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Mat Noguchi, a developer at Bungie, gave me a tour of their new offices and talked about some of the challenges the development team has as they develop one of the most popular video games of all time: Halo.
Thank you very much to Mat, who met me very early in the morning to do the tour (they didn’t want anything they were working on to leak out).
Bill Gates on MTV? What the heck? I’ll record that on my Slingbox!
Last night on the Venture Voice podcast Six Apart founder Mena Trott announced a partnership with VideoEgg to add video capabilities to TypePad. (TypePad is where our book blog is hosted).
Microsoft just released a bunch of videos of our recent developer conference (PDC 05). They will only be up for a limited time (six months).
Russell brags about his new iPod. I guess we gotta start converting our videos so that Russell can watch them. It’s weird, though. When people show me their Nanos they usually show off their own personal photos and when people show me their portable media centers and now their video iPods (I’ve had a couple of people already show me theirs) they show off their home movies of their family. The strongest driver is still personal in this industry.
Ahh, fun, Nicholas Carr got tired of saying that IT is dead. So now he’s saying that Web 2.0 is “amoral.”
Oh, really? Maybe you should check out the Web 2.0 stuff that Brian Bailey is doing. He is putting HDTV videos of his church’s services up. And much more. And he has a blog.
But why let a little blog like Brian’s get in the way of a nice story? Hmmmm.
By the way, his church (Fellowship near Dallas) is doing the best video streaming in the industry. His “streaming video from scratch” posts are the bible for the video industry. Fellowship is the first church in the world to be totally HDTV.
See, even amoral geeks can learn something by going to church.
