I’ve been using Google Chrome for a full day so far I like it.  The problem is that I’m not in an enterprise.  Google Chrome Download is here.  Chrome Download is fast.

Kara Swisher of All Things D has a few videos and posts from inside the Googleplex here and here.  My notes from the event is here.  My analysis prior to the announcement about the real deal on the meaning of Chrome is here.  

Here is a video of Sergey talking and below that a video of Kara getting the experience of what these massive press events are like (she gets me in the video).

Here is the video that she got me on - Kara is great with the camera

Update: Peter over at SAI has a counter point to the NBC coverage. He is referring to how the PGA golf event will be broadcasted. This brings up a good point that I was thinking about this morning. The Olypmics is a known guestimate of size but what about the recent US Open playoff where Tiger Woods and Roco went at it on Monday. From my sources CIOs were screeming bloody murder about the amount of bandwidth being used. What about those kinds of flash crowds - you need fast provisioning of pipe and intelligence. Peter Kafka’s story is worth a read.

The amount of coverage at the Olypmics is significant and all of the video will be in digital. I found this podcast from Cisco that talks about the challenges from a network perspective.

The podcast is here.

I’m trying to get Cisco on the phone to go into detail about the provisioning and systems level design. This could be a benchmark for all live events.

The question that I have is will this be a new model in doing massive live events or just live events. There are many companies out there now doing Live video from Lifecasting to major broadcasters.

The only issue that I have with the Olympics is that the only player is Silverlight which isn’t exactly the standard in desktops. Google is also doing some work on the mobile side and videos on YouTube.

The new broadcasting paradigm needs to connect with a new set of users. This morning I asked my 11 year old if she want to watch the Olympics (either online or on TV) - she said that she’d rather go to the movies. Very telling.

John Earnhardt just put the link in the comments below but here is the embed from YouTube.

In this video, Cisco EVP and CFO Frank Calderoni discusses FY08 and Q408 earnings.  He also gives some thoughts on the outlook ahead. 
Cisco earnings press release can be viewed here. 
Q4 FY’08 Technology & Customer Highlights are here. 
FY’08 Year End Technology & Customer Highlights.

Video embedded below…

At the UC Summit 2008 I sat down with Eric Swift to discuss Microsoft’s Unified Communications Story. He talks about what is UC, trends, drives in adoption, and Microsoft’s secret sauce on UC.

On another post I had his answer to my question on “How will Microsoft Compete with Google in the Enterprise?” - click here to see that interview

Here is my conversation with Eric Swift.

This is life of the e-office a stealth ad by Micrsoft that I found on YouTube. I wrote a post a while back on my opinion blog that the new ad model is Content or MicroContent. Content is the Ad.

This video is cool but it really doesn’t do much but entertain me. Where is the playlist if I want to navigate to get more information?

I believe that this is an Ad for Microsoft.

I found some very compelling podcasts from VMWare. What isn’t clear from VMWare is what are key value propositions from VMWare.

This page has all the VMWare Podcasts. Podcasts are great - hell I started PodTech 3 years ago but VMWare needs to bring in conversations to their podcasts. It’s hard to navigate which podcasts are relevent.

It’s interesting to see how these companies are using podcasts. I see some ways to make them better but that’s another post.

Blair Pleasant of UCStrategies talks with Lori McLean of Nortel around their relationship with IBM. Specifically, joint projects, products, and customers. UCStrategies.com has some great analysis and experts. Here is the podcast from UCStrategies.com that Blair Pleasant did with Lori McClean of Nortel.

In somewhat related news at the recent NXTcomm08 Nortel’s blogger reports that they have UC for the rest of us with a joint project with Microsoft and IBM. Very interesting. What does UC for the rest of us really mean?

Tim O’Reilly, a pioneer in web technology, discusses what it means for the Internet to be a platform. He proposes companies that value the user will be the real winners in the Web 2.0 and give sound advice on technologies and approaches that retailers and media companies should embark on to be successful in this new era of user-driven content.

http://www.aggregateknowledge.com/audio/tim_oreilly.mp3

Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. The company also publishes online through the O’Reilly Network and hosts conferences on technology topics. Tim is an activist for open source, open standards, and sensible intellectual property laws. Since 1978, Tim has led the company’s pursuit of its core goal: to be a catalyst for technology change by capturing and transmitting the knowledge of “alpha geeks” and other innovators.

We’re here with Tim O’Reilly, the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, one of the best computer book publishers in the world. Tim is most recently known as being a thought leader and visionary in the evolving modern web space and has coined the term “Web 2.0,” and holds a conference. He really is leading the trend towards this modern web or semantic web environment.