You take VIPs to the very swanky Half Moon Bay Ritz (walking distance from our new house) and buy them Peach Mojitos. Not cheap for the expense budget (they cost $14 each, but are worth every dollar in the top secret information you get from business leaders). Then you take them out onto the back lawn, let them soak up the real estate (it’s stunning) and then you turn the camera on.
I’m gonna call it the Mojito Show. We don’t really care how it comes out cause we’re having too much fun. 😉
Anyway, Jeremy Wright, president and co-founder of B5 Media (pictured above), just spent the day here at the Ritz and then at the house (which is in total disarray, hopefully Valleywag won’t get a picture of the house when it’s so messy).
What was fun was Don MacAskill, CEO and Chief Geek (can I get a title like that?) of SmugMug was vacationing at the Ritz with his wife (it’s their sixth anniversary, congratulations!) and saw my Google hat and wandered over. Later she took a nap and he snuck out to talk geek with us. I got that part on tape for my new show, hopefully it’ll come out (the mojitos might have affected the quality too much, but like I said, who cares, it’s Saturday and the mojitos were good!)
Anyway, I was trying to get Jeremy to tell me a bit about the secrets behind his B5 Media network. He wasn’t giving up the good stuff (at least on camera), but the stuff he gave up after his mojito was pretty interesting. He has about 100 bloggers in his network. Everyone from a gold medal swimmer to a group of scientists to a celebrity blog about Lindsay Lohan to someone who writes about RSS (who would read THAT? Heheh.)
OK, notice they all link to each other (look at the blog roll on the right side)? That’s the advantage to joining a blogging network: that gets them all more traffic. They get better Google rank that way, and they also share traffic. Jeremy told me that a good percentage of people who’ll visit one blog will visit other blogs.
Anyway, I learned that the celebrity blogs that B5 does are the most popular and are easy ways to earn traffic. I remember meeting Adriana Foley, the blogger who keeps 17 blogs, including the one on Linday Lohan. She actually says she hates doing the Lohan blog, but that’s what pays the bills so she does that to fund her other blogging.
Other things Wright shared after having his mojito? That Google Adsense advertising doesn’t pay bloggers as well as other advertising networks do. He says that most of the time Google only pays about $.50 per CPM (thousand page views). He says that B5 network is getting paid somewhere between $10 and $15 per CPM on most blogs. Has sponsors like Speedo.
He says his top bloggers are just now starting to earn enough to quit their day jobs ($1,000 to $4,000 per month) but that he hopes to be able to pay them a lot more soon.
Another advantage to joining a blogging network like Jeremy’s? The private chat rooms (hey, do you get to get blogging help from both a scientist and a gold-medal swimmer? Didn’t think so). He says the community that comes along with such a network is what keeps him excited working on behalf of the network.
As to Smugmug, Don told us both about how he has about 150,000 subscribers paying $40 a year to host photos on Smugmug. He raved about a bunch of features that Smugmug has over the other photo sharing services, but what caught my ear is the Google Map support that Smugmug has. That alone might get me to pay $40 a year.
Anyway, next Saturday we’re getting together at 2 p.m. at the firering at the Ritz. Several people have already RSVP’d. Bring $7 for parking and bring a jacket (it gets chilly outside). Anyone is invited although I might get you to drink an alcoholic drink and then turn on the camera and see what I can learn.
Oh, and, yes, there’s wifi at the Ritz. Next Saturday I’ll be the geek drinking the Mojitos. Oh, and we found out tonight that there’s a guy who plays bagpipes an hour before the sunset.
Hope your weekend is filled with Mojitos. See ya next Saturday! Disclaimer, I can’t buy everyone Mojitos, sorry.
Who else will be there? Oh, and Nick Douglas, you’re invited, we won’t have any security trying to keep you out. Just beware, I might hand you a mojito and put you on camera! 🙂
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Literally. He had the first ride in the first Tesla. Siri was launched in his house. He's been the first to share all sorts of technologies and companies with you, from Flipboard to Pandora to Instagram.
Today he's focusing on mixed reality, AKA "next-generation augmented reality" which will include a new user interface for EVERYTHING in your life (IoT, Smart Cities, driverless cars, robots, drones, etc).
That's based on his view thanks to his past experience as futurist at Rackspace.
Best place to find Scoble? On his Facebook profile at https://www.facebook.com/RobertScoble
He has been a technology blogger since 2000, was one of five people who built Microsoft's Channel 9 video blog/community, worked at Fast Company Magazine running its TV efforts, and has been part of technology media businesses since 1993.
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TITLE: The Fourth Transformation: What's next in mixed reality (AR and AI) and the future of technology?
Here's an example of this talk at Leade.rs in Paris in April, 2017: https://youtu.be/52_0JshgjXI
Why "the Fourth Transformation?"
Soon we will have phones and glasses that do full on augmented reality. Everything you look at will potentially be augmented. This world is coming in late 2017 with a new iPhone from Apple, amongst other products. Microsoft is betting everything on its HoloLens glasses that do mixed reality and the industry is spending many billions of dollars in R&D and funding new companies like Magic Leap.
This future will be the user interface for IoT, Smart Cities, autonomous cars, robots, drones, and your TV.
This is a big deal and Robert will take you through what mixed reality is and how it will change every business.
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He views the world through his rose-colored-mixed-reality glasses, which will be the new user interface for self driving cars, Smart Cities, IoT, and many other things in our world.
He'll send you off with some lessons for companies both large and small.
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"Personalized Meaning: What is Augmented Reality For?"
As we enter a far more technological world where even cars drive themselves, I predict we'll see a blowback toward the analog, more authentic world.
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21 thoughts on “The Mojito Show (Saturday at 2 p.m. is next taping)”
Robert – welcome to the Bay Area! Now get on up to SF and go check out Enrico’s for their Mojitos as well. First one’s on me if you take me up on it. 😉
Robert – welcome to the Bay Area! Now get on up to SF and go check out Enrico’s for their Mojitos as well. First one’s on me if you take me up on it. 😉
Callooh! O frabjous day! Let’s forgo anything useful, and turn these $5,000 cameras on ourselves, covering swarmy parties and stammeringly drunk CEOs, bubbling all along the colorful alcoholic haze, now in High Def. Callooh! Callay!
All mimsy were the blogogoves, and the mojito raths outgrabe. Come to my cams, my ceo boy!
Callooh! O frabjous day! Let’s forgo anything useful, and turn these $5,000 cameras on ourselves, covering swarmy parties and stammeringly drunk CEOs, bubbling all along the colorful alcoholic haze, now in High Def. Callooh! Callay!
All mimsy were the blogogoves, and the mojito raths outgrabe. Come to my cams, my ceo boy!
Ahhh the power of the Mojito! That should be a regularly scheduled kind of feature…. and I am only half kidding. There is a reason why businessmen, politicians, etc have been heading out together for drinks ans long as there have been drinks. Think a controlled setting with cheap generic booze creating the drinks (have to be budget conscious)and a monthly gathering with the cameras available. Its social networking, stress relief, and potential news all in one. Tricky part is how well you handle the awkward moments that wil inevitably occur. Handle them with discretion and you’ll earn more trust and hence more potential news.
I have been video logging our families history on both sides for several years and before I trun on the old camcorder I always serve up a few drinks, stories are always better and tongues much looser 😉
Any rate just a thought and certainly something a little different and edgier and on the web that means eyes.
On a complete side note I woke up this morning to find my cheesy interview of my son “Sam On Zune”, which is my first post to YouTube actually was at 16 on the News & Blogs with over 2,000 hits. Crazy! :-)I just posted about it http://www.mikeysgblog.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=214
Have a great Sunday and take today as a day of rest from the Mojitos! 😉
Ahhh the power of the Mojito! That should be a regularly scheduled kind of feature…. and I am only half kidding. There is a reason why businessmen, politicians, etc have been heading out together for drinks ans long as there have been drinks. Think a controlled setting with cheap generic booze creating the drinks (have to be budget conscious)and a monthly gathering with the cameras available. Its social networking, stress relief, and potential news all in one. Tricky part is how well you handle the awkward moments that wil inevitably occur. Handle them with discretion and you’ll earn more trust and hence more potential news.
I have been video logging our families history on both sides for several years and before I trun on the old camcorder I always serve up a few drinks, stories are always better and tongues much looser 😉
Any rate just a thought and certainly something a little different and edgier and on the web that means eyes.
On a complete side note I woke up this morning to find my cheesy interview of my son “Sam On Zune”, which is my first post to YouTube actually was at 16 on the News & Blogs with over 2,000 hits. Crazy! :-)I just posted about it http://www.mikeysgblog.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=214
Have a great Sunday and take today as a day of rest from the Mojitos! 😉
SCOBLE: Hi, this is Robert Scoble and today we’ll be talking with Yair Goldfinger on high technology and startup companies in the state of Israel. Yair is a co-founder of ICQ, which was sold to AOL back in —
[MEL GIBSON staggers up, sloshes $15 drink over Scoble’s camera]
GIBSON: Heyyy!!!
SCOBLE: Hi there. Are you —
GIBSON: Iss that a Jew?
SCOBLE: Are you Mel Gibson? I’m Robert Scoble, pleased to meet —
GIBSON: Are you a Jew? Jews are responsible for all the startups in this world.
SCOBLE: Hey Mel, why don’t you have a seat, I’ll order you a cup of coff —
GIBSON: What do you think YOU’RE looking at? What the f–k do you think you’re doing? Stop pointing that camera at me.
SCOBLE: Ladies and gentlemen, Mel Gibson. Wasn’t planning to interview him, but —
GIBSON: I f–king OWN the Valley, Scroble. I will spend all my money to get even with you.
[Goldfinger stands up, delivers right cross to Gibson’s jaw. Gibson slumps to the ground, unconscious]
[Scoble begins to blot spilled drink off camera with cocktail napkins]
SCOBLE: So, Yair, how do you feel about being interviewed at Starbucks?
SCOBLE: Hi, this is Robert Scoble and today we’ll be talking with Yair Goldfinger on high technology and startup companies in the state of Israel. Yair is a co-founder of ICQ, which was sold to AOL back in —
[MEL GIBSON staggers up, sloshes $15 drink over Scoble’s camera]
GIBSON: Heyyy!!!
SCOBLE: Hi there. Are you —
GIBSON: Iss that a Jew?
SCOBLE: Are you Mel Gibson? I’m Robert Scoble, pleased to meet —
GIBSON: Are you a Jew? Jews are responsible for all the startups in this world.
SCOBLE: Hey Mel, why don’t you have a seat, I’ll order you a cup of coff —
GIBSON: What do you think YOU’RE looking at? What the f–k do you think you’re doing? Stop pointing that camera at me.
SCOBLE: Ladies and gentlemen, Mel Gibson. Wasn’t planning to interview him, but —
GIBSON: I f–king OWN the Valley, Scroble. I will spend all my money to get even with you.
[Goldfinger stands up, delivers right cross to Gibson’s jaw. Gibson slumps to the ground, unconscious]
[Scoble begins to blot spilled drink off camera with cocktail napkins]
SCOBLE: So, Yair, how do you feel about being interviewed at Starbucks?
Delta’s Song was serving them in the air! Just when you think class is coming back to domestic travel, Delta decides to shutter that division…hey we may be able to go to Cuba soon and enjoy the real things…
Delta’s Song was serving them in the air! Just when you think class is coming back to domestic travel, Delta decides to shutter that division…hey we may be able to go to Cuba soon and enjoy the real things…
Robert – welcome to the Bay Area! Now get on up to SF and go check out Enrico’s for their Mojitos as well. First one’s on me if you take me up on it. 😉
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Robert – welcome to the Bay Area! Now get on up to SF and go check out Enrico’s for their Mojitos as well. First one’s on me if you take me up on it. 😉
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Jeremy: I’m all up for trying those Mojitos. When?
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Jeremy: I’m all up for trying those Mojitos. When?
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Callooh! O frabjous day! Let’s forgo anything useful, and turn these $5,000 cameras on ourselves, covering swarmy parties and stammeringly drunk CEOs, bubbling all along the colorful alcoholic haze, now in High Def. Callooh! Callay!
All mimsy were the blogogoves, and the mojito raths outgrabe. Come to my cams, my ceo boy!
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Callooh! O frabjous day! Let’s forgo anything useful, and turn these $5,000 cameras on ourselves, covering swarmy parties and stammeringly drunk CEOs, bubbling all along the colorful alcoholic haze, now in High Def. Callooh! Callay!
All mimsy were the blogogoves, and the mojito raths outgrabe. Come to my cams, my ceo boy!
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and how about an interview while taking a long walk in the evening or morning….
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and how about an interview while taking a long walk in the evening or morning….
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where to go to why don’t you go
where vloggers sits
Puttin’ on the Ritz
….
Dressed up like a million-dollar trooper
Tryin’ hard to look like scoble-ooper (super duper)
…
thanks for putting that song again in my head arg 🙂
Nicole
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where to go to why don’t you go
where vloggers sits
Puttin’ on the Ritz
….
Dressed up like a million-dollar trooper
Tryin’ hard to look like scoble-ooper (super duper)
…
thanks for putting that song again in my head arg 🙂
Nicole
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Ahhh the power of the Mojito! That should be a regularly scheduled kind of feature…. and I am only half kidding. There is a reason why businessmen, politicians, etc have been heading out together for drinks ans long as there have been drinks. Think a controlled setting with cheap generic booze creating the drinks (have to be budget conscious)and a monthly gathering with the cameras available. Its social networking, stress relief, and potential news all in one. Tricky part is how well you handle the awkward moments that wil inevitably occur. Handle them with discretion and you’ll earn more trust and hence more potential news.
I have been video logging our families history on both sides for several years and before I trun on the old camcorder I always serve up a few drinks, stories are always better and tongues much looser 😉
Any rate just a thought and certainly something a little different and edgier and on the web that means eyes.
On a complete side note I woke up this morning to find my cheesy interview of my son “Sam On Zune”, which is my first post to YouTube actually was at 16 on the News & Blogs with over 2,000 hits. Crazy! :-)I just posted about it http://www.mikeysgblog.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=214
Have a great Sunday and take today as a day of rest from the Mojitos! 😉
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Ahhh the power of the Mojito! That should be a regularly scheduled kind of feature…. and I am only half kidding. There is a reason why businessmen, politicians, etc have been heading out together for drinks ans long as there have been drinks. Think a controlled setting with cheap generic booze creating the drinks (have to be budget conscious)and a monthly gathering with the cameras available. Its social networking, stress relief, and potential news all in one. Tricky part is how well you handle the awkward moments that wil inevitably occur. Handle them with discretion and you’ll earn more trust and hence more potential news.
I have been video logging our families history on both sides for several years and before I trun on the old camcorder I always serve up a few drinks, stories are always better and tongues much looser 😉
Any rate just a thought and certainly something a little different and edgier and on the web that means eyes.
On a complete side note I woke up this morning to find my cheesy interview of my son “Sam On Zune”, which is my first post to YouTube actually was at 16 on the News & Blogs with over 2,000 hits. Crazy! :-)I just posted about it http://www.mikeysgblog.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=214
Have a great Sunday and take today as a day of rest from the Mojitos! 😉
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SCOBLE: Hi, this is Robert Scoble and today we’ll be talking with Yair Goldfinger on high technology and startup companies in the state of Israel. Yair is a co-founder of ICQ, which was sold to AOL back in —
[MEL GIBSON staggers up, sloshes $15 drink over Scoble’s camera]
GIBSON: Heyyy!!!
SCOBLE: Hi there. Are you —
GIBSON: Iss that a Jew?
SCOBLE: Are you Mel Gibson? I’m Robert Scoble, pleased to meet —
GIBSON: Are you a Jew? Jews are responsible for all the startups in this world.
SCOBLE: Hey Mel, why don’t you have a seat, I’ll order you a cup of coff —
GIBSON: What do you think YOU’RE looking at? What the f–k do you think you’re doing? Stop pointing that camera at me.
SCOBLE: Ladies and gentlemen, Mel Gibson. Wasn’t planning to interview him, but —
GIBSON: I f–king OWN the Valley, Scroble. I will spend all my money to get even with you.
[Goldfinger stands up, delivers right cross to Gibson’s jaw. Gibson slumps to the ground, unconscious]
[Scoble begins to blot spilled drink off camera with cocktail napkins]
SCOBLE: So, Yair, how do you feel about being interviewed at Starbucks?
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SCOBLE: Hi, this is Robert Scoble and today we’ll be talking with Yair Goldfinger on high technology and startup companies in the state of Israel. Yair is a co-founder of ICQ, which was sold to AOL back in —
[MEL GIBSON staggers up, sloshes $15 drink over Scoble’s camera]
GIBSON: Heyyy!!!
SCOBLE: Hi there. Are you —
GIBSON: Iss that a Jew?
SCOBLE: Are you Mel Gibson? I’m Robert Scoble, pleased to meet —
GIBSON: Are you a Jew? Jews are responsible for all the startups in this world.
SCOBLE: Hey Mel, why don’t you have a seat, I’ll order you a cup of coff —
GIBSON: What do you think YOU’RE looking at? What the f–k do you think you’re doing? Stop pointing that camera at me.
SCOBLE: Ladies and gentlemen, Mel Gibson. Wasn’t planning to interview him, but —
GIBSON: I f–king OWN the Valley, Scroble. I will spend all my money to get even with you.
[Goldfinger stands up, delivers right cross to Gibson’s jaw. Gibson slumps to the ground, unconscious]
[Scoble begins to blot spilled drink off camera with cocktail napkins]
SCOBLE: So, Yair, how do you feel about being interviewed at Starbucks?
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Delta’s Song was serving them in the air! Just when you think class is coming back to domestic travel, Delta decides to shutter that division…hey we may be able to go to Cuba soon and enjoy the real things…
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Delta’s Song was serving them in the air! Just when you think class is coming back to domestic travel, Delta decides to shutter that division…hey we may be able to go to Cuba soon and enjoy the real things…
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what?! nothing about cellphone9.com? hyuk!
this was b5’s first blog actually and its turning 1 year in a few days.
the chat room is a truly unique place to get advice from. everyone here has their niche – from love advice to tech help and other stuff.
speaking of tech advice, i still remember the time when jeremy asked about what phone to buy…
http://www.cellphone9.com/jeremy-wright-buys-a-razr/
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what?! nothing about cellphone9.com? hyuk!
this was b5’s first blog actually and its turning 1 year in a few days.
the chat room is a truly unique place to get advice from. everyone here has their niche – from love advice to tech help and other stuff.
speaking of tech advice, i still remember the time when jeremy asked about what phone to buy…
http://www.cellphone9.com/jeremy-wright-buys-a-razr/
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wow :-O
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wow :-O
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