Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from the last Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood Fall 2006 Monday, October 23 4:10 PM – 5:15 PM Session B: Vlogs & Video Aggregators - Broadband and Mobile Video Blogging: Next Gen Entertainment and Journalism, Social Networking and Personal Communication As sure as the soapbox turned into the blog, the web blog is opening the door to the Vlogs, the video blogs. As next generation broadband increases and as the technologies that make the video blog accessible and easy to produce and manage, the world of Vlogs is about to explode. If bloggers have made journalists groan, then the coming of Vlogs will make the world of TV news and TV entertainment howl. The ability for the individual to reach out to the world through video is about to become as ordinary as text messaging is today. Video as a primary communications and entertainment tool for the individual is an idea that has yet to arrive, but is only around the corner. What is means to the content, communications, technology and advertising industries is anyone’s guess. It may be the next revolution! Mary Hodder, CEO, Dabble Mike Hudack, CEO and co-founder, blip.tv Dave Toole, co-founder and CEO, Outhink Media Kevin Sladek, co-founder, VideoEgg Josh Felser, CEO, Grouper Networks Thomas Randolph, President, FrameFree® Technologies, Inc. Bart Feder, President/CEO, The FeedRoom, Moderator Kevin Sladek, co-founder & Chief Opportunity Officer (COO), VideoEgg: As co-founder and COO of VideoEgg, Kevin identifies and leads key development and partnership efforts and drives the Company’s overall growth strategy. Prior to VideoEgg, he co-founded MediaLiquid, a network of more than 5,000 independent filmmakers producing Public Service Announcements for non-profit organizations. MediaLiquid PSAs run on a variety of national broadcast and cable outlets, and have earned coveted primetime placements in Fox Television’s That 70’s Show and The OC. Kevin received a BA in Ethics, Politics and Economics from Yale University, despite the persistent distraction of an intense interest in digital filmmaking. Mary Hodder is CEO of Dabble, a recently launched company aiming to be 'the most comprehensive search and social search site on the planet', by helping users organize, search, tag, describe and promote video. An information architect and 'live web' search expert, she has worked with companies in open source, photo sharing and search services. She blogs at Napsterization (napsterization.org/stories/) and was an original author at bIPlog (the first UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism blog, on the topic of intellectual property, security and privacy). She has a Masters from UC Berkeley's School of Information, researching digital media and information technology, with it's attendant issues of traditional journalism, information architecture, intellectual property, privacy, and online communities. Bart Feder is CEO and President of The FeedRoom, the leading digital media communications company that enables clients to communicate more effectively with video online as well as through other technology platforms and devices. Before becoming CEO of The FeedRoom, Bart served as the company's Senior Vice President and General Manager. He joined The FeedRoom in June 2000 following 25 years in broadcast management and production, most recently as News Director at WABC-TV, the Disney/ABC flagship station in New York. Before entering news management in 1986, Bart was a newscast and specials producer in New York and Boston and received several Emmy and Associated Press Awards and an International Film and Television Festival of New York Gold Medal for Newscast Production. Bart, his wife and three children reside in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Dave Toole is the co-founder and CEO of Outhink Media, the developer of technologies and services that power Media 2.0, the major social networking phenomenon propelling individuals to create and produce Web-based media. In March, Outhink Media launched the first of its network affiliates, TowerPod, a podcasting property for Tower Records. Mr. Toole founded Outhink Media in 2001 to fuse his expertise in technology and business with his love of music and creative expression, as he is a serious garage band musician. Mr. Toole and Outhink Media have spent the last five years developing one of the fastest growing segments of the Internet - personal media production, podcasting and the development of right-cleared file sharing. Currently, Outhink Media’s network includes: TowerPod, OurMedia, 49 Media, MVP Performance, and SpinXpress. Prior to founding Outhink Media, Mr. Toole spent 30 years in the semiconductor industry. He was Chairman/CEO of GaSonics International (Nasdaq;GSNX), a semiconductor capital equipment manufacturer that was acquired by Novellus Systems in 2001. During Mr. Toole’s tenure, GaSonics was recognized as one of the fastest growing technology companies in the 90’s by Forbes and Fortune magazines, and one of the most profitable in its industry segment. During his leadership, shareholder value increased more than 10-fold. He spearheaded several product initiatives which lead the company to a global industry leadership position and led several acquisitions, highlighted by being one of the first American companies to purchase a Japanese semiconductor company. Prior to GaSonics, Mr. Toole held management positions at Advanced Micro Devices. Mr. Toole was first introduced to the ARPANET during his college years at the University of California Santa Barbara where he earned a degree in Business. Mr. Toole lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his family. Thomas Randolph, President, FrameFree® Technologies, Inc.: Mr. Randolph is a computer software and multimedia industry visionary with more than 20 years of information technology and IT management experience, including 15 years of developing and managing multimedia software development projects. With deep ties to the technology industry in Japan and US, he has served as special advisor to Fujitsu Limited (1987-1994) and NTT Data (1992-1994). While assisting Fujitsu on various PC, multimedia and Internet projects, Mr. Randolph was asked by Fujitsu to spearhead the development of the FM Towns Multimedia Personal Computer (world’s first multimedia PC system with CD-ROM) in Tokyo. During this time, Mr. Randolph was appointed the board member of Multimedia PC Council (MPC) and helped establish the multimedia hardware and software standards in the U.S., together with Creative Labs, Microsoft Corp. and Bill Gates (1989). During the FM-Towns project, Mr. Randolph and Fujitsu jointly published more than one hundred international multimedia software products in Japan. Most of these titles were the first multimedia software ever created, including SimCity, Ultima Online, Macromedia Director, Battle Chess and more. Using this intense experience in multimedia production, Mr. Randolph established Lanpro Localization Center Corp. and Interactive Artists, LLC in San Francisco to provide localization services and multimedia and interactive music production. In 1995, Mr. Randolph and Interactive Artists co-produced a groundbreaking interactive multimedia concert with Tomoyasu Hotei (a top Rock & Roll artist in Japan) with NTT as the main sponsor. Most of the team for this production was formally involved with the band Grateful Dead. The concert series was a massive hit in Japan and the video album "Cyber City Never Sleeps" remains in the history books as the world's first truly interactively controlled Rock & Roll concert. In 1996, Mr. Randolph was named president and chief executive officer of 7th Level Asia Pacific, Inc., where he opened an office in Tokyo for the distribution of games and educational titles. In 1999, he was named the Special Advisor to the Vice Chairman of Sega America to help launch the Dreamcast game console in the U.S. From 2001, Mr. Randolph focused most of his efforts in China, establishing high level contacts in the Chinese government to help China, Japan and the United States become better high tech partners. In 2002, Mr. Randolph was named CTO of Monolith Limited to help kick start the FrameFree project in Japan and China. In 2003, Mr. Randolph was named the Director of Delphi Holdings Limited with the mission to productize and introduce FrameFree to the global market. In 2004, he assembled a "digital imaging dream team" in San Francisco under FrameFree Technologies, Inc. and is now dedicating all of his time to help make FrameFree a global standard in the digital imaging market. He lives in Taipei and San Francisco. Mike Hudack is the co-founder and CEO of blip.tv. He is responsible for overseeing all business, site and software development, integration with private labels and community relations with the videoblogger community. Before blip.tv, Mike was a senior programmer and systems administrator for the National Hockey League. He managed the team responsible for one of the biggest IT projects in the history of the League: consolidating and re-developing the NHL’s internal applications, which serve hundreds of employees using dozens of technologies ranging from the IBM AS/400 to Sun’s J2EE to Lotus Notes to Perl. In addition, Mike created and developed the content management system for NHL.com, administered dozens of NHL.com servers spread across two data centers in New York City and coordinated the redesign and development of NHL.com’s real time statistics client. In 2001 Mike worked for AOL/Time Warner’s Parenting Group, where he helped to manage the Parenting.com Web site. He oversaw tens of thousands of individual Web pages across several re-branding and redesign cycles and designed and authored an Internet subscription system for TPG’s Parenting and BabyTalk properties. Before working at AOL/Time Warner, Mike was hired as the Chief Scientist for Knowledge Propulsion Laboratories, a computer security start-up in Norwalk, Connecticut. While at KPL, Mike designed the innovative LinearC privacy product and the Data Haven secure Internet storage service. Mike has spoken at SXSW, NYU and other forums as an expert on blogging and digital journalism. He has created and maintained more than a half dozen blogs, including warstories:cc and warblog:cc, which were covered by the Washington Post, USA Today, PBS Newshour, NPR and Forbes.