Yesterday at Adobe’s Engage event I got a look at the new eBay desktop. If you’re a buyer on eBay you should check it out. Here’s the cell-phone video of the session I filmed. It just shipped this week and is definitely nicer than the Web site.
Is Sun Microsystems going to compete with Amazon’s Web services with MySQL?
February 26, 2008 By
Notice what Jonathan Schwartz says when I ask him whether he’s going to compete with Amazon’s Web Services like S3.
There are a few parts to this interview because AT&T’s 3G went down on me and then Qik updated its servers. Qik is working on a fix for both problems, they really are great about debugging my issues with the service.
Funny enough I recorded the last part of the interview on my Nokia N95, tried to upload it to Google Video, and it failed.
So, I switched to Viddler and it succeeded. Plus Viddler has more features than Google video. So, Google, you really need to fix your own bugs. Your service really sucks.
Anyway, part I, part II, and most of the interview is in part III, where MySQL’s CEO, Marten Mickos, shows up.
You interview Sun Microsystems CEO about MySQL
February 26, 2008 By
I’ll be interviewing Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems CEO, this morning sometime between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m.
I’ll be using Qik on my cell phone instead of a professional camera. Why? Because then you can join in. See, if you are watching my live stream and you leave a comment I see that on my phone WHILE I’m filming. All of this live. So, I can bring you into the conversation in a way that other video systems just can’t do.
So, watch my Twitter account (I’ll send a Twitter message as soon as the Interview starts). There is a possibility it won’t work, though, because I might not be able to get a good cell phone connection at Sun’s headquarters. If that happens I’ll fall back to an audio interview, which, unfortunately won’t be interactive in this way.
What’s on the agenda? Sun’s acquisition of MySQL.
UPDATE: TechMeme has more on this morning’s news and I’ll have an interview up shortly. The Qik one didn’t work out as planned cause the wireless kept having troubles and also because Qik was upgrading its servers right in the middle of our interview.
Live video from Adobe Engage event
February 25, 2008 By
I’ve been live streaming all morning from the Adobe Engage event. Here’s a schedule. This is an event that Adobe’s holding to launch new versions of Adobe AIR and Flex and to showcase some developers who’ve built stuff using those two technologies.
So, here’s the video from this morning’s stuff — if you have only time for one, watch the New York Times or the MFG.com videos. They were the most impressive to me.
Adobe Executives. Shantanu Narayen, CEO (Qik video, part I, part II, part III); Kevin Lynch, CTO (Qik video, part I, part II). Sometimes the phone gets kicked off, sorry.
New York Times showing off their cool Shifd, which shipped just last night (Qik video, part I, part II)
Carnet Williams, Jason Ricci showing off Sprout, cool tool for building Flash/Flex sites (Qik video)
Russ Fleming, Matthew Maher showing off a cool new package tracker from FedEx (Qik video, Part I, part II)
Mitch Free showing off the sexiest enterprise app I’ve seen, MFG.com (Qik video, part I, part II)
Chris Shipley and Kevin Lynch having a conversation (Chris runs the Demo conference) (Qik video).
More will be up after lunch at http://www.qik.com/scobleizer.
VMWare rocks…
February 25, 2008 By
As I get around and talk to geeks I would tell them that I’ve been using Parallels so that I could run Windows on top of my Macintosh’s OSX operating system, but have had some troubles with crashing and other things. The answer back has been quite consistent: that I should use VMWare’s Fusion.
So, I finally gave in. And, damn, it is nicer and faster. You can even drag VM’s from operating system to operating system (very useful if, for instance, you’re a software developer and need to test stuff out on many different OS’s and then you want to move those OS’s around to other machines).
Highly recommended.
By the way, these things let you run OSX and Windows together. If you’re scared of moving to the Mac, this should finish that argument off.
Spending the day at Adobe
February 25, 2008 By
Adobe just shipped its AIR technology and I’ll be hanging out at the developer & press event to see what else Adobe has up its sleeves. If they don’t ban video cameras, I’ll try to get some Qik videos up on my Qik site.
