Global Morning News – August 21, 2009
Here are some links to information Bradley Shende spoke about on Global Morning News August 21, 2009. Some great items for back-to-school that come in under $100 include (From BestBuy):Sony wireless headphone for the transit rider ($99.00)Sony’s Walkman Wearable MP3 player fuses headphones with a 2GB MP3 player into one sleek device that’s perfect for cruisin’ on the bus or skytrain or riding the new Canada Line. Its lightweight... [Read More...]
Bradley on Global Morning News
Global July 31 Summer is often about fixing things around the apartment, house, or cottage. Here are some great sites to help you learn how to do just about anything. http://www.wikihow.com/Cool-Yourself-Without-Air-Conditioning You can participate and actually edit the Wiki entries “One tried and true method is to wet your wrists and other pulse points with cold water, and then keep those spots cool by holding an ice cube wrapped in a face... [Read More...]
Google’s Wave – Microsoft’s Bing – big players, big changes
We’ve started doing a lot more in-house Voice-Over work at Media2o Productions (M2O). It’s really fun stuff. It’s also interesting that just as my recorded voice never sounds the same to me as it does to others – this seems to hold true for others doing VO work too. But, on to the big news – Google announced their latest innovation – Wave – today. Techcrunch has a great write up on it. If it’s half as... [Read More...]
Vancouver Massive Tech Show
The M2O crew took over part of the Vancouver Massive Tech Show at UBC’s downtown campus yesterday and had a blast. Jack Kao was running live-streaming cameras while I interviewed attendees and presenters by our booth. We were set up just to the left of the registration centre. We had the lite-bright, the fortune cookies and the live-streaming video. I think I interviewed more people in one day than I have in the last three months. Fun stuff. Vancouver’s... [Read More...]
Contest Winner says Thanks
We received a wonderful email from May Cheung thanking us for the Flip. She got into the spirit of things and used the Flip video camera to say thanks.Congratulations May – hope you get lots of use out of the camera. Tweet This Post Read More →
Can a Better Search Engine Save the Newspaper Business?
Newspapers from around the world are desperately trying to find ways to survive our shifting digital landscape and the UK’s Financial Times may be onto something. I’ve been playing around with their new Newssift Search Engine – and, although it’s still got some bugs to work out – I think it’s a great idea. They’ve developed their own Search Engine – Smarter Searches – the ability to refine your... [Read More...]
Selling in an Economic Downturn
M2O helped BCIT create their new Virtual Business Hub – check out http://www.bizhubcentral.ca/video/bcit-webinar http://www.bizhubcentral.ca/video/virtual-business-hub-webinar They’ve got a lot of really interesting lectures coming up. Tomorrow’s session is called: “Selling in an Economic Downturn” – something I’m sure we’d all like to know the secret to. If we learn any secrets - we’ll be sure... [Read More...]
Massive 2009 Vancouver
I was just checking out the Massive 2009 (April 1) speaker list. Lots of great speakers, including: friends of the blog – Tristan Jutras – founder of webspotter.com, Jennifer Lowther – Director of Social Media for 6S Marketing, and our very own Bradley Shende – founder of M2O . I’m anxious to hear what they all have to say about the changing digital landscape. Still, the keynote I’m most looking forward to is:... [Read More...]
Watchmen Movie Review
Well, another week has flown by and a lot of interesting things are happening in Vancouver’s digital media space. Thanks to great live blogging from Raul , I was able to catch some of the amazing panelists at the Women In Film Festival. A lot of innovative ideas – especially during these challenging times. Last night I checked out the Watchmen movie premiere and was really pleased. I am a HUGE fan and I think Zack Snyder did an amazing... [Read More...]