Ping: Episode 2
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Ping is back for week 2! We heard what you were saying and we tried to give you something more in line with what you'd expect. This week we observed and listened to what people here at Microsoft were buzzing about, what was on their minds, what they talked
about at the water cooler. Here is a recap of what was on the minds of Microsofties this past week. Again, we are a work in progress so your (constructive) feedback is always welcome. We hope you enjoy.
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Larry "Lightbulb" Larsen
more meat on the subjects, loads better interviewing by laura (less trying to be funny, more trying to get interesting stuff out if the intreviewee)
all in all, pretty good i gotta say
only down side was a a bit to agressive cutting on the interviews, i didnt really get what they where showing, :/ the backside touch device (final name pending) where really cool, love to see some more info on that. Just get it to market before apple steals it plz
also, some of the audio quality in the clips could have been better but thats really just nitpicking
i do have a general comment though, there seems to be alot of "weekly" shows on channel9 that arent really that weekly
again, just a nitpick i guess but why not just skip the "weekly" bit and let yourself of the hook?
Regarding the aggressively cut TechFEst video, that was intentional. The idea was "Here's a TASTE of TechFest, and you can cathc the full coverage through the interviews on C9 and C10" Perhaps I shuold have made that more clear. Here's a link to the TechFest videos on C10 if you are interested:
http://www.on10.net/tags/techfest+2009/
The "Backside Touch" (oh, sounds dirty!) one will be up tomorrow.
Also- we TOTALLY intend to be weekly. We just took last week off to really think about what our feedback was and how to act upon it accordingly.
Thanks again....see you next week!
so there are more techfest stuff coming? i missed the ones on c10 (even though its on my live.com rss page, gotta watch that more closely) so i'll check those out
"backside touch" really lends it self to inappropriate jokes (always fun)
they should have the menus semi transparent and have the cursor "blobs" appear behind the menu, pushing the buttons/ui "out".. that would be totaly awsome..
You always see Grant Imahara using a Windows machine on Mythbusters so it's great to see the 3 younger Mythbusters in one of those adds.
Seriously though, I liked this a lot more. I'm not quite sure how different this is from This Week On C9, but it's going in the right direction. Keep it up!
That Backside Touch thing reminded me of LucidTouch. In fact, it looked like exactly the same thing as LucidTouch, only smaller. What else is different about it?
Not a big fan of the Mythbusters ad... it looked way to scripted to me. The Rookies clips are awesome, though. If they shorten those down, and keep a lot of the weird offhand comments, they'd make great TV ads. Hey, they could do a two part thing where they don't show the results until after the next commercial. You can steal that idea for free, if you want.
Hah, some people weren't fan of the sticks so I nixed those..... but don't worry, they're in my pack along with tons of sheet music.
My all-time favorite is an ad we didn't even use (or make)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTXa6Ztuu3s
That one gave me chills when I first saw it. Such a great use of music, camera angles, and simple special effects. It totally made me overlook the fact that a bird on the ground is probably not the best thing to put my earbuds on..... unless I want 20,000 diseases
That Mythbusters ad makes kittens cry. I mean, I'm kindof OK about Microsoft as a company, but it still sucks to see people you like shilling in an advert. I can imagine what the anti-microsoft lot will think of it - does anyone read slashdot any more?
I myself am still figuring out where to fit this in my weekly schedule, but I do think its worth tightening up. We should probably pick different days for each "Weekly" show. I'll send an email (and maybe it will show up on Ping!)
dont get me wrong, i dont think you guys are slacking of or something
what i mean is, why tie one self down to a schedule like that, all the c9 shows are relaxed and loose and creative and i personally find it hard to be creative on a tight schedule 
some weeks it might be 2 weeks of material coming and the next week you got nothing to work with.. also, if you're really bogged down with other stuff, it'd be sad if you guys get extra stressed because you 'promise' a show every week :/
what i guess im trying to say is that i find the current model of weekly-ish pretty good but its kind of funny to call them 'weekly'
however that really not a serious issue at all,again its just nitpicking..
it just popped into my head
some time it would be cool to see a behind the scenes on channel9, how long does it take from redording to airing a show for instance? some shows like going deep seems to be shot well in advance and others like twoc i guess are shot pretty close to airing
i know ive posted about it before but a schedule of upcoming vidoes would be great too
You should talk about http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090228/microsoft-office-labs-vision-2019-video next episode!
Streetattack, is that Patrick Swayze from the Chris Farley sketch on your tattoo? You are multiple hilarious.
(Btw: VERY ANNOYING that the 'Add' and 'Cancel' buttons doesn't work in Opera!! Please fix!)
Looking forward to watching it every week
biaachmonkie- do other C9 vidoes present the same problem for you?
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