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Wednesday, October 25, 2006
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Tonight, I had dinner with Ethel - one of my best friends from college. We had a great time! She's a blast - so wry and so funny! I told her that I wished she would move to Anchorage!!!!!
Here's Ethel - hiding from the camera.
Ah - there she is!!!!!
9:12:03 PM 
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Speaking of connectivity issues, life on the wi-fi front has been pretty brutal here in Santa Monica. The hotel wireless is a tad flakey and the conference wireless network is totally overwhelmed.
As a result, my Outlook email application is crashing right and left. Microsoft Outlook 2003 is about as flakey as they come. It is really not at all robust on the wireless networking front - any little wireless blip that comes along causes the application to hang. And the really sucky thing is that it can take other MS Office applications such as Word or Excel down with it. Yes, it is true - I HATE Microsoft. Their software could be so much better. But instead they create this hideous hegemony - so that when your email program hangs, it takes Excel with it. Grrr....
5:44:13 PM
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Ooooh, two of my favorite blogs, Carol's and Pooh's are down. Both sites display a nasty "Internal Server Error, Error 500" screen.
Both are Blogger blogs. However, Isaac's blog which is also a blogger blog, is just fine. Hmmmm....
5:35:17 PM
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The first two days of the Digital Hollywood conference have been very very interesting. This is a high energy conference with a lot of smart aggressive folks. That being said, more than once, I feel like it's the dotcom boom déjà vu all over again. It's that same manic mindset with lots of postulating, visionarying, and venture capital looking for a home. However, this time around, at least some of what is discussed has actually been delivered and money is being made.
Required reading is The Long Tail. The Long Tail is the It Term and the frame of reference for this conference. The Long Tail has been on my book pile for the past few months. With not a lot of forethought, I decided to read it just before this conference - I thought it might be referenced once or twice and I wanted to be hip to what was going on. Lucky decision on my part.
Perhaps my favorite session so far was the Mobile Music session. Very bright articulate folks. My notes from that session consisted entirely of quotes:
- "There are two long tails. One consisting of consumers. The other consisting of a multitude of businesses. Some of those businesses have VC funding. Some have no funding at all - they're true startups."
- "There are companies that think they are businesses but they're really features that need to be bought by businesses."
- "Walk into a Starbucks next year, hear a song you like, punch a button, and the song is downloaded on to your next gen iPod."
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- "Apple is the big gorilla. They go to Starbucks and say, 'This is what we want to do.' and Starbucks says 'Where do you want the transmitter?'
- "A device hears a song you might like, the phone buzzes you and says 'Hey you might like this song, do you want me to find out more?'"
- "The film industry has leapfrogged the music industry in terms of rights management.
- "The environments/markets/niches that do the most infringing are the ones that should be embraced the most."
- "Anyone who can make money complaining, is going to complain."
8:15:00 AM
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