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Archive for April, 2010

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Hmmm…Are iPhones and iPads Really As Popular As Everyone Thinks?

It seems the mainstream media is constantly reporting on the popularity of iPhones and iPads.  And there’s a raging debate over Flash vs. HTML5 video because of them.  But in the grand scheme of things, are these products really that popular, or is Apple simply brilliant at generating press?  Well, I decided to dig up [...]

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MediaFront Releases Open Source HTML5 Video Player

MediaFront has released an open source HTML5 video player with Flash fallback capabilities.  The player can be used on standalone web pages or a CMS version is available for Drupal (with Joomla and WordPress offerings in the works).  Because the player is open source, you may use it however you’d like at no cost and [...]

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3 Terrific (and free) Sites For Web Video Producers

While going through and cleaning up my huge list of bookmarked sites, I re-discovered 3 gems that had fallen off my radar.  Sites that can help anyone do a few of the things they’d like to do with video (but weren’t sure how) and do them for free. First up is Drop.io.  This service allows [...]

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What Happens When a Volcano Erupts? Video Meetings Skyrocket Too

While travel woes in Europe due to the Icelandic volcano have grabbed all the headlines, buried in all the press is an interesting statistic; web traffic and video conferencing has shot up too…way up. According to Hitwise, visits to aviation related sites have doubled and traffic to the Eurostar train service site (which connects the [...]

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Singular Software Presto Aims To Make Presentation Videos Easy For Sony Vegas Users

Singular Software is getting ready to release a new plugin called Presto for Sony Vegas users.  This plugin is designed to make the tedious process of editing presentation-style videos much easier. For example, with the typical presentation video, you have video of the speaker or presenter.  You have slides that the presenter is talking about [...]