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http://on10.net/blogs/tina/Life-without-Bill-G/

Now why can't we have funny developer videos here on 9 like 10 has?

or a cool animated 9 guy at least!

(that 10 ani is cool... but it is...10.

as for the video.. sort of painful - but i laughed Wink

JChung2006

Geez can Tina talk fast! Funny vid!

Dan

We do some funny videos (like this, or this, or this), but Tina and Laura are great at thinking of and producing higher end videos. If we were going to do funny videos on 9, we'd probably need their help to make it. That being said, the C9 dev team and yours truly has starred in Tina/Laura's videos too Smiley

Maddus Mattus

In reply to Dan

#Jul 1st @ 11:32 PM

Channel9 is waaaaaaaaaaaaay more serious than Channel10,.. Different audience,..

ZippyV

In reply to Maddus Mattus

#Jul 2nd @ 12:19 AM

Indeed, we don't want funny videos on Channel 9. Except Larry Osterman telling funny stories about Microsoft but other than that: no.

Maddus Mattus

In reply to ZippyV

#Jul 2nd @ 12:06 PM

And ofcourse VB's head in a box; Erik Meijer!

Minh

In reply to Maddus Mattus

#Jul 2nd @ 12:19 AM

Maddus Mattus wrote:
Channel9 is waaaaaaaaaaaaay more serious than Channel10,.. Different audience,..

Only the Dutch portion of C9 Wink

How do you say "Lighten up, Bas" in Dutch?

Dan

In reply to Minh

#Jul 2nd @ 12:56 PM

LOL, yeah, I think we can do both, have interesting content and do some fun, amusing videos too.

Maddus Mattus

In reply to Minh

#Jul 2nd @ 12:56 PM

"Lighten up, Bas" translates into; "Neem het niet zo serieus, ik kan er niks aan doen dat je mijn humor niet begrijpt, Bas".

honoust!

Sven Groot

In reply to Maddus Mattus

#Jul 2nd @ 1:47 PM

And that is why nothing ends up fitting in the assigned space when you translate software to Dutch. Tongue Out

Seriously, they changed the "Tools" menu into "Extra" because the actual translation of tools is "gereedschappen".

K0ogle

yeah its kinda untrue that c9 doesn't have funny/ good humoured videos.. but out of all c9/10 vids the funniest one was joint collab with c10/c9 on "life at microsoft".. and the skaterboarder getting trashed for shouting out microsuk Tongue Out c9 probably should do some more vids with Tina & Laura.

also when are c9 logins going to work at c10, I might comment on c10 vids more if I noticed I was already logged on there when I visited..

wisemx

In reply to Dan

#Jul 2nd @ 1:43 PM

How about if I create an animated 9 Guy in Silverlight?
Then you can use record the Silverlight animation.

That's the way I've been doing the animation in my Webcasts lately.

Bas

In reply to Maddus Mattus

#Jul 2nd @ 1:47 PM

I would interject that "Niet zo chagrijnig, Bas" would be more concise.

Maddus Mattus

In reply to Bas

#Jul 3rd @ 1:20 AM

Agreed, but don't tell Minh that!

Harlequin

In reply to Maddus Mattus

#Jul 2nd @ 12:19 AM

I just don't think Channel 9 is going to grow much more until they get a replacement for Scoble. Someone who can ask good questions, get into Microsofts face about things. Current videos are a lot more PR than they used to be. They used to be chatter and conversation, now it's like I'm watching a documentary on TLC.

Minh

In reply to Harlequin

#Jul 3rd @ 9:23 AM

Harlequin wrote:
I just don't think Channel 9 is going to grow much more until they get a replacement for Scoble. Someone who can ask good questions, get into Microsofts face about things. Current videos are a lot more PR than they used to be. They used to be chatter and conversation, now it's like I'm watching a documentary on TLC.

It's an interesting observation. I mean, I like the technical interviews, especially by the architect types like Anders & Amanda & Eric Meyers. But the rest are like... whatever... Maybe you just need big balls (non-gender euphemism) to ask the kind of questions that could get you fired. Those might not be more insightful, but certainly more entertaining.

Or take On10 for example. At the start, 10 actually tried to cover non-MS stuff too. But after several retoolings, it's mostly a MS shop now.

C9 has more of a PR feel to it, which I've said many times, it's not a bad 2-letter words. But reading that wikipedia entry on C9 where it says something about being outside of PR and marketing, it's not about those 5 guys anymore.

C9 has definitely evolved. Some people like it, some don't. But when you have visibility at the Bill Gates level, you just can't be the bad-boy rebel anymore.