Have a look at this video.
Amazing what you can do with a Wii…

For more info check the guys website.

Yesterday I was doing a bit of surfing and I stumbled upon the site of Asterpix.
Asterpix is a software-company that enables companies/people to add hyper links to areas in movies, creating a so called Hypervideo

Amazed by the simplicity of the application I started thinking what the possibilities could be.
To broaden my horizon I looked up a report to see what the digital television penetration is in the Netherlands (Click here for the UK figures).

Turns out that over 3.000.000 subscribers are currently registered (16 miljon people live in NL)!
In the UK there are 30.000.000 households….

What if you would use the technology Asterpix uses and create a TV channel with high quality series and you give all digital viewers a TV-remote with Nintendo Wii-capabilities, so if they see a product they like they can click on it and it is stored in their favorites. After the show is finished the favorites show up and people can click on them to be forwarded to the website of the sponsor who paid to have his product featured in that show.
This technology can also be used on the millions of Apple iPhones/Windows Mobile-phones.

By providing this new channel to companies it will maybe finally pave the way for a TV-channel that once again shows more programs than commercials.

I think it’s just a matter of time.

Update 30-01-2008: Click here for a small demo by LogicaCMG of this technology

Today I came across the following site ShowBeyond.

With this site you cane create a (picture)presentation. Nothing special…. lots of sites do it I know.

The nice thing however of this one is that it let’s you configure your presentation just like in Abobe Flash.
You can adapt the time length of each picture shown.
Put music under it and add narration.

Check it out.

Hopefully they’ll add an ppt-upload feature just like Slideshare and create the possibility to upload video.
And they better also have a look at Sliderocket.com although I think that this is more a professional application that exceeds your average powerpoint user

Just watched a great lecture on “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”.

Randy is the man behind the ‘Alice Project’.
Click here to get to know him better by watching his lecture.

It’s a shame that he’s suffering from pancreatic cancer and won’t be with us for long.

Thank you Randy.

Update: Here another lecture he gave at the University of Virginia.

Here a few links where you can find some nice reports about (event)marketing and trends.

CMO Council - Staging and Gauging

CMO Council - Marketing Outlook 2007

Global Intelligence Alliance - Market Intelligence in Large Companies –Global Study 2007
For the full report read the last page of the presentation

The Economist Intelligence Unit - 12 Megatrends in B2B marketing

The Economist Intelligence Unit - CEO Briefing 2007

Hope they are of some use to you.

Kind regards,

Daan