Big Stage Entertainment, Inc., a media technology company that lets consumers project themselves photo-realistically into the digital realm, has announced the availability of BackStage, which offers its 3-D face modeling technology to clients and partners to use in the creation of rich interactive experiences under their own brands. As the product’s first client, VIDiGREET is using BackStage to allow its members to send personalized video greetings containing their animated faces in photorealistic 3-D, directly from the VIDiGREET Web site. By allowing customers to star in content, BackStage lets clients create branded media experiences and marketing campaigns that drive reach, relevance and engagement. Through BackStage, consumers create animated 3-D versions of themselves, called Big Stage @ctors, directly on the partner brand’s Web site. The @ctor can then be instantly accessorized with hairstyles, eyeglasses, shirts, hats, and more, and inserted into content such as video clips,
http://http://www.bigstage.com/CMS/node/132/press

Big Stage Entertainment, Inc., a media technology company that enables consumers to project themselves photo-realistically into digital environments, has concluded its beta program and launched BigStage.com, where anyone can create a free, animated 3-D "Digital You” for instant projection into the online landscape. Called an @ctor, The Digital You can be customized with accessories and then inserted into a growing selection of movie scenes, TV clips, music videos, virtual worlds, social networks, still images, video games, advertisements and more to share with friends, family and colleagues. The launch of BigStage.com follows a public beta program unveiled in August 2008 for comprehensive testing of the Company’s proprietary @ctor creation technology. New capabilities added today include expanded personalization options, an enhanced media player and simple share to Facebook and MySpace tools.
http://www.bigstage.com

The Beatles iPod was unveiled and is available exclusively at Bloomingdale’s. The black Apple iPod Classic 120GB, laser engraved by ETCHSTAR.com, features imagery from the influential band’s Abbey Road album cover and is uniquely numbered 1 to 2500.The laser engraved iPod by ETCHSTAR.com is part of the “Limited Edition Ultimate Collector's Box: Beatles iPod Set” which also includes: 13 original Beatles CDs, two masters, the Love CD and an engraved guitar pick in a box designed by Psycho Bunny. Those purchasing this custom iPod box set will also receive complimentary text customization (more information at http://www.etchstar.com/beatles.php).
http://www.bloomingdales.com/catalog/product/index.ognc?ID=136291

I’ve been getting a lot of requests lately from local aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners to get together. Since I’m running my own startup, I haven’t been able to respond as fast as I would like for all the meeting requests. So I’d like to try something new.
http://www.jasonnazar.com/2008/10/08/have-questions-or-need-help-on-your-business-join-me-for-dinner/

The TechZulu team has welcomed a new member in the form of pasty nerd pimp Chris Darbro, a tech expert with “mad interview skills” and a pretty impressive ninja kick.
http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=33305

SchoolPulse is an event management system for parents, teachers, coaches, PTO/PTA leaders, and anyone else involved with kids. The keys to the service are the calendars and group management tools.
http://mashable.com/2008/10/04/schoolpulse/

Stephen J. Cannell Productions & Big Stage Entertainment Partner to Place You into The A-Team, The Greatest American Hero and More Emmy Award-Winning Writer/Producer is First TV Executive to Embrace Next Generation 3-D Avatar Experience Stephen J. Cannell Productions today announced it has par
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080924005398&newsLang=en

One of my favorite pastimes over the last year or so has been to tear Twitter apart over uptime issues. See, for example, Twitter Suffers Minor Period Of Uptime (my personal favorite), Twitter: Something Is Technically Wrong and Amateur Hour Over At Twitter?.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/03/has-twitter-solved-its-uptime-issues/

Have you been wondering how many rooms on FriendFeed are private? Do you know how many active and public users there are? Are you curious as to whether people “comment” or “like” more?
http://mashable.com/2008/09/03/ffholic/

At Google, we have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit "send" a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html

This investment enables us to serve a far broader audience worldwide.
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