Heroes showrunner Tim Kring and 120 other social media speakers discuss the impact of Twitter, Facebook and the real-time Web at the #140conf Los Angeles conference on October 4th and 5th – watch live on UStream

By Robin Rowe

Heroes showrunner Tim Kring uses Twitter to give clues to Conspiracy for Good

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 10/3/2010 – “I’ve been exploring new ways to use storytelling to bring a positive message to the world that allows for greater audience participation,” says Heroes showrunner Tim Kring who will be speaking at the #140conf Los Angeles conference on October 3rd.

“I’m going to be talking about Conspiracy For Good, a first of its kind multi-platform narrative whose pilot rolled out over the Internet, on mobile and on the streets of London this summer,” says Kring. “The project combines narrative with causes, resulting in positive real-world change and launching a new genre that we’re calling Social Benefit Storytelling.” Kring is launching a next generation, new media production company called Imperative. He also has a new novel out, called Shift.

The #140conf Los Angeles conference presents speakers on the leading edge of utilizing Twitter, Facebook and other (more…)

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Free open source anti-spam technology reflects spam back onto spammers with a message to try again later

By Robin Rowe

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 9/23/2010 - Greyfix is a lightweight open source Postfix plug-in that relies on the Berkeley Database to bounce about 90% of SPAM without a significant server load and no false-positives. At the enterprise level it causes mail from first-time senders to be postponed. The default is hours although 10 minutes is sufficient. Most spammers will move on, not bother to resend postponed mail. Changes to the settings are made in the C code. There’s no settings file. The software is small, reliable and uses (more…)

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Panel of fashion marketing experts to discuss the impact of social media at FGI Los Angeles event on May 20th, 2010

By Robin Rowe

International jeans brand Diesel uses social media for "Be Stupid" campaign that urges consumers to take risks

HOLLYWOOD, CA  (Gosh!TV) 5/19/2010 – “No one has it 100% right,” says Fashionably Digital CEO Macala Wright Lee. “Success depends on how a brand or retailer is integrating social media into their overall marketing plan. During New York Fashion Week, Sorel stood out with their Style Coalition (stylecoalition.com) campaign and G-Star did an amazing job with their blogger site.”

Twitter and Facebook have become part of the standard marketing mix as customer information tools and for customer service. E-commerce is evolving into social commerce. “Bloggers with fierce use of Polyvore.com have caused brands and retailers to develop rich media tools to enhance online shopping experiences,” says Lee.

“Social media is a game-changer,” says Fox Rothschild Fashion Law Practice Group chair Staci Riordan. “It gives companies the ability to by-pass the traditional gate keepers of fashion. Social media will change the (more…)

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Observed at the SXSW 2010 film festival in Austin this week, Twitter loses its edge

By Jeff Pulver

140 Conference to discuss what happened to Twitter at SXSW

AUSTIN, TX (Gosh!TV) 3/23/2010 – At South By Southwest 2010 (SXSW), a strange thing happened on the way to the Austin film festival. A community of twitter faithful shifted from sharing everything about everything on only Twitter (and maybe Facebook) and changed their habits to rely on learning about what was happening and where things were happening by using foursquare and Gowalla instead. There were other products and platforms being used including Loopt and GySPii but foursquare and Gowalla were the dominant platforms.

Friends of friends not attending SXSW may have greatly appreciated the reduction of what might otherwise appear as “noise” on twitter about specific happenings at SXSW. However, the unintended consequence of not using twitter at SXSW meant SXSW spent little time as a trending topic. In turn, that may have lowered the buzz and the impact that being a trending topic can have.

In the year since SXSW 2009, a number of friends became passionate and dependent on using Foursquare or Gowalla as the platform to share where they are and what is happening around them. At SXSW 2010, this was taken to a new level. If you’re spending time around your friends, and you have a chance to speak to them almost at will, there is something to be said about only sharing your location information. Then you have the ability to make decisions of what to do or where not to go based on this information.

There were times when one could feel the ebbs and the flows of people moving as they checked into various locations. While most of this is felt locally in (more…)

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Official GRAMMY Distinctive Assets gift suite presents celebrities with Vivitar cameras and other gifts

By Gabrielle Pantera

Vivatar DVR 510 Underwater Night Vision Camera sports USB port

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 2/8/2010 – Celebrities who visited gift suite included Taboo of the Black Eyed Peas, Lady Antebellum, Mary J Blige, Rihanna, Randy Jackson, Kimberly Caldwell, Lionel Richie, Roberta Flack and Kimora Lee Simmons. The official Grammys gift suite was presented by Distinctive Assets and hosted by Moroccanoil during rehearsals on January 28^th to 30th.

Celebrities could autograph gifts to donate MusiCares Foundation, that provides a safety net of critical assistance for members of the music community in times of need. Let’s take a look at the latest gift ideas.

Tech

Rihanna took one look and said, “Tech toys, tech toys!” The Vivitar Waterproof Night Vision DVR 510 camcorder weighs just 13 ounces, supports 640×480 at 30 fps, an 8x digital zoom, SD slot and a 1.8” preview screen. Waterproof to shoot underwater and at night. The Vivitar DVR 850W can go to five meters underwater with SD memory and a rechargeable LiIon battery.

Vivitar’s latest digital camera is the ViviCam 8027, a compact digital camera with a (more…)

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Installing Drupal on Centos using Postgres instead of MySQL gets a bit tricky

By Robin Rowe

Drupal powers the Obama White House site whitehouse.gov

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 12/22/2009 – Drupal is a popular content publishing program that the White House uses since Obama took office. The standard Drupal installation uses MySQL. Many prefer Postgres because they find it more robust and faster with multiple connections. Drupal supports Postgres (and Sqlite, too). Let’s install on CentOS. (more…)

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Mac OS X is, if you know the secrets, a great platform for working with popular open source software that was intended for Linux

By Robin Rowe

Using RText because Scite isn't available yet for the Mac

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 12/10/2009 – In this quick tutorial (or “gouge”) we’ll look at how to set up Mac OS X to build free open source Linux software such as CinePaint. Mac OS X offers a free graphical compiler app called Xcode. We’ll download that but not use it as a graphical programming environment. Instead, we’ll do everything the Linux way so that we maintain total compatibility of code across Linux and Mac OS X.

Installing GNU Make in a terminal in Mac OS X

Snow Leopard 10.6, the current version of Mac OS X, only runs on Intel-based Macs. We’re developing on a G5 PowerPC desktop running Tiger 10.4.  It makes little difference what version of Mac OS X we’re using because we’re avoiding relying on anything specific to the Mac when building POSIX code. We’ll build code from a terminal window using the usual Linux commands.

We’ll make the same source code to build on Mac OS X or Linux. Each of these UNIX-based systems are highly compatible at the platform level known as POSIX. The same C/C++ POSIX-compatible code can (more…)

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BBC America 1-hour documentary with Top Gear host premieres Tuesday, November 10th, 8pm ET/PT **** Four Stars
By Robin Rowe

James May on the Moon, wearing U-2 spacesuit

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 11/5/2009 – “The Air Force has offered to take me up to 70,000 feet where I’ll be able to look into the blackness of space,” says Top Gear star James May, who’s taking a nostalgic look at the manned moon missions forty years later. “At 46 I’m too old, too unfit and too long-haired to ever know what it would be to be an astronaut. The U-2 is the peak of 50s aviation from the dawn of the space age.” To fly in the U-2 to the edge of space, May must wear a spacesuit.

Top Gear presenter James May fulfills a (more…)

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