Last year I blogged about the YouTube corner at the World Economic Forum event in Davos, Switzerland. They had prime real estate between the main conference area and private meeting rooms, and heads of state, business executives, Nobel Laureates and rock stars strolled by and stopped to leave a video.
YouTube was back this year with an even better setup. In addition to computers where people could create YouTube videos answering various questions (Kofi Annan is pictured to left), the Google team brought in a touch screen version of Google Earth, complete with World Economic Forum data layered on top. Google earth was projected onto a wall, and people could zoom around the earth and view interesting data like historic and projected climate changes.
Ed Sanders (YouTube Marketing Manager) and Amit Sood (Google International Product Marketing Manager) walked me through both the YouTube and Google Earth products. Video is below:
Location Location Location!
‘How much did you pay’ – was that supposed to be a trick question?
That’s nice.
if there was any decent wifi here I could have uploaded the 720p version of the video, which rocks. oh well.
Great post Mike
I liked the “please do something visually interesting” suggestion
Mike,
We miss you already. Feb. is going to be along month without you on TC.
he’s back!
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Hi Michael, why 720p? I’d go with 1080p
It’s amazing how fast You Tube has grown into having a major impact on the internet in such a short period of time
Google Master.
With all this talk about Davos and videos…
check out http://www.whatdavoloves.com
Why is everyone so interested in the World Economic Forum? WEF is a group of self-important people that get together to reassure each other how smart they think they all are. *yawn* When has Davos ever produced anything remotely useful or even interesting?
Excellent point — This brings the concept of brown nosing to a new level.
Talking to Kofi Annan? He was the most ineffective bureaucrat at the UN, constantly against anything American, and a crook together with his son, stealing millions of dollars from the “oil for food” in Irak. Naturally, it was all pushed under the rug…
I guess that some people get off by rubbing elbows with suspicious characters, including Bono and his personal campaign of debt forgiveness for third world countries [read massive self-promotion] while millions of dollars end up in African dictators’ Swiss bank accounts…
No doubt that this type of meetings and networking will somehow benefit Youtube, Google and others, too, including TC…
This guy
Hans, if you still spell Iraq, Irak and probably pronounce it eyerack, you have no moral or intellectual authority to make such baseless and blanket accusations. Please do not bring unnecessary politics here.
Annan was ineffective because the US under Bush did not respect the UN. Now, no one does.
As for the dictators stealing our money and keeping it in banks in the west, if the banks did not accept the money, it would be back home where it belongs.
Shhhh…. what would the herd be, if not for the higher man to worship?
–”You want to see something else?”
“Nope”
–”Alright…”
davos is something like world leaders come togethere to have beer, thats it.
no desicions are taken, nothing useful to nations is happening, just leaders socializing.
Trackbacked.
What touch screen was it?
Michael Arrington when r u retiring? … we r waiting for it.. and we did wanted to see more..u said NO smartly
YouTube was back this year
Seems like a lot of ‘world leaders’ like to see themselves associated with YouGoog. I guess in times of world economic crises it can’t hurt to sprinkle a whiff of success around oneself.
On another note: Where there any bankers in Davos or are they all expelled from the big boys game and sent back to elementary school?
youtube’s ability to distribute content around the globe is impressive, but i assume a lot of that comes from google’s data center expertise. as far as i can tell, there isn’t much going on with youtube except for huge bandwidth bills
major content owners have gotten wise to the game and set up their own online video sites with pretty good results (hulu.com)
there aren’t many advertisers who are want their brands associated with videos of kids lip-syncing to pop songs or pets acting silly (though i do enjoy the occasional lolcat) nevermind that the comments section of a typical yt video is the equivalent of the bathroom wall.
we’re in a deep recession – it’s time to separate the wheat from the chaff. business plan please!
I absolutely love this part..
‘Will my house in CA be underwater soon?’
You are a rock man..
Now get back to the girls and suntan lotion..
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I thought Turkey’s prime minister was the talk of Davos
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Good one.
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if there was any decent wifi here I could have uploaded the 720p version of the video, which rocks. oh well
Michael Arrington when r u retiring? … we r waiting for it.. and we did wanted to see more..u said NO smartly
OMG! Youtube for president!