Combining, iClone, Moviestorm and other tools seamlessly and editing it together wonderfully while keeping the lighting, style, colour and theme all coherent, Phil "overman" Rice has produced something that, in my view, is at least as good as many things my children can watch on television.   more »

Yes, my very first experience with the Google G1 Android phone. if I was a highly skilled hardware reviewer, I would no doubt write a really good review   more »

The robots are coming, and they are going to be smarter, better, stronger, faster and harder than we are. Not only that, the network is going to know them, and they are going to partly or completely live in the network. The march of innovation is barely going to miss a step because of the Credit Crunch. I’m going to make sure I spread the word on the web that I love the idea of robots and distributed computing sentience. Because real soon now, it is going to want to know who its friends are. You might want stop and think about that. In a world where we have ubiquitous airborne broadband, high powered chips, massive data access, rapid advances in robotics, fantastic advances in embedded OS (Zebor), and new sensors and displays (see Penny AB) then we are on the very near edge of a massive, world changing revolution. It is inevitable, it does not have a keyboard and is not flat.   more »

Friends have been telling me for years that I need to hear J-P speak, so I was keen to get to this segment. What I was surprised by is that he is such a simple operational salesman. Straight forward box and licence shifting is a major part of his life. Probably the right way to get to the top in his job. His view is that impact on software is patchy and not predictable at the customer company level, and that the impact is being felt worldwide at about the same level across territories. With IT investment being 50% of most CEO’s decisions, this is a tough time, so the winner – if it is be Microsoft – will emerge from winning market share in a down cycle. CIOs are being told to cut budgets by 30%.   more »

Some small companies got toasted. I came away from the innovation session having realised that there were some amazingly clever venture capital companies with serious long-term investment profiles who were not only ready, but willing, fully capitalised, and in many ways determined, to buck the negative trend that seems to be emanating from places like Sequoia capital, and their ilk.   more »

Globalisation. Well, it seems like an old theme, but the events in the financial sector this week have made us all much more aware that we are in a small interconnected world. Given that, it seems amazingly appropriate that ETRE should have started talking about globalization 18 meetings ago. Here at the 19th ETRE, the conversations are all about how we - the entrepreneurs - deliver balance in that world. That balance is all about the cost of globalisation for citizens, for governments and for investors. Tim Draper, Rob Glaser, Travis Katz and others put some points to us and sometimes sang, and sometimes made us laugh.   more »