I hope to post the rest of my short video interviews taken at BlogHer on Saturday by the end of this week. Here are two more, which I conducted with two of my new blogger friends. Heather Schlegel (above), founder and vice president of kwikreel, discusses some of the highlights of the conference and points […]
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Meet the vloggers
Just got back from giving a talk about Ourmedia at the Apple store in San Francisco, followed by a housewarming party thrown by Renee Blodgett. Barb Dybwad of Weblogs Inc.’s Social Software Weblog has a good rundown of tonight’s appearance at the Apple store. (Sorry I didn’t get to meet you, Barb!)
An instant Akimbo fan
You may have heard of Akimbo by now. The San Mateo, Calif., startup has been quietly making programming alliances over the past year and fine-tuning its Internet television service. I hadn’t planned on getting an Akimbo box to add to my TiVo and DVD recorder setup, chiefly because I didn’t want to have to call […]
Google’s foray into video
I just uploaded my first (test) video to Google under its new video upload program, so we’ll see how that goes. The process was pretty similar in some ways to Ourmedia‘s upload process. They ask for less metadata, but it’s interesting — and I think disappointing — that designating rights isn’t a part of the […]
Heading to the Podcast Hotel
Just got off the phone with Alex Williams of Corante, who invited me to attend the Podcast Hotel and Videoblog Festival — which he wonderfully described as a “happenin’” — July 15-17 in Portland. I accepted, and if I can talk my wife into it, she and our soon-to-be 6-year-old will come along. It’ll be […]