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> These videos are made so that the delivery manager can understand what the people around him are doing, and so he can explain it to the bean counters. The ir

by thesash 15y ago

> These videos are made so that the delivery manager can understand what the people around him are doing, and so he can explain it to the bean counters. The irony is that concepts that intentionally ignore reality create the impression among those same people who "don't get it" that these concepts not only are grounded in reality, but are as trivial to create as the concept video makes it look. It reminds me of this clip from Ali G: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkuOuxRD1Bc&feature=youtu.be&t=5m16s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkuOuxRD1Bc&feature=youtu...

rjd 15y ago
Oh that vid was brilliant, I have been in presentation like that, intact I gave one the other that got extremely luke warm responses, and people staring at each other going this guy has lost his marbles. My concept was this (pitched to the news agency I used to work for). I did some thinking about the next wave of devices and I thought I found a nice market that no one else had tried before. We modify the RSS subscription interface where users can select categories for news stories they are interested, and email service already exists. The RSS feeds already exist, and there are already staff curating the best of the best etc... they are pretty good feeds. We then run batch scripts every morning, compile the articles into ePub format (essentially HTML), and push personalized pre-packaged news paper style format to subscribers. Target eReaders, tablets etc... turn a passive website into one that chases customers each morning. Now this isn't difficult to implement, there is already a email service doing exactly the same thing. Basically all this service would do is wrap up HTML pages and build an index or two. I felt like everyone in the room was the chap Ali G was talking to, they just wanted me to shut up ASAP.

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> These videos are made so that the delivery manager can understand what the people around him are doing, and so he can explain it to the bean counters. The ir

by thesash 15y ago

rjd 15y ago
Oh that vid was brilliant, I have been in presentation like that, intact I gave one the other that got extremely luke warm responses, and people staring at each other going this guy has lost his marbles. My concept was this (pitched to the news agency I used to work for). I did some thinking about the next wave of devices and I thought I found a nice market that no one else had tried before. We modify the RSS subscription interface where users can select categories for news stories they are interested, and email service already exists. The RSS feeds already exist, and there are already staff curating the best of the best etc... they are pretty good feeds. We then run batch scripts every morning, compile the articles into ePub format (essentially HTML), and push personalized pre-packaged news paper style format to subscribers. Target eReaders, tablets etc... turn a passive website into one that chases customers each morning. Now this isn't difficult to implement, there is already a email service doing exactly the same thing. Basically all this service would do is wrap up HTML pages and build an index or two. I felt like everyone in the room was the chap Ali G was talking to, they just wanted me to shut up ASAP.