We recently interviewed Biznik, an online community of entrepreneurs and small businesses dedicated to helping each other succeed. They just launched SHINE, a collaborative film project with over 400 entrepreneurs telling their stories. We talked to them about the power of video storytelling and how they’ve used it to grow their business and create SHINE. … [Read more]
Shout out to Overlay.tv
Sometimes people say to me “video makes sense for entertainment, but not for lots of other things.” Well Zappos and Overlay.tv seem to think those people are wrong. As much as I love shoes (and anyone that knows me knows how much fun I have there) they aren’t a category that automatically conjures up the … [Read more]
Ustream.TV adds Android To Its Lineup
Ustream.TV just launched it’s Android viewer. It allows you to stream live interactive video to your phone or device via either 3G or Wifi. For those of you with Android phones, they are offering a free Kiss concert in celebration of the launch at 7:30pm (eastern) tonight. Online video chat by Ustream… [Read more]
Closed Captioning for Online Videos
Out of personal interest this general topic was on my radar screen anyway, but Google’s announcement late last week sped up the timetable. In their DC policy office Google announced several capabilities for putting captions to videos: Auto-captioning: They will do automated captioning of YouTube videos. To start, it will only be certain channels (mostly … [Read more]
Week In Review
http://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/ / CC BY 2.0 I’m sitting in my kitchen on a Sunday evening thinking about the past week, and getting mentally prepared for the next week. Last week we officially launched this blog. I’d like to take a moment to thank several people for their link love (in plain English, mentioning our site on … [Read more]


