Why 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...
Read moreAnd Now – The Director’s Head on the Block
And now, it’s the Director’s turn… The march of technology is relentless. CollabraCam has just released a new iPhone app that allows you to wifi link up to four cameras, switch them and then edit the final product (including...
Read moreAn Open Call for New York Video Stories
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcKQV4vfy0A[/youtube] Their reel – so far As you all know, we have entered into a relationship with New York Magazine, the definitive pubication for New Yorkers. Now the magazine is putting a toe in the water in the world of...
Read moreNow Video is Driving Phone Design
Motorola Droid XÂ – Bigger If you wanted an indication of the coming power of the next-gen video (on smart devices as opposed to TV) you could not do better than to look at the ‘shape of things to...
Read moreABC News 57 South Bend – are you kidding?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwq3AE6hhjI&feature=related[/youtube] mind boggling… A few years ago I was on one of those panels run by Jeff Jarvis on  The Future of the Media. In this one we were invited to break into teams to try and figure out...
Read moreAndy Warhol meets Paula Deene and Cream Cheese – really
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2Aw8KqjX5CY[/youtube] So spreadable, it’s incredible.. or is that something else? Andy Warhol once said, ‘in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes’. He was not wrong. Paula Deene, as you can see, is today launching her newest...
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