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Archive for March, 2009

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Video Demonstration of Common Filmmaking Terms and Techniques

I was going through my list of 500 or so bookmarks tonight, weeding out those web sites that I couldn’t remember why I bookmarked in the first place…and came across a little gem I had bookmarked about a year ago. It was a video on YouTube put together by Curtis Brownjohn, a (then) senior in [...]

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What Everyone Should Know About How The Internet Actually Works

If you own a web site, especially one that features audio or video, and you receive any measurable amount of traffic, sooner or later you’re going to hear a viewer complaint. Something on the site won’t load.  A video won’t play.  Something is slow.  And the complaints will always be a bit personal in nature, [...]

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Google Launches Google Voice Service

This week Google launched their Google Voice service, which technically, is a relaunch of their Grand Central service. So what exactly is Google Voice and what can it do for you? Well, first things first, Google Voice is free.  And at the time of this writing, it’s only available to existing Grand Central subscribers.  But [...]

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Social Networking Becomes More Popular Than Email

According to new market research released by Nielsen this week, more people now use social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter…than they do email. This puts social networking sites as the 4th most popular “tool” on the web, with 66.8 percent of Internet users visiting social networking sites in 2008 (up 5.4% from 2007).  By [...]

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How To Make Money, Build An Audience and Generate Buzz With Social Media

Over the weekend, I received an unexpected email from social networking expert Shama Hyder.  If you haven’t heard of Shama, I’ve featured her a couple times in this blog…both through a video interview here and as an example of how to properly use transparency in video here. Anyway, attached to her email, Shama included a [...]