June 30, 2011, Connections, Santa Clara, CA—Eric Bruno from Verizon described the drivers for innovation and changes in user behaviors resulting from those changes. Providers have to connect to people’s lives by providing new product and services. The basic rules are to look at things that people do every day and make them better or [...]
On Monday July 18, 2011 the Churchill Club sponsored an extraordinary evening of discussion on the impact of social media on Hollywood’s dyed in the wool approach to talent management. Entitled A Talent for Talent, Kara Swisher, Co-executive editor of All Things Digital moderated a conversation with Ari Emanuel, co-CEO of William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, [...]
June 28, 2011, Creative Storage Conference, Culver City, CA—a Panel looked at Storage for Content Delivery. Paul Rosenthal from CSU-LA moderated the panel. Members included Allan Ignatin from Bitspeed, Michelle Munson from Aspera, David Sallak from EMC Isilon, David Trumbo from Media Technology Market Partners, and Vivian Sultan from CSU-LA. Ignatin opened by discussing big [...]
June 28, 2011, Creative Storage Conference, Culver City, CA– Larry Jordan, producer and host of Digital Production Buzz, talked about “why do filmmakers and IT pros have trouble talking to each other” in his keynote address. There is a major disconnect between filmmakers, who are not technology experts, and the IT market, which considers computers [...]
June 28, 2011, Creative Storage Confernce, Culver City, CA—Saker Klippsten, head of engineering and IT at Zoic Studios, described the changes in equipment at their studio due to the change to file-based production. The hardware and software in their operations has evolved dramatically in the last 4 or 5 years. Since 2005, their headcount and [...]
June 28, 2011, Creative Storage Conference, Culver City CA—A panel looked at the Storage Challenges Of Video Editing. Larry Jordan from Digital Production Buzz moderated the panel. Panel members included Fred Winette from DataDirect Networks, Komal Pal from Intel, Eric de la Inglesia from Gridiron Systems, Alex Grossman from Active Storage, Matthew Rehrer from Harmonic, [...]
April 2, 2011 – San Francisco, CA – The WonderCon show this year featured both traditonal print comics and a large variety of digital comics. All of the major publishers have produced some sort of reader for digital comics. These readers have appeared on multiple platforms including windows, Mac OS, Android phones and tables and [...]
April 2, 2011 – San Francisco, CA – At Wondercon this year, the trend of comic book characters being the driver for film, gaming, television and collectibles was still strong. The big stories were about Green Lantern, Thor, Human Target, Doctor Who and Godzilla. Wondercon Doctor Who Panel One of the largest groups [...]
April 5, 2011 – Livermore, CA – We recently had a chance to review the new time managment game on the iphone/ipod touch platform from G5 Entertainment – Jane’s Zoo. This multi-level single person game is one of the new additions to their gaming line of object search & time management titles. The game is [...]
January 15, 2011 – Anaheim, CA – This years NAMM show featured its first ever tablet and smart phone pavillion. This featured over a dozen companies with software for music synthesis, playback and training on the iPhone/iPad platform and also for netbooks/laptops and tablets. Most of the companies were planning to be on the Android [...]
