Charbax is here
Consumer Electronics Shows that I video-blogged:
CeBIT
2007, 2006,
2005, 2004
IFA
2007,
2006, 2005
CES
2007
Other
E3 2006
WCIT 2006
Conferences
Reboot 2007
Lift 2007

Author Archives: Charbax

Google to launch Google Reviews with Digg-like functionality

Google knows with 99.9999% certainty that there is a real person behind each Google Account. They simply have usage statistics and usage behaviour detectors that can verify that a Google Account user is a real user and not a bot. This makes it IMPOSSIBLE to game such a Google Reviews system.
There is nothing wrong with […]

Youtube needs to change

Chad Hurley says they have automatic DMCA systems, or user-generated automatic moderation. Does that mean they have analog and digital fingerprinting filters on uploaded content? Do they provide content owners to scan their content and submit those analog and digital fingerprints? Does Youtube let content owners automatically “take-over” the content onto their own Youtube account […]

A suggestion to world leaders

If you want to give the country back to the people, why not use the Internet to change the way democracy works.
We need an online parliament where every person is a representative of the people, where good ideas and the truth automatically are highlighted using direct democracy and algorithms. Any leader should then promise to […]

Open-TLDs is great for the Internet

Today ICANN announced that they will open up for unlimited amount of top level domains and they will start to use all alphabets. I think this is fantastic news. This means the value of .com .tv .eu and all other current TLD domain sharks today all have gone bankrupt. This is the news they hoped […]

When Google starts to revolutionize Youtube using overlay advertising

Once they activate it, I think it can probably use voice recognition to synchronize overlay advertising with the words said in the video. “When somebody says Coca-Cola in the video, there might be a Coca-Cola ad popping up at the bottom of the ad”.
I think this could be so insanely huge it will revolutionize the […]

OLPC has launched the revolution

OLPC has succeeded in forcing Microsoft to lower the licencing price of Windows XP to $3, OLPC has succeeded in forcing Microsoft to slim down the hardware, storage requirements of running Windows XP, OLPC has succeeded in getting the whole laptop industry to start building what they call XO competitors out of their desperation of […]

I video-blogged the campaign for the Free Public Transportation initiative in Geneva

I posted my HD video interviews in French at http://tpg.video-blog.eu/.
I think that free public transportation is an inevitability in all cities. It’s the most effective way to reduce significantly the CO2 emissions in a city. It also creates better equality for the poor and the middle class who can better afford transportation. It reduces car […]

I video-blogged Lift08

I filmed 50 or so video intreviwes in HD at the Lift conference in Geneva these past few days. Look for my Lift08 videos at http://techvideoblog.com/lift/ and http://olpc.tv/channel/charbax/

I really think Last.fm is fantastic

Tomorrow, Last.fm and CBS are announcing new features that are to be added to Last.fm. I am always amazed by the awesome music recommendations it gives me. I think that technology could be simply revolutionnizing for video. There are so many awesome videos out there on sites such as Youtube, imagine a Last.fm Video filter […]

My video-blog on a DivX Connected video-on-demand set-top-box

A plugin to watch all the videos from my http://techvideoblog.com directly on your HDTV or standard definition TV, with the remote control is available here:
http://labs.divx.com/node/1320
I think that the DivX Connected set-top-box standard is the beginning of the mass media revolution. Soon the box will cost below $100, currently it is available for £130 at […]