempest.com and a little preview of a Google+ trick and some really killer stuff he'll show off at the LeWeb Conference in December 2011 in Paris.
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gumroad.com lets you sell and share virtual things (soon physical things) with just a link. It's brilliant. But what's even more brilliant is the addition of Sahil Lavingia. He was a designer and one of first employees at Pinterest and he hit me as one of the smartest 19 year olds I've met.
This is one of Google's self-driving cars. You can see more about those cars here: www.techmeme.com and on my post at scobleizer.com OLD DESCRIPTION, BEFORE I KNEW THIS WAS A SELF-DRIVING CAR: They must be testing the latest Mapping car a lot lately. Seems I see them on almost every trip. I'm not sure what company they work for, I've always assumed Google but I see these cars quite frequently in Silicon Valley. This time I had my HD camera ready. Note that there's two cameras on top: one that looks like it's recording video (the black thing on top) and one that's recording stills (the rotating camera). Also note that they didn't like me shooting video, when they noticed me they slowed down quickly.
Let's say there's a news event, maybe an earthquake, and you want to collect all the interesting tweets for your friends or blog readers, how would you do it? Or, let's say all your family and friends were using Facebook and Twitter plus a bunch of other sites like Flickr and YouTube to capture your kids' first birthday party. How would you keep those all together? Storify has the answer. Its system lets you curate, or tell stories, about what's going on in the real-time web. You can join tweets, Flickr photos, Facebook messages, YouTube videos, and more together into a "story" on Storify. Here the company's founders tell you why that's significant.
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What a panel discussion last night. First, Frank Quattrone Founder & CEO, Qatalyst Partners, came out and gave us a "state of going IPO" talk. That lasted for the first 26 minutes. Then Ari Levy, Technology Reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek came out and ran a panel discussion with: Sameer Gandhi Partner, Accel Partners Bill Gurley Partner, Benchmark Capital Jeff Jordan General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz Doug Leone Partner, Sequoia Capital From 27:00 to 50:28 we hear this VC panel discuss going public and what they are seeing.
Appcelerator has more than 19000 developers using its tool to create cross-platform applications including mobile apps on iPhone and Android platform and it, tonight, is announcing Apple Tablet support (more details will come out Thursday after Apple makes its announcement). Here I interview Jeff Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator, about that. How can they do that? Well, they are supporting the iPhone OS 4.0, which will have support for Apple's new Tablet. What is Appcelerator's developer tool aimed at? Getting web developers to build first-rate native applications on all these platforms (it's really a competitor of Adobe AIR). You can see demos of their current tool and API at www.appcelerator.com
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Ford, today, showed off a new set of technologies that will enable cars to talk to each other, helping to reduce crashes and maybe help with other things, like help with fuel economy. Here Michael Shulman, technical leader in Ford's Active Safety Research and Innovation gives us a demo of the tech. Thanks to twitter.com twitter.com and twitter.com for joining me on this demo.
Bruno Aziza of Microsoft's Microsoft's Business Intelligence group recently filmed me for BI TV at www.microsoft.com Here I turned the camera on him and he is showing off a free tool for looking at data from Tweets and business meetings inside Excel. Get it at www.powerpivot.com
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Rana Sobhany, twitter.com , rocked the house over the weekend at the iPad Dev Camp in Silicon Valley and here we learn how she was DJ'ing there. You can find her DJ site at www.destroythesilence.com and she's put all the apps she's using here: www.destroythesilence.com
scoop.it is working to make it easier to curate content and share that content with your friends via a beautiful magazine. Here Guillaume Decugis, CEO talks to me about social media content and trends he's seeing develop.
I really hate when companies autopost to my feeds without showing me first what they are posting and giving me the option whether or not to post it. This example is from an app titled Glassmap (sorry for getting that wrong in the video). I cover what happened here: www.facebook.com Disclaimer: the opinions in this video are mine alone and may or may not be agreed with by my employer.
Carl Sjogreen is director of product management, Facebook Platform. His team is building many of the new features, from Timeline to Open Graph to Ticker. We have a 38 minute conversation about all this and we talk about why Facebook is pushing "frictionless sharing" so hard and what that means for apps, for users, for Facebook itself.
I really love this new accelerator, aimed at helping minorities and women to start companies and get them going. Started by Wayne Sutton and Angela Benton, here you meet the 15 startups and get a look at this great group of entrepreneurs. Techcrunch has a list of each company and what they do: techcrunch.com
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He owns the building where Google and Paypal got their starts. In his many locations around the world you'll find hundreds of startups (in the Sunnyvale headquarters alone there are more than 200 startups). It's rare that you get to spend more than an hour with a guy like this who has invested in, and advises, so many startups. He explains how Silicon Valley works and gives entrepreneurs many tips. Learn more at www.plugandplaytechcenter.com
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Today Brian Solis' new book, "The End of Business As Usual" ships and here I sit down for a conversation with him about what it all means. The book centers on what happens now that the mobile web, social media, and real time have arrived in businesses and how businesses will have to react. Get more on the book at www.briansolis.com
Adam Bosworth, co-founder of Keas, has done a lot in his life. He helped Microsoft adopt XML and push out a variety of developer-focused platform initiatives. Steve Ballmer even sued him and the company he started when he left and took a raft of engineers with him. Today, though, he is focused on something a little loftier than a developer platform: our health. His team has worked with thousands of people to find the key to changing people's behavior and getting them to be more healthy in Keas.com. This is a game, but one designed to keep you playing it because of the social pressure of your coworkers and also one designed to change your behavior. Adam shows me how and why.
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Apple's favorite iPad app of 2010, Flipboard, is now on the iPhone and here I spend 40 minutes talking about it, and the news space, with CEO Mike McCue. Get it at flipboard.com
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This is a revolutionary new iPad app that helps teach music in a whole new way. Listen to cofounder and CEO Matt Sandler show off the app. Pando Daily wrote it up here: pandodaily.com You can sign up for it here: www.chromatik.com
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Today Disney announced a new iPad game that uses physical objects on top of an iPad. How does it work? Well, here I visit the inventor, Etienne Mineur, who shows me how it works. More on the Disney game here: plus.google.com There's something deeper here, though. Etienne is an inventor who comes up with simple solutions to interesting problems and here you get some insights into his mind. This video was made at the LIFT conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on February 3 of this year.
Fredrick Nijm tells a cautionary tale, one where sellers on eBay can get scammed out of their dollars and he was tired of it so he built Addoway, which treats sellers better. How? it is a free social marketplace that helps you buy and sell with your friends and merchants who are upfront about their identity and online reputation. So, we talk about online reputations and how it helps expose that to both buyers and sellers.
Trey Ratcliffe has the #1 travel photo blog. His photos are legendary. But here you see a cool new iPad app that he showed me at SXSW. You can learn more about it at www.stuckincustoms.com
Memolane is an innovative look at your social media life. Look at mine at beta.memolane.com and you'll see years of Tweets, Flickr photos, Foursquare checkins, blog posts, and more -- all in a cool timeline. Here I talk with the founder of the company about this innovative service and find out more about it.
Here's the CEO of Soundtracking, a new iPhone music app, as he demos it for me at SXSW. Get it at itunes.apple.com
Windows and Mac app developers: are you looking to get more conversions from your free versions to your paid ones? Kachingle helps conversions by bundling together with other great apps. Here's how it works. kachingle.com
If you're a brand or a large company and need a content management system for Facebook you probably need BuddyMedia. Here we talk with Chief Product Officer, Patrick Stokes. www.buddymedia.com
bluesprig.com is a company that creates utility apps, including AirCover, which we discuss here. AirCover is a one stop app for mobile security and family safety. Includes mobile anti-virus, family safety, privacy protections, lost device find, cloud backup, and other system optimizations.
Here you get a demo of the Scobleizer iPhone app (you will get my YouTube videos, Tweets, blog posts, and more through it) from one of the guys who created it. Well, actually, they created the SYSTEM that created it. You can get your own iPhone app for $500 from mobileroadie.com
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Soujanya Bhumkar, CEO of Cooliris, introduces us to several of its new products in this three-part look at CoolIris and its products. In Part One we see the new Liveshare product, which launched a couple of weeks ago. This is a very cool image search and sharing experience. Learn more at www.cooliris.com
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Hard drives have been in short supply due to floods in Asia. Here Seagate VP of Marketing Scott Horn talks to me about that and shows me a new Momentus "hybrid" drive that gives much better performance than older drives.
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It lets you refocus images AFTER you shoot them. It does 2D and 3D and more. Here's the new Lytro camera, coming in 2012. lytro.com lets you order this $399 camera. I can't wait, here CEO/founder Ren Ng tells me how it works.
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Do you want to build a system that uses a graph database, like what Twitter, Yelp, and Facebook are built on? Well, Neo4j is one that lets you build a "noSQL" solution and founder Emil Eifrem talks us through what this technology could be used to build and also tells me what he sees happening in the social networking space.
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This is the camera that you can refocus (and do other things) after you take the image. Why? Because it doesn't capture images the way a regular camera does. It captures the entire light field. Here Lytro's Director of Photography, Eric Cheng, gives me a chance to be one of the first to try it out. I shot about 300 images on a walk around Half Moon Bay and here's the results.
Mobile Roadie is my favorite iPhone app maker on the market -- they make my mobile apps, along with the mobile apps of movie stars and lots of events around the world. Their tool makes apps for several rock bands and events and they even made me an app (search iTunes store for "Scobleizer" to find that). Here Mobile Roadie's founder shows it off and we talk about the mobile space. mobileroadie.com has more details.
Jack Levin is CEO of ImageShack/YFrog, and he was Google's first operations employees so he's always looking for a way to build a better datacenter. Lately he's been playing around with using NVidia cards (graphics cards) to get super performance for some tasks and I asked him to explain it here.
Guntis Smaukstelis, CEO, of Mighty Fingers, shows off his new real-time game engine, which builds HTML5 games. Pretty cool stuff. Learn more at mightyfingers.com
What does the new brand interaction look like? Vince Broady, thisMoment's CEO and co-founder, shows us what the future of Facebook and YouTube advertising experiences look like. They built the YouTube experience www.youtube.com for the movie "Kick Ass" but did you know that that same experience also shows up on Facebook and MySpace? Broady explains all and how advertising on social networks is changing.
Are you an enterprise developer building apps for workgroups? You should look into Wavemaker. This service helps you build apps easily without writing much code. Very visual, drag-and-drop interface.
Darian Shirazi, founder/CEO of fwix.com is adding geotags to tons of things on the Internet. Here he explains how Fwix is doing that, and how developers can use its APIs to build new kinds of location-based applications.
Yes he is back! This time he shares some pictures, and hangs out with Ponzi. Was great fun. :) The Virtual party turned out very well.
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