6 Ways To Use My New Digital Video Camera: The Flip
After drooling over The Flip digital video camera, I went out and got one …. and in my excitement to use it, I started thinking about all the different ways to use it ….
Here are just a couple of productive uses for The Flip:
- Virtual Home Tours — Real estate agents could do a quick walk around a house with The Flip in hand, talking about the various features of the property.
- Video Blogging – I plan to do some of this, if I don’t get overly camera shy, but like Darren does, you could talk briefly about your ideas and quickly get them up on your blog.
- Man-On-The-Street Interviews – This could go for any other quick “on-the-spot” interview, like I’ve seen done in the past at conferences. Please the red record button and start asking questions.
- Puppies and Kiddos – We don’t have kids, so I added in the puppies here, but as I’ve mentioned before, most events I’ve wanted to record are relatively short — say 5 minutes max — like my beautiful nieces and nephew running around and dragging me along for the ride.
- Spot News – Weather is the category that comes immediately to mind here — tornadoes, hurricanes, flooding, etc. — but also other “spot” news like, well, you can fill in that blank here.
- Just Broadcast Yourself — With the handy YouTube upload feature included, you can broadcast you, your stupid human tricks and stunts and whatever else you want.
I’m sure there are a dozen more uses, but do you have more to suggest that I missed?
4 Ways My Blogs Help My Business
Chris Brogan, an extremely entertaining speaker at SOBCon08 in Chicago, asks How Does Your Blog Relate To Your Business? Since there were already 39 comments when I found his blog, I thought I’d give my answer here.
Answer: My blogs are one of my primary marketing tools for my business.
Through my blogs, and search engines, I seek to find new prospective customers for my various business products and services.
The Flip: Take Quick Digital Video
Here’s my newest tech infatuation: The Flip — a quick-and-easy, point-and-shoot digital video camera.
This is the kind of amazing technology that’s filling a “need” in the market when I wrote about the Mighty Cell Phone.
Although I might be late to this party, The Flip seems to fill a huge void in the market. I thought back about how long most home videos are … pretty short, I thought, unless you’re taping a soccer game or want to record every second of your toddler’s life.
The Flip offer 30 and 60-minute recordings and you can upload to YouTube and MySpace and others.
I don’t know all the specs and haven’t read any customer reviews, but I think this little device could be a handy tool for video blogging and just all-around short and fast videography in the field.
Update: Here’s a review from the Wall Street Journal on The Flip
YouTube Full-Length Movie: ‘Cult of Sincerity’
After I posted Why Free Internet Delivery is the Future of TV and Movies, writer/producer Daniel Nayeri emailed me about The Cult of Sincerity — a free, full-length movie that they’ve put on YouTube.
I got a chance to watch it over the weekend while I waited on my plane back from Chicago and LOVED it.
The message, acting, music – and stunts (Daniel) — were all excellent!
I’m going to save my comments about their marketing model for another post, possibly a Q&A with the filmmakers, but wanted to say a thing or two about the impression the movie made on me personally.
What Do You Think About This Quote?
I’ve been casually following the whole Craigslist versus Ebay complaint or lawsuit or whatever the real issue is … and just saw this quote from the Craigslist’s blog that totally fascinates me:
“Sadly, we have an uncomfortably conflicted shareholder in our midst, one that is obsessed with dominating online classifieds for the purpose of maximizing its own profits.”
OK, I have to admit … I’ve relatively new to the whole open source community-type ideals. I’m still struggling to fully understand what it means.
I love open source. And I love community.
But it definitely fascinates me in a good way (and I’m not being negative here) … is the last part in particular about Ebay (obviously) being obsessed with wanting to “maximize its own profits.”
iCompany: A Wide CMS Web Template
We’ve had the iCompany CMS web template mockup sitting in the wings since January and are finally getting around to releasing it.
Designed by noted illustrator Von Glitschka, it features custom icons, a wide layout, tabber sidebar, three page template options and widget-ready sidebars and feature areas.
Take it for a test drive here and get purchase details here.
