I almost always argue on the side of budget, and frequently write about how to get professional looks on amateur equipment. In the pursuit of “balance” (and to make another futile attempt at affiliate links), here are some reasons to spend more on a video camera. You don’t always get what you pay (very often…
Facebook Head of Ad Products Gokul Rajaram shared some thoughts on social advertising using such meaty words as clustering, user actions, signals and advertising… and the future of social advertising. Facebook’s ads, like Google, are bid driven (CPC/CPM), and Rajaram was the former Google guy who started Chai Labs (later bought by Facebook). Social advertising,…
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It’s all over the news. Fake Apple stores getting shut down… even in NYC. So let’s help each other, right? It can be difficult to tell a real from a fake. So let’s empower you with some Consumerist-like tips to help on your next trip to the Apple store: Look to see how Apple is…
I just made that headline up. Advertising Age reviewed my book, “Beyond Viral” and did not call it the best book about online-video marketing and YouTube. But I’ve got a hungry search engine spider to feed here, so work with me. And if you’re a teacher you should definitely put this on your curriculum because…
An elderly couple struggles with a webcam… it’s the latest “viral” video according to ABC. Thanks to a tech savvy and vigilant grand daughter (Miss Morgan) for sharing this clip of Bruce and Esther Huffman, who live at the Hillside retirement community in McMinnville, Ore.
Now you can edit a video that’s already on YouTube. See the YouTube Blog for more information, and the brief video below… Of course I tried editing videos I’ve posted, and did find the option to “edit video” in my video library. But the icon seen in the image to right (orange) didn’t show up… on…
A lie-detecting video camera may be out in a year, and allegedly works 2/3 of the time. Cool stuff via Crave: Hassan Ugail of Bradford University worked with colleagues at Aberystwyth University and the U.K. Border Agency to develop a camera that picks up on changes in blood flow and expression in a subject’s face when…
The duo that founded YouTube bought Delicious from Yahoo. Okay. Fair point. As far as serial entrepreneurial ventures go, this is not as intriguing as Flip Cam (Pure Digital) founder Jonathan Kaplan going into the melted cheese business. (See video). But this one’s a bit more fascinating to me because I got to meet Chad Hurley…
A couple deer (fawns to be precise) wandered a Publix supermarket in Suwannee, Georgia. The noises of the frustrated fawns (see YouTube video below) sounds freakishly human. In an moment guilty of at least two cases of irony, James Chronicle — a founder of a Suwanee-based non-profit called the Georgia Animal Protection Society — “chronicled” the…