We all magically transform into analysts, pundits, and talk show hosts.  More?  We become judges of our own courts in which performances have to pass (or not) our scrutiny.  More?  We have fun and entertainment in that process

Seems like that’s what this Jeremiah Owyang blog post is also talking about.

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We welcome you to try our site at 2008 Presidential Debate on National Security and Foreign Policy

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Options remaining the same, my context being different from shyamsters, how can I still leverage his research and buying experience to help me with my own decision making and purchase.  Wish there was something that will let me do this in a simple, collaborative manner online?  You betcha!  BTW, did I mention I have four other shyamster-clones as my Gadget Gurus .. only that one happens to be my cousin living in Seattle, the other my undergrad best friend in Jersey, third a co-conspirator in the valley here and the fourth my world is flat friend in Bangalore India.

So can I bring these guys together under the umbrella of my context and help them help me make my decision?  Isn’t that what we used to do in the good ‘ol days when the world was spherical and we shopped socially with our trusted buddies.  Some might have seen it as men behaving badly but we ll leave it as out of scope of this post

See below for how I am doing it presently:

Deciding on my first HDTV purchase

Unfuse team summits Whitney

This summer, Vijay and Bala join fellow co-founders Shyam and David in summitting Mt.Whitney @ ~14,500 feet.

Will continue on this topic in a follow-up blog post ..

After a remodel of kitchen and family room late last year, the rather large rear projection TV was starting to look out of place.  I had already migrated from my Media Center PC to an Apple TV and had my eye on a Dish Network service with exclusive HDTV programming.  

Time to jump in!

But what do I buy?  I had to come up to speed on the state of technology.  LCD or Plasma – which is better? More importantly which one is better for my content/viewing habits?  What resolution? 720p or 1080i or 1080p?  Does it make a difference in my situation?  What kind of connectivity features should I be looking for based on my input sources?  Which TVs accept signals from my Mac Mini without any tweaking?  Do I need a dedicated VGA port or would HDMI suffice?  What about Screen Size? What about all the windows in my family room?  Will the glare spoil my viewing experience during daytime?

Through quite a bit of research online and a bit of help from my network of trusted friends, I found answers to all of my questions and narrowed in on a few options.  In the end I picked up a 50 Inch Panasonic Plasma Model TH-50PZ77U that satisfied a majority of my criteria.

So far we are having a ball watching movies, sports, and National Geographic in HD.  I fire up Hulu on the Mac Mini to catch up on shows we did not bother to record on the DVR.  When there are guests, we enjoy watching Youtube on Apple TV even though the quality of the videos does absolutely no justice to the TV’s capabilities

Since my purchase, I have influenced a few of my friends with their purchase of an HDTV.  Some of them bought a different model as their needs were a little different.  Nonetheless, my input based on my research and experience were valuable in making their own decisions.

How does all of this relate to bHive Software?  Stay tuned.

Sramana Mitra writes:

3C = Content, Commerce, Community | 4th C = Context | P = Personalization | VS = Vertical Search

This, I submit, is the formula for the future: Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS).

hmmm … how could this be related to what we are currently working on? Hope to shed more light on this over the course of this spring and summer.