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FITC Toronto, watch out! RayRay and I will be there at the end of April to do our preso on Interactive Digital Out of Home executions. It will be quite cool, and a great excuse to get out of the office. We’ll be tuning it up with some talks prior, starting Jan 13th at the monthly Rocky Mountain Internet Users Group meeting here in Boulder.
Here’s the link to details on our talk.
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Sorry for the lack of posts post-election, but we’ve been busy.
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Rember the wild graphics from the 2006 election? And the multi-touch wall from 2004? They’ve now got Holograms. Seriously.
…the Obama spokesperson will be projected as a three-dimensional hologram, making it appear as if he or she is in the Manhattan studio with Blitzer. The network plans to conduct similar holographic interviews with representatives from the McCain campaign in Phoenix
“conduct similar holographic interviews”. Truly bizarre, can’t wait to check it out.
Another good quote:
“It’s so complicated,” Bohrman says. “The crew is basically shooting someone that isn’t there.”
And who did it:
Borhman flew to Israel the day after the vice presidential debate to enlist the help of two tech companies — Vizrt, which works on state-of-the-art virtual studios; and SportVu, a developer of a real-time camera tracking system used in live sporting events.
More:
Among CNN’s other innovations on election night are a virtual Capitol Building used to illustrate the changing balance of power in Congress. But the most promising election winner is the hologram. “Either this is an evolution in the way we do live interviews on television,” Bohrman says, “or it’s a nice try.”
Fox News has … A giant wall with touch-screen technology will provide electoral map results.
Touch-screen technology will allow anchor Katie Couric to drill down on state and county results for all races, including propositions. “It is very fast technology using real-time data,” says Frank Governale, vice president of operations for CBS News.
Comedy Central, a go-to cable channel for political news for many young people, is teaming with a social-networking site. The TV home of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert is using the services of Meebo to host chat rooms for users to share their political views.
ABC’s digital maps make their debut, letting correspondents look at up-to-the-minute votes by county, and compare votes as far back as 1960.
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Adaptive Path is creating concept videos that describe how we might be using the Internet in the future. The first one is about the future of video on the web. It’s kind of cool, and very conceptual. Worth watching. Adaptive Path is a smart firm, they often don’t get too specific for my tastes, but they always take a holistic, executive level look at an idea.
This is absurdly cool. Using GPS data from real sharks in the wild, you maneuver a virtual ship around the sea to collect data and monitor sharks. What a beautiful mix of the real and virtual world. A logistical challenge of significant proportions, the engineering behind the site must be an interesting blend of technologies. I don’t remember the game last year, but evidently this is area/code’s second try at the same concept. Definitely one to watch.
Subaru pokes fun at the sexy bikini shoot, by using a Sumo wrestler, and inviting the user to act as photographer. Technically sound, and a good application of the features of Flash 9 (image manipulation, video). Wouldn’t work without the nice, cohesive creative.
Yahoo recently announced the release of BOSS which allows you to utilize Yahoo’s search infrastructure in any way you’d like. It’s an ‘open web services platform’ which means that you aren’t just massaging results the way that Google’s Search API lets you, but rather you can do higher level manipulation of not just search results, but the DB of records. The idea is that your users don’t have to ever be aware of where you got the results or records, its just ethereal data.
The BOSS Mashup Framework is a Python library with a vaguely SQL-like syntax. Using it, you can combine BOSS results with other bits of XML, JSON, or RSS/RDF. In addition to merging results, it can handle sorting, grouping, removing duplicates, and so on. Armed with this Framework (and of course Python skills) you can easily combine Yahoo’s search results with just about any other data you can get your hands on.