For the Week…
BarCamp Vancouver is tonight. Should be a great event. Meet new people, learn new things, share what you learned - and heck, there will even be pizza and beer. How can anyone come up with something better?
Microsoft released some information about some of the video searching that it has been researching. Check outÂ? this post about it at TechCrunch. It’s just the start of big changes in search from Microsoft. I talked about it in a post earlier this month. There’s the 3D search, the deal with Facebook, and now video searching. The service is at beta.search.live.com. I’m not saying that Google has to watch out, but I still think people aren’t giving Microsoft and the Live initiative the credit it deserves, but they’ll discover soon enough that Microsoft is still a dominant force on the Internet.
Not that we’ve talked about media moving towards the Internet and companies tapping into their userbases to sell these types of services, or anything even remotely similar to thatÂ? (here, here, here, here, etc. - I’m sure you get the point, it’s a common theme for us).Â? Well, here’s a post with the detailsÂ? about theÂ? big, new deal for AOL.
It’s almost humourous (although people got hurt, so it isn’t really funny at all)Â? seeing Apple having to recall their laptops and batteries so soon after Dell had done the same thing. What’s interesting is that both sets of batteries seem to be from a Sony subsidiary, who will foot the bill for the recalls of both companies - almost 6 million batteries.
It was a great week so far, highlighted by the success of the nPost.com event Rob and I helped host on Tuesday. For everyone involved, it seemed to be a great event, but I did keep this little secret in the name of having music (which ended up being much too loud, didn’t it?). Hope you enjoy and are interested in Silicon Vancouver or the Silicon Valley North.