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It’s been a fun week of BarCampHouston3 TV.  To wrap up the coverage, I talk with Marc Nathan of the Houston Technology Center.  Nathan is very optimistc about the tech scene in Houston currently and in the future.

He talks about how people in Houston are getting hip to Web startups, the big secret to starting a Web company and what Houston must keep doing to be successful.

http://www.houstontech.org/

You will be able to see all of my BarCampHouston3 videos here.  And here is more on BarCamp for those who are asking.

We all know Chris Doelle from Lone Star Gridiron, but he is also wearing a new hat at this year’s BarCamp Houston 3.

His latest project is Newstreamz which is a hyperlocal Web site news effort in San Marcos, TX. From what Doelle says, Newstreamz is doing pretty well in that region with local news and ad sales. When I say hyper local news, I’m not joking. Doelle and crew don’t bother with the AP feed realizing folks can get that news somewhere else on the Internet.  The site has gone up against the traditional newspaper and has the motto “Every person should hit the newspaper sometime in their life other than when they are born or when they die.”

Find out how the site is breaking news in San Marcos and incorporating citizen journalism into the picture. Plus how the site is using video and if this model could work in Houston.

www.newstreamz.com
www.lonestargridiron.com 

Stay tuned. More BarCampHouston3 TV on the way. You will be able to see all of my BarCampHouston3 videos here.  And here is more on BarCamp for those who are asking.

If you work in TV news or PR then you will really want to watch this. Rakesh Agrawal of SnapStream stops by my BarCamp Houston 3 TV to talk about SnapStream Enterprise and Beyond TV.

SnapStream Enterprise is a server you can buy that records up to 10 channels and then lets you search the video with text.  Say you want to see TV shows in your 10 recorded channels that feature the terms “Mike McGuff,” “Breaking News,” “Dr Pepper Icee” or whatever strikes your fancy.  Instead of searching yourself, the system will send you an email alert as it happens. I’m sure media folks can see the value in this.

Rakesh also talks about how Joel McHale and The Soup producers use the product.

http://www.snapstream.com/enterprise/
http://www.snapstream.com/

Stay tuned. More BarCampHouston3 TV on the way. You will be able to see all of my BarCampHouston3 videos here.  And here is more on BarCamp for those who are asking. 

On this edition of BarCamp Houston 3 TV, we talk with Steve Latham of Houston based Spur Interactive about social media. Who is really using Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn?  We also talk about Latham’s involvement in Lemonade Day.

http://www.spurinteractive.com/
http://www.lemonadeday.org/

Stay tuned. More BarCampHouston3 TV on the way. You will be able to see all of my BarCampHouston3 videos here.  And here is more on BarCamp for those who are asking. 

Tuesday’s edition of HoustonBarCamp3 TV features Jay A. Drayer of Houston based careflash.com. Careflash.com is a site that merges social networking with families at hospitals. Basically if you have a loved one in the hospital, you could easily create a community around that person with CareFlash.

Drayer talks about the site’s features, benefits and the business model. Could be a big site in the Texas Medical Center.

http://www.careflash.com/

You can vote to help Drayer’s panel “Health 2.0, Hitting a Fever Pitch” present at SXSW Interactive. 

Stay tuned. More BarCampHouston3 TV on the way. You will be able to see all of my BarCampHouston3 videos here.  And here is more on BarCamp for those who are asking.

Here is my first video of the week from BarCampHouston3!

We talk to Giovanni Gallucci of Dallas-based Viewzi.com. This is a really cool search engine that outputs results in many visual ways. It is built on the API of other search engines. To put it bluntly…it provides stunning visual results.

Giovanni tells us how Viewzi works, how it makes money, its connection to Mark Cuban’s Broadcast.com and what it’s like to be a tech company in Dallas, Texas.

http://www.viewzi.com/

Stay tuned. More BarCampHouston3 TV on the way. You will be able to see all of my BarCampHouston3 videos here.

Coming up this week, each day I will interview a big name in Houston’s tech scene that attended this past weekend’s BarCampHouston3.Stay tuned.

All interviews will be on my Barcamp category.