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The first shows have just launched on FastCompany.tv:
1. FastCompany Live.
2. ScobleizerTV.
The first is a show done totally on cell phones. If you’ve been watching my Qik channel, you’ve been getting a preview.
The second is a new version of my show. This time done with high-end microphones and much better camera equipment. Oh, and a camera operator (that’d be my producer, Rocky Barbanica) instead of me trying to do everything.
CenterNetworks was the first site to write about our new network. Mashable followed quickly afterward.
The first four shows are ones we’re pretty proud of:
0. A welcome video that we filmed yesterday.
1. The Innovator. Interview with John Kao who taught business at Harvard University for 14 years and now consults with companies about how to get more innovative. BusinessWeek named his book one of the most important business books of 2007, too.
2. Getting Friendly with MySpace’s CEO. Chris DeWolfe invites us into his office to talk about MySpace and how it’ll keep Facebook from taking over its world.
3. First Look at Microsoft’s Stunning WorldWide Telescope. This is the thing that made me tear up when I saw it because it’s the most impressive thing I’ve seen Microsoft do in years. We visit Curtis Wong’s office to get an in-depth look.
4. Meeting with Amazon’s Web Services Evangelist. Many of you know about Amazon’s Web Services, like S3 or EC2, but I wanted to introduce them to the broader Fast Company audience, so we visited Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle and talked with Jeff Barr, Amazon’s Web Services Evangelist, about the impact that they’ve had on business.
Some things that haven’t yet shipped that will soon:
1. Shel Israel’s program, Global Neighborhoods. We’re still working on that and will start that in a couple of weeks. He’s been to tons of companies including General Motors, Ford, Intel, and Seesmic and we’re working to build an interesting program for you that’ll focus on social media’s impact on culture and business.
2. My blog’s redesign. We’re working on that, but it might take a month more to get it complete and make sure it really works well before turning it on.
3. High-resolution videos. I want higher-resolution videos to be available (we’re shooting and editing most of our stuff in 720p HD, but only delivering smaller sizes right now — that’ll change thanks to our use of Twistage, which is a new company in San Francisco that’s providing the video backend and player technology we’re using).
4. RSS Feeds that work with iTunes. That’s the first thing to fix after the developers get some sleep (they were up most of Sunday night working on this).
4. A bunch of other stuff. I have a long list of things to add to the site. Schedules for our live videos and other stuff. Ways for you to upload your own videos to the site. And tons more.
I also wanted to thank our sponsor, Seagate. We’re not only using their hard drives to edit and store our videos on (and they are massive files) but they’ve put financial muscle behind the show so that we can not only pay our bills, but travel around the world — in April I’ll be visiting Amsterdam and Israel.
Some Q&As?
QUESTION: How is this different from the shows that you’ve done at Microsoft and PodTech?
ANSWER: Professional microphones. Heheh. Seriously, we just got some really nice new equipment. No more tapes! And we have Rocky doing two-camera shoots now. Look for the production values to continue going up (we had to use Rocky’s older equipment for some of the first shows).
We’ll also broaden the content. We’re working with the editors of Fast Company magazine to get content that’s not just about the tech industry. John Kao’s interview is a good example of the kinds of things we’d like to do in the future.
QUESTION: Where’s the tour of Microsoft Research that you were bragging about?
ANSWER: Coming in the next two weeks. We have a ton of stuff and we’ll run a new video every day or so.
QUESTION: What happened to Shel Israel’s show, why isn’t it up now?
ANSWER: We just ran out of time and wanted to make sure that we could deliver a great show. That’ll start soon.
QUESTION: Why do the RSS feeds suck?
ANSWER: They will be fixed soon so that they work on iPhones and have full-text.
QUESTION: Why does your blog still say you work for PodTech?
ANSWER: Because I was lazy. Actually, the truth is I forgot about it, and I don’t have control of my sidebar and I was hoping that the redesign of my blog would be ready. We’ll get that fixed soon.
QUESTION: Where’s the video downloads so I can put these things on my iPhone?
ANSWER: Those are coming soon, sorry for not having them ready yet.
QUESTION: Why watch this show instead of, say, Rocketboom, Geek Brief.TV, or Diggnation (three of my favorite online video shows)?
ANSWER: You should watch all of us! Seriously, we’ll focus on innovative entrepreneurs, business ideas, new businesses. How will we be different from CNBC? Depth. Most of the time when you see a company on TV the entrepreneurs can’t really give you a full-blown demo because they only get a few minutes. On the Internet we don’t have such pressures to make things short and exciting (a producer at CNBC, when I was on that during the Consumer Electronics Show, told me “we don’t care about gadgets.” On FastCompany.TV? We care).
QUESTION: Who do you most want to interview?
ANSWER: Steve Jobs, because then I’d be a hero to my 14-year-old son who loves Apple stuff.
But seriously, I like meeting people building new things that we didn’t expect. I hope to interview Google’s Android team soon, to get a look at what they are trying to do, for instance.
QUESTION: Will you be adding more shows?
ANSWER: Yes, but slowly. For a few reasons. First, we don’t have venture capital funding us, so we’ve got to make sure we can support new investment. Second, I want to make the quality of everything on the network higher than anything out there before we start expanding. But, yes, we want to start developing new shows, so please let us know if you have something in mind.
And please do let me know what you think, good or bad.
Scobleizer 
Really great job. Especially on the Telescope episode. This project looks fantastic and can’t wait to try it out for myself. Considering how huge MS is, it’s great to see that small teams are allowed to “follow their dreams” and come up with some real innovation.
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Really great job. Especially on the Telescope episode. This project looks fantastic and can’t wait to try it out for myself. Considering how huge MS is, it’s great to see that small teams are allowed to “follow their dreams” and come up with some real innovation.
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Don’t mean to double post, but I just wanted to congratulate you on your presenting style. After, what, 1,00+ interviews, you still come off with genuine interest and enthusiasm, and I just enjoy seeing how personable you are with your ‘subjects’ – I think this is why I enjoy watching your interviews – you ask the sort of questions we would ask.
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Don’t mean to double post, but I just wanted to congratulate you on your presenting style. After, what, 1,00+ interviews, you still come off with genuine interest and enthusiasm, and I just enjoy seeing how personable you are with your ‘subjects’ – I think this is why I enjoy watching your interviews – you ask the sort of questions we would ask.
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Good Luck:)…btw, Where is the iTunes link?
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Good Luck:)…btw, Where is the iTunes link?
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zx: I’ll get that for you soon.
Ali: I know the Telescope video will be the most popular, but the John Kao interview was actually the best one, both Rocky and I believe (he produced Sex, Lies, and Videotape, and did a lot of other stuff, including teaching business at Harvard for 14 years). Thank you for your kind words!
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zx: I’ll get that for you soon.
Ali: I know the Telescope video will be the most popular, but the John Kao interview was actually the best one, both Rocky and I believe (he produced Sex, Lies, and Videotape, and did a lot of other stuff, including teaching business at Harvard for 14 years). Thank you for your kind words!
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Congratulations mate! Looking forward to seeing what we can do with this.
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Congratulations mate! Looking forward to seeing what we can do with this.
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Congrats!, Scoble. And Good Luck too 🙂
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Congrats!, Scoble. And Good Luck too 🙂
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Are you going to be putting the Mahalo one up? really interested in seeing how they use Google Apps
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Are you going to be putting the Mahalo one up? really interested in seeing how they use Google Apps
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Piers, yes, that’s another one coming soon. Sorry for leaving that off the list.
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Piers, yes, that’s another one coming soon. Sorry for leaving that off the list.
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Hey Robert, just adding my best wishes for your new venture.
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Hey Robert, just adding my best wishes for your new venture.
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Way to go Robert!!
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Way to go Robert!!
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Awesome. Very exciting.
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Awesome. Very exciting.
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Hi Robert,
Is there a podcast feed for your shows? The ‘subscribe’ link at http://www.fastcompany.tv/scobleizer-tv doesn’t seem to be it.
Thanks
Jamie
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Hi Robert,
Is there a podcast feed for your shows? The ‘subscribe’ link at http://www.fastcompany.tv/scobleizer-tv doesn’t seem to be it.
Thanks
Jamie
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Good luck Scoble. Deliver some more good questions..
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Good luck Scoble. Deliver some more good questions..
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Feed of scobleizertv seems to be not working in miro.
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Feed of scobleizertv seems to be not working in miro.
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Glad to hear you’re live! Now I have something to show people when they come out here!
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Glad to hear you’re live! Now I have something to show people when they come out here!
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Congrats on the launch.
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Congrats on the launch.
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Congrats on the launch Robert! It looks really good… This is very exciting! I hope that you guys do other show that are not like most of the shows on the web yet attract a large audience. Good luck moving forward!
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Congrats on the launch Robert! It looks really good… This is very exciting! I hope that you guys do other show that are not like most of the shows on the web yet attract a large audience. Good luck moving forward!
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mazel tov!
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mazel tov!
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In theory this sounds interesting, but introducing something like this in 2008 that isn’t cross-browser compatible is kinda lame. There aren’t that many browsers to test/develop for, nor any a big investments required to get ’em, so I would at least expect that someone as technoligy focused as FC.tv to have the major players in the market covered.
Expecting me to switch to a different browser /just/ to view a video simply doesn’t work. I have a hard time understanding how you can treat your audience (and their choice of OS, browser, etc) with such little respect. It’s not like I’m using an obscure browser that does things in a proprietary and/or non-standards way. Sorry to be so harsh, but this really does annoy me. Especially considering all the talk on your blog about silos, interoperability, openness and data-portability…
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In theory this sounds interesting, but introducing something like this in 2008 that isn’t cross-browser compatible is kinda lame. There aren’t that many browsers to test/develop for, nor any a big investments required to get ’em, so I would at least expect that someone as technoligy focused as FC.tv to have the major players in the market covered.
Expecting me to switch to a different browser /just/ to view a video simply doesn’t work. I have a hard time understanding how you can treat your audience (and their choice of OS, browser, etc) with such little respect. It’s not like I’m using an obscure browser that does things in a proprietary and/or non-standards way. Sorry to be so harsh, but this really does annoy me. Especially considering all the talk on your blog about silos, interoperability, openness and data-portability…
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Obviously i should have used the spell-checker that’s easily available in my browser. Either that or I should managed to type “technology” correctly in the first place. Ah well, I could always excuse myself with English not being my native language, though hopefully the point comes across regardless of my silly typo…
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Obviously i should have used the spell-checker that’s easily available in my browser. Either that or I should managed to type “technology” correctly in the first place. Ah well, I could always excuse myself with English not being my native language, though hopefully the point comes across regardless of my silly typo…
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John: what browser/OS are you using? We tested on Mac and Windows and Firefox and IE and Safari and it works here on all of those.
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John: what browser/OS are you using? We tested on Mac and Windows and Firefox and IE and Safari and it works here on all of those.
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Robert, at least for me, the videos don’t work in Firefox 3 beta 3 on Vista. All works fine in IE though.
Congrats on the launch. Looking forward to see how Fastcompany.tv develops…
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Robert, at least for me, the videos don’t work in Firefox 3 beta 3 on Vista. All works fine in IE though.
Congrats on the launch. Looking forward to see how Fastcompany.tv develops…
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Simon, weird, cause that’s the browser/OS combination I’m currently using and it works fine here. Do you have the latest Flash Plugin? I know I just upgraded mine a week ago.
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Simon, weird, cause that’s the browser/OS combination I’m currently using and it works fine here. Do you have the latest Flash Plugin? I know I just upgraded mine a week ago.
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Robert, can you please look into the feed and make it work on miro?
your podtechshow used to work just fine.
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Robert, can you please look into the feed and make it work on miro?
your podtechshow used to work just fine.
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Robert – I updated to the latest version of Flash, as per your suggestion. That fixed it. Works fine now. Thanks!
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Robert – I updated to the latest version of Flash, as per your suggestion. That fixed it. Works fine now. Thanks!
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Robert, although you sort of answered your own question. 😉 I’m using Opera…
Tested with;
-Opera 9.26 on XP with Flash 9.0.115
-Opera 9.50 (beta) on XP with Flash 9.0.115
With both, clicking the “trigger image” simply swaps it for a black static image (or html contents)…
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Robert, although you sort of answered your own question. 😉 I’m using Opera…
Tested with;
-Opera 9.26 on XP with Flash 9.0.115
-Opera 9.50 (beta) on XP with Flash 9.0.115
With both, clicking the “trigger image” simply swaps it for a black static image (or html contents)…
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Congratulations Robert, this is going be really cool! I like the two channels of higher quality videos and Qik videos. Best of luck, I think you’re on to something!
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Congratulations Robert, this is going be really cool! I like the two channels of higher quality videos and Qik videos. Best of luck, I think you’re on to something!
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Congrats again Robert!
The key I think will be to differentiate and bring new/fresh faces to us – the tech guys are mostly the same and the same are all over the place 🙂
There is a lot going on in this world and a lot of cool people – not all with ‘celebrity’ status. Its your job to make them so 🙂
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Congrats again Robert!
The key I think will be to differentiate and bring new/fresh faces to us – the tech guys are mostly the same and the same are all over the place 🙂
There is a lot going on in this world and a lot of cool people – not all with ‘celebrity’ status. Its your job to make them so 🙂
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Robert, I can’t leave you alone for a week or two and you change your life AGAIN?
Tsk tsk tsk.
As a personal favor, when you redesign your blog, could you put in an actual font hint this time? I am so sick of Times New Roman it is not even funny.
Heh. I had to look it up, but I actually said that just days ago:
http://www.dancingbunnies.com/archive/2008/02/21/1641.aspx
Here’s an open invitation to come out to the valley. People throw “echo chamber” at you for a reason. Come on out, and I’ll show you.
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Robert, I can’t leave you alone for a week or two and you change your life AGAIN?
Tsk tsk tsk.
As a personal favor, when you redesign your blog, could you put in an actual font hint this time? I am so sick of Times New Roman it is not even funny.
Heh. I had to look it up, but I actually said that just days ago:
http://www.dancingbunnies.com/archive/2008/02/21/1641.aspx
Here’s an open invitation to come out to the valley. People throw “echo chamber” at you for a reason. Come on out, and I’ll show you.
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doesn’t look like the team at scobleizertv are ready. let’s all meet back here again in a month and see how things are going…
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doesn’t look like the team at scobleizertv are ready. let’s all meet back here again in a month and see how things are going…
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Look forward to checking out the show (I am at work now), I just hope you fixed your sound issues. I don’t want to have to camp out on the volumn control during your shows… 😉
Looks like you will have a lot more interesting interviews coming up. Hopefully Steve Jobs too.
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Look forward to checking out the show (I am at work now), I just hope you fixed your sound issues. I don’t want to have to camp out on the volumn control during your shows… 😉
Looks like you will have a lot more interesting interviews coming up. Hopefully Steve Jobs too.
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It’s not Fastcompany.tv yet, it’s just Scoble Show Take 3…
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It’s not Fastcompany.tv yet, it’s just Scoble Show Take 3…
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Scoble
A couple of other folks have commented on top & I third them, the feed does not work in Miro (am using Ubuntu Gutsy)
Hope you folks can fix this soon
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Scoble
A couple of other folks have commented on top & I third them, the feed does not work in Miro (am using Ubuntu Gutsy)
Hope you folks can fix this soon
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