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Welcome to Corbin's TechTalk Newsletter, in its eighth year of providing the latest in technology for events, tradeshows and speaking professionals in more than 60 countries.
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NEW ARTICLE: The Video Revolution's Impact on the Meetings Industry
A video revolution, the explosion of new TV and video options, is sweeping society and will have a substantial impact on meetings and events. Here are some of the ways we will likely see it play out. 
NEW PODCASTS: Three New Podcast Clips from Corbin
More clips from the Expo Magazine podcast series at www.expopodcast.com with professionally produced 20-minute programs on tradeshow news and a bi-weekly 4-6 minute technology interviews with Corbin in MP3. The title links below go directly to my recent interviews, while the web link above takes you to a directory of the programs.
 MP3 File: Internet Privacy and Security
MP3 File: Voice of Internet (VoIP)
MP3 File: Web 2.0
Simply click on the link and it will launch the media player on your PC or right-click on the link and select "Save Target As..." for a download for your MP3 Player.
NEW ARTICLE: Exhibit Sales Lessons Learned from a Turkish Carpet Salesman
Exhibit sales techniques learned on the streets of Istanbul.
NEWS
Corbin's Online Bookmarks File updated
http://www.corbinball.com/bookmarks/
"Corbin's Favorites", the web's most comprehensive list of categorized web links for the meetings and hospitality industries (with a focus on meetings technology), has just been updated with many new links.
Call for meetings technology innovation providers:
Apply for EIBTM's World Wide Technology Watch (WWTW) Award.
I am delighted to have been asked to chair the judging committee for the fifth year. This global award seeks to recognize technology innovation for the meetings and events industry. The winner will receive a free booth at this year's EIBTM show and lots of publicity. The judging will be in October and the award will be given late November at EIBTM 2007 in Barcelona. Application deadline: Friday 7 September 2007. Further details including an application form and other details can be found at: www.eibtm.com/technology.
Hotel Defibrillator Program Credited with Saving Lives
http://www.cardioready.com/press/PR_2007_05_21.asp
CardioReady, the American Heart Association and StarCite are bringing defibrillators to hotels.
EIBTM Technology Hours: Tuesday-Thursday 1:00pm-2:00pm 27-29 November 2007
http://www.eibtm.com/page.cfm/link=124
Back by popular demand, Tony Carey, CMP, CMM and I will debate the impact of technology on the events industry on Wednesday 28 November immediately before the WWTW award presentation. This is one of three technology programs scheduled, one for each day of EIBTM.
More of Corbin's Articles in Spanish
Another article (The Video Revolution's Impact on the Events Industry) has been translated into Spanish with more to come. Thanks to Thomas MacFarlane from Event Planner Spain (www.eventplannerspain.com), for providing the translation services.
23 Web Site Favorites for Business and Fun
4 Meeting Industry Sites:
PCI (Payment Card Industry) Compliance
http://www.certain.com/assets/uploads/pciwhitepaper.pdf
What meeting planners need to know about Payment Card Industry Standards, and why it is important to choose service providers who are compliant.
SpotMe 2 Now Available
http://www.spotme.com/index.php?id=102
This next generation of what was already very good networking/email/scheduling/lead retrieval device for meetings is a big upgrade.
Metro Toronto Convention Centre Virtual Tour
http://www.mtccc.com/imapdata/mtcc.html
With the slick user-interface, this is one of the best events-related virtual tours I have seen.
ennectEvent
http://www.ennect.com
Award-winning registration, survey, email marketing suite.
9 Favorite Utility/Reference Sites:
The top eight corporate sites in Second Life
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/1508006/1848875/61690/2/
Surface Computing
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4217348.html
A new interface from Microsoft. Minority-report here we come!
Roll-up display technology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_m36Gr4jzM
I have been talking about this technology for some time. It is now a reality.
Google StreetView
http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/index.html
Check out the streets of San Francisco, Denver, New York or Miami in high-resolution 360° views from any point in the city. More cities to come.
The Meta-verse: Linking of all the shared photos on the web.
http://www.flixxy.com/photosynth-digital-photography.htm
You have got to see this video! An incredible vision of how image data will be shared in the future.
Online Project Management
http://www.basecamphq.com/
Powerful online project management suite.
SecondLIfe Beta Now Includes Voice
http://secondlife.com/community/bhear.php
A whole new dimension has been added to this virtual world. Now you can speak rather than just text chatting.
Add free polls to your website
http://www.polldaddy.com/
60 pages-per-minute color printing
http://www.memjet.com/pages.aspx?id=videoimages
New technology at amazing speeds.
10 Sites for Fun:
Amazing Trees
http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/21/10-most-magnificent-trees-in-the-world/
Are you tone deaf?
http://www.bored.com/musictests/index.htm
Origin of SPAM (Monty Python) (video)
http://www.flixxy.com/origin-of-spam.htm
Pilobolus Shadow Dancers performing at the 79th Annual Oscars 2007 (video)
http://www.flixxy.com/oscar-awards-shadow-dancers.htm
The Retorencabulator: Geek Speak to the Max (video)
http://www.flixxy.com/rockwell-automation-systems.htm
One funny laugh (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Y4keqTV6w
I laughed until I cried on this very funny "down-home" country entertainment piece.
Fly Cars -- Finally Coming? (video)
http://www.flixxy.com/x-hawk-flying-car.htm
Great pet video.
http://www.flixxy.com/why-everyone-needs-a-pet.htm
Women in Art -- 300 years in 3 minutes (video)
http://www.flixxy.com/fine-art-women-portraits.htm?a=1
Medieval Help Desk (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ
QUOTE OF THE MONTH:
"You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing." - Michael Pritchard
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