<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Scobleizer]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://scobleizer.blog]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Robert Scoble]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://scobleizer.blog/author/scobleizer/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Micromedia]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>The last couple of days have been interesting.</p>
<p>Thursday ended with an interesting dinner with Google&#8217;s PR team and my old boss, Vic Gundotra, who now is an executive at Google.</p>
<p>At the dinner he announced that Google was &#8220;gearing up&#8221; for releasing a raft of open technologies which would be gifted to Web developers. Much like Google Gears is. Dan Farber was at the dinner too and <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6766">wrote up a lengthy post on the details and what this all means</a>.</p>
<p>But, this post isn&#8217;t named &#8220;Micromedia&#8221; for nothing.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a bunch of short videos (since so many of you claim you like short videos) for you to watch.</p>
<p>Earlier this week we went to the CTIA show and met several cool companies (many more to come next week, these are just the first three).</p>
<p>1. <a href="http://www.utterz.com">Utterz</a>. I tried to hate it at first. Do we really need something else to come along that looks like a blog but that lets you call your blog with your cell phone and leave some audio there? Do we need another Twitter competitor? Turns out we do, and I underestimated this service. Eric Rice slapped me over on Twitter several times for that. <a href="http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/technology/1665/utterz-brings-voice-video-to-microblogging-service">I redeemed myself by interviewing one of Utterz&#8217; founders</a>. I&#8217;ll call Utterz a &#8220;micromedia community service&#8221; for now until I have a chance to drink some great wine and come up with a better name. Five minutes long.<br />
2. I get too focused on Silicon Valley&#8217;s tech hipness, but <a href="http://www.edioma.com/">Edioma</a> has a fun service that helps Spanish-speaking people learn English. Larry Upton, an executive there, <a href="http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/technology/1667/service-teaches-hispanics-english-over-cell-phones">tells me why that matters and gives me a demo</a>. Five minutes.<br />
3. I&#8217;m preparing to go to Paris in December with Milan and Maryam for the LeWeb3 Conference. So, anyone who shows me cool travel services will catch my attention. WorldMate is such a service and Eyran Blumberg, VP there, <a href="http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/technology/1666/travel-smarter-with-worldmatelive">showed me how the service might help me out on my travels</a>. Seven minutes long.</p>
<p>But those are my official &#8220;ScobleShow&#8221; things. How about over on my Kyte.tv channel?</p>
<p>1. <a href="http://www.kyte.tv/ch/6118-scobleizer-sponsored-by-seagate/66348-milan">Milan Scoble smiling at his older half brother Patrick</a>. Hey, that brightens my day, hope it does you too.<br />
2. Facebook, on November 6, will announce Social Ads &#8212; <a href="http://www.allfacebook.com/2007/10/facebook-launching-socialads-network-november-6th/">the AllFacebook Blog has the details</a>. <a href="http://www.kyte.tv/ch/6118-scobleizer-sponsored-by-seagate/66207-social-ads">Here&#8217;s my thoughts on what those will be</a>.<br />
3. Last night, after I picked Patrick up in Santa Rosa (Patrick lives with his mom up in Petaluma, which <a href="http://www.kyte.tv/ch/6118-scobleizer-sponsored-by-seagate/66368-golden-gate-b">is across the Golden Gate Bridge</a>) <a href="http://www.kyte.tv/ch/6118-scobleizer-sponsored-by-seagate/66182-getting-leopa">we talked about what we were going to do on the way home</a>: pick up our copy of Leopard.<br />
4. <a href="http://www.kyte.tv/ch/6118-scobleizer-sponsored-by-seagate/66187-wow">Patrick celebrates getting to level 70 in World of Warcraft</a>. I have no idea what he is saying anymore. I need a parent&#8217;s guide to WoW.<br />
5. <a href="http://www.kyte.tv/ch/6118-scobleizer-sponsored-by-seagate/66202-apple-sf">Here&#8217;s what it looks like</a> inside the San Francisco Apple Store last night buying Leopard. Of course getting INTO the Apple store should have counted for hazard pay &#8212; we <a href="http://www.kyte.tv/ch/6118-scobleizer-sponsored-by-seagate/66370-bike-jam-in-s">had to cross through thousands of bicycle riders</a> who were doing the usual &#8220;Critical Mass&#8221; protest against cars by riding their bikes through traffic and generally causing mayhem.<br />
6. At the Apple store last night Loic Le Meur was there too (founder of Seesmic).<a href="http://www.kyte.tv/ch/6118-scobleizer-sponsored-by-seagate/66199-loic"> So I get him on video inside the Apple store</a>.</p>
<p>All those videos were done using my Nokia N95 cell phone. I love that thing and Kyte.tv&#8217;s service, because I can get video to you within minutes of me filming it.</p>
<p>Anyway, after we got home we switched to Seesmic and installed Leopard.</p>
<p>1. <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/Standalone.html?video=P18a458tyJ">Loading OSX Leopard</a>. &#8220;Goodbye Tiger,&#8221; Patrick says. We also talked about how we met Lynn Fox, director of PR at Apple.<br />
2. <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/Standalone.html?video=K5gel50hU0">Leopard almost finished installing</a> (it took Patrick about 45 minutes).<br />
3. <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/Standalone.html?video=O6tSTWk6T8">Patrick&#8217;s first boot</a> into Leopard.<br />
4. &#8220;A reflection on the freaking dock,&#8221; Patrick says <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/Standalone.html?video=MmBy5n54M2">in his first impression of Leopard</a>.<br />
5. A really cool feature is Webclips. You can highlight a piece of a Web page and then make a widget out of it. <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/Standalone.html?video=h1X69uMX0S">Patrick demonstrates. Milan cries</a>. Heh.<br />
6. @geraldb28 Twittered us last night and said &#8220;wannt do some screen sharing?&#8221; <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/Standalone.html?video=BI0zJp52FM">This video is what resulted</a>.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s really fun is that on Seesmic, Utterz, and Kyte there&#8217;s TONS of micromedia being produced.</p>
<p>Will anyone watch? Wrong question: for most of this it&#8217;s about the conversation that happens and the communication we can do with each other.</p>
<p>I got a TV station in my pocket. What are you going to do with yours?</p>
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