24 Jul
From a quiz on a French web site, found through le monde de MAF, I would be James Bond if I were an hero.
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| James Bond : 87% | |
| Hannibal Lecter : 73% | |
| Neo (Matrix) : 70% | |
| Batman / Bruce Wayne : 70% | |
| Jim Levenstein (American Pie) : 65% | |
| Indiana Jones : 63% | |
| Tony Montana (Scarface) : 63% | |
| Maximus (Gladiator) : 63% | |
| Yoda (Star Wars) : 58% | |
| Forrest Gump : 54% | |
| Eric Draven (The Crow) : 54% | |
| Schrek : 52% |
24 Jul
I will be presenting a project, codename ”CharterWeb”, a private Web 2.0 based application that my company, ParadiVision Inc. is building in collaboration with Cognitive Group‘s François Aubin for V1 Jets, a company that works in aviation.
DemoCampMontreal3 is Tuesday, 24 July 2007. 18:30 to 20:30.
To attend or to see who will be there, click here.
15 Jul
Since yesterday, I have been following with great interest the “Robert Scoble is Media” meme.
A Yulbiz Montreal and Facebook friend, Sébastien Provencher, has made quite an impact in the blogosphere with his excellent ”Robert Scoble is Media” post. He explains how Robert Scoble uses social networks to get attention: which comes to the point that “Scoble is Media”. Robert noticed the post by saying: My Facebook secret is out.
Today, Sébastien posted ”Positive Reaction to my “Robert Scoble is Media” Post” and he asks:
1) how do we define “friends” now? And should Facebook create closed networks (within your larger network) for traditional friends & family? As a local search guy, I’ve always been interested in “trusted sources” (i.e. word of mouth) and I think that might be the beginning of a definition. I’ve already exchanged a couple of e-mails with Robert on this one and I’ll ask him for permission to share his thoughts on the “friends” definition.
2) Given the high-level of fragmentation, how do we manage all these new communication channels from an outbound messaging perspective?
3) And how do we filter the incoming messages i.e. what’s zeitgeist, what’s fringe and what’s noise?
4) and last (and not the least as it is my specialty), how does this impact traditional media?
Well, I’ve had a simple idea for point #1…
Facebook could have a “subscribe to” or “watch” feature, similar to Twitter‘s followers. The difference with Facebook’s “Add to friends” feature, would be that, the person you are watching does not have to accept you as a friend.
From the security options, you would be able to specify:
I think that these options would be quite sufficient to allow Robert Scoble to use Facebook the way he uses it while making is life simpler. For Sébastien’s “I am Media” crowd, I think this would be quite welcome.
The only drawback I see is the “Friend” thing. Maybe people love to be in Robert’s friend list and would be less inclined to be “Followers” or “Watchers”. But, if Robert said he would get alerts from the watchers feeds, maybe the watchers wouldn’t mind since they could still get his attention and possibly be noticed?
I really wonder if this approach would get some traction near enough to what Robert got with the ”Add me as your friend” approach. Probably the only way to see if this would work for Facebook would be for them to give it a try?
11 Jul
This just in!
I was watching live Microsoft’s E3 2007 conference and they just announced that XBox Live Video Marketplace for the XBox 360 is going global and will be available for Canada and Europe.
It will be arriving in Canada by end of the year 2007, so Canadians will now be able to enjoy downloadable TV shows and movies, including a good selection of HDTV content. My source was right that it would arrive soon.
It seems that in their live blogging of the event, Engadget did not think it was important enough to mention this.
In any case, the announcement is made even more important by the face that Apple’s iTunes Store, which has been around for much longer than XBox Live Video Marketplace, does not yet offer downloadable TV shows and movie episodes in Canada.
EDIT 2007-07-11, 8:23 AM: Some mention in the Gamerscore Blog.
EDIT 2007-07-11, 9:13 AM: XBox 360 Fanboy made it a news story.
5 Jul
Microsoft recently launched the Microsoft Mediaroom Web site their just renamed IPTV initiative. A video presentation of the service is available on the site.
Bell Canada has been known to test Microsoft’s IPTV solution for a while now. With Microsoft’s Mediaroom new Web site launch, we can pretty much confirm that Bell will offer the service.
One thing that excites me about the Mediaroom, is the possibility to use the XBox 360 as a set-top box for television and it becomes the ultimate entertainment convergence device. So, if you have both a XBox 360 and an HDTV decoder, you can say goodbye to the need for an HDTV decoder (I’m glad I rent these things). The wife should be happy with the removal of one electronic device from the entertainment center (or, if you are like me, it makes more place for another device).
Presently, no information has been posted on Bell Canada’s about their support for Microsoft Mediaroom. When contacted, a Bell Canada representative could only say that the launch date for this new service has not yet been determined.
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