CES 2009 Back Channel Video from 1-7 off to Cntrstg

January 14, 2009cesTodd Cochrane

Each day during CES we would leave the Monte Carlo after I had processed the Primary Video coverage for our Pick of the day because the bandwidth in the Monte Carlo was so beyond horrible!

The Blogger Cntrstg venue was a place we could go work and have access to amazing bandwidth, food, beverages and social time with other bloggers.

In this back channel segment which was shot with inexpensive cameras from Samsung it show us leaving the Monte Carlo and heading to the Wynn hotel where Cntrstg was held.

We Spent a lot of time in Taxis throughout the week, probably well over $500.00 in cab fares to get between different venues. The back channel coverage is our attempt to show you what it takes to cover CES along with the additional events like Show Stoppers, Digital Experience and CES Unveiled.

Big Thank You to Cntrstg and HP!

January 14, 2009cesTodd Cochrane

I want to extend a huge thank you to the folks at Buzz Corps who organized Cntrstg at CES 2009 and a big huge thanks to the folks at HP and the other sponsors who stepped up with a huge amount of cash to make the Cntrstg venue available.

Our team from TechPodcasts.com pushed over 30 gigs of Video content that is being watched by 100’s of thousands of people. We would not have been able to do this without the venue.

The venue makes it possible for the average blogger and new media creator to push media like other big blogging sites and mainstream media. We could not have had effective show coverage without your support

The folks from Buzz Corps where the most gracious host and did a lot of work to pull this event off. I can only hope that companies step up in a big way in 2010 to make the Cntrstg venue happen again.

The team from TechPodcasts.com that was there to cover CES 2009 is hugely appreciative. You all made us all feed like Rock Stars!

You can very well know what computer company (HP) I am going to be buying PC’s from this year!

Todd, Andy M, Jeffrey & Andy B

GNC-2009-01-13 #442 Post CES wrap up and Regular Tech Podcast

January 14, 2009PodcastTodd Cochrane

A day late on the show but if I did it last night I would have been a bumbling idiot. Huge thanks to Andy B for the help in Vegas he is now Super Ohana :) and we have a idea for a movie!! Are you a independent film producer.. (Seriously) Lot’s of Tech, Voicemail Feedback and Show comments.

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Microsoft Security Update
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CES 2009 Tech Podcast Network Back Channel Coverage

January 13, 2009PodcastTodd Cochrane

I will be putting up a permanent page with the Back Channel content here in a few days but I wanted to make this available on the front page for a few more days till I get a permanent page online.

I will start releasing the product interviews in the next several days but for now you can review all of the behind the scenes coverage of the show which concluded Sunday.

Note: The back channel content is content that was shot on the fly and is not at all edited and is designed to give you a look at what it takes to cover the consumer Electronics Show.

For sale: You Tube front page?

January 12, 2009internetTodd Cochrane

David Sarno from the LA Times has spotted a couple of times that video’s have appeared in You Tube’s “most viewed” list that do not deserve to be there. In both cases the video’s that appeared had less than 10% of the views of other videos in the list. Also in both cases multiple entries from the same publisher were incorrectly in the top viewed list.

While You Tube has claimed that it was due to a glitch in the system. However the videos involved in both cases were advertisements. One for a perfume company and the other from a new movie with the multiple videos being different versions of the ads. It does seem suspicioius that both occurances of a “glitch” would involve ads rather than other regualar content.

In fairness, two occurances are not conclusive proof. There is also multiple ways that You Tube can put paid content on its frontpage in the form of ads and featured content. We expect ads on web-sites, but we our level of truxt in the site is directly proportional to how easy it is to tell those ads from real content. If You Tube does get found to be inserting paid content unfairly into its “top” lists it will likely create an uproar similar to “pay-per-post”.

A lot of attention will no doubt now be focussed on the top viewed results over the next couple of weeks.

GNC-2009-01-11 #441 Day 4 Pick of the Day from CES

January 12, 2009PodcastTodd Cochrane

Tech Podcast Network Day 4 Coverage of the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show Coverage. The Pick of the day came from Kodak which was a pretty big surprise. The show has wrapped and I am headed home. The hard work begins now with the production of all of the interview videos shot on the pro-camera.

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