dcinput daily for Thu 18th Jan, 2007
Ze Frank goes to Hollywood! I’ve always thought that Ze was the webs answer to Andy Koffman. It sure will be a sad day on March 17th when he posts his last show. Better to quit while you’re ahead and move on to bigger and better things, that’s what I say. I’m imagining a film kind of like War Games but instead of playing thermo-global nuclear war with Joshua, he plays bizare games with people all over the world using only a powerbook and a dv cam.
Steve Rosenbaum: “Power is shifting from content pipe to contextual”.
Jeff Jarvis reports on how the Davos conference this year is experimenting with the web by opening up the conversation into and out of Davos. Get to the Davos conversations here.
Reuters: “U.S. news organizations are increasingly calling on their reporters and editors to write news blogs and compete with the expanding Internet format for informal analysis and opinion”.
Apollo is a cross-OS runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills in Flash, Flex, HTML and Ajax. You can sign up for the Beta now. Ted Patrick presented Apollo at Mashup Camp.
Cinematical: “Crumley and Buice have been asked to travel to Sundance to shoot daily videos which will be broadcast through YouTube as part of a collaboration (their first) with the Sundance Channel”.
The collaboration comes right after their very successful experiment in Second Life. Anything that the guys from Four Eyed Monsters touch I’m sure will be huge. I’ll definitely be watching. Independent film making is breaking out onto the web quick. If main stream film companies want to know what the world is going to be like in a few years, this is the direction they should look.