World Economic Forum

Buzz Watch: Robert Scoble Is Cell Phone Video Blogging From Davos

Authored by Jay Baage on January 24, 2008 - 12:44pm.

The blogging community can take a cue from Robert Scoble's cell phone video blogging from the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, which is going on right now. It's pretty impressive - with a Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N95, a WiFi connection and a QIK account, he is streaming a bunch of video interviews for the whole world to see (and it's all up there to be shared virally). It is surely the first time that this exclusive forum for world leaders, economists, technology experts, scientists, and other deep thinkers, has been reported on this casually.

Buzz Watch: What Happens In Davos Stays In Davos

Authored by Jay Baage on January 25, 2007 - 7:58am.

Germany takes an different approach to marketing the country's, ehh, assets at this years meeting of high-rollers at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Not that the business and political leaders have not been visited by celebs like Hollywood-royals Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie before, but this advertisement is just tacky. Especially since organizers in Davos, according to The New York Times, decided that the glitz conferred by a celebrity presence had become more hassle than help and made a conscious effort to tone down the glitz this year.