With all the iPhone hype ( i don’t have one) of late, lots of companies are optimizing their content so that it works with the iPhone. Applications such as Digg, Meebo and many other are rushing to get their content and services in front of iPhone users. The other big thing for the iPhone is video content. Apple started out by showing commercials with Youtube content optimized for the iPhone. I suspect that short format video content will be a huge winner for iPhone users, assuming the AT&T’s EDGE network performs. One of my favorite originally produced video networks, On Networks, has high-def on demand content. They have shows that range from Cooking and Health to Comedy. Now you can can check their shows out on your iPhone. Video content optimized for the iPhone is going to explode.

With all the hype on being “green” these days, it’s no surprise that someone has stepped up and started blogging about the Tech companies that are in that space. Gigaom launched Earth2tech.com this morning

“a site devoted to the business of clean technologies, its innovations and everything else. While there are many sites that help consumers live “greener,” we are focusing our energies on the business of clean and green.”

I’m looking forward to adding Earth2tech to my daily reading.

Ok, I was never a big fan of Braodcast.com but they were unique at the time. On Mark Cuban’s blog yesterday he had a post on Broadcast.com and that it was now 8 years old. He had a video promo form Broadcast.com that was pretty funny to watch. I just thought I would share it with you here.

In commemoration of Blogging’s tenth anniversary, Mashable has a post asking people for a list of their top ten blogs. So here’s mine, not in any particular order.

1. Techcrunch.com
2. Joshspear.com
3. mashable.com
4. Highsnobiety.com
5. Gigaom.com
6. skateboardworks.com
7. The Last Ten Days
8. Web Worker Daily
9. OnStartUps
10. Read/Write Web

If you weren’t able to make out to the Bay Area for todays Communty Next conference. No worries as they’re streaming everything live. I went to the Community Next conference earlier in the year and was throughly impressed with Noah and his team. I had my tickets for todays event also but something else came up that prevented me from taking the trip. I don’t feel so bad now since I can watch everything via the Community Next website.

Tags: marketing, viral, communitynext, noah keagan

With a low moment of inertia and agressive rake angle, this motorcycle handles like a dream and has an affinity for changing direction. Couple that with the smooth, efficient power delivery from the electric drivetrain, and you’ve got a recipe for excitement. With 100% of it’s torque available from 0 rpm, the Enertia is certainly no slouch off the line. At it’s quickest setting, the Enertia will sprint from 0 to 30 mph in 3.8 seconds!

Top speed 50 mph. 12,000-$15,000 ships in 2008 Red more at enertiabike.com

I think it’s pretty cool when you take a concept from the “main stream” and apply it to a niche market such as skateboarding. However, not as niche as it once was, with XGames and the like putting skateboarding in front of people that normally wouldn’t be exposed to it. Skateboarding is a billion dollar industry just on the hard goods side of the business, so there certainly is room for a company like Boardpusher.com. Boardpusher is company that enables you to add your own design to your skate deck. Additionally, in the spirit of Cafepress, Boardpusher gives you the tools to roll your own company. You can upload all of your company designs and make your own skate shop. The only downside to this is that boardpusher charges you a monthly maintenance fee ($5/month or $50/year), which in the grand scheme of things is not bad considering that it would cost a lot more to do a run of decks and then wait for them to sell. Boardpusher.com gives you a good way to get a one off deck or start your own company. Great idea.

Example shops hosted by Boardpusher:

1. Elife
2. Gallery Skateboards
3. Impossible Skateboards
4. Eninj

Note: I haven’t tried their wood so I’m not sure the quality of the product, but they state that their decks are 100% Canadian Maple. If you’ve tried one, let us know what you think.

A few weeks ago I went to a DemoCamp here in Austin. One of the presenters there was Mark Phillip who was talking about his sports community called AreYouWatchingThis (RUWT?). There are a lots of Diggs, Myspaces and youtubes out there but there is only one RUWT. I call RUWT a sports community but it’s more than that. It’s a sports lovers dream. What the hell is RUWT you ask, well it’s a community of sports lovers and one robot who all rate games based on how exciting they are. Then based on what level of alerts you want and how you want to be alerted (email or Text Message) you’ll be sent a message alerting you to an exiting game. Marks has developed something he calls the RUWTbot which basically watches all the games for you and then will alert you when the game gets good.

Doing Laundry. Raking the leaves. Went to sleep early. Are any of these
worthwhile reasons for missing the next instant classic? No, we didn’t
think so either. Sign up for our free alerts and RUWTbot will hit you up by email or text message with the score, time left, and channel you need to turn to to catch the game.

Additionally, there is human interaction via a Digg like voting system. The community activity seems to be pretty small now but I think that’s going change soon as more people take notice. Mark just got a write up in ESPN magazine, so it want be long before the sports fans start signing up. RUWT has plans to get in with the TIVO’s of the world so that your game can automatically start recording when the game gets good. Until that happens RUWT offers an API that will allow enterprising programmers the opportunity to do it themselves.

I can’t wait for basketball season to start up again so that I can use RUWT to it’s full potential.

Since giving up my cable TV, I’ve been playing around with all the internet related “tv” apps/services that I can. Joost, which most of you have heard of has been on of the most talked about companies online in that space. Initially, I wasn’t really impressed, mostly for their lack of content. Lately however, they have been cranking out the content and now Joost has captured more of time than in the past. However I still think that products like the Veoh.tv app will be the future of online “tv”. If you’ve ever wanted to produce video content, now would be the time to start. By the way, I still have a few joost invites left if you need one.

On Monday (June 25) I went to my first DemoCamp. It was at a great coffee shop on the south side of town called Cafe Caffeine. There were 5 presenters but the overall turn out was pretty small.

1. Jason Howell – SelfBookIt
2. David James – CommunityGoals | Raise money and find solutions for community problems and goals.
3. Paul Walhus – SearchSlides
4. Ash Maurya – BoxCloud | Dead-simple file sharing
5. Mark Phillip – AreYouWatchingThis

All presenters did a really good job of walking everyone through there product. The two products that stood out the most to me were BoxCloud and AreYouWatchingthis. Both are very polished and the guys behind them are very sharp. Boxcloud is a file sharing application that is one of the best I’ve seen. Their product is ideal for people in the creative field, as you can send large files to clients or other members of your team and have them proof the file and highlight edits without downloading the file. Go to boxcloud.com to find out more. AreYouWatchingThis.com is a sports alert community. You can think of it as a digg for live sports. It’s pretty cool because you can alerts on “exciting” games, as they’re happening. If you’re a sports fan, AreYouWatchingThis.com is a must. They hope to one day have an integration with Tivio witch will put them into some serious money.

Overall DemoCamp was a lot of fun and I look froward to the next. You can view some photos from the event here.