Video

Improvising a microphone stand

February 14, 2007

I had a great morning with the Doug Steve and Matt from the BlackberryCool team.  They came in to shoot some video, and do an interview.  Part way through, it became necessary to improvise a microphone stand.  Puffy heart pillows to the rescue! Happy Valentines Day.

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Jon Arnold's DemoCamp video

February 7, 2007

My good friend Jon Arnold was in attendance at DemoCamp12 in Toronto the other night, with wunderkind Max, his son.  They shot some photos and video of the Talk-Now demo I gave. Thanks for doing this Jon!

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Thanks to Fred Graver, you can't watch the iotum Talk-Now videos any more.

January 19, 2007

UPDATE: This story actually has a very happy ending. Fred contacted me in September and apologized. He turned out to be a wonderful guy, and generously offered to write and produce a video for us, which we released in December to promote our New Years call. —————————- I had a tough decision to make this [...]

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I'm no Steven Spielberg but…

January 8, 2007

With no prior knowledge of non-linear editing, and indeed, not having ever edited video before in my life, I dove into the deep end yesterday to produce a short video describing iotum Talk-Now, the Blackberry application which we’re previewing.  It ended up being a late night as I ran into the shortcomings of the various [...]

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The New "Instant Journalism"

January 6, 2007

User generated content as journalism has been one of those persistent stories in the media over the last year.  With the meteoric rise of blogs, podcasting, and video blogging, it seems that publishing has truly become the province of every person.  In Creative Video Blogging and the new “Instant Journalism”, Andy Abramson offers some thoughts on [...]

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Sightspeed: Ready For Business.

October 11, 2006

Sightspeed is the technology behind AMD Live! Communicator Live.  Good on you, folks! The ten second summary of the deal is: Sightspeed technologies are the foundation of the AMD Live! Communicator.  AMD has taken the existing Sightspeed technology, and customized it to their experience, delivering 30 frame per second video telephony to their customers. By itself, this [...]

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The Vonage of TV?

October 11, 2006

BusinessWeek’s Olga Kharif has written a short article on Jeff Pulver’s latest effort: Network2.tv.  She leads off with the provocative question of whether this will be the “Vonage” of TV, and then makes this statement: Pulver believes that, in 2007, we’ll see the rise of a new TV network that will eventually compete with the [...]

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Sightspeed and MTV

September 30, 2006

We may be seeing a bit of an answer to the question I asked last week, which was how should the communications industry think about video?  Andy Abramson reports that his client Sightspeed has just landed a deal to provide casting call services for MTV.  Congratulations to Peter Csathy and his team.  And, for those [...]

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Sightspeed. #1 Again

September 25, 2006

Congratulations to the team at Sightspeed!  The October 17th PC Mag ranks them the number one pick for video calling, once again. 

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Vlogging: My Final Thoughts

September 18, 2006

First, thanks to everyone, vlogger and non-vlogger alike who contributed to this discussion. Dina’s reprise of Why Alec Saunders Should Videoblog caught me by surprise.  Personal and direct, her piece is a testament to why Dina believes that vlogging is important.  Jonny’s hidden talents as a noseflute player were briefly demonstrated in his piece.  Jonny, let [...]

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