Influence Forum

So as you've seen over the past few days, I've been posting my notes from the sessions I attended at the Influence Forum. I'll now spend some time today, cleaning those up, removing any boring bits, do some additional research and expand some items. So please take the time to go back and review these as the conference offered some really great discussions...

7Tivo - try and get techAU.tv delivered on Tivo when it launches in Aus.Twin tuners - HD, based on Series 3, modifications including PAL.Can FF ads, not skip entire ad.tivo.com.au to get more updates soon - watch this space. John - SamsungFocus on Full HD (1080p)Movement away from component, multiple HDMI ports on TV's.Moved from version 1.2 to 1.3 of HDMI - includes CEC - Consumer...

9.30 this morning, I sat on a podcasting panel at the Influence forum. The other people on the panel are Ian Yates from itradio.com.au and Roulla Yiacoumi from the podcast Bran.Some topics discussed in the session are:Overview of techAU- Gaming, Gadgets, Social Networks, Phones.- Impacts of broadband speeds in Australia on audience.- Big issues (Storage of files - providing the podcast in multiple formats can easily be...

In a product demonstration session at the moment, featuring displays from Samsung, Netgear, NRG / AMD, My net phone and more.The new upcoming phone were impressively thin. Netgear displayed their new router with VOIP configuration built in.

Speaker from AMD Introducing 4 cores this year, 8 cores next yearFusion released next year (late 2008/2009) - combines CPU / GPU.Using 65nm atm, moving to 32nm next year, then 25nm, reaching limits of making transistors down to the size of atoms. Next evolution to light.Currently 65w moving down to 45w, estimation of by 2010 processor power consumption to 20w - heat not longer...

Tomorrow morning I'll be sitting on a Podcasting panel, I'll be preparing some notes later today, but for the most part it should a fairly informal, off the cuff discussion, Like many of the sessions I've been to at Influence, I'm sure some really good conversations will be generated.

It's the 1st session of the 2nd day, Living Online.Fransico from BeboHas worked for YahooPlays clip - When in doubt... ask the BBC.Beebo joins with iTunes to offer 5 million songs.Video covers MySpace, Facebook and Bebo.Slide shown of demographic for social networks, indicates Bebo huge in the UK.Kids aren't using email as much anymore in favour of social networks.The got the creator of Lonelygirl15...

Just about to go into the second session. This should be a very interesting session, it's obviously a topic that effects techAU in a massive way. We're always negotiating the balance between providing high quality content, whilst being conscious of our users connection speeds. With the average consumer connection increasing, we look to provide a HD version of the show in the future. With faster...