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Telepresence and Holography / Holograms - November 2008

Editor’s viewpoint on their differences, likenesses and future...

We all just recently viewed an historic CNN holographic interview on an historic Election Night. CNN stated this type of imaging has never been done before on National TV and I believe that. I haven’t seen anything like it. The live interview caught me by surprise and sure had the “wow” factor attached to it didn’t it? Here’s a link to the actual interview.

CNN Hologram Video

The question now has to be asked. Is it Telepresence?

I’m no expert on the subject but I’m going to throw my hat into the ring, go out on a limb and say yes, I believe it is. Although I know many video conferencing purists are rolling their eyes and grabbing their guns right about now with my statement.

While I do know that Telepresence still hasn’t been universally defined (Houston, we have a problem), here’s how I see it…. Broken down to its simplest form - “tele” (through electronic means) and “presence” (present). This is how I’m justifying my opinion by lumping holography and Telepresence together. Just as Telepresence is surely an offshoot of video conferencing, holographic imaging (like we viewed on CNN) surely has to be considered an offshoot of Telepresence. The interviewer was “telepresent” from Chicago and beamed into the CNN Election Headquarters. She was most assuredly - “telepresent”. There was negligible latency, the imaging was fantastic and both interviewers were rehearsed on what they would say. I’ve just recently read that CNN actually “downgraded” the experience to make it “movie” quality and not as good as it could have been. Maybe they thought us mere mortals would be shocked if they showed their complete hand. I have a feeling it was so big to them, they didn’t want it to get upstaged by the historic election. I’m willing to bet we’ll see the “true” power of this technology in the upcoming weeks and months when they can put the pedal to the medal and show it off without having it sidetracked.

What an amazing time for this technology (all differences and opinions aside). Telepresence Doctors, nurses, teachers, schools and healthcare (healthpresence) will benefit from the recent gains in this state-of-the-art industry whether holograms, Telepresence or holography. Airlines also have to see the threat to a portion of their business travel. Hell, who wants go through security and fly to Miami for a two-hour conference when you can look them in the eye via Telepresence?

Beam me up Scotty! Simply amazing…!

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SAN JOSE, Calif. (Business Wire EON) August 1, 2008 -- Kevin Ryan, VP of Global Content for the SES series, said, "Search engine marketing speaks to a broad audience. The new faces and new content reflects a lot of hard work in reaching out to this audience from the SES content team with input from our advisory board."

Here are some examples:

(Monday, Aug. 18, 2008, 1:30 p.m.)

Orion Keynote Panel - How Much Search is Enough?

The moderators are: Kevin Ryan, Vice President, Global Content Director, Search Engine Strategies and Search Engine Watch; and Anne Kennedy, Managing Partner & Founder, Beyond Ink. The speakers are: Robert Murray, President, iProspect; Aaron Goldman, VP, Marketing & Strategic Partnerships, Resolution Media, an Omnicom Media Group Company; Steven Kaufman, Senior Vice President, Media Director, Digitas; and Bob Tripathi, Search Marketing Strategist, Discover Financial Services.

(Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008, 9:00 a.m.)

Keynote Roundtable: Why Does Search Get the Credit for Everything?

The moderator is Bill Hunt, CEO, Global Strategies International. The speakers are: Randy Peterson, Search Marketing Innovation Manager, Procter and Gamble; Terry A. Cox, Manager, Search Engine Marketing, Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Online; Mikel Chertudi, Sr. Director, Online & Demand Marketing, Omniture; and Sharon Gallacher, West Coast Managing Director, Neo@Ogilvy.

(Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008, 2:45 p.m.)

War of the Search Worlds: Unifying Your Global Search Marketing Program

The moderator is Kevin Heisler, Executive Editor, Search Engine Watch. The speakers are: Olivier Lemaignen, Group Manager, Global Search Marketing, Intuit; Jay Middleton, Senior Manager, Worldwide Search Marketing, Adobe; Mark Scholz, Interactive Manager of IPG Worldwide, Hewlett-Packard; and Russ Mann, CEO, Covario.

(Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008, 2:45 p.m.)

In House SEO: Lessons Learned & Victories Won

The moderator is Jessica Bowman, SEO Strategist and in-house SEO Expert, SEMinhouse.com. The speakers are: Marshall D. Simmonds, Chief Search Strategist, New York Times / About.com; Derrick Wheeler, Senior SEO Architect, Microsoft; Kara Jariwala, Search Marketing Strategist, Cisco; and Laura Lippay, Group Program Manager, Search Strategy, Yahoo!

Matt McGowan, VP of Marketing for Incisive Media, said, "Of course, you can also see plenty of search engine experts from SEM and SEO companies speaking at SES San Jose. And you can also hear lots of representatives of the top search engines speaking at Search Engine Strategies San Jose 2008. The fact that SES San Jose is being held in the backyard of Google and Yahoo explains why the top search engines are sending so many people from their engineering and search quality teams to the conference."

To register, visit http://SearchEngineStrategies.com/sanjose. For more information about this and other SES conferences, visit http://searchenginestrategies.com.

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