Jason, Marc, and the rest of the Weblogs,Inc. team are Blogging DEMO. I spent half of Monday at the show and will spend all of Tuesday. It’s an eclectic mix of products, most of them still under development and some of which might never see the light of day. But there’s no doubt that a few of the products I saw today will be huge hits in the next year or two.
I loved Vlog It.from Serious Magic. This is a video production tool that lets you create your own teleprompter, add special effects, and even use blue screen SFX to create the illusion that you’re broadcasting live from somewhere other than your cramped and cluttered home office. I usually scoff at the idea of homemade videos on the Internet, but this one convinced me that even I could do it and that you might actually want to watch it!
Motorola could have done without the model Hummer for their demo of iRadio, but the idea of having access to hundreds of channels of digital radio accessible in my car or on the phone sounds cool. I have no idea how this works, and I wonder how this differs from the iRadio announcements the same company made in 2000 and 2001.
In the Demo Pavilion, I saw an Outlook add-in called Outboxer that looked pretty sharp. If I ran a big corporation (or a little investment company), I’d look seriously at this utility, which helps prevent employees from sending out e-mail messages that contain inappropriate content or break Federal regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley.
And I would dearly love to replace my external USB drives with a Mirra storage device, which would simplify the task of getting all my data backed up effortlessly.
I’ll be gone all day Tuesday, so look for more on Wednesday.
Ed Bott 