YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley - Interview

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Find out how Chad felt after meteoric success of YouTube in just 15 months to become a 200 million downloads a day blockbuster media company, bought by Google for $1.6bn. YouTube is now the world's largest TV station with over 400 million downloads a day. Impact of Web 2.0 online communtiies on marketing, consumer trust and branding. Viral videos - why they work. Lessons for every corporation wanting to be successful online. Google Zeitgeist CEO Summit 2007 - session part of Entertain Me.

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Future Digital Broadcasting, Media and BBC

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You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube videoGoogle Zeitgeist CEO summit 2007 - Mark Thompson, Director General BBC in session chaired by Dr Patrick Dixon, looking at BBC online future. Future of traditional TV and radio broadcasting, new channels, digital distribution, video on demand, cable and satellite broadcasting. Public broadcastors and competition with private media companies - falling advertising revenues. Future BBC online strategy and impact on other media companies - state subsidies and unfair competition? Future of schedules and programme commissioning.

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Virtual Management

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You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video"Virtual Management means faster decisions" - Video

  • Virtual Management is about managing people at a distance using technology.
  • Virtual Management can produce travel cost reductions of up to 50%.
  • Virtual Management is a high risk strategy unless corporations are committed.
  • Virtual Management means maintaining close working relationships with colleagues in many locations

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Virtual Teams - Global Leadership

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You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video"Virtual Teams" - Belgacom ICT Event 2007

Old team management models are: "if in doubt, go travel to sort it out". But this is highly inneficient in a ralidly growing global organisation. Many corporations are at the limit of what they can manage without huge structural changes, unless they develop a different way of working altogether. Virtual Teams are about managing people at a distance using technology. The office of the future.

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New Technology, Consumer Lifestyles, Business Strategy

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You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video"Future is about emotion - not just technology" - video 2007.

The impact of next-generation technology on personal and business life. How RFID and other innovation is driving a new wave of change. Good and bad use of technology. Winners and losers for the future. Interview with Patrick Dixon on Monday, May 16, 2005 - before keynote speech for IBS - see slides and video

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Technophobic CEOs

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You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video"How technology companies fail executives" - ICT 2007

CEOs of the world's largest companies are struggling to keep pace with the impact of digital technology and many are being left behind, placing their corporations at risk in the medium to longer term. Their own senior teams also lack basic IT skills and understanding, without which they cannot steer their corporations into the next millennium. Despite this, corporations are failing to address the problem.

This report was featured in The Times 14 December 1998.

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Web TV - ARCHIVE 1997

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Hong Kong Telecom said recently it could spend up to $10 billion over 10 years on its interactive television service. A soft launch is scheduled for July, while the full scale launch is scheduled for October. Hong Kong Telecom said it has already invested $200 million in the venture. The service would offer video-on-demand, home shopping and home banking and allow customers to use normal phone lines to send and receive information to the TV screens. The Strategis Group study says, "Internet subscriptions revenue in Asia/Pacific region is forecast to grow from $2.9 billion in 1996 to nearly $14 billion by 2001". Source: Interactive Video News, Vol.5 Issue 6

Archive material 1997 - historical interest.

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WAP - Truth after Hype - Video

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WAP was supposed to change the world for mobile users. Discover the reality.

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Speech Recognition - 100 words per minute - Video

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Video - 100 words per minute - watch video of demo using Dragon NaturallySpeaking live with no editing. As an author, I have used speech recognition to help write books and have also used it for e-mail. The biggest limitation is still processor speed. Having said that, it always catches up in the end and does produce text amazingly quickly if you learn to speek clearly.

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Why WAP doesn't work - Video

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(Archive 2001)

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Videolinking - live demo - Video

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Session unrehearsed - genuine reflection of personal videoconferencing (1999).

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Virtual People - Human Resources

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You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video"Practical values in virtual working" - Video. 

Most new technology applications fail to achieve what was promised because of very simple human factors. Interview 4 April 2000

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