Cute (yes I’ve spent too much time in the US) video from Paolo Tosolini featuring his son demoing a sophisticated way to impress recruitment in Redmond.
Microsoft Tag is just out of beta so check it out and set up one of your own.
Video of my presentation yesterday at the Dell B2B Social Media Huddle
Based on our white paper Learning & Earning
Check out all the videos from the day here: http://www.ustream.tv/user/Dell_Inc/videos
Enjoy…
Some folks have told me the overload ads from the Bing team didn’t make them want to use the service because it didn’t give them a tangible reason to switch.
All part of the grand plan, it’s ads like the above that address those who want to see Bing delve a little deeper into the power behind the experience.
I blogged about Multi-Screen Advertising at Digital Hollywood last week.
This is a nice video showing what a campaign scenario might look like.
Video walk-through posted a couple of months ago on Engaget as part of their review of the new phone from Microsoft which will be here by Christmas.
Check out the official site in Silverlight………hoping to get my mitts on one soon!
Digital Hollywood is going great here on Santa Monica beach in Los Angeles. The Loews Hotel is excellent and the digital discussion has been fast and furious.
I’ve cranked out about 5 posts so far.
Here are the top 3:
Multi-Screen Advertising Gets Upfront at Digital Hollywood
Video: Talking Advertising Accountability at Digital Hollywood 2010
Video: Xbox LIVE and Branded Entertainment at Digital Hollywood
The huge news from yesterday is that we’re hosting TED at Cannes this summer.
For anyone who doesn’t know about them, they run these talks where people from all walks of life come and share ideas to an live audience and the videos get seen my thousands across the web.
I download them to my Zune HD and watch them on the train.
One of my favourites is Blaise Aguera y Arcas from Microsoft (who I met a few years ago to discuss how best to demo Photosynth) talking about Bing Maps.
We are very excited about the TED event. We’ll have access to the speakers and will be interviewing and blogging from the venue too so check out our Cannes Lions 2010 page for updates.
Went out last night with my mate David McKimmie who was regaling stories of his latest movie exploits. He’s a post production supervisor for FOX and has just finished Wall Street 2 with Oliver Stone.
While were in Sushi Roku on Ocean, I spotted Peter Gabriel about 4 feet away.
I’m a huge fan, but reminded myself of how embarrassed I felt for interrupting Ian Botham’s dinner a few years ago in London.
I didn’t bother him.
But if I had, just think of what he could do with a Surface table at one of his live shows?!
Sent to me by a friend who only emails stuff if it’s really, really good.
This is really, REALLY good!
Strewth those Aussies can be funny when they try!
The Icelandic language isn’t the easiest to pronounce.
I was ticked off about my pronunciation of a friend’s wife’s name recently because my loud utterance across a Reykjavik bar apparently sounded more like their word for “number twos!”
So glad, in the face of all this adversity, they can see the funny side of all the TV coverage.
Like many people interested in maintaining a healthy online reputation, I have a Google Alert set up for my name.
It helps me keep pace with what people are saying about the work I do for Microsoft, and enables me to quickly respond to blog posts or articles that feature something I may have said or written.
Sometimes – shock horror – Google gets it wrong and I get sent some irrelevant randomness.
This morning’s was a random but nevertheless funny alert containing this video.
I’m not sure where this couple are, but rest assured, she won’t be sidling up to a palace guard ever again!
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