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Notes from Research and Relationships session at Supernova

Notes from Research and Relationships session at SupernovagooRM RMVB to AVI MPEG DVD Converter is a powerful RealMedia converter software which can convert RM, RMVB to AVI, DivX, Xvid, MPEG1, MPEG2, VCD, SVCD, DVD format. It also supports convert RM, RMVB files to DVD-Video files(VIDEO_TS, AUDIO_TS) and VCD/SVCD...http://www.rm-converter.net

Tags: Digital media, Digital video, DVD, Consumer electronics, RM RMVB, RMVB, Supernova, IBM Lotus Notes

Discussion threads 2007-07-16

Yahoo's search for a social graph

Earlier this week I posted about Yahoo's missing piece, it's lack of a social networking hub at the center of its people-centric approach to providing Web-based applications and services. Yahoo's attempt at a social networking hub, Yahoo 360, hasn't gotten any traction, and there is a constant flow of rumors...

Tags: Yahoo, Web Technology, Supernova, Social networking, Personal Technology, General

Blog posts 2007-06-22

Supernova 2007: Connected Innovators and Zapmeals

It's rare to see company pitches on stage that actually keep you fully awake. At the Supernova 2007 Conference, in conjunction with Mike Arrington of TechCrunch, 13 companies delivered five-minute pitches on their products/services. Actually, it was 12 companies and one fake company for fun.The fake company was easy to...

Tags: Web Technology, Supernova, General

Blog posts 2007-06-21

Podcast: Supernova, Enterprise 2.0, YFace and more...

This week on the Dan & David Show, we discuss the highlights from our week at conferences--Supernova 2007 and Enterprise 2.0. We also discuss the organization changes at Yahoo and my take on what's missing in Yahoo's product strategy. In addition, David rants about how companies deal with lost password.This...

Tags: Yahoo, Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, Social networking, SaaS, Open Source, Office 2.0, IT Management, Innovation, Enterprise 2.0

Blog posts 2007-06-21

Supernova 2007: The Internet's black hole

KC Ciaffy spends her days trying to figure out what is really going on inside the Internet. She is a researcher with the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis CAIDA, which provides tools and analysis in service of making Internet infrastructure more robust and scalabe.The only problem, according to Ciaffy,...

Tags: Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Supernova, General

Blog posts 2007-06-21

Supernova 2007: Widget Webonomics

Speaking at the Supernova 2007 conference today, Slide CEO Max Levchin talked about his company's strategy to extract revenue from the massive proliferation of widgets. According to comScore, 177 million users interact with widget, which are defined as embedded Flash objects."Probably less than .5 percent of widget traffic monetized in...

Tags: Web Technology, Supernova, E-commerce

Blog posts 2007-06-21

Supernova: Anti-social networks and the love connection

I'm sitting next to Mitch Ratcliffe at Supernova 2007 during the morning presentations. First up, Denise Caruso of The Hybrid Vigor Institute her view that today's social networks are anti-social and Clay Shirky of NYU talked about love and the open source community movement. Mitch covers the presentations and...

Tags: Social networking, Supernova

Blog posts 2007-06-21

Where social networks will take us

I'm heading to Supernova, starting tomorrow, where I hope to find some new ideas about social networking. Because the old ones are wearing thin.Social networks are looking more and more like general-interest magazines that hope to sweep up as many features as needed to attract and keep a viable advertising...

Tags: Business &, Technology

Blog posts 2007-06-19

Supernova: will intellectual property kill social media?

Kevin Werbach just posted the draft agenda for the upcoming Supernova conference. Ill be moderating a session at the Challenge Day on June 20 titled "Will Intellectual Property Kill Social Media?," and weve confirmed the following stellar panel to take on this topic:EFF Senior Intellectual Property Attorney Fred von...

Tags: Video, User generated content, Social news, Social networking, MGM v. Grokster, Mashups, Live Web, Licenses, Lawsuits, DMCA, Copyright, Conferences

Blog posts 2007-04-23

Notes from the tech conference underground

The extended spring tech conference season is beginning to wind down. I have done my share of time watching panels, keynotes and pitches, and hanging out in hallways and lobbys looking for fresh material, seeking out the strongest signals that portend what’s in store for the future. Based on absorbing...

Tags: Supernova

Blog posts 2006-07-05

Memo to Supernova 12: Five tips for avoiding TechCrunch deadpool

Michael Arrington notes:Over 100 startups applied to present their companies at the TechCrunch-sponsored Connected Innovators program at the Supernova conference last week. Twelve were selected and had a chance to launch their new products to an audience of hundreds.Enthusiastic fans of the Web 2.0 start-ups championed by TechCrunch are already...

Tags: Supernova, TechCrunch, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-07-04

Supernova: a bright display of ideas

Conference draws tech bigwigs for industry talkCNET's Neha Tiwari chats with attendees of the fifth annual Supernova conference to see what the buzz was about at the three-day long San Francisco summit.

Tags: Supernova

Videos 2006-06-24

And the Wind Cries Larry

The last few days have seen a real ramp up of attention/gesture stuff. The combination of Bloggercon and Supernova this week and Gnomedex next week have brought many of the constituents of the so-called Attention Economy into view. One of the incipient players--Jellyfish--are embargoing their story until Monday to take...

Tags: Craig

Blog posts 2006-06-23

Additional Resources

MIT students making solar power realistic

MIT students making solar power realisticno kiddingIn fact, the researchers believe that, because they can concentrate the heat from the sun so intensely, any water run near the focus could easily be vaporized to run a turbine and generate electricity.For crying out loud.I'm getting so tired of this.Here's all you...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, UCSD, Peak-Power, solar energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SolarCity

Discussion threads 2008-06-22

Openness

I've been privileged to be around some amazing people recently, first at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston and now this week at SuperNova, Wharton Business school's conference, which this year explored "how decentralization and pervasive connectivity are changing our world". My take away word of the...

Tags: Talent, Mozilla Firefox, Collaboration, British Telecommunications, Openness, JP Rangaswami, Sam, Web Browsers, Groupware, Workforce Management, Leadership, Security, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-19

Supernova 2: Spacewar (WIN) (exe)

In Supernova 2: Spacewar you control a space empire and its fleet. Resources macro-management and detailed turn based war game battles to create one of the most complete, yet fun to play, and strategy sci-fi games. Version 1.0.2 includes several changes such as fixed a bug that lets you discover...

Tags: Winter Wolves Game Studio, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-06-18

Supernova 2: Spacewar (Mac) (zip)

In Supernova 2: Spacewar you control a space empire and its powerful fleet. Resources macro-management and detailed turnbased wargame battles to create one of the most complete, yet fun to play, strategy sci-fi games. Version 1.0.2 fixed a bug that lets you discover some alien technologies without first conquering the...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Bug, Winter Wolves Game Studio, Strategy, Management

Software downloads 2008-06-17

Of telescopes, patents and the death of discovery

"If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." --Isaac Newton. [The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those of Google, Inc. my current employer.] It isn't really a surprise that I ended up...

Tags: Software, Patent, Astronomer, Astronomy, Amateur, Computer, Computing Science, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Management, Jeremy Allison

Blog posts 2008-06-04

Ghostly ring found circling dead star

An international team of scientists has found a strange ring around a dead star by using images taken by NASA's Spitzer space telescope. This star, called SGR 1900+14, belongs to a class of objects known as magnetars. According to NASA, a magnetar is 'a highly magnetized neutron star and the...

Tags: NASA, Star, Ring, Magnetic Field, SGR, Magnetars, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-01

WorldWide Telescope (exe)

The WorldWide Telescope WWT is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe.WorldWide Telescope is created with the Microsoft Visual Experience Engine...

Tags: Environment, Sky, Web 2.0, Internet

Software downloads 2008-05-13