Archive for Dave

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]