Mar 20, 02:11 pm: David Pogue at NTC

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What are the interesting technologies:

  1. VOIP. And a whole lot about Grand Central. And Google’s cell services.
  2. Voice to Text. Spinvox, Callwave. These are services that transcribe your messages as text and email them to you.
  3. Ala carte video. OnDemand video – regular shows that you watch when you want – not recorded and not pay-per-view. Things will get video to your TV.
  4. Web 2.0. (What’s that kid?) Puts on the human face. Creating a structure. Share and get info from people who don’t know each other. Ability to make loans to others. Microloans. Find and follow simmering issues. Copy right challenges are very real in this sharing world. Why? Content does not stay where you put it.

Overall:

  • A lot of demo of the technology, which is gee whiz and is good, but what’s the take away here for social benefit organizations (faster response times and convenience, sure, but what else)?
  • Funny guy.
  • So how could this be used in a disaster? Pass out phones to people — equipped w/ the grand central numbers that are linked to lines that can’t be accessed (like land lines in home and office) and then an ability to transcribe the messages so that you can pick them up in a variety of places — helping prolong the battery life of the mobile device (and potentially even forwarding to other people easily).
  • The ala carte video certainly allow for targeted to TV channels which could be an interesting thing. But, for the love of god, the idea of watching a nonprofit channel makes my teeth hurt just a little bit.
  • And web 2.0 can help tie together these bits so that you can find people/information/conversations.

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