Archive for Dave

author photo

Dave Kaminski is a professional copywriter, videographer and 10-year veteran of direct response marketing whose work in multimedia advertising has resulted in millions of dollars worth of sales. A former U.S. Marine, Dave specializes in teaching entrepreneurs how to effectively use web video in their marketing efforts.

post thumbnail

Adobe and HP Ambush iPad with Preview of HP Slate

On April 3rd the much hyped iPad will hit the market.  Wall Street predicts Apple will sell 4-5 million of them in the first year.  Those less enthused say no one has had much success with tablet devices and Apple will only fare slightly better.  But the biggest debate has been around the iPad’s total [...]

March 9th, 2010 | Dave | 3 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

Working On a Creative Project? Need Funding? Try Kickstarter.com

Let’s say you’re working on a project that can loosely be defined as something creative.  Maybe you want to shoot a film.  Maybe you want to develop unique software.  Or maybe your project deals with food or even video games.  But you’re stuck.  You don’t have the money to either launch or complete the project. [...]

March 8th, 2010 | Dave | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

YouTube Starts Automatically Captioning Videos

Yesterday YouTube began automatically captioning new video uploads.  That means viewers now have the option of reading what is being said in a video, while it plays (much like subtitles).
Right now, YouTube is only captioning new video uploads where the audio contains English language.  And the transcription is done using Google’s voice recognition software.  This [...]

March 5th, 2010 | Dave | 1 comment | Continued
post thumbnail

Vimeo Adds Advanced Web Video Statistics For Paying Users

For all of the popularity of web video, web video statistics are still somewhat in their infancy.  Statistics for web video must be tracked by the player a video appears in, so it’s up to the company or individual who owns a particular video player to develop their own stats package to be used with [...]

March 3rd, 2010 | Dave | 1 comment | Continued
post thumbnail

Social Networks Log The Longest Visitor Times On The Web…By Far

New reports from The Neilsen Company show that when it comes to keeping visitors on a site…and coming back for more…social networks are the runaway winners.  In December 2009, visitors spent an average of 5.5 hours on Facebook and Twitter for the month, up 82% from the previous year.  And that number grew to over [...]

March 1st, 2010 | Dave | 1 comment | Continued
post thumbnail

Wanna Buy a Video Hosting Platform?

Last week SesameVault.com went up for sale.  It’s a video hosting platform geared towards businesses who want to store, manage and publish web video.  It competes with the likes of BrightCove, Ooyala, Twistage, Kaltura and Episodic.
The company originally raised around $2.5 million from private investors, however, they failed to secure another round of financing so [...]

February 26th, 2010 | Dave | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

New Site Flixtime Aims To Make Video Slideshows Easy

Just launched this week is the web site Flixtime.com.  Reportedly two years in the making, Flixtime allows people, for free, to upload their photos and videos and then with a few clicks, turn everything into a video slideshow that they can embed and share on the Internet.
Users may also select photos from a royalty-free library [...]

February 24th, 2010 | Dave | 1 comment | Continued
post thumbnail

Sony Unveils Tiny Concept Camera with Interchangeable Lens

Last weekend Sony unveiled a new concept camera that proves the video cameras we’ll be using a couple years from now, will likely be very different from the cameras we’re using today.
Sony’s as-yet-unamed concept camera is about the same size as portable point-and-shoot still photo cameras, however, it can use interchangeable lenses.  And it can [...]

February 22nd, 2010 | Dave | 1 comment | Continued
post thumbnail

Shaky Camera Footage? Try NewBlue Stabilizer

As video cameras get smaller and smaller, a lot of people are finding out the hard way that you need to use a tripod with small video cameras to get steady shots.  But what if a tripod isn’t possible for footage you’re shooting or what if you have existing footage you’d like to use, but [...]

February 19th, 2010 | Dave | 1 comment | Continued
post thumbnail

Is Your Wireless Mic Illegal?

Starting on June 12, 2010, in the United States, a number of wireless microphones (like you might use with your video camera) will become illegal.  Why?  Because that’s when the transition to digital television will be complete.  Public safety services will begin using the frequencies previously used by televisions stations, and some wireless mics use [...]

February 17th, 2010 | Dave | 0 comments | Continued