If you like Monty Python. And Star Wars. You’ll like this.
A totally brilliant mashup. Note the Stormtrooper passing by in the background and details like the fact that Darth’s sword lights a small fire after he has lost it.
LinuxMCE looks promising
LinuxMCE for Ubuntu looks promising, but ugly. I haven’t had the time to try it out yet. They have made a video comparing it to Windows MCE. If you ask me, they should have focused on showing the demo of LinuxMCE and dropped the so called comparison. At first glance it looks interesting but way too ugly and complicated for the average user. I’ll have to try it out to be able to give some qualified thoughts.
Now, if they could give me a complete distribution with Ubuntu + LinuxMCE + drivers on a DVD that I could pop into a MacMini and have it up and running in a matter of minutes…
Until then, you can have a look at their demo.
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-4422887272477313460&hl=en
A quick story on music marketing
It’s sunday evening and I am sitting here, making a presentation for Microsoft(!). While listening to Silversun Pickups. Because Mike Arrington broke copyright law and wrote this. So I learned about this excellent band. More than 300 000 people subscribe to Mr. Arrington’s feed. And here is Techcrunch compared to MTV. But that’s on the internet. And MTV has a huge network of television channels. And MTV don’t want to reach me, they want to reach young pleople. I’m 36. Rock on!
I planned to end the post there, but people that don’t know me would think that I actually mean that a band would reach a young, record buying audience by being on MTV. Think again. Please. Young people don’t buy music. And young people don’t watch TV. Actually, being on Techcrunch is pretty darn good marketing.
Related article:
How to market music on the internet
Google Body
Today I did a presentation at a marketing conference here in Oslo. I was speaking after Mr. Jan Grønbech, the country manager at Google Norway. While chatting with him before our presentations he told me about two Google products that I didn’t know of. Google Mars and Google Moon. How cool is that?
Of course they’re of limited use, but way cool. However those services reminded me of an excellent suggestion from Mr. M. over at the Pappmaskin. An idea about Google making a Google Body:
There should be a Google Earth and a Google Map for the body, where you could rotate and navigate the human body in 3d, and zoom in, but instead of stopping on the surface, the zoom should continue through the skin, so that you could look on all the different layers, organs etc.
I told Mr. Grønbech about this and he couldn’t hide the fact that he also found the thought interesting. So, who knows? Maybe we’ll see Google Body one day?
One Joost beta invite
Seems like I have one beta invite for Joost that will expire on the 22nd of March. So, I’ll copy Oyvind. If you have a blog, post an article with a link to eirikso.com and post a comment here with a link to your article. The first one gets the invite. When you post the comment here use the email you want the invite sent to.
Bad food
I am pretty experienced when it comes to low priced long distance air travel. It’s a pain. But I have some advice:
1. Always bring one small bottle of high quality chili sauce. Tabasco will do. Does wonders on the tasteless food on board the plane. And some trivia: the heat of chili is measured on the scoville scale. And the Bhut Jolokia was recently certified as the hottest of them all.
2. Invest in some high quality noise canceling headphones. I am using something like this. But there are lots of them.
Image:
Canon EOS400D, Canon EFS 17-55 2.8 @ 55mm
f/7.1, shutter speed 1/400, RAW
Mozy Backup for Mac
I have been using Carbonite to back up my 100 GIG collection of images to remote servers from my Windows box. Now I need a simple and easy solution to back up from my Macs instead.
Mozy just released a limited beta of their backup client for Mac OSX. Limited, because it has only been communicated to the people that have specifically asked to be updated about the Mozy client for Mac.
I have tested Mozy on one of my windows boxes for a while and it works very well. Set it up, choose the folders and file types to back up and forget. Until you have a major disk crash. At that point you can restore your files to any computer through the web interface.
Mozy provides a free option that gives you 2 GB of storage. And an unlimited option that gives you… …surprise: unlimited amounts of storage. That last option will set you back $4.95 a month.
Carbonite have been working well so far, but after testing Mozy I must admit that Mozy adds some very valuable features:
1. Web access to your files. You can restore to any computer.
2. A Mac version!
In addition to this I like the Mozy interface better and feel that in general I have better control of my files.
The official Mozy client for Mac will be out in a couple of weeks. I am testing the limited beta right now and it seems to be working fine.
It’s all in the optics
When I posted the article about my new camera some people where asking if the lens I selected was a bit big and heavy for my camera. Oyvind just pointed me to this. Now that’s something to lug around in your pocket.
And if you want some valuable information as well. DPReview is the place for reviews on cameras and everything about photography.
What is your dream presenter?
I have been asked to come up with names of speakers that would be excellent for presentations on the future of the media industry. At this point I can suggest people from the top of the line, then we’ll have to be more realistic regarding price and availability when we have our list of dream presenters.
I left out Steve Jobs because I guess he is totally and utterly out of reach… But I have suggested Chris Anderson, Cory Doctorow, Seth Godin, Joi Ito and Guy Kawasaki. And I am absolutely sure that I have left out huge amounts of interesting people.
Comments are open. What is your dream presenter for the subject of new media. And why?
Same old mistake
In my previous post I forgot to include a direct link to the video I embedded. For the people that subscribe to my blog with my email update from feedblitz or read my blog in an RSS Aggregator that don’t support that kind of object embed they won’t have a quick way to get to the Blendtec iPod video. So here it is: direct link to “Will it blend? – iPod”
…and a bonus link to “Will it blend? – Glowsticks”
Last but not least: is this really a problem? I can see that I now have close to 800 people subscribing to my feed. You are among my most valuable readers and I want to treat you well. NewsGator and GoogleReader support embedded video in the feed, but what about the other readers?
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