The New Media elite? Hardley.

I stumbled upon this blog off Valleywag.com today purporting to have a list of the who's who in New Media. I had to laugh my a$$ off reading the names. Here are some of my favorites:

• Michael Buhr, Sr. Director of Corporate Strategy, eBay (who is this guy and what does eBay have to day with New Media?)


• Â Jeff Bezos, CEO, Amazon (two questions, what does Amazon actually make, that is New Media?)


• Mark Weinberg, Director of Engineering, Zune, Microsoft (how does the Director of Engineering for the Zune qualify as a who's who in New Media?)

See, to me, people that are influencing New Media are people like Jim Long, Chris Brogan and CC Chapman. Even Cameron Reilly at The Podcast Network has a bigger influence on New Media than the people on the list seem to have. Are we just bandwagoning the term New Media?

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Photobucket has some cool technology

Matthew Reinbold gave me a pretty interesting demo of Photobucket at the Utah Tech Spotlight today. The site uses technology from Adobe, and aside from the normal sharing of photos, you can also upload video, and create mixes of photos, videos and music providing a basic movie making tool. It's pretty neat. I created a video with some stills and a video and stitched them together into one file. I also uploaded a small video and edited out a portion that was crappy. It all worked pretty good.

After spending a few hours messing around with it, the interface is pretty good (although filled with ads), the tools are fairly fast, not as fast I had hoped but it was ok. I was generally pleased with the way it worked and I was able to create my videos and was provided a link to embed in my blog.

What I don't like is the layout. The links to the various areas (i.e. photos, videos) are not where I would have expected them to be. They are at the bottom of the screen. I'm sure these are things that will be worked out in the future and doesn't make it any less of a product.

I have a Pro account with Flickr, and Photobucket offers a Pro account as well, but both cost the same. There are limitations on space with Photobucket but not with Flickr. I assume the limitation is because you can create videos that probably don't compressed like pictures. I could be wrong.

Anyway, check it out, its free, and there seems to be some interesting technology there. Thanks Matt.

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Utah Tech Spotlight featuring HireVue

We didn't have as many people at this months Spotlight but personally I thought it was a great presentation. Ryan Money, founder of HireVue was on hand to talk about his company, their technology and other little business tid bits.

[Sorry the video that was here is really crappy so I removed it]

Pictures here.

As usual, Twelve Horses sponsored the event at the Bohemian. If you've never been there I highly recommend you go there at once. And if you're not sure what Twelve Horses is check them out too.

If you want an opportunity to up close and personal technology companies right here in Salt Lake City, Utah, this is the event for you. As Steve mention at todays even, we've heard from several well known companies like Mozy, Control4 and MediaPort. Check out the website and then come to the next event. See you there.

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Safari for Windows, please no

Is there really room for another web browser on the Windows platform? I guess, maybe, but should it be Safari? Safari on the Mac is the default like Internet Explorer is on a Windows machine. But with options like Opera and FireFox, and there are so many more based on the Mozilla engine, that I was a little taken back when I saw that a version of Safari was available for Windows.

My first question is how many Windows user have used Safari on the Mac let alone even heard of Safari. Probably not many and I'm sure that was the idea, we don't have a user base with a negative view of this browser because it has only been available on the Mac, so lets throw it out there on Windows and see how many people will use it.

I have an iMac and I don't use Safari. I can't stand it. I use FireFox and occasionally have to use Internet Explorer (in Windows) for sites that are insane enough to only work with Internet Explorer. But Safari? What value or advantage does that bring to the Windows experience? None I say. The application will assuredly get thousands of downloads as lookylous try it out but in the end it will take a lot more than that to oust FireFox or Internet Explorer from their perch.

Safari on Windows may be faster, maybe, but will it become the defacto standard just on that feature alone? Give me my FireFox plugins please.

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June CodeAway in Salt Lake City

I was finally able to attend my first CodeAway. It was very interesting. By time things got cookin there were about 10 people including a really cute munchkin. Ash and I talked about the new rev of BridesClub.com; Matt and I (and another guy whose name I can't remember, sorry) talked about NASCAR, and racing in general, and of course it's all lost in translation. Mike was pretty quiet. Laura talked about her latest DVD from Starling Fitness (I blogged about her here) and she was assembling mailers. Marleigh was there and I learned that she is so smart and will rule the world one day. And finally, still, no one knows what I do. I really need to frackin work on that. But that's another blog post.

When I first arrived I discovered that Mike and Laura have a cat, and bless his heart, I'm just allergic an no amount of medicine can fix it. I'm not sure why, I guess I need to get that problem resolved. Sorry Laura, I hope you weren't offended in anyway, but I really appreciate you not kicking me out.

There was lots of food, drink and good times. So, next month, I'll try and have a laptop and actually work on a coding project, or something similar to a coding project.

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