There’s nothing like home and Dana Point has been my home port for awhile now. Nestled safely behind the Orange Curtain, half-way between San Diego and LA rests our sleepy little harbor where the whales use the cliff as a navigation point. We care deeply about water health and try not to leave too deep of a footprint. It seems [...]
Earlier this morning we received an email from one of our favorite thinkers Tom Morey. In the message Tom explains that he has been working on something that could be the next evolution in stabilization for surfboards and even perhaps aviation. Not only did Tom invent the Boogie Board but is also responsible for removable ‘skegs’ that are on most surfboards today. [...]
Whoa… What a grand month of flying, meeting bold thinkers and live streaming. May found me in Denver, Chicago, Boston, Orlando, Los Angeles and for a few days, back in Dana Point. Earlier this year we debuted The Cube, live streaming studio at SXSW with NewTek‘s Tricaster. Since Austin we’ve assembled a fantastic team and hit the road hard. Together [...]
Well @Chirp, the Twitter conference for developers wrapped up day one with a lot of tension still in the air. Let’s get a few things out of the way: When Twitter announced the recent acquisition of @Tweetie, 10 thousand developers gasped. Twitter is Twitter because 10 thousand developers ‘filled in the holes‘ and made Twitter functional. When @Ev asked the [...]
Millions smiled over Google’s Parisian Love Ad during the SuperBowl and now you can create your own version. Google’s recently launched tool makes it dead simple to put your search story in film form. Here’s our sample: Pretty clever Google! I like the option to pick your own soundtrack and smooth transitions. We’ll be watching for your search story so [...]
The days of Hollywood living and dying by the sharp edge of a critic’s pen are long gone. Now even Twitter is becoming a better predictor of box office success rather than the once powerful sway of a critical thumb. In a recent study by HP Labs [pdf], the chatter from Twitter is out performing market-based forecasts. The audience is putting [...]
About ten years ago, Cowboy Jack Clement and I were talking about his film archives. Cowboy Jack, producer of Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis among others is quite the film buff. He would often carry his camera to some pretty strange places and capture wild historic moments. Jack shared about one memorable time with Johnny and a trip to a [...]
Now that I’ve had some time to decompress and think about the takeaways from SXSWi, a few things keep coming up about our time in Austin. First, 2010 SXSWi might be remembered not so much for the so-called ‘location-wars’ between Foursquare and Gowalla but as the moment when the Apple lost its shine. The bleeding edge techies were talking more [...]
After years of blogging via Nucleus, I’ve joined the WordPress Family of blogs. We’ve made the move to improve functionality and compatibility with iPhone and Android. I’ve been concentrating on our film work, producing several shows, live tech gatherings and connecting with smart nodes. With growth and additional commitments we can forget what brought us together in the first place [...]
CES was a cacophony of sights and sounds but Marc Ostrick, Robert Scoble and I made it out of Vegas filled with great options for Scoble’s studio. We hunted for the tech that we could implement almost immediately. We met with engineers and technicians from some of the biggest consumer electronic manufactures in an attempt to select a mix of [...]
It’s now 20-10, time to get serious about progress. Time to see some real results in the effort to once and for all end extreme poverty for all mankind. I’ve spent years working with and monitoring some incredible NGO’s and feel a great momentum in the right direction. The idea of Social Innovation, once foreign to most, is becoming a [...]
Chief TWiT, Leo Laporte is teaching us what it means to be our own network. We had a chance to visit with Leo in Petaluma and go inside the TWitT Cottage.
We continue our journey through the tools of connection. For me, IT provides the rails for voice to be carried around the world- instantly. I jumped into Twitter early and introduced the service to a wide array of friends. We see the mainstream media jump all over Twitter like it’s new. This was called BBS and then SMS but this [...]
I enjoy watching things change. Visiting the BlogWorld Expo was another exciting adventure. We are seeing the great democratization of info flow. We are banding together to find the tools that help us express. Thank you for watching and sharing our mini documentary.
