MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge Presents: Digital Living - Building Brands in the World of New Media
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MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge  What: On March 14th, the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge will  host discussions with four expert panelists at the cutting edge of  digital media.
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MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge  What: On June 13th, the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge will  host a panel of successful entrepreneurs who will share their personal  experiences, successes and challenges, which they have learned through  leading and growing their respective companies.
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Today MIT's Technology Review launched a unique video blog, or vlog, on its website to visually chronicle the achievements of the technology leaders and innovators featured in the magazine, its website, and at its annual Emerging Technologies Conference (TRETC).
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Early Internet entrepreneurs envisioned a day when consumers would devour short bites of entertainment on their computer screens delivered over the Internet by fat broadband pipes. When the companies failed, executives blamed it on ...
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Dan Farber: "It's not hard to imagine a contextual ad showing up every time you Twitter something. Twitter 'I am drinking beer with friends' and a Budweiser ad shows up. Now imagine the Twitter revolt." Oh yes there would be quite a revolt, a powerless one, unless there was an alternate service we could all switch to and then assuming we could get off our asses and actually switch. Yeah, we're good at screaming, but not too great at acting, here. I'm a bit of a Twit, myself, and I'd find it revolt-worthy if they tried to interrupt or punctuate discourse with product placements, but then Twitter's destiny is, imho, to be acquired by a phone company and sold as a feature that gives users a reason to use one brand of phone over another. Not as a way for advertisers to hitch their "messages" on our discourse. We've seen how well that has (not) worked with advertising on email. Not likely to work much better on Twits. Imagine if Nokia offered a cell phone with Twitter built-in, a checkbox for SMS users (default on?) -- "Do you want to send SMS messages to your buddy list?"  Don't you think the kids would go for that? (Maybe they can already do it, it's likely that I'm that cluelss.)
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Digital photo frames expand beyond standalone frames into home appliances.
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Life & style: Synthesised shark's skin? Sweat-reactive fish scales? Peta Bee looks at how the latest sportswear can enhance performance
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Question: We're in the early stages of startup and beginning to shop for technology. We'll need basic hardware and software, plus many other technology and Web-based services to sell online, service customers and keep it all secure.
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At the public demo on the 17th, I will talk about the idea of the Networked Living Room built on RSS. Low-tech, open, all moving parts replaceable. Not just photos, that's step one.  Sign up on Upcoming. Still some space left.
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Blog: Which brings me to another idea: can it be that the hotel industry an indicator for the nature with which we purchase our tech toys?  If the hotel industry is lagging behind, is that a solid indication of where we are in terms of innovation?
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Rethinking privacy in an immodest age.
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Rating the consumer-products giants on key financial metrics.
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A sampling of ideas from the next generation of consumers--and entrepreneurs.
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An idea I've been thinking about for a while and looking for an opportunity to do is a "flash conference" along the lines of the flash mobs that were so popular a few years ago.  Here's how it would work... Some event happens that focuses the attention of bloggers, one where there's a lot of ground to cover and at least two or three different ways to view it, one where the combined expertise of 5 or 10 bloggers would make a big difference.  The event would last at most 3 hours, would be webcast live, and be edited into a 1 hour program within 24 hours.  As many of us are waiting for delivery of Leopard, the new Mac OS, it seems that this may be an opportunity for such a conference. We'd have to find a facility in San Francisco that could house this. There would need to be room for 20 or 30 people, and it must also have decent networking. Then the question of who would we turn to for expert opinions. Some ideas... 1. A Mac software developer. 2. A gadget blogger (Engadget, Gizmodo, etc). 3. A creative artist (it is a Mac after all). 4. ??? 5. ??? This is meant to be an instant idea. I have asked the question on Twitter and your comments are welcome here as well. Update: Loic Le Meur has volunteered the offices of his SF startup to host the flash conference. Cooool.
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Programmers, entrepreneurs, students and lawyers gather in mid-town Manhattan for an ad hoc conference on the latest web trends. Participation is required and shoes are not allowed. David Cohn reports from New York City.
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New .mobi and .jobs, a shift in the ownership of .net
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At MTV's VLES site, kids in chat rooms are sipping on "virtual Pepsis." At Gaia Online, teens and 20-somethings are dressing up avatars in virtual Disney T-shirts. But is this strategy of "immersive branding" paying off for them?