Forgot to post "The DEMO Gang" day two wrap up.

The video is huge at 139 megs, so right mouse click and save the link because just clicking it is not going to play back so well.

Watch The Demo Gang day two here.

I just asked the former, or interim, CEO (or whatever he is) of Tivo why I can't take my shows off Tivo, add hard drives, and use the skip 30-second key. He said I didn't know what I was talking about and that I should read the product literature!

Here are some links:

How to put the 30-second jump back into Tivo:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,59028,00.html
http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/491

How to unDRM your Tivo files: http://www.evillabs.net/tivo/

Tivo Deathwatch: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000100030115/

Tivo and Comcast: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000683027751/

 
The most talked about presentation at DEMO was HOMESTEAD: watch the exclusive video (right click on that link and hit save).

Check our Scoble's blog for updates every 10 minutes or so:  http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/

Browster is another one of the lacking companies that I’ve grouped as “ethically challenged.” That group includes folks like Vibrant Media which tries to sell ads inside a journalist’s stories, BzzAgent which according to the NYT is incentives folks to deceive their friends, and Marc Canter having that Canadian company pay folks to blog about them. 

Browster shows you a preview of the webpage you’re about to visit when you mouse over the link. However, they strip out the advertising in the preview and put their own targeted ads on the top!!!

ILEGAL ILLEGAL ILEGAL!!!
UNETHICAL UNETHICAL UNETHICAL!!!
RUDE RUDE RUDE!!!

Don’t people remember the TotalNews case where people framed other people’s site? 

Google shows an excerpt of a pages content—NOT THE WHOLE PAGE!!! People grant them the fair use of 50 words of content in exchange for the link. It’s a fair deal, and you can opt out of it. This company is not sending people to your site—they are keeping them from coming, blocking your ads, and piggybacking on your hard work to make money!

The reason the ads are turned off is because their preview window is clearly turning off Javascript—which is how ads are loaded on the Internet 99% of the time. Now, I understand why they turn off Javascript: people put Javascript on their sites to turn off framing. 

Uhhh… hey guys, if I don’t want my page framed and use Javascript to stop it then please have some respect for my decision!

I was shocked as the spokesperson for this company sat there explaining with glee that he was going to make money off of other folks websites—this guy had no clue!

I’ll be writing more about this and I’m going to find this guy and let him know exactly what he needs to do to be legal:

1. get permission in advance

or

2. use just an excerpt of the page (which makes him google in annoying popup format)

After the show Buzz, Orchant, and Scoble joined me for a round table discussion of the best of day one of DEMO.

Right mouse click and download the 30MEG file here.

 

Forbes is doing a "DEMO diary," in which they follow James Young Jr. and Charles Ribaudo during their first visit to the conference where they are showing Jambo.

 
Here is our first video (right mouse click and download for best result) from DEMO, just a couple of hours after iControl Networks showed their home control and automation system you can watch it here--almost live! iControl is run from a web portal, allowing you to monitor your home or business remotely.

The video is six megs, and pretty solid audio and video for that size. We are going to put up higher resolution videos later, but it takes a long time to rip them so we figured we would put up four lower resolution ones now.

Read Marc's origional thoughts on iControl.

 
Update: We just uploaded a PODCAST of the VLOG DEMO (podcast=5MEG Mp3 file). VLOGIT was consider the highlight of the first half.

The sound is a little low, we're going to balance the sound on these out shortly... for now turn up your speakers!

Video coming shortly.

 If you're blogging DEMO please post your URL in the comments below and we will put the list here.

Scoble: http://scoble.weblogs.com/
Gary Potter: http://www.acemakr.com
Don Cosseboom: http://jitb2.blogspot.com/
Jeff Nolan: http://sapventures.typepad.com/

What events are happening tonight at DEMO? Post to the comments!

Mission Reasearch DEMOs a solution for non-profit organizations. GiftWorks provides an easy to use application suite for non-profits that provides a complete fundraising campaign and contributor management suite in a web portal. Mission Reasearch began the DEMO with a standard Excel spreadsheet - often a complex and difficult tool for non-technical users to use. GiftWorks maps fields from spreadsheet in to its environment, adds additional fields and generates an easier UI for users that is accessible via the browser.

The suite includes context sensitive help and built-in training modules. GiftWorks has a CRM-style donor management module for campaign tracking. Smart Lists lets you interrogate the data set, filter the data set and build a custom list meeting criteria selected from a pick list of data fields with Boolean operators. The operator can then develop a report (with graphs) or develop a campaign to reach out to that group.

VKB projects a keyboard onto any surface and connects the input generated to a wireless PDA or Ultra Compact PC (like the OQO) via Bluetooth. VKB can provide click sounds generated by the connected device. Keyboard templates are provided for different languages and keyboard types. A push stack provided with the unit supports even non-HID devices. VKB works with Palm, PPC, Smart Phone, and Windows - Java is coming soon. Gartner projects 80 million smart phones will be in use by 2006. Between converged telephony devices, UPCs and other small form factors, there's a continually burgeoning market that needs a viable data input method - something better than what these devices provide themselves.  VKB announced at DEMO that Radio Shack will carry the VKB nationwide in addition to online outlets. Europe and Far East roll outs are imminent.

MDA demonstrates the ISM 3D modeling scanning camera (made by the people who developed the robotic arm for the Shuttle). To demonstrate, the presenter says,

"If I shoot my partner, BOOM (he drops to the floor) and scan the scene, in a matter of seconds, we can generate a 3D model of the scene."

This is too cool. The ISM camera provides a perfect application for CSI-style forensic analysis. Once the 3D model is generated (under one minute), the examiner can measure distances, angles, and other spatial information in the scene. MDA then showed an applications in underground mining, where they examined a core sample without going underground.

Motorola  DEMOs iRadio - totally portable music - available in your car, on your cell phone, on your PC, or from a home unit. Pause a song in the car, go into the house and resume on the note you left off on! You can buy individual tracks, complete albuns, or programming fro sources like NPR. Could this be the first serious competition for the iPod/iTunes choice?