Posts Tagged: video

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Dec 09

Innovations in Video

1) RSSHandler.com. Just discovered this site that let’s you subscribe to YouTube chanels and auto-download them like a podcast to your iPod. I’m not sure why YouTube doesn’t provide this directly – they should. A couple good channels to start with: Muppets Studio or PBS NewsHour.

2) iCam’s latest update now lets you record video on motion and view it remotely on your iPhone. I hear it works through most firewalls that would otherwise block the video (nice!).

3) My favorite innovation in video, however, is USTREAM. They now have a free Apple-approved iPhone app that let’s you broadcast video from anywhere. This is truly amazing and will enable all sorts of citizen journalism. Can’t wait to see how this one unfolds.

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Oct 09

Did You Know 4.0

The latest update on the Did you Know video. I don’t know about the rest of you, but if it’s all just a numbers game, these numbers tell a rather compelling story.

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Here’s the full video:

And here’s the older 2.0 version.

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Jan 09

Google Reader & RSS

Google Reader for Beginners:

And a great “what is rss” video repost:

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May 08

Al Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis

Gore recently gave a new talk at TED about the climate crisis. TED has this to say about the talk:

In Al Gore’s brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act.

A must see.


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Apr 08

Video Chat – it’s here, now what?

Video Chat technology is finally easy enough and available enough for the masses. It isn’t the phone replacement everyone thought it would be. But like SMS, IM, Twitter, Email, Snail Mail, Land Lines, Cell phones, Newspapers, etc: more communication is generally a good thing and using the right format always enhances the message.

This week I got to catch up with the family and even read the kids a bed time story from half-way across the country. It was nice to have a few minutes that felt “at home”, and this was certainly the right format for the “communication” today (it sounds so cold when I say it like that!).

So my question is:

1) For those of you using Video Chat on occasion, when do you use it? When do you skip it even though there are no technical reasons preventing it?

2) For those that never use it, why? Is it a lack of video camera? No one to talk to? Prefer the phone?


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