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Hosting Features For Web 2.0 Blogs
On the technical side of things, I want to discuss one very important feature of web hosting for filmmakers or anyone else. Frequently, a program running on a server will access other web sites behind...
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Goodbye, Daily Link Blog Posts
Until now, I’ve been posting links automatically using del.icio.us. del.icio.us is a very useful social bookmarking tool. The site has an “experimental” feature that will automatically post to your...
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Building an Online Audience
Last week, at Sundance, I managed to squeeze in a quick meeting with Scott Kirsner, who writes one of my favorite blogs, Cinematech. Scott was in Park City to a panel called Digital Opportunities for...
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Audience Building Tools – DIY Days
DIY Days launched today in Los Angeles, and here is my video presentation that I made remotely, since I was unable to make it to LA this time. The video is also available on YouTube. As promised in the...
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Link to start YouTube videos in the middle
Yesterday, a friend lamented that he didn’t know of a way to send someone a link to a YouTube video so that it would skip to a certain point. He knew some actors who wanted to show off videos they were...
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An Open Metadata Solution
This Saturday, I will be speaking on a roundtable on metadata at the Open Video Conference and presenting an informal demonstration of new, metadata-related software I’ve been working on at the “Hack...
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What I’m Working On: Mapping Demand in 3D
It’s been nice to see an increased awareness in the media community over the last few years of the opportunities to engage audiences on the Internet. There is a new batch of technologies becoming...
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What I’m Working On: Synchronized Videos in HTML5 (featuring Ok Go)
Here’s another demo. This time I’m showing off HTML5 video with a pair of videos by the band Ok Go. Ok Go made the video for “White Knuckles” all in one shot and by all accounts it wasn’t easy....
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What I’m Working On: Tweet to the middle of a video
Recently, I’ve been doing some work with Mozilla around their Web Made Movies project. They’ve been experimenting with the integration of video and the Web enabled by the multimedia features available...
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What I’m Working On: Interactive Video for Citizen Journalism
Last month, I participated in an all-day workshop that Mozilla organized as part of Web Made Movies to introduce filmmakers to the possibilities of interactive video using Popcorn.js. I lobbied to be...
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