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Forget a Special Occasion? Now You Can Send Video Ecards To Mobile Phones

In the next evolution of mobile video, American Greetings has introduced a new service that allows you to send video ecards to mobile phones.  Sound like something that might annoy you?  Well get used to it, because according to the British research firm Portio Research, this market will be worth around 31.5 billion dollars by [...]

March 12th, 2010 | Dave | 0 comments | Continued
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Kaizen: The Secret Weapon of Successful Companies and Individuals

A year ago I, along with two business partners, launched an online training business focused in the niche of “lean manufacturing”.  We primarily sell our products to businesses and individuals looking to reduce operating costs while also increasing productivity.
We’ve done very well and our business continues to grow which is exciting… but this article isn’t [...]

March 10th, 2010 | gembaacademy | 2 comments | Continued
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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 | 4 comments | Continued
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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