StreamingMedia East 2008

Tomorrow and Wednesday I’ll be attending the StreamingMedia East conference in New York City. It will be my fourth SME and it gets better every year. I’m eager to see this year’s show. Go check out the program.

If you’re touring the show floor, come visit my colleagues at our booth. I’ll try and post as much notes from the conferences as I can.

If you cannot make it but are interested in knowing more about a particular presentation, add your questions as a comment and I`ll do my best to ask them to the relevant speakers.

Although I’ll be in the City for less than 48 hours, I’ll try to see some old friends. I miss that city so much.

Don’t Build a Stupid Product Roadmap!

http://tynerblain.com/blog/2008/04/28/dont-build-a-stupid-product-roadmap/

There is value to your customers in knowing your roadmap.

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There is value to your team in knowing your roadmap.

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Just make sure you don’t become a slave to an old roadmap. Keep it current. Use it to chart your course. And when your course changes, update your roadmap.

Online Video Advertising Standards Are Set by the IAB

Old news but still interesting.

http://www.beet.tv/2008/05/rejoice-online.html

[…]There is still more work to be done in the standardization of online video advertising including pricing the value of engagement.[…]

[…]For the ad agencies and publishers, the challenge is how to keep content relevant.[…]

Digital Video Ad Format Guidelines and Best Practices

http://iab.net/media/file/IAB_Ad_Format_Guidelines_Pub_Com_Final.pdf

Digital Video In-Stream Ad Metrics Definitions

http://iab.net/dv_metrics_definitions

Developed by the IAB Digital Video Committee

http://iab.net/member_center/35088?iabid=a0330000000s0p4AAA

NAB 2008

I'm currently in the Las Vegas airport waiting for my flight back home. I am exhausted. At this year's NAB, StreamTheWorld (my employer) had two booths. A rather small one in the radio section located in the Las Vegas Convention Center's North Hall and a larger one in the Lower South Hall. I spent the majority of my time at either one of our booths but also had some time to visit a lot of the show.
I met with so many people and so many companies that I will have to brake it down into several posts.
For now we have to do the follow ups... so many follow ups.
Next show : Streaming Media East in New York City (YAY, I get to go to my favorite city in the whole world)

Hello World!

Today is the day I start blogging. Bear with me while I do the usual first ego post. It is not every day that one looses his blogger virginity.
What about this blog?
Well a friend of mine, Martin Lessard convinced me to start blogging through a chapter he wrote in the excellent book Pourquoi Bloguer? (why blog?). This gave me the kick in the butt to get off mine and start sharing my thoughts and ideas with the world.
The pessimistic in me is yelling "why would anyone care?". The answer is maybe that indeed no one cares about what I have to write. But if I don't try it, I will never know.
You will probably notice that English is not my first language. French is. I however decided to not write using my mother tongue for a few practical reasons.
First, reach. The majority of people I hope will read my posts speak English.
Second, it will force me to hopefully improve my second language. Living in Montreal I don't get much chance to practice.
So here I go. Please forgive any mistake I might commit. I will learn and improve both the style and relevance of my posts over time.