I made quite a few videos on Qik last week while at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Here’s my favorites, not necessarily in order of importance. I marked the must watch videos.
1. Tim O’Reilly and Richard Edelman talk to me about the future of advertising. Tim runs O’Reilly Publishing and did the first advertising on the Internet. Edelman runs the largest independent PR firm in the world.
2. Marcel Reichart, who was on O’Reilly’s panel about future of advertising, talks more about future of advertising. He runs the DLD conference, an influential conference in Munich that got raves, among other things for Burda Media. Then Linda Abrahams, executive vice president from Comscore joined us.
3. Michael Dell about joining the Red campaign.
4. Must watch. Emery Brown, who does computational neuroscience at Harvard, and Cynthia Braezel joins us who does robotics at MIT. Really smart people. You can read more about Cynthia’s social robot here. Emery is doing research into anaesthesiology. You can read more on Harvard’s sleep medicine page about Emery. At about 10 minutes an incredible professor joined the conversation without being prepared. That was Hugh Herr who runs the biomechatronics group at MIT’s media lab. He is working on building new prosthesis for people who’ve lost limbs and you can read more about him here.
5. Must watch. Rick Warren runs the largest church in the United States and has one of the most popular books ever printed (other than the bible): “the Purpose Driven Life.” I was surprised by meeting him, doesn’t come across as conservative and is a guy I probably would enjoy having a beer with. Part I and Part II. Part II is the one I’d watch, it’s about 10 minutes long. Walter Issaacson walks into the interview along with a famous author of Time Magazine (he was editor of Time and ran CNN, along with the LA Olympics).
6. Jimmy Wales, the guy who runs Wikipedia jumped unexpectedly into a longer video at about 18 minutes through this video.
7. Ellen Langer talks to me about her work. In a second part, Mike Arrington and Ellen Langer, who is the first female tenured psychology professor at Harvard, have a five-minute chat (a movie is being made about her and she schools Arrington after he brags that he has more Google hits than she does).
8. Bono records a video for YouTube. “Sorta a rockstar.”
9. Robert Shriver, head of Red Campaign talks to me about what Red is. You can read more about Robert Shriver on Wikipedia.
10. Must watch. Eric Hippeau, managing partner at SoftBank Capital, talks to me about what he’s seeing in the markets (he’s an investor in Huffington Post, among others). He used to be CEO of ZiffDavis and you can read more about him on SoftBank’s site. We are talking about the downturn in the market while waiting in line to get into a talk.
11. William Amelio, CEO of Lenovo about notebooks and other devices.
12. Must watch. Vinod Khosla on investments he’s making to help retard climate change.
13. John Gage, lead researcher at Sun Microsystems talked about some of the things he’s been involved in at Sun (Java, et al). He’s one of the original employees at Sun and you can read more about him on Wikipedia. He was hanging out with Michael Spence, Nobel Laureate in Economics.
14. Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, talks to Loic Le Meur, CEO of Seesmic and me about blogging and Web services. Later in the recording Tim Weber of the BBC joins us at about 11 minutes in.
15. Susan Sawyer of the Huffington Post talks to me about what she’s writing about.
16. danah boyd, social software researcher, talks to me about the sessions she attended on first day and then explained the research she’s doing. At two minutes in they turn the camera around where you get to see me in my tie. Ouch. At three minutes she explains her dissertation that she’s working on.
17. Adrian Monck tells me about YouTube’s “Davos Question.” Adrian is a famous journalist and now teaches journalism and heads City University’s world-renowned Department of Journalism and Publishing in the UK. More on Adrian on Wikipedia.
18. Matthias Lufkens, head of PR for the World Economic Forum, drops in for a quick report on the first day’s events.
19. Tariq Krim, founder and CEO of Netvibes, shows me the latest private beta of Netvibes, which looks damn good.
20. Nick of Reuters talks to me about what they are doing in Second Life and then we meet Phillip Rosedale, CEO of Linden Labs, the folks who make Second Life.
21. Yossi Vardi talks to me about what happened at his Shabbat breakfast.
22. The closing concert by the Bern Symphony Orchestra.
Lots of interesting people and I wish I could have done more video. It was an amazing week and of 3,000 people there it’s too bad that I couldn’t have gotten everyone in front of my camera.
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Wow! How lucky you are to be more than just a fly on the wall. Wish I had time to watch them all. Some of the greatest minds in the world. I’m jealous. How did you get this gig again? 🙂
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Wow! How lucky you are to be more than just a fly on the wall. Wish I had time to watch them all. Some of the greatest minds in the world. I’m jealous. How did you get this gig again? 🙂
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Langer = first tenured FEMALE psych prof at Harvard… not first tenured I think.
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Langer = first tenured FEMALE psych prof at Harvard… not first tenured I think.
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Frank: yep, sorry. I’ll fix that.
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Frank: yep, sorry. I’ll fix that.
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Edelman runs the largest independent PR firm in the world.
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Edelman runs the largest independent PR firm in the world.
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Jeremy: added that too.
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Jeremy: added that too.
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video water boarding…
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video water boarding…
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Very nice collection. Just saw the Rick Warren video; he’s pretty cool and down to earth, as always. It would have been nice if Walter Isaacson could have joined the conversation. Anyway, can’t wait to find the time to view some more.
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Very nice collection. Just saw the Rick Warren video; he’s pretty cool and down to earth, as always. It would have been nice if Walter Isaacson could have joined the conversation. Anyway, can’t wait to find the time to view some more.
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It’s takes a while to watch these timely and though-provoking video interviews. Thanks for sharing!
I must also mention the fact that even bad video/audio is worth watching if the content is of high quality. What I mean by that if an important event is captured on a cell phone the whole world will watch it even if it’s lower resolution and not professional quality (example: VA Tech video from a student’s cell phone). It’s an interesting fact of today’s world and Internet media.
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It’s takes a while to watch these timely and though-provoking video interviews. Thanks for sharing!
I must also mention the fact that even bad video/audio is worth watching if the content is of high quality. What I mean by that if an important event is captured on a cell phone the whole world will watch it even if it’s lower resolution and not professional quality (example: VA Tech video from a student’s cell phone). It’s an interesting fact of today’s world and Internet media.
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@5. That’s misleading. It would be more accurate to say say Warren is pastor of on the he largest congregations in the US. But he certainly doesn’t come anywhere close to running the largest organized Church in the US. There is a difference. His congregation numbers around 40,000.
I guess it all depends on how you define your terms. A single congregation is not generally regarded as a Church. The largest Churches in the US dwarf Warren’s congregation. Not discounting his iuence, but to suggest he runs the largest Church is misleading at best. The top 5 Churches (religions) in he US are: Catholic, Southern Baptist, United Methodist, LDS.
Now, if you are throwing Warren into the “megachurch” category, he still doesn’t come in first as of 2007. Ta honor goes to the Lakewood Church in Houston, TX – Joel Osteen. Saddleback (Warren’s “church”) comes in 6th
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@5. That’s misleading. It would be more accurate to say say Warren is pastor of on the he largest congregations in the US. But he certainly doesn’t come anywhere close to running the largest organized Church in the US. There is a difference. His congregation numbers around 40,000.
I guess it all depends on how you define your terms. A single congregation is not generally regarded as a Church. The largest Churches in the US dwarf Warren’s congregation. Not discounting his iuence, but to suggest he runs the largest Church is misleading at best. The top 5 Churches (religions) in he US are: Catholic, Southern Baptist, United Methodist, LDS.
Now, if you are throwing Warren into the “megachurch” category, he still doesn’t come in first as of 2007. Ta honor goes to the Lakewood Church in Houston, TX – Joel Osteen. Saddleback (Warren’s “church”) comes in 6th
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@5 “along with the LA Olympics).”
Didn’t see the link to part III,but would love to, since accordng to the Davos attendee list, Peter Uberothh was not in attendance. And if memeory server he he ran the L.A. Olympics. To whom were you referring?
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@5 “along with the LA Olympics).”
Didn’t see the link to part III,but would love to, since accordng to the Davos attendee list, Peter Uberothh was not in attendance. And if memeory server he he ran the L.A. Olympics. To whom were you referring?
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Snore. Stick to your “entrepreneurial neighborhoods” theme…
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Snore. Stick to your “entrepreneurial neighborhoods” theme…
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PS – Rick Warren is ‘church lite’, churchy-sugar without any messy doctrine or theology, just feel-good social whatnots, sorta like a Judeo-Christian version of the Unitarians or a pop-culture version of the Churches of Christ. He’s rather fond of trying to merge Christians and Muslims, as they ‘serve a common God’, and other out-there play-dough beliefs like that.
Tech Bloggers would like him, he’s devoid of substance, meaty as a rice-cake, with all sorts of generic hippie feel-good’isms, with a constant moving center, full of all the latest buzzwords, “contemplative prayer”, “emerging spiritualities”…etc. etc.
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PS – Rick Warren is ‘church lite’, churchy-sugar without any messy doctrine or theology, just feel-good social whatnots, sorta like a Judeo-Christian version of the Unitarians or a pop-culture version of the Churches of Christ. He’s rather fond of trying to merge Christians and Muslims, as they ‘serve a common God’, and other out-there play-dough beliefs like that.
Tech Bloggers would like him, he’s devoid of substance, meaty as a rice-cake, with all sorts of generic hippie feel-good’isms, with a constant moving center, full of all the latest buzzwords, “contemplative prayer”, “emerging spiritualities”…etc. etc.
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Hey Robert, Thought your readers might enjoy seeing some of your Davos Flickr photos, Animoto style.
Brad
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Hey Robert, Thought your readers might enjoy seeing some of your Davos Flickr photos, Animoto style.
Brad
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Brad: that was cool, thanks!
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Brad: that was cool, thanks!
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Thanks! I’ve been looking for vids of the neuroscientists’ sessions on the WEF website and YouTube channel, but couldn’t find them.
I hope you don’t mind, but I’ve just embedded one of your clips on my blog.
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Thanks! I’ve been looking for vids of the neuroscientists’ sessions on the WEF website and YouTube channel, but couldn’t find them.
I hope you don’t mind, but I’ve just embedded one of your clips on my blog.
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Edlemam makes a really valid point, will the advertisers be relevant? (It will take a TON of work for them to be relevant, gone are the dayz of force feeding the consumers with garbarge….well almost) What we are seeing i think is a tectonic shift in media dollars from TV to online. Some estimates are $40 Billion over the next 24 months to online. That so, this is why Microsoft is interested in Yahoo (Media) company. But at the end of the day Yahoo has eyeballs. Eyeballs can be monetized in the right hands.
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Edlemam makes a really valid point, will the advertisers be relevant? (It will take a TON of work for them to be relevant, gone are the dayz of force feeding the consumers with garbarge….well almost) What we are seeing i think is a tectonic shift in media dollars from TV to online. Some estimates are $40 Billion over the next 24 months to online. That so, this is why Microsoft is interested in Yahoo (Media) company. But at the end of the day Yahoo has eyeballs. Eyeballs can be monetized in the right hands.
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