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Video

Garr Reynolds and Presentation Zen

September 28, 2008

Uncanny! I got “Presentation Zen” delivered in the mail last night from Amazon. And someone tweeted this Garr Reynolds video of “Authors at Google”…

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Ubiquity: Mozilla’s Mother Of All Mashups

August 27, 2008

If you don’t know what a “Mashup” is, fret not. You’re now going to witness one of the greatest “mashup” tools ever developed… Full story: Introducing Ubiquity

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How To Sell A $3,200 Product Using Free YouTube Videos

December 3, 2007

If you’ve ever wondered about the power of influence that videos – even free ones – can have in selling commercial products, look no further. Recently, I was on the receiving end of this power, as I shelled out about $3,200 to buy a Yamaha Motif Keyboard – thanks(!) to two powerful videos on YouTube. [...]

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Adsense For Video (YouTube) Is Here

October 10, 2007

My “Video Unit” link wasn’t available yesterday when the announcement was first made. Was able to see it today. “Linked” my Adsense account with my YouTube account. Got the confirmation from Google in a few minutes (they do warn that it could take up to 12 hours). Created my “player”, got the code. The ads [...]

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Animoto.com: Making your pictures come alive on video

September 15, 2007

I found this amazing site yesterday through one of the feeds on LinkOverLoad.com. Awesome video coming right up… Animoto basically turns your pictures into a fantastic MTV-style video, with some great soundtracks available on their site for free, or you can use your own audio – with your pictures almost flashing in rhythm to the [...]

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Google Finally Starts Video Advertising on YouTube

August 23, 2007

We all knew this day would come, but I had been more curious about the type of video ads that would show up: would they be pre-roll (first show the ads, then the actual video)? Would they be post-roll (after the video) or some kind of pop-up (probably not, knowing their Adsense policy about pop-ups)? [...]

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Hair-raising Video Of A Fight For Survival

August 12, 2007

Watch this hair-raising video that shows a herd of buffaloes trying to fight a pride of lions, trying to snatch a baby calf away from the jaws of 5 lions and 2 crocodiles! Will the baby calf survive? Make sure you have nerves of steel before you watch it. I hope this fight inspires you [...]

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You, Me and Mona Lisa

August 7, 2007

Creating an e-business… Learning a new skill… Being the best at what you do… Building something worth building… Creating something worth creating… Saying something worth saying… Doing something worth doing… All of these take plenty of time – and effort. It is very easy to just look at the end-result of other people’s successes, ogle [...]

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How To Start Your Own Video Channel On YouTube

March 19, 2007

Backdrop and Shower curtain from Wal-Mart: $18 Tripod from Sears: $30 Expensive, Wireless Headphone (with “compander circuitry”) that sounds like crap: $100 Cheap-looking, Wired Headphone that just works: $20 Pink-shade Table Lamp: $10 100W bulb (that you need to keep switching off between takes because the lamp-shade says it can handle only 40W): $2 CyberLink [...]

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BitTorrent Goes Legit and Launches Movie and TV Downloads

February 26, 2007

From the Wikipedia: BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol. The protocol was originally designed and created by programmer Bram Cohen, and is now maintained by BitTorrent, Inc. BitTorrent is a method of distributing large amounts of data widely without the original distributor incurring the whole of the corresponding costs of hardware, hosting and [...]

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Apple iPhone: After The Honeymoon

February 14, 2007

As a follow-up to my original lusty iPhone rant, I decided to scour the web for a closer look at the iPhone. The hype is dying. Real people have used it, some have heard about real people using it, but everyone definitely has something to say about it. So go on and see if you [...]

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Microsoft Re-designs The iPod

February 14, 2007

What would happen if Microsoft were to design the iPod packaging? Really witty, self-deprecating video, apparently made by ….. Microsoft employees! – Ravi Jayagopal

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What is Web2.0?

February 12, 2007

The machine is us… Digital Text is no longer just linking information… HyperText is no longer just linking information… The Web is no longer just linking information… The Web is linking people….

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And You Thought The iPhone Multi-touch Display Was Cool

January 18, 2007

And you also thought that the crazy hand-waving, screen-manipulation stuff Tom Cruise did in Minority Report was just computer-generated special effects. Just wait till you check out (below) Jeff Han outdoing Tom Cruise with the multi-touch displays. The cool thing about Apple is not that they put one of these displays in the iPhone – [...]

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How to Setup a FTP Client: A Video Tutorial

December 27, 2006

FTP stands for “File Transfer Protocol”. It is what you use to “transfer” (or upload) files from your computer to your web site – and vice-versa. To make it easy for you to learn how to use FTP software, I have created a video tutorial, available at this link. It is about 2+ MB in [...]

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What is Will?

July 8, 2006

[Update on 09/19/2009: See the video that I just found on YouTube at the end...] Original Post from 07/08/2006… Everytime you are ready to give up, every time you think: I am too tired right now… I am too sleepy right now… I am too hungry right now… I am not feeling too well… I [...]

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Art of the Start: A video to remember

July 4, 2006

You’ve probably heard of Guy Kawasaki. I first heard about him in the context of something to do with Apple (the company). The next thing I knew, I was furiously reading his blog and soaking up every interview he gave. In one of his interviews, he talks about “Guy’s Golden Touch“, which in essence is: [...]

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Seth Godin and the “Viral” Video

March 22, 2006

He’s the man who is believed to have invented the word “Viral Marketing idea virus”, among many other powerful marketing concepts like “sneezers”, “worldview purple cow” and “Permission Marketing”. The author of six bestsellers, including Permission Marketing, an Amazon Top 100 bestseller for a year and a Fortune Best Business Book. His newest book, All [...]

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