flix: February 2008 Archives

Captured by Mastro:

 

Thanks Mastro! :)

As promised, here's our live broadcasted video recipe of pasta with Alfredo and mushrooms sauce. We were very happy with the outcome, very tasty and really easy to cook.

Broadcasting it while cooking made us realize that there are "dead" moments when we needed to wait for the water to boil or the mushrooms to cook. We thought those moments are probably boring for the viewers... So we decided to take some breaks and divide the broadcast into a few interesting parts.

I hope you'll enjoy it. And you're very welcome to share your recipes with me. Drop me a line and I'll even publish then here.

*Thanks Ricky for the great inspiration, and thanks to Idan for cooking! :)

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Most bloggers have already covered all the Mobile World Congress news, new gadgets, who attended which event and how the hell didn't they had enough bandwidth for 60,000 mobile phones and laptops?! How can we communicate with no means?! Also many have already blogged about who had goodies, who had nice giveaways, and most important who offered free coffee and water... (the lines for a bad coffee were impressive!). 

Here are my off-topic observations:

1) 99.9% of the attendees wore dark grey or black suits. The only variations were the color of the thin stripes.

2) Mobile techies don't push and they stand in a nice long line with no complaints.

 

3) Most mobile techies are men. Try to spot a woman here:

4) Business cards - you never take enough with you :)

5) After so many hours on feet, we will drink whatever coffee we can find. Any. (and accidentally spell it on my N95 and improve its performance. Try it on your own risk).

6) High heels are bad for you. Bad. Very bad.

But Barcelona is more than a huge amount of black and grey suits. This is the city of best parties and good food! The big question is - do mobile techies know how to party? I was reluctant but decided to put it to the test. In order to examine it thoroughly, I went out each night with different people, and each night I found myself in at least 2 parties,

My answer is YES.

From a lot of beers at the BelChica with the MobileSunday gang (no 3G network there, sory), through Swedish Beers, some private parties with bloggers and demo and marketing delegations, yes, mobile techies know how to have a good time! :)

And here's a treat for those of you who couldn't join - some flix from the Blackberry party

 

 

For the non-US people out there on the web (which I am one of them), MTV's Choose or Loose initiative has provided a whole new experience of being a part of and great opportunity to have a closer look of the US elections.

Using Flixwagon, a series of 23 young reporters went out to cover the real stories from polling stations, caucuses, candidate rallies etc' live from their mobile. One of my favorite reporters is Sara Benincasa, a citizen journalist for the 2008 MTV Choose or Lose Street Team. All day long I was watching her live broadcasts which portrait NYC, the of New York voters, Hillary's winning speech and many other items.

This was a very amazing experience of getting video news breaks on real time from a young point of view. Here are some treats, however I strongly encourage you to follow the link to Sara Benicasa page and see them all.

Enjoy!

 

Today is the day! 

MTV

's street journalism team will broadcast from 23 states to ThinkMTV from their Nokia N95 mobile devices using Flixwagon. Throughout the day, MTV will regularly break into programming and showcase news features on TV from the live reports.

Here at Flixwagon we will bring you some highlights of today's coverage. Bellow is David Whiteside's flix showing people getting pumped up to vote: