Will Viddy be the next Twitter but for Video?
Brett O’Brien, co-founder of Viddy The shocking demise of Flipcam last week became even more shocking when it was revealed that Cisco was about to release a new version of Flipcam that streamed video direclty to the web. This...
Read moreWhen Your World Gets Blown Apart
The iPad of the 19th Century The New York Times reported yesterday that nationally people are at a ‘low mood’ when they think about the future of the economy and the nation. There are short-term fixes, but in a longer...
Read moreFreedom to Fail
Loser! Thomas Edison understood the concept of the lightbulb. What he had a problem with was finding the right filament for the thing. It took him more than 9,000 tries until he hit on the idea of carbonized bamboo...
Read moreand now… Augmented Reality
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBKy-hSedg8&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Now you see it, now you see more of it This one is called Augmented Reality or Mediated Reality. It has been around, in one form or another since the 1990s, and has, until now, mostly been seen...
Read more411 on FCPX
April 15, 2011 4:00 AM PDT The skinny on Final Cut Pro X (FAQ) by Josh Lowensohn (Credit: Apple) Apple this week unveiled the next major version of Final Cut Pro, the company’s video-editing software that plays big...
Read more[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h_sZQHe0Vg&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] If this is ‘state of the art’, I think we can all do better… For a long time we have been saying that video will soon become the dominant medium online for just about everything – from...
Read moreWhy Cisco Killed the Flipcam
Like an episode of House You have to wonder why Cisco killed the Flip. Sales were up. So up, in fact, that the Flip controlled 35% of the camcorder market. And, apparently, Flip was going to release a really...
Read more2 Chances to win $$ with your video
Here’s your chance! OK Every once in a while an opportunity arises to make some money out of your video. Today, I have TWO! First, Nokia is offering you $5000 to support ‘making your film’ (if they accept your...
Read moreHow the West Came to Dominate The World
not a particularly promising future… Niall Ferguson is my favorite historian. His newest book, Civilization: The Rest and the West is not going down so well among the more politically correct, or one might say, politically sensitive. It’s a...
Read moreGoogle/Youtube says “Networks Can’t Cut It Anymore”
I stole this shot from The NYÂ Times…. It was inevitable. Youtube and online video chow through material. Today, people are uploading to Youtube at a breathtaking rate of 35 hours of video a minute. A minute. Conventional production companies...
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