This all brings me to now. Now, I live in France, in Bretagne to be exact, about 1 hour from where Phil lives. I live here now with Jim and Henry the beagle and the two crazed cats we brought over from Boston. On this blog, there are memorial pages to Gus and Maxine. The house here in France is filled with their photos and even Gus’s ashes are here. But now I start over here in this house with new animals and my job from the second floor of this house. Instead of looking out on a Boston street or an Amsterdam canal, I look out at  15th century chapel.  I know that from 9 to 10 am every day, the lady from the boulangerie comes to the village with bread and most people in the village walk down to the bar to get their baguette or other small items from her. I know that when you are on your way to the canal for a hike and the post lady has a letter for you, she will signal you to come to her van. I know that each day at the end of the day Josef will drive home up our street and wave, marking the end of the work day. I hear the birds singing all the time and dogs barking in the distance. I see moss growing on the chapel in front of me. And I smile. Life is good.

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I just like this article in IT World on so many levels — the fact that Mr. Chambers wants to talk about Web 2.0 is probably better than him talking about the “you tubes” and such — but I think that when you see Cisco next to Web 2.0 it just doesn’t look right. You know, it’s like the really nerdy kid that wants to sit next to the cool kids in school, and I mean cool like old school high tops and jeans with black t-shirts cool.

And in my second favorite quote by a big wig today that makes them look like they really really want to be friends with the cool kids – here is John Chambers on why they are doing this: “Video is changing work and life while also driving sales of Cisco’s infrastructure” Well at least he put that last statement in there – he is afterall a very rational person, cool no, but rational and square, yes.

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Happily, I steered clear of too much controversy at IBC – you know that is hard for me, but in general kept the ear to the ground about the “general atmosphere” of the show in general. Our opinion? Was that this year’s IBC was much calmer, much more positive and there seemed to be a a brisk flow of operators throughout the show asking finally the right questions about deployments and what they need to keep their subscribers happy. The bottom line? TattleTech thinks its because last year was filled with bumps – acquisitions, mergers and just a general worry about what would even work – this year, people seem more confident about what they need to reach subscribers in order to capture them in the IPTV web — there finally seems to be an understanding of the multiple screen concept and the user preference for ease of use and a similiarity to how they interact with applications on the web and mobile – iPhone, Facebook, Flickr, etc. Finally. We think that that mood was much more forward thinking.

Now, we won’t get technical, but out of the four, Dreampark and Quative looked the best – meaning that they looked like the way that a consumer would want to manipulate or use his EPG. I mean the way that they are using applications on their computer — and to take that one step further, we mean in the way that htey are manipulating content via social networking applications and that fabulous iPhone layout. Consumers are moving around at light speed today on their mobile devices and computers and to us, the sooner that IPTV adopts a similiar interface that faster the adoption will be and then we can really get that nifty stuff they all have been promising.

Motorola told us that Espial was using a propriatary technology like SVG, but the three others were showing pure SVG and illustrating the graphic difference between what SVG an do versus HTML. It’s quite dramatic. Go by and see it. Check out the transparency feature of Dreampark – really, check it out!