To all the "Likes" --- Thanks for all the feedback from Day 1 notes.... Again, I'll keep my notes here.
- Jay Cuthrell
I am going to try showing up early today and try for a seat up front (again). Wired Ethernet at a conference of this size is quite alluring.
- Jay Cuthrell
heh. only one other person in line at the doors... much lighter in the early bird category today.
- Jay Cuthrell
from BuddyFeed
ah yes, the tell tale sign of not sleeping properly... deja vu
- Jay Cuthrell
Let me just say.... the bandwidth is still phenomenal... I've been checking and it's averaging 80Mbps/40Mbps today. Wiline is the shizzle. This was yesterday on a spot check http://friendfeed.com/qthrul...
- Jay Cuthrell
Good for rrripple. Time is the best organization for media that documents your doings. Glubble switched from albums to timelines earlier this year. And of course my site is time-centric.
- Bruce Lewis
KRISPY KREME IN THE HOUSSSSSSE!!!!!!!!!!!! NC REPRESENT!!!!
- Jay Cuthrell
Jason has arranged for Krispy Kreme donuts and coffee to be available to ALL attendees. Nice!
- Jay Cuthrell
Jason of the Argonauts fame.... golden fleece and what not
- Jay Cuthrell
Two after parties tonight: after party then the after after party.... at 5A5
- Jay Cuthrell
Conference is going to start at some point... the announcements are going out now.
- Jay Cuthrell
Demo Pit Picks will be two companies again today -- nice format change considering it was a one winner takes all prior to the change yesterday.
- Jay Cuthrell
I'm waiting for the this is not Basecamp moment
- Jay Cuthrell
Ah.... very nice approach vs. having to download -- it's Air so everything is inline.
- Jay Cuthrell
Quorum building and teaming with checkoff on items
- Jay Cuthrell
I'd love to see what the system resources are for the Air app
- Jay Cuthrell
Okay, that's slick. Admittedly, I'm not a designer. I'll defer to the judges on this one entirely.
- Jay Cuthrell
So, this is a labor of love/hate in this case.
- Jay Cuthrell
Cool, tuned in from Amsterdam
- Jacob
from Android
The first pitch didn't include a statement to their own business model -- and have opted to take it in the Q&A portion. They didn't use all their time either -- ended 1 minute early.
- Jay Cuthrell
Artifacts are stored in S3. Smart... but wondering if this is LAN friendly i.e. localized cache or volume stub assignments to mitigate the party upload/download.
- Jay Cuthrell
The creative market is being questioned.... interesting
- Jay Cuthrell
(sidebar: one of the comments about Demo Pit was how companies will say they are for everything and anyone vs. -- yet get the same type critique when they say they have a niche)
- Jay Cuthrell
The word "island" has been thrown down.
- Jay Cuthrell
Okay, maybe I can't even defer to judges on this one. I'm wondering if this would be different if there was a creative on the judge panel -- or if that is even realistic. :)
- Jay Cuthrell
The coat the guy driving the demo made me think lab coat. Lab coat as in laboratory. Not sure if need new glasses or wearing a white jacket is hip.
- Jay Cuthrell
compare/corrolate of data --- quick comparison of metrics -- not sparklines
- Jay Cuthrell
Wifi on the stage... I think a faraday cage for the iphone stage is a good idea for next time... few demos have been stable on that network for some reason
- Jay Cuthrell
Nice touch... the Beatles RockBand ad showing
- Jay Cuthrell
filter on Facebook is worth checking out the app --- it's very light mode like
- Jay Cuthrell
ahhh... the drag/drop and growl works for their demo... mine crashed :)
- Jay Cuthrell
the auto shorten with bit.ly is clever
- Jay Cuthrell
and mapquest link was full length for AIM
- Jay Cuthrell
20M desktop and mobile users on AIM
- Jay Cuthrell
that means 20M potential Twitter and Facebook clients
- Jay Cuthrell
ah, the mental illness punchline... better delivered this time and there was laughter
- Jay Cuthrell
difference this time -- serious topic handling vs. a reference to exploitation (direct) of those with a mental state lending to a mundane or repetitive task
- Jay Cuthrell
this movie has a subliminal encoding that taps the deeper core of the occipital lobe forcing you to close your eyes and breathe more slowly... drifting... deeper.... deeper...
- Jay Cuthrell
millions and millions and millions of users
- Jay Cuthrell
youngest presenter today if not ever at TC50
- Jay Cuthrell
Cool! Raleigh is on the places page.
- Jay Cuthrell
This is a pretty compelling demo so far but I'm deferring to the judges to weigh in on what this is or isn't in terms of other analytics that tap into streams for brand tracking.
- Jay Cuthrell
Pete Cashmore is alpha dog of the Insttant screen... pervasive... showing up everywhere on it
- Jay Cuthrell
this might indicate there is no true "rise" per se
- Jay Cuthrell
ahh.... they said they "remove the noise" --- smart addition to the pitch
- Jay Cuthrell
Scoble likes it. That kid is too young for Scotch.
- Jay Cuthrell
challenge from Scoble -- engagement scores vs. followers
- Jay Cuthrell
measurement and fuzzy vs cotton vs opening additional questions
- Jay Cuthrell
important point -- sarcasm on Twitter is hard to detect
- Jay Cuthrell
private label archive.org approach with controls and searching inside the history
- Jay Cuthrell
challenges that judges will bring up most likely.... dynamics, personalization, and other unqiue one to one notions and interstitials of third parties
- Jay Cuthrell
oh... and some guy named Chamillionaire -- huge in country and western I'm told
- Jay Cuthrell
I remember hearing something to the effect of Chamillionaire being the first artist to truly grasp the impact of licensing ringtones
- Jay Cuthrell
the demo on stage is showing a lot of UI squish... makes me wonder what kind of monitors are being used vs the lack of HD or wide format projectors for venues -- there is probably a market in there somewhere for the vendors of projection to make this happen by 2010
- Jay Cuthrell
the real estate is palpable now when considering the screen size of the actual, well, screens...
- Jay Cuthrell
judge body language update... I think coffee is in order... long day effect
- Jay Cuthrell
1M to 11M of Webmail/Facebook/Twitter overlap -- neat stat
- Jay Cuthrell
domain.com vs. twitter.com/domain discussion begins
- Jay Cuthrell
we are in critique of pitch mode... can't get to the product just yet
- Jay Cuthrell
what is the point of doing this if it isn't drawing in on the terms a company is comfortable with --- some might take exception with this depending on your view of a customer, company and that role
- Jay Cuthrell
showing signs that this makes companies uncomfortable
- Jay Cuthrell
another pearl "gotta be Simon Cowell too" -- Chamillionaire
- Jay Cuthrell