10.7.07 New iPhone Ad Man Uses Mobile Safari To Save The Day

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Man explains how he used his iPhone to get info he needed at a dinner party.

10.7.07 New iPhone Ad 4 In 1

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Man explains how iPhone replaces his iPod, digital camera and two mobile phones. HD Source.

Sony HDR-HC7 Illinois Snow Neighborhood HDV Master Reduced To iPod Compatible Size

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Example of footage from the new Sony HDR-HC7 HDV Video Camera which just arrived in stores this week. Shot by Jeremy from the SonyHDVinfo.com Sony HDR-HC7 Forum in a suburb of Chicago 2.8.07. Thank you Jeremy. 14 second original H.264 export of native 1440x1080 HDV file from Final Cut Express HD was 165 MB. I ripped a DVD image from it with Toast 8 then crushed to a maximum iPod compatible size with Handbrake leaving only 4.2 MB. Still looks pretty darned good don't you think? Taylor Barcroft Santa Cruz CA

NBC "iPod Nation - Core Values" Steve Jobs Humble Innovator On To The Next Big Thing

NBC "iPod Nation - Core Values" Steve Jobs Humble Innovator On To The Next Big Thing

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Part 2 of Brian Williams' interview with Steve Jobs last Friday May 19, 2006 just before the doors opened on the new 5th AV Apple Store with the CUBE on the plaza of the GM building. Medium resolution @ 1000kbps iPod compatible.

Steve Jobs At New 5th Avenue 58th Street Apple Store

Steve Jobs At New 5th Avenue 58th Street Apple Store

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Steve Jobs At New 5th Avenue 58th Street Apple Store speaks with Brian Williams on NBC Nightly News. Part one of a series of Jobs moments to be featured next week on NBC Nightly News.

CBS-Rocketboom Part of CSI-"Killer" 2.2.06 by Jerry Bruckheimer

CBS-Rocketboom Part of CSI-"Killer" 2.2.06 by Jerry Bruckheimer

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Last night on CBS' #1 show on all of TV, CSI, Amanda Congdon appeared in a FAKE Rocketboom from above the Las Vegas Strip warning the locals not to go where two were recently murdered in the same evening. You can't buy this kind of publicity. Yes it's not a REAL Rocketboom episode. And neither are the murders REAL. This is another classic moment in the evolution of Video Blogging and product placement publicity. Congratulations Amanda and Andrew Baron of Rocketboom and thank you Jerry Bruckheimer, Executive Producer, for placing them inside an episode.

This is from an EyeTV2 HDTV source recording and is Video iPod compatible.

11.8.05 CBS-NBC 99 TV Show VOD on Comcast Cable and DirecTV Systems Early 2006

11.8.05 CBS-NBC 99 TV Show VOD on Comcast Cable and DirecTV Systems Early 2006

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CBS News Reports it and NBC will offer hit TV show Video On Demand (VOD) for only 99 on Comcast Cable and DirecTV systems. This is only half the $1.99 Apple is charging for ABC shows, shorts and music videos via iTunes. Will Apple match their price? Will consumers be able to record what they pay 99 for? Will they be able to burn ripped versions to CDs or DVDs. And will the shows be offered in their original widescreen HD versions?

 

These are the questions that need answers between now and when these new services begin early next year.

NBC Most Happy Fun Exciting Buzzy Thrilling History Lesson

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Steve - "...and you kinda get video for free as a bonus."
Continuous Caption: Handheld TV - New iPod Plays Video

Anonymous Consumer in Apple Store - "I've actually been looking for something that I could play video on." Really? Steve had no idea...

Omar Wasow, Technology Analyst - iPod has gone from an early adopter technology buff market to a Mainstream Mass Market phenomenon now a part of our culture.

Alexis Glick, this story's reporter, says you have to watch video on the 2.5 inch screen which is not necessarily the case. You can watch on your TV and you can watch on a video headset or external portable TV with a bigger screen - can you say light FLAT screen?.

Alexis - "Their new test is to find out if people will buy video they have to watch on a two and a half inch screen."
Steve - "There is no market for video on the go today. So we're going to have to create it."

Let's be clear Alexis. THIS IS NOT A TEST. There is no downside for Apple to add video playback capability for no more money and 50% more space at the $299 price point. You get a free video with every album you buy. We Video Podcasters have a way to reach the consumer like never before. And you broadcasters have a way to sell shows after they air in a new window between original air and rerun then DVD. You can Video Podcast the Today Show WITH advertising included for FREE and sell that market to your advertisers for a small premium or others who will pay less for VidPodcast ONLY ads.

The revolution will be Video Podcast and is being vlogged as you speak. You do NOT have to watch videos on the 2.5" screen. There IS A GIGANTIC MARKET for video on the go today. And Apple is NOT going to have to create it. What Apple is doing is providing the solution to a long standing challenge. And that is huge. Kudos to Apple. I love Apple. But the market has been getting PREGNANT with anticipation for this solution for years. Remember ARCHOS? It is like an iPod only too big and heavy with a minimal Mac interface.

I will be very surprised if Apple will be able to keep up with demand for these new iPods before sometime next summer, IF THEN. I think there is going to be a waiting list from here into next Spring at the soonest. It will be a case of capacity incapable of meeting demand for a long time.

Affordable technology and our new inexpensive broadband internet distribution system has just now fallen into place. So it's really the synergy of pent up demand meeting new affordable technological advances - not Apple creating a market or doing a test.

Thanks to Al Roker for ordering his last night. You the man Al.

Matt Lauer's close - "I know it's going to be huge. Absolutely. Everything they do is huge right now." You took the words right out of my mouth Matt.

CBS Early Show Pitches TV Shows For Sale, Falling Apple Stock & A Way To Lose Your Sight

CBS Early Show Pitches TV Shows For Sale, Falling Apple Stock & A Way To Lose Your Sight

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ABC's TV Shows Desperate Housewives, Lost, Night Stalker & two comedies are for sale for $1.99 an episode. Adam Benjamin thinks Apple has a 6-month to almost a year competitive lead with the video enabled iPod. Sandra Hughes mentions Apple stock falling due to lower than Wall Street iPod sales expectations. Yeah they were only through the roof as usual. Women in the street - one clueless while the other totally gets it. At $299 she says, "That's a steal."

Interesting no one seems to understand the iPod has had video output since the introduction of the iPod Photo long ago. And let's not forget video goggles you can wear to have a large screen experience out of that little iPod.

CBS iPod Video Reports Ignore Vlogs & Video Podcasts

CBS iPod Video Reports Ignore Vlogs & Video Podcasts

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The interesting thing about these two reports is that Video Blogging & Video Podcasts are completely ignored as a source of content that may drive sales of the new Video enabled iPod even though Apple lists "Video Podcasts" in the new iPod's Video menu pane:

Video Playlists
Movies
Music Videos
TV Shows
Video Podcasts
Video Settings

Steve didn't even mention there are already thousands of video podcast posts in the iTunes Podcast Directory to help sell the reason to buy a video capable iPod now rather than until movies are for sale next year which Jeffries & Company analyst Adam Benjamin posed is a reason consumers may not buy one yet.

This is the first of three broadcast reports I am posting today with comments about each one. Details of Steve's Presentation will follow tomorrow with a PDF full of links to Apple's many pages of descriptions.

iTunes Doesn't Always See Our Posts

iTunes Doesn't Always See Our Posts

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We've made two posts in recent days that have failed to appear in the iTunes Podcast directory and FireANT. So we're resorting to posting this PDF so you can have the links to these missing posts this way. We don't understand why iTunes and FireANT simply can't see some posts that work fine from the browser and are all seen by <a href="http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/" target="_blank">NetNewsWire</a> for Macintosh.<p>

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Looks like we are in an era of the early iTunes multimedia client not fully understanding all feeds from a registered site due to some html code problems in the original posts that iTunes can't sense are corrected later. We have had errant bizarre html code mysteriously appearing in some posts that had nothing to do with the way we entered the code to begin with. Sorry for the delay in letting you know. Thanks for your understanding and patience with our continuing learning curve.<p>

</p>Here are the permalinks to each of the two recent posts iTunes doesn't see.<p>

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<a href="http://futuremediatv.blogspot.com/2005/10/vid42mb455minwebzine-2005-session-2.html" target="_blank">Vid.42mb.45.5min.Webzine 2005 Session 2 Jacob Appelbaum's Odyssey</a> posted October 6, 2005.<p>

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<a href="http://futuremediatv.blogspot.com/2005/09/empire-ibook-high-tucson-arizona.html" target="_blank">Empire "iBook" High. Tucson Arizona Bookless CyberSchool</a> posted September 22, 2005.

Vid.39mb.40min.Webzine 2005 Session 3 Community Matters

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Ted Rheingold, Moderator
Fleeting Image
Mindful In The Storm
Gay Prom
Dogster
Catster

Real Life vs. Internet

David Thau
Bianca's Shack

Heidi Swanson
101 Cook Books
Heidi Swanson
ChickClick

Marjorie Case
Common Sense Media

Amy Raymond
CHEAPSKATIN' LA ~ hip handouts ~ Free

Sharing their experiences of how to develop communities with their websites.

Webzine 2005 Session 1, Leveling The Playing Field - Journalism Online

Webzine 2005 Session 1, Leveling The Playing Field - Journalism Online

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Justin Hall, Annalee Newitz, Susan Mernit, Adriel Hampton, George Kelly, Nicole Lee, Daniel Terdiman, Glenda Bautista, Jackson West, Moderator discuss the state of online journalism. September 24, 2005 San Francisco CA

Dr. Peter Chen Researching Video Blogging

Dr. Peter Chen Researching Video Blogging

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Dr. Chen calling for everyone here to fill out his simple private research quesitonaire please and why.

CBS - iBook High. Vail Arizona Paperless, Bookless CyberSchool

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CBS's Hattie Kaufman shows us a wonderful high school in Tuscon Arizona suburb Vail with no paper, no books - all Apple iBook G4's.

Featuring Calvin Baker, Superintendent, Vail Unified School District. Amanda & Andy Shea students. Cindy Lee, Principal Empire High School. Jeremy Gypton, Teacher. Wayne Gritis, Site Tech. Melinda Jensen, Teacher. From a 9.20.05 CBS Early Morning broadcast segment.

CBS Features Rocketboom Leading Vlogger Revolution • Andrew Baron Admits $25-A-Day Expense • Amanda Congdon Shines • Jim Axelrod Giddy With Exclusive

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Friday August 19, 2005 may be remembered as the moment in media history when the new media man bit the old media's dog. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Watching CBS veteran Jim Axelrod on the CBS Evening News Eye On America segment enter the VLogoSphere as a kind of alien news man who is so blown away by what the Rocketboom team is doing that he can barely contain himself from his sense of amazement. Hats off to the CBS News team for doing such a great shoot and editing job on this story. Producer Sally Garner really went the extra mile to include viewer turned Los Angeles Correspondent Zadi Diaz 3,000 miles away. "It's really the global show-and-tell," she notes. Very cool. And so true.

I love CBS and I admire Les Moonves. He has already declared the CBS News division is being mobilized to become primarily an internet news source rather than a TV one. That takes a similar kind of vision that Axelrod tells producer Andrew Baron he has. Andrew is incredibly modest and calm. What a rock. Amanda Congdon is the height of low key. She's really a dream anchor - so incredibly mature, modern and sophisticated yet youthful and fancy free.

I made a Quicktime Movie version from the CBS Real Player with Snapz Pro X v2.0.2 for compatability purposes only. CBS reserves all rights to this video and we will remove it from this post upon their request at any time. If you have QuickTime Pro I suggest you save this while you can for historical archival purposes and not to resell. Source CBS NEWS VIDEO page is here for Real Player and Windows Media Player versions.

Don't Use H.264

Don't Use H.264

Took me until after Saturday's Flash Meeting to "GET" my mistake last week. I wanted to be state-of-the-fart using the FutureMedia H.264 video codec for my CURRENT REPORTAGE. WRONG!

 

That way I was insuring that no one would see my reports. So I've learned my lesson and will not be doing that any more. Pardon my redundant posts. At least you can see what I'm doing now.

IBM LinuxWorld Keynote San Francisco CA 8.10.05

IBM LinuxWorld Keynote San Francisco CA 8.10.05

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Steve Mills, VP Software Group IBM, Explains The Linux Popularity Trend

Ron Sebastian, Senior Consultant IBM Demonstrates A Modern Linux Client

This is a NEW NON H.264 version still at only 1 frame per second demonstrating that long form video can be compressed and delivered small. The original H.264 compression stills are stil on this version. I have spent a lot of time correcting my H.264 encoding blunder from last week and need to move on to edit and encode more from last week's LinuxWorld Show.

Michael Sack, Exec.VP & Chief Technology Officer Explains Inceptor's BIDCENTER Self-Service Search

Michael Sack, Exec.VP & Chief Technology Officer Explains Inceptor's BIDCENTER Self-Service Search

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a short lesson in one new marketing tool developed by Maynard MA's Inceptor by Michael Sack, Exec.VP & Chief Technology Officer, Direct 978.298.1532, mike.sack@inceptor.com, 4 Clock Tower Place Suite 300, Maynard MA 01754

This is a NEW NON H.264 version and completes my redos for this site. I have learned not to use the latest technology if I want many people to see my posts. 

Taylor Explains Remote Record + Compression + Posting Proof-Of-Concept for Trade Show Reports

Taylor Explains Remote Record + Compression + Posting Proof-Of-Concept for Trade Show Reports

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Taylor Barcroft explains the difference between the Blip.tv Safari Recorder Compression vs. Final Cut Pro DV Recording and direct Compression to H.264 MPEG4. Taylor Explains this test from this FCP DV recording NOT compressed with H.264 MPEG-4. This is a 3 minute 4 MB file. Very small 1.33 MB per minute and still ok quality. Not as good as H.264. But everyone can see this one. Keep in mind that the Blip.tv Safari Recorder is ALPHA with plenty of time and space for improvement before it is done. This is NEW NON H.264 version.

PriceGrabber.com @ SearchEngineStrategies San Jose 8.9.05

PriceGrabber.com @ SearchEngineStrategies San Jose 8.9.05

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Interview with Johnny Jai Shin, New Account Sales Manager, johnny@pricegrabber.com, http://www.pricegrabber.com, Interview & Recording by Taylor Barcroft NEW NON H.264 version.

QuickTime 7 Required

We don't do Windows but Windows does us. Because we exclusively encode with the H.264 codec in Apple's QuickTime 7, if you are running Windows, you need to download and install the latest version of QuickTime 7 for Windows Public Preview 3. We will let you know each time there is a newer version so you can keep updating.

Of course if you are running a Mac, you should already have installed QuickTime 7.0.1 long ago unless you never run or ignore your Software Update... If so you better get busy. If you're still running OS 9, forgetaboutit.

Michael Sack, Exec.VP & Chief Technology Officer Explains Inceptor's BIDCENTER Self-Service Search

Michael Sack, Exec.VP & Chief Technology Officer Explains Inceptor's BIDCENTER Self-Service Search

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From Search Engine Strategies, San Jose CA Convention Center we get a short lesson in one new marketing tool developed by Maynard MA's Inceptor

Michael Sack, Exec.VP & Chief Technology Officer

Direct 978.298.1532

mike.sack@inceptor.com

4 Clock Tower Place Suite 300

Maynard MA 01754

 

Videography and H.264 MPEG 4 compression by Taylor Barcroft, Video Journalist on a 1.25 GHz PowerBook G4 with FCP 4.5 under Mac OS X 10.4.2. NOTE: Tiger appears to have broken the Compressor 1.2.1 application part of FCP 4.5.

 

Time 3:08 Space 6.6 MB, 320 x 240, 2.2 MB per minute and it looks great even at full screen.

Time 3:08 Size 6.7 MB

Taylor Explains Remote Record + Compression + Posting Proof-Of-Concept for Trade Show Reports

Taylor Explains Remote Record + Compression + Posting Proof-Of-Concept for Trade Show Reports

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Taylor Barcroft explains the difference between the Blip.tv Safari Recorder Compression vs. Final Cut Pro DV Recording and direct Compression to H.264 MPEG4. Taylor Explains this test from a FCP DV recording compressed with H.264 MPEG-4. This is a 3 minute 6.2 MB file. Very small 2 MB per minute and still high quality. Keep in mind that the Blip.tv Safari Recorder is ALPHA with plenty of time and space for improvement before it is done.

Search Engine Strategies-PriceGrabber.com

Search Engine Strategies-PriceGrabber.com

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Search Engine Strategies Conference & Exp

San Jose Convention Center CA

Interview with Johnny Jai Shin, New Account Sales Manager

johnny@pricegrabber.com

http://www.pricegrabber.com

Interview & Recording by Taylor Barcroft

MacTV Hits The Pod Waves

I recommend you subscribe to the MacTV Videocast. The producers' names are still top secret. But they are producing a very high quality product including an outstanding pdf weekley newsletter that comes as part of the feed in a separate container. I believe this is the first Podcast that integrates print with video. This is a first rate Podcast that is very well thought out. They also have a Sony HVD camera as you can tell by their WWDC report. So show #4 is also the first HVD Video Podclip as far as I know. Congrats for two first from the Mac camp gentlemen and ladies.

Rocketboom Is At The Top of the Charts

According to Podcast Alley's Video Podcast Chart, ,Rocketboom has become the world's #1 Video Podcast this week. Today Amanda shows us a classic video game store, "St. Mark's Games", in the East Village of lower Manhattan.

Lan Bui Premieres Video of the Moment's "Fishes" on iTunes

Lan Bui is a genius. "Fishes" is a brilliant essay on the reality of DEATH as a FACT-OF-LIFE.

I recommend subscribing to his new "Video of the Moment" PodCast at the iTunes' Podcast Directory. Keyword "Video".

Current TV Is Internet Video On Demand (VOD)

But not Video Podcast yet. No sign of Current TV at the iTunes Podcast Directory. Wonder how many days b4 they are there?

Watch Current_TV VOD clips here.

Watch "Jumper" by Mark Rienhart. It was featured on the Tonight Show Monday evening. Brilliant piece of video.

Wonder how long it will be 'til Current TV Video Podcasts are more popular than the satellite-cable feed. My guess is weeks not months. 75% of Current's target audience gets their information from the internet - not TV.