Interview with ZeroFootprint from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here’s a 4 1/2-minute video interview with Deborah Kaplan, executive director of Zerofootprint.net, an amazing organization based in Toronto and devoted to help organizations, cities and individuals recognize their carbon footprint and take specific measures to help reduce climate change. The interview was conducted at the Stanford […]
Back from the cloud computing roundtable
I’m back from the Aspen Institute, where last week we held a roundtable on "Identity in the Age of Cloud Computing: Implications for Social Interaction, Governance and Money." Participants included John Seely Brown, Esther Dyson, Bill Coleman, Mark Bregman, Jeff Dachis, Ann Winblad, Mark Rotenberg, Arjun Gupta, Arturo Artom and lots of other smart folks. […]
Silicon Valley’s Top 50 Web Influencers
I’ve been in Aspen all week so missed this announcement from a couple of days ago: NowPublic announces Silicon Valley "MostPublic Index" Identifies the Web’s 50 most influential people in Silicon Valley NowPublic, the world’s largest participatory news network, today announced its second MostPublic Index, identifying the 50 most influential individuals in Silicon Valley/San Francisco. […]
Photos of Aspen trip
Here are 50-plus photos in a Flickr set from my trip this week to Aspen, Colo., including shot of: • former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, John Seely Brown and others at the Aspen Institute; • trails and vistas around Aspen, and • a few shots of an exhibit of Tibetan Buddhist art (above) that […]
A better way to target video ads
On day 2 of a 4-day Aspen Institute roundtable on cloud computing, Arturo Artom, founder and president of San Francisco-headquartered YourTrumanShow, gave me a demo of a new online video technology being announced this morning called TagLift, a new video advertising targeting technology. As anyone in the grassroots video space knows, sites like YouTube, Vimeo […]