Weblogs, Inc. has brought video blogging to the Demo 15 conference at Blogging Demo.com. Marc (The Office Weblog) is reporting real time and provides coverage of the presentations of new software. The Demo conference is a showcase for new technology products. There are around 70 companies participating and each has agreed that they will not pre-release the product they are showing for the first time at this session. Each one has six minutes to present and about 600 to 800 people attend. Many are venture capitalists and the rest are mostly industry writers and analysts. Since this is the fifteenth year for the show, Demo@15 has invited many alumni from the prior sessions.
The six minute format works well for video blogging as the presentations try to be entertaining and concise. I looked at the Homestead "cover" of American Pie which brought the audience to their feet in a standing ovation, a great use of video blogging.
Bill: Thanks for the shout out - it was a tremendous experience. We had a crew of four at the conference doing video, still photography, and real-time blogging from the front row of the show. Earlier this year, WIN had a crew of eight swarming the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and we've also covered the Chicago and Detroit Auto Shows and the Sundance Film Festival recently. Covering conferences and festivals isn't a new thing in and of itself - covering it in real time with pictures, audio, and video is. Kudos to Chris Shipley and the DEMO staff - they were tremendously helpful and supportive of what we were doing.
Posted by: Marc Orchant | February 18, 2005 at 08:23 AM