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 […]
Will Code of Best Practices help video mash-up artists?
At PBS’s MediaShift blog, Mark Glaser conducted a roundtable last week on import of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video released by the Center for Social Media at American University. (I wrote about it here.) Participating were: Peter Jaszi, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, American University, Code of […]
Heading to the Aspen Institute
I’m flying to Aspen, Colo., early tomorrow to take part in another Aspen Institute roundtable. This one is on Cloud Computing: Implications for Social Interaction, Governance and Money. Should be geeky but interesting as hell. Too bad I missed the Dalai Lama by three days. As you might imagine, blogging will be light this week.
New report: How mobile media can serve the public good
In December I attended an Aspen Institute roundtable on civic engagement and mobile media held in San Francisco with thought leaders in the mobile space such as Jed Alpert, founder of Mobile Commons, and Katrin Verclas, head of MobileActive.org. I wrote a report about the gathering’s conclusions, and the Aspen Institute just published it as […]
ZipClip: Ding, dong, the ringtone is dead
The most interesting person I met at the Stanford Summit last week was Turkish-born Babur Ozen, whose business card says he’s the "boss" of ZipClip, which has offices in Palo Alto, Calif. Babur gave me and Valerie Cunningham a test drive of the free service. ZipClip lets you add video, images or music from the […]