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Hollywood2020 Looks at Variety's Top 10 Innovators

Variety's 10 Innovators to Watch panel presented by BMW

Featuring:

Brent Weinstein: Chief Executive Officer, 60 Frames

60Frames

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Dr. Richard R. Green: President and Chief Executive Officer, CableLabs

CableLabs Home

Founded in 1988 by members of the cable television industry, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (CableLabs) is a non-profit research and development ... www.cablelabs.com/ - 9k - Cached

Ronny Golan & Ariel Napchi: Co-Founders, Hiro

HIRO

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Jules Urbach: Founder & Chief Executive Officer, JulesWorld LLC.

When Moore Meets Metcalfe
Forbes, NY - 4 hours ago
In Los Angeles, Jules Urbach of Jules World has launched spectacular new real time graphics engines that outperform existing technology by a factor of ...

Michael Malcolm: Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Kaleidscape

Kaleidescape - Management

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Christophe Abric & Vincent Moon: Founders, La Blogoteque

French video site stakes claim to indie cool

Helmed by Parisian producers Chryde (aka Christophe Abric) and Vincent Moon (aka Mathieu Saura), Take-Away Shows began in 2006 and quickly evolved to ... www.tiscali.co.uk/.../technology/feeds/story-template-reuters.html - 44k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

Richard Kerris: Chief Technology Officer, Lucasfilms

>> VFXWorld / Feature Articles <<

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Bhaskar Roy, Ramu Sankara & Nikolay Abkairov: Co-founders, Qik

QIK | Streaming video right from your phone

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Tim Sassoon: President & Creative Director, Sassoon Film Design

Featured Artist, Tim Sassoon & Johnathan Banta of Sassoon Film Design

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Jenova Chen: Creative Director and Co-Founder & Kellee Santiago: President and Co-Founder, thatgamecompany

thatgamecompany

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Moderated by:

David Cohen Thompson On Hollywood: The Digital Future: Are These the Good Old ... blogger note fascinating story by Cohen...

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& Daniel Frankel

Daniel Frankel has contributed to Variety since 2001, joining its staff in January 2004. He has covered a wide range of media business topics, specializing in home entertainment for Variety sister publication Video Business (where he served as senior editor from 2001-2004) and TV syndication for VNU publication Mediaweek (senior editor from 2000-2001). His 11-year publishing career also includes stops as a staff writer for the entertainment news Website E! Online, an associate editor for national consumer magazine Men's Fitness, and a sports writer for the now-defunct daily newspaper Oxnard Press-Courier. He lives with his wife, Vivian, and son, Kellen, in the historic West Adams area of Los Angeles in a really old house

, Variety's Associate Feature Editors

Variety's top 10 Innovators @ Digital Hollywood Panel by BMW

My colleague and long time pal Victor Harwood just sent a notice about an amazing new panel at Digital Hollywood -- here are the details (blogged by Joyce [email protected] www.hollywood2020.blogs.com):

This event is open to all Digital Hollywood attendees. It will be held on the Exhibit Hall Stage, Tuesday, May 6^th at 3:30 PM followed by the End-of-Day Poolside Reception, Hosted by Variety and BMW

Variety's 10 Innovators to Watch panel presented by BMW

Featuring:

Brent Weinstein: Chief Executive Officer, 60 Frames

Dr. Richard R. Green: President and Chief Executive Officer, CableLabs

Ronny Golan & Ariel Napchi: Co-Founders, Hiro

Jules Urbach: Founder & Chief Executive Officer, JulesWorld LLC.

Michael Malcolm: Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Kaleidscape

Christophe Abric & Vincent Moon: Founders, La Blogoteque

Richard Kerris: Chief Technology Officer, Lucasfilms

Bhaskar Roy, Ramu Sankara & Nikolay Abkairov: Co-founders, Qik

Tim Sassoon: President & Creative Director, Sassoon Film Design

Jenova Chen: Creative Director and Co-Founder & Kellee Santiago: President and Co-Founder, thatgamecompany

Moderated by:

David Cohen & Daniel Frankel, Variety's Associate Feature Editors

This event is open to all Digital Hollywood attendees. It will be held on the Exhibit Hall Stage, Tuesday, May 6^th at 3:30 PM followed by the End-of-Day Poolside Reception, Hosted by Variety and BMW

Digital Hollywood is the conference where everything you do, everything you say and everything you see means business. Get Serious! Be an Industry Momentum Leader. Registration will continue online until Friday at Noon. Thereafter, registration will open on Monday, May 5^th at the Renaissance Hollywood. Click here http://www.digitalhollywood.com/LASpring08Agenda.html

HARRIS POLL SAYS GAY & LESBIANS READ MORE BLOGS

Just caught a glimpse of his news via my colleage KenRadio.com -- here is the update on the Harris Poll that says Gay and Lesbians read more blogs blogged by Joyce Schwarz, Hollywood2020.blogs.com.

According to the sumamry on www.advocate.com -- Fifty-one percent of gay and lesbian adults who use the Internet regularly read blogs, while just 36% of heterosexuals do, according to a Harris Interactive and Witeck-Combs Communications poll conducted in March.

A nationwide survey of 2,733 adults shows that 27% of LGBT Web users have posted a comment on a blog in the last month, in contrast with 13% of heterosexuals. Additionally, 21% of gays and lesbians said they written their own blog in the last month, compared with 7% of their straight counterparts.

Gays and Lesbians Read Blogs More than Heterosexuals
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GAY & LESBIANS -- more into social networking than heterosexuals too -- 42 percent G & L and 32 percent heterosexuals.

* 28% of gay and lesbian adults reported reading news and current issue blogs, compared with 19% of heterosexuals.

* 26% of gay and lesbian adults also read entertainment and pop culture blogs, compared with 11% of heterosexuals.

* With the heightened interest in this year’s electoral contests, 23% of gay and lesbian adults said they read political blogs. Just 14% of heterosexual adults reported reading political blogs.

Apart from blogs, gay and lesbian adults also participate in other online activities more than heterosexuals:

Asked how often they send instant messages to friends or other people, for reasons other than work-related tasks, in a typical month, 25% of gay adult men said they send instant messages at least once a day. Just 15% of heterosexual adult men said so.

* 50% of gay and lesbian adults said they have sent instant messages (IMs) in the last month, compared with just one-third (34%) of heterosexual adults.

The trend is similar in the case of online communities and dating websites:

* Most gay adult men (57%) online said they are a member of a social-networking website, compared with 37% of heterosexual men.

* 42% gay and lesbian adults said they have visited an online social community or network in the last month, compared with 32% of heterosexuals.

* 26% of gay adult men reported visiting a dating or match-up site in the last month, compared with 9% of heterosexual male adults.

Gays and Lesbians Report Higher Blog Use
Advocate.com, CA - Apr 21, 2008
... regularly read blogs, while just 36% of heterosexuals do, according to a Harris Interactive and Witeck-Combs Communications poll conducted in March. ...

THIS NOT SO LITTLE PIGGY -- From Coachella

Okay, so you fans of my blog Hollywood2020.blogs.com know already that Coachella is a favorite post of mine and yours...so how could I NOT cover the 'lost and found' story of the Coachella pig this week, blogged by Joyce [email protected].

Click on thumbnail to see the 'release' of the pig at the concert.

Click on thumbnail to see pix of THE PIG on Youtube.com -- nope you have to go find him/her yourself No link.

Click on thumbnail and you can almost see the giant pig -- at LAist.com -- miss the whole story -- well, lets just say the wolf did not blow the house down! BUt PIGS DO FLY -- especially at Coachella! js.

CINEMA NOW LAUNCHES -- Order movies via mobile

As we said yesterday, we can barely read the news about digital media/mobile media this week, let alone blog it-- there is just SOOOO much...blogged by Joyce Schwarz, www.hollywood2020.blogs.com. Here's the latest press release making headlines-- order movies via your cell phone now...nope it hasn't happened before...and look at it this way -- great app of mobile commerce!

Below pictured-- screengrab of the Cinema Now website...fyi

Press Release

CinemaNow and uVuMobile Launch First Service to Instantly Deliver Large Catalogue of Movies to Mobile Phone Users
Tuesday April 29, 12:01 am ET

Partnership Enables Consumers to Watch Trailers and Download Movies to Consumer Electronic Devices Directly from Their Mobile Phones

MARINA DEL REY, Calif. & ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CinemaNow (www.cinemanow.com), the digital entertainment innovator in delivering high-quality Hollywood movies and TV shows across multiple platforms, and uVuMobile™, (OTCBB:UVUM - News), a mobility software and services company that offers content providers, carriers, and entertainment brands a full suite of products to effectively deliver video and audio content to mobile handsets, announced today that they have integrated their technologies to offer a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) service that allows consumers to preview movie trailers and remotely download full-length movies to compatible consumer electronic devices directly from mobile phones.

uvumobile.com -- will work with Cinema Now to enable people to order movies from their mobile-- not to watch on mobile but at home etc. interesting mobile commerce play.

DIGITAL MEDIA RECAP NEWS April 28 @ Hollywood2020.blogs.com

Seems like some weeks go by and there is nothing really radically new in the digital media world...blogged by Joyce Schwarz, author & new media expert at www.hollywood2020.blogs.com. '

AND then there are days like April 28 -- today-- so many developments that I'll just link you to some of the headlines on Google.com and you can delve into what's new-- and I'll cover some of this at my upcoming seminar/webinar at DIGITAL HOLLYWOOD and in a spring, 2008 digital newsletter version of HOLLYWOOD2020.blogs.com that I'll hand out that day!.

HEADLINES FOR DIGITAL MEDIA NEWS, April 28, 2008 courtesy of www.google.com news, sorted by Joyce Schwarz, www.hollywood2020.blogs.com:

NEWS.com.au

GRAND THEFT AUTO -- EVEN WITH A HOOKER IN THE FRONT SEAT -- makes news or maybe because of it? For Gamers, the Craving Won’t Quit New York Times - 57 minutes ago By MATT RICHTEL SAN FRANCISCO - The troubled economy and rising prices for food and gas won’t keep fast-twitch video gamers from splurging on their latest must-have diversion, Grand Theft Auto IV. 'Grand Theft' reviews gives Take-Two a boost CNET News.com Killer 'Grand Theft Auto IV' game spree to begin AFP Wired News - Afterdawn.com - USA Today - G4 TV all 521 news articles » JOYCE ASKS -- whatever happened to MICKEY MOUSE????

'GTA IV' and 'Mario' will have a lock on video-game sales USA Today - 1 hour ago By Mike Snider, USA TODAY With the arrival in stores this week of long-awaited titles Grand Theft Auto IV and Mario Kart Wii, the already hot video game industry is headed for the stratosphere. Shippin' Out April 27-May 2: Grand Theft Auto IV GameSpot Mario Kart for Wii Races off of Retail Shelves GameSHOUT Variety - Punch Jump - Ars Technica - Wired News B Direct Traffic Media Google Shows Off Advanced Image Search Technology PC World - 6 hours ago The paper, titled "PageRank for Product Image Search," (PDF) was published by Yushi Jing and Shumeet Baluja of Google. In it they talk about using PageRank to analyze the "visual link structure" that can be created among a group of similar images. Google trumpets PageRank for pics Register A Google Prototype for a Precision Image Search New York Times eFluxMedia - Search Engine Land - TechCrunch - Marketing Vox News all 30 news articles » SO GAMES ARE GOOD FOR YOUR MOOD??  Francisco Chronicle How I Played Games for Science Wired News - 11 hours ago By Susan Arendt April 28, 2008 | 10:46:36 AMCategories: Casual Gaming A new study conducted by researchers at East Carolina University suggests that playing casual games like Peggle or Bejeweled can have a significant impact on a player's mood or ... PopCap-Underwritten Study Shows Casual Games Positively Affecting Mood Gamasutra Study Shows Games Help Reduce Stress GigaOm San Francisco Chronicle - Escapist Magazine - Digitaltrends.com - Earthtimes (press release) all 16 news articles » REACH OUT AND TOUCH SOMEONE -- or FEEL? bit-tech.net Haptic Feedback Coming To iPhone? Wired News - 16 hours ago By Charlie Sorrel April 28, 2008 | 6:17:55 AMCategories: iPhone, Rumors Haptic feedback would go a long way to silencing complaints about the iPhone's on-screen keyboard. The latest buzz on the Iphone Inquirer Mobile Content Bits: Greystripe Ad Results; LG Slifter Sweepstakes ... Washington Post RCRNews.com - Techtree.com - CNET News.com - everythingiCafe.com all 37 news articles » UT CAN IT TELL REAL FROM REEL?

ASIMO HUMANOID ROBOT @ DETROIT SYMPHONY

ASSIMO HONDA's HUMANOID ROBOT WILL CONDUCT IMPOSSIBLE DREAM TO OPEN CONCERT WITH YO-YO MA MAY 13....according to the press release today:

Honda's ASIMO humanoid robot will focus attention on the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's (DSO) nationally acclaimed music programs for young people in Detroit by conducting the orchestra as it performs "Impossible Dream" to open a special concert performance with renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma May 13. Honda hopes ASIMO's appearance will draw attention to the DSO's nationally acclaimed youth music programs, and particularly DSO's effort to encourage and support involvement of children in Detroit. (Photo: Business Wire)

AND from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra we find this info :
Honda is providing the DSO with a gift of more than $1 million for the concert and for an outreach program.

About ASIMO -- from the Honda website:

Honda engineers began developing a humanoid robot in 1986  they created an advanced humanoid robot able to function in real-world environments. ASIMO made its U.S. debut February 14, 2002, when it rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange . The latest version of ASIMO includes the ability to run and  debuted in North America at the Consumer Electronics Show, January 2007

WHERE DOES IT LIVE:  ASIMO is permanently installed in Disneyland's Innoventions attraction where the live 15-minute Say 'Hello' to Honda's ASIMO demonstration take places several times daily in the Honda ASIMO Theatre.

ASIMO's Web site : asimo.honda.comn

BOOK EXPO SPECIAL EVENTS SIGN UP NOW

BEA: BOOK EXPO AMERICA Slated for Los Angeles May 29- June 1 -- blogged by Joyce Schwarz, email: [email protected].

Special Events include:

FRIDAY, May 30, 2008

8:00AM – 9:30AM  CHILDREN'S BOOK & AUTHOR BREAKFAST (Concourse Hall)
Presented in cooperation with the Children's Booksellers and Publishers Committee [A cooperative committee of the American Booksellers Association (ABA), Association of Booksellers for Children (ABC), and the Children's Book Council (CBC)] this opening-day breakfast will feature Sherman Alexie, author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers); Judy Blume, author of Going, Going, Gone! with the Pain and the Great One (Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers);  and Neil Gaiman, author of The Graveyard Book (HarperCollins).  Eoin Colfer, author of Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox (Hyperion Books for Children/Disney Book Group) will be the Master of Ceremonies.  Introductory Remarks by Jon Scieszka, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.

General Admission: $15.
Breakfast Admission: $35.

SATURDAY, May 31, 2008

8:00AM – 9:30AM  SATURDAY BOOK & AUTHOR BREAKFAST (Concourse Hall)
Saturday morning will feature Magic Johnson, author of an untitled book on business(Crown Business), Philippa Gregory, author of The Other Queen (Touchstone/Simon&Schuster), and Andre Dubus III, author of The Garden of Last Days: A Novel (W.W. Norton).  Alec Baldwin, author of A Promise To Ourselves: A Journey Through Divorce and Fatherhood ( St. Martin 's Press) will be the Master of Ceremonies. 

General Admission: $15
Breakfast Admission: $35

12PM – 2PM  SATURDAY BOOK & AUTHOR LUNCHEON (Concourse Hall)
This year's lunch will, once again, focus on political and social issues and will feature Richard Engel, author of War Journal (Simon&Schuster), Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, author of Taking on the System: Rules for Radical Change in a Digital Era (Celebra), Jon Krakauer, author of The Hero (Doubleday), and Michael Moore, author of an as yet untitled work (Grand Central).  Christopher Buckley, author of Supreme Courtship: A Novel (Twelve) will be the Master of Ceremonies. 

Admission $50 

4PM – 5PM  THE HEARD WORD: BEA'S AUDIOBOOK & AUTHOR TEA (Room 403)
Come hear Robert Crais, author of an Untitled Elvis Cole Novel (Brilliance Audio), T. Jefferson Parker, author of LA Outlaws (Brilliance Audio), and Michael Connelly, author of The Brass Verdict (Hachette Audio) talk about their recent and upcoming audiobooks and the experience of hearing their works translated into audiobook format.  Hosted by the Audio Publishers Association. 

Admission $20

4PM – 5:30PM PEN AMERICAN CENTER RECEPTION (Petree Plaza)
Co-sponsored by the Campaign for Reader Privacy and ABFFE
PEN American Center and the ACLU Champagne Benefit Reception for “Something to Hide: Writers and Artists Against the Surveillance State”. Hosted by: Roxana Robinson from the PEN Advisory Council and Jameel Jaffer, Director, National Security Project for the ACLU. Meet and greet Andre Dubus III, Azar Nafisi, plus more in addition to PEN and ACLU staff members.

"Something to Hide: Writers and Artists Against the Surveillance State" is part of PEN's Campaign for Core Freedoms. PEN has been working with the American Civil Liberties Union and other leading human rights organizations to challenge some of the government's most pernicious infringements of basic human rights, working to restore privacy protections for bookstore and library records, fighting to end the FBI's unchecked use of National Security Letters, and challenging warrentless telephone and internet surveillance by the NSA.

Admission A $10 donation

9PM LEWIS BLACK ( Orpheum Theater in downtown Los Angeles )
Lewis Black will appear at BEA's Saturday night benefit on behalf of his new book, Me of Little Faith.  Me of Little Faith is a ferociously funny exploration of religion and faith in which he examines how the rules and constraints of religion have affected his life and the lives of us all. His hilarious experiences with rabbis, Mormons, gurus, psychics, and even the joy of a perfect round of golf give Mr. Black the chance to expound upon what we believe and why — in the language of a shock jock and with the heart of an iconoclast.

Proceeds from Lewis Black's performance at BEA will go to help support the Book Industry Foundation which is comprised of the American Booksellers Foundation For Free Expression (ABFFE) and the Association of American Publishers' Get Caught Reading Campaign.

Admission $35

SUNDAY, June 1, 2008 

8:00AM – 9:30AM  SUNDAY BOOK & AUTHOR BREAKFAST (Concourse Hall)
Sunday morning will feature Ted Turner, author (with Bill Burke) of Call Me Ted (Grand Central), Azar Nafisi, author of Things I've Been Silent About: A Memoir of Family (Random House), and Dennis Lehane, author of The Given Day (William Morrow).  John Hodgman, author of More Information Than You Require (Dutton) will be the Master of Ceremonies. 

General Admission: $15
Breakfast Admission: $35

For more information on the above events and registration go to

http://www.bookexpoamerica.com/en-us/specialevents.cfm

BLOGGER & NEW MEDIA EXPERT JOYCE SCHWARZ TO MODERATE THE WIDGET ECONOMY WORKSHOP @ DIGITAL HOLLYWOOD MAY 8, 2:15 p.m. -- HOLD THAT DATE

WELCOME TO THE WIDGET ECONOMY WORKSHOP

Digital Hollywood , Hollywood, California

Thurs, May 8th. 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM for more info email: [email protected] and talk with moderator Joyce Schwarz personally.

The Widget Economy: The Information, Advertising, Next Generation Digital Consumer Experience

Now there is a new expression, The Widget Economy.

Don't miss the WIDGET ECONOMY workshop on Thurs, May 8 at Digital Hollywood moderated by Joyce Schwarz, for more info email: [email protected].

For the uninitiated, the widget is miniature application or website that resides as a component element on a user’s desktop, social media page or mobile device. A button on a user desktop may open multiple widgets, so that in a flash, mini-apps open on the desktop to reveal up-to-the minute stocks, the weather, airline arrivals, a dictionary, your photo album – virtually anything, any data type - can be formatted into a widget and placed on your desktop.

Once the user gets the hang of it, life without widgets is impossible.

Widgets are as addictive as email. Widgets are your mini-obsessions managed and delivered as desired. Add in a layer of commerce and you have a fully featured platform.

Watch out! Widgets are Here!

Jeff Nolan, Vice President of Software-as-a-Service, NewsGator
Steve Tomlin, CEO and Founder, Chumby
Alex Bard, President & CEO, Goowy Media
Gary Baker, founder and CEO, ClipBlast!
Jennifer Cooper, co-founder and CEO, MixerCast, Inc
Michael Dever, co-founder and Chief Energy Officer, YouChoose.net
Ken Willner, Vice President, Market Development, Zumobi

Joyce Schwarz,JCOM Emerging Entertainment Marketing,

Moderator, www.joycecom.com

For more information on the Widget Workshop, email moderator, Joyce Schwarz at: [email protected].

For more information and registration for Digital Hollywood go to www.digitalhollywood.com

A LIMITED NUMBER OF COMP PASSES are available to Joyce's workshop -- but you must get the comps from her. js.

WELCOME TO MY VIEW IN MARINA DEL REY, CA -- Joyce Schwarz

Hi, many of you wonder where I am blogging from. Often you see me speaking at conferences across the United States and around the world -- yet, here I am in Marina Del Rey, CA writing to you looking at this view-- actually it's sunnier than this pix which was a file photo, blogged by Joyce Schwarz, JCOM, www.joycecom.com.

View from Joyce Schwarz office for JCOM, www.joycecom.com in Marina Del Rey, CA also the home of www.hollywood2020.blogs.com and the new book "THE VISION BOARD: Unlock the Secret to An Extraordinary Life" Harper COllins Publishing, Collins Design, fall, 2008. www.IHAVEAVISION.org.

Just a short personal note to thank you for reading my blog www.hollywood2020.blogs.com for three years -- more than 1100 posts! Note we've spruced up the place a bit -- added a new template that at least has a pix of Hollywood on it and added a link to my new book which is already up for pre-sale at Amazon.com http://www.hollywood2020.blogs.com. Take a look at the short video which is up at the temp site at www.IHAVEAVISION.org -- the tabs aren't up yet but they will be soon. Hope all is well with you and see you at www.digitalhollywood.com next month-- more details to follow!