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Re: It's Lunchtime at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Confab. Here's What I Learned So Far - Adam's Biotech Beat - TheStreet

phuboi — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 13:02:53 -0000

RXII is another RNA interference stock making a big run up in the past week.

Re: Romney's Plan to Save Higher Ed: Let the Private Sector Handle It

phuboi — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:48:04 -0000

Hello. My name is Mr. Stan Ifyob Abonime, I am the son of HRH King Abonime. Please elect Mitt Romney so my new online unversity will flourish. I'm not entirely sure that I want to be giving out my address and phone number to just any old persons, but I assure you if Mitt Romeny is elected, I will graduate as many students as possible and genrously give to Mitt's campaign 4 years from now. Yes I am a Prince but, I dont mind if you call me Stan because it is my name

Re: Nikon D7000 DSLR hands-on

phuboi — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:09:46 -0000

Glad to see AUDIO IN added ... needed for any serious video work. I'd expect this will give some competition to the Canon 5DMKII. Maybe some day we'll see an article like this http://provideocoalition.co...

Re: The Case Against Video Resumes: A Staffing Director's Perspective

phuboi — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:11:43 -0000

I landed a job with Polycom in March and started April 1. The hiring Manager was impressed by my YouTube Resume effort (as were a few other hiring managers for other companies I interviewed with over the last few months).

As far as Mason's points go, my YouTube experiment supports Mason's conclusions. A YouTube Resume will probably not make much of an impression with HR, for all the reasons Mason points out.

One experiment to note, late in my job hunting process I did put a link to my YouTube resume in my cover letters and my resume using Bitly and created a unique bitly short URL for each employer (by appending google adwords data structure to the URL before shortening). My "hit rate" of actual plays was about 18% (7 out of 39), so I suspect that most of these plays resulted from the fact that I made it through an initial resume scan to be considered.

Ultimately, I would consider my YouTube resume as an "example of my work" or "a remarkable story that generated some talking points in the interview about Social Media", not a viral means of getting noticed in the 1st place.

Did it play a role in my getting hired? I'd say "yes" ... but not in making an impression with HR in the initial screening. Several of the positions I was interviewing for were specifically looking for a Marketing candidate with Social Media experience. My YouTube resume experience fit in well with other classes I'd recently taken in Social Media Marketing, Blogging for Business, SEO/SEM, CSS/HTML, Ruby on Rails, PHP/MYSQL as well as notable experiment successes with twitter, blogging , and Facebook. But the YouTube resume was just a small part of the total package that got me noticed and hired.

My final recommendation for job candidates would be to follow Masons advice. Don't bother with a YouTube resume unless it directly relates to the job you are applying for and the result measures up against "near professional quality" work. I would definitely not recommend paying someone a lot of money to produce one for you unless public speaking was a job requirement.

Peter Huboi
http://www.linkedin.com/in/...

Re: Conan O’Brien Officially Joins Twitter

phuboi — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:57:03 -0000

Profiting on Conan's twitter coat tails >> http://c1c.me/RIKSHAZ9L

It is unfortunate that Conan's freckles did not spell out a word ending in letters like 'tv , ly, or me" as we might have been able to find another freckle to serve as a 'dot' and reserve an entire short URL domain name.

Re: Conan O’Brien Officially Joins Twitter

phuboi — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:36:01 -0000

Conan on twitter ... fun with math >> http://c1c.me/conan

Re: Facebook Mobile Now Bigger Than Twitter

phuboi — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:25:24 -0000

This does not surprise me at all. Many that use twitter also have a blog or website to point viewers to. This limits the size of actual and potential twitter users. The number of people that use facebook far exceeds the number of twitter users. Intersect the sets of Facebook and smartphone users and that is a very sizable number.

Re: Google ups bid for On2, perhaps fending off Oracle?

phuboi — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:23:19 -0000

I'm actually quite surprised companies like Apple, Cisco, Oracle and even Datacenter/Storage giants aren't looking closely at ON2's intellectual property like Google has. Not much time left to look. Do you think Google would be acquiring ON2 if there was no hidden value in their patents? They would simply hire some great codec-savy software engineers and develop their own. On2 must have a patent on something key that is protected nicely.

More in my blog post > Could a codec be "the golden egg" that impacts bandwidth, storage, and end devices? http://c1c.me/on2

If you are a Silicon Valley competitor to Google and want me to give you an overview ... track me down and I'll come in and give you an overview presentation. Google is stealing ON2 at this price. Could have many $Billions of Market cap impact down the road if your business has anything that touches Bandwidth, Storage, End Devices (mobile phones to TVs) and Entertainment/Media.

Re: Google Nexus One: 4 Pros, 4 Cons

phuboi — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:34:24 -0000

Comment on "CON" Music player App:
Google announced VEVO in December but HD video content would come later in 2010. Google's acquisition of ON2 failed to get 50% +1 votes by stockholders. Could this hold up HD? ON2's VP8 codec apparently saves 40% bandwidth over h.264 and would avoid MPEG LA fees for commercial content. 40% savings on bandwidth would be huge, especially since iPhone sales were stopped briefly in NYC due to bandwidth concerns. How much Android and iPhone media consumption is video tying up. If Google does not quickly close the ON2 purchase, someone else could step in with a better offer and reap the benefits instead (Apple, Cisco, HP, HULU, anyone else? )

VP8 : http://www.on2.com/index.ph...

$5B per year savings if 20% improvement (blog post) : http://www.on2.com/blog/200...

Given the above case. $106M for ON2 is ridiculously low offer. And that does not even touch the cost of storage and power to run the datacenter storing video.

I was also disappointed that the Nexus One didn't use one of ON2s Hantro chips that increases encoding/decoding efficiency up to 10X. Think what that would do for conserving battery on a superphone.

Re: Qualcomm Bringing Live TV to the iPhone

phuboi — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:03:03 -0000

This could help with bandwidth issues by off-loading TV from the data network ... but... we now live in an on-demand world. Users want to watch when they want to watch, not necessarily when the show is being broadcast. Another solution for Apple would be to skunk Google with a better offer for ON2. ON2's VP8 codec averaging 40% bandwidth savings over H.264 for HD could really help. Also would make Apple video music streamer of choice since MPEG LA fees for H.264 could be avoided and dash Google's VEVO plans. When VEVO launched last month , HD video was announced as coming in 2010. Could it be Google has to close the ridiculously low offer for ON2 before they roll out HD VEVO? Google failed to get ON2 shareholders 50% + 1 shareholders voting yes at Dec 18th. Leaves door open for Apple or Cisco if they do the math and see the value. But only if they act quickly. Time is running out.

Re: REVEALED: Details on YouTube’s VEVO Music Video Site

phuboi — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:19:53 -0000

For my comments, I posted a blog titled "VEVO vs Playing for Change" (Bono participated in both). http://bit.ly/7Kxkbs

Re: John Mayer Releases Augmented Reality Music Video

phuboi — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:43:44 -0000

Where might this Augmented Reality technology applied to Music lead us?

Guest music performances embedded in games?
Games that know your musical preferences?
Virtual reality music players emulating the concert venue?
Brand-sponsored Augmented Reality Music Videos?

Read more from my blog post (from 2 weeks) ago at http://bit.ly/q7J4l

Peter
Social Media Marketing in Music > http://bit.ly/17pTw

Re: 200+ Music Industry, Marketing, Social Media and Tech Blogs That’ll Make You A Media Whore!

phuboi — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:09:54 -0000

Under "Social Media", add "Social Media Marketing in Music".
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