A cross between Bill Clinton and Larry the Cable Guy, Hayzlett’s entertaining and informative presentation challenged the audience’s perception of Kodak as a corporate remnant of the analog age.

Setting the tone was this corporate video, “Winds of Change,” which starts with a self-deprecating look at Kodak and reveals some fascinating insights into the transformation Kodak has undertaken – where half of the 19 top products, which account for 80% of their current revenue, didn’t exist just two years ago!

If you’re interesting in learning more about ProductCampNYC, you can visit their wiki to find out about upcoming events and to see videos from this past weekend’s sessions as soon as they’re posted.

The San Mateo-based startup launched last year and recently closed a $4.1 million Series A round from Clearstone Venture Partners and a number of angel investors.

Mouseover the film icon in this Apture Video link, as well as the book icon in the link for CVP above, to check it out.  (Hopefully, you didn’t need that explanation how to use it!)

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According to their Shift Happens wiki page, the video originally started out as a PowerPoint presentation for a faculty meeting in August 2006 at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colorado, United States. The presentation “went viral” on the Web in February 2007 and, as of June 2007, had been seen by at least 5 million online viewers.

Today the old and new versions of the online presentation have been seen by at least 20 million people, not including the countless others who have seen it at conferences, workshops, training institutes, and other venues.

I found this shirt on Zazzle.  Click on image to order.

These are symptoms of OMD, obsessive mobile disorder, and the dread disease CPA, continuous partial attention, in which victims come to believe that life via mobile might be more interesting than life right in front of them.

The article tells the story of Adam Ward, a 24-year-old postgraduate student from London, who was afflicted recently when he started going out with a new girlfriend. “Yep, it’s true,” he said. “We went out on a date and I decided to update my friends every few minutes about how it was going.”

Using his Blackberry, Ward regularly posted his thoughts and observations to his Twitter account as the evening progressed. Didn’t his date notice or object? “Nobody knows you are Twittering, you could just be writing a text,” he said, as if the latter were normal romantic behaviour. “And to be honest, I’m pretty much on my phone every few minutes anyway.”*

As phones offering calls, texts, e-mails, internet and more proliferate, OMD and CPA are spreading like flu. “When I first got the phone, people were really annoyed,” said Ward. “I’d be sitting at dinner and it would keep going off. I had to put it on silent because even if it was on vibrate it was annoying for others.

But as more people get them, they’re not so bothered. It’s becoming the norm – “sorry, can you hold a minute, someone’s messaging me.” It is only when you are repeatedly on the receiving end of OMD or CPA that you begin to understand how infuriating it can be.

Read the complete article here: Can’t Talk, I’m on the Phone

* In case you’re wondering how Adam’s date worked out … despite his constant attention to his Blackberry, apparently they did make a connection.  In the morning he Tweeted: “Success!”

They describe Earth Hour as “sort of like open source movement against global warming.”  Adding that tomorrow (Saturday, March 28) at 8:30 P.M. millions of people in thousands of cities will turn off the lights for one hour to raise awareness about the link between global warming and energy use.

One day before the start of the event in Asia, “Earth Hour” is the top search item on Twitter.

If you’re planning on participating in Earth Hour tomorrow, you may want to start before you leave the office today.  A study published this week calculated that $2.8 billion is wasted from office PCs that aren’t shut off properly.

BizSpark provides fast, easy access to current full-featured Microsoft development tools and production licenses of server products; professional technical support from Microsoft; and connections to a global community of business experts who can help guide you through the hurdles of growing your business.

Participants must be privately held, in business less than three years and have less than $1 million in annual revenue.   Companies that want to participate in BizSpark are required to be sponsored by Network Partners, such as Two Degrees.

For additional details on the program, visit http://www.microsoft.com/BizSpark. Please feel free to contact me at bizspark@2-degrees.com if you would like an enrollment invitation.

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“Does the idea of a $3 kobe beef slider send you into culinary bliss? Do you know where to find the best and cheapest duck confit taco in town? If all of the above sounds like an average dining experience, then 3 Buck Bites is the place for you!”

I’m waiting for the iPhone app with Loki integration, so I can dine guilt-free on taquitos, dumplings, pulled-pork sliders, Banh Beo and scrambled-eggs pie wherever the mood strikes.  Well, at least guilt-free as far as the budget is concerned.  Most of the selections wouldn’t make your nutritionist or trainer proud.

Click here for the FriendFeed.

Click here for live conference from CNET.

You can find more CNET iPhone news coverage here.

Here’s a live blog and pics from AppScout.

Click here for a comprehensive view from Macworld.

Click here for a few last minute predictions at PC World.

For those that have been waiting …

If you read the CNET blog (see link above), you’ll see that iPhone 3.0 does includes cut and paste!

Here’s a summary of other features in iPhone 3.0 from Macworld’s iPhone Central …

Landscape orientation is coming to all key applications. Already available in Safari, when you rotate the iPod touch or iPhone sideways, the new functionality will enable you to input using a larger keyboard in Mail, Notes and SMS. It’s also good for viewing widescreen attachments.

Another big win for long-suffering iPhone users: MMS, or Multimedia Messaging Service, support. This enables you to send and receive photos, contact information (using the vCard standard, which will automatically add it to your Contact list), audio files and locations. The new Messages application not only supports MMS, but it can also forward and delete messages, either individually or multiply.

Voice Memos is a new application that enables you to use to record audio files. You can use the built-in microphone or an external microphone, edit the memo and share it by e-mail or MMS.

New calendar format support will be added in iPhone 3.0’s release — CalDAV, the format supported by Yahoo, Google, Oracle, OS X Server and others, as well as .ics, commonly used for sports schedules, national holiday lists, movies and more.

Search capabilities are being added to key applications, starting with Mail. You’ll be able to search messages, From, To and Subject and all other headers, and you can continue your search on the mail server if it’s not on the iPhone — at least for Exchange and most IMAP servers, according to Apple. You can also search in your Calendar and iPod, and search in Notes.

Spotlight search capabilities are also being added to the iPhone, so you can search iPhone-wide for a word or phrase you need to find.

Other new features include Note sync with the Mac (or PC) through iTunes, the ability to shake to shuffle your music (a feature previously seen on the newest iPod nano), Wi-Fi automatic login, stereo Bluetooth support (for devices that support the A2DP profile), YouTube account log-in, enhanced support with better keyboards for different languages, auto-fill, anti-phishing, and extended parental controls.

NOTE: You can find a preview of iPhone OS 3.0 at the Apple iPhone website later today.

Twitter seems to have gone from obscure to mainstream in about the same time it takes to send a “tweet” over the network.

Despite the fact that the three-year-old microblogging service doesn’t generate revenue — nevermind profits — there is already chatter about who might want to buy it.

However, analysts at Sanford Bernstein believe that potential acquirers for Twitter should think twice.

Whoever buys Twitter, they wrote, “will likely have to operate it at a loss in perpetuity, or until the next cool Web 2.0 social networking concept comes along and Twitter tweets no more.”

Read more here.