Santa Monica based Zag will power Overstock’s car buying service. Zag sets out to improve the site’s auto buying process by connecting buyers with sellers that can offer discounted pricing.
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There’s a good article today in the Los Angeles Times by Michelle Quinn about how the Microhoo! deal could be really good for startups and innovation. Featured are the kids over at Meebo in Mountain View.
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I’m not sure that was really Daft Punk but I thought Kanye’s performances were very cool.
A bigger point of confusion for me was the Tina Turner robot. I’m fairly sure that was one of those replicants from Blade Runner. If you look closely you can see the robotic twitching and LED lights in her eyes.
Cool factor: 4/5
Nerd factor: 3.75/5
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I was lucky enough to attend a “Best of CES” showcase in Burbank hosted by a mouse-led company and I ran into a table with a huge sign that said “Big Stage.” I heard about this service before and the concept seemed cool so I thought this would be a great time to find out more about it. I had a brief conversation with one of their representatives:
JA: So what is Big Stage exactly?
BS: Basically, we help create instant avatars that look very similar to the person using digital images of the user.
JA: Interesting, so what can I use this for?
BS: Well you can use it in many places like any social network or where ever you want to represent yourself online.
JA: Any social network? What about something like Second Life?
BS: We’re not providing services for Second Life right now.
JA: So are you guys going to be mainly service providers or promoting yourselves as a platform for your own online network?
BS: Both, actually. Right now we’re just providing a service, but we have plans to develop ourselves as a platform as well.
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Her answers were a bit brief, but from what I saw, it seems pretty promising. I only wish I could have seen a live demo of my own avatar being made. Anyway, I cant wait to digitize myself (and actually have an avatar that looks like me).
Music: ‘Her Morning Elegance’ by Oren Lavie
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Launch Party Vancouver, Episode 4 ‘Booth’ from LAtwiist on Vimeo.
‘Call for Help‘ was this insanely popular tech support show on TechTV in the early 00’s. Leo Laporte and a young Kevin Rose helped people out with common tech questions.
Tech X: Tucson Public Access Show from 1998 from kplawver on Vimeo.
Check out this find from 1998 which is a public access show in Tucson Arizona where it appears they’re doing the same thing. Although I think the intended audience here are hardcore nerds. Check out the ‘floating’ head in the background, that’s ‘UltraNormal’ Kevin Lawver of Ficlets fame.
Sphere: Related ContentPalpatine will answer those burning questions (send to: questions@askpalpatine.com), he’s on Facebook and you can follow him on Twitter. We had no idea that the Dark Lord was such a pimp!
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Launch Party Vancouver, Episode 3 ‘Zynik’ from LAtwiist on Vimeo.
Launch Party Vancouver, Episode 2 ‘Mullet’ from LAtwiist on Vimeo.
