Archive for February, 2007

Youtuber goes to Hollywood

Lonelygirl15, one of Youtube’s most popular “stars” will be making her big screen debut soon.
You can see her walking with Hollywood teen-heavyweight, Lindsay Lohan.
As far as rumors go, the plan is to promote the movie via vlogging. Stay tuned for the I Know Who Killed Me vlog.
On the positive side, this is some validation […]

Podtech: Get your audio right

It’s a surprise to many vodcast filmmakers that audio is often more difficult to master than video. One reason is that video is pretty much WYSIWYG. Also, people are (somewhat) used to seeing poor-lit video on the web.
Podtech is producing podcasts by the bucket load, yet they can’t get the right audio levels. Proof below:
Exhibit […]

Intel’s 80-core prototype

Just a heads up on this (quantum?) leap in “multicore-ness”. Here’s the juice:
Intel will demonstrate an experimental computer chip with 80 separate processing engines, or cores, that company executives say provides a model for commercial chips that will be used widely in standard desktop, laptop and server computers within five years.
If you’re into video and […]

Youtube: Gates vs Jobs

Steve Jobs has been gaining popularity, mainly because arch-villain Gates is in some rough waters ever since Vista was released.
Youtube desciption: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs square off in the clean white virtual world of the iconic Mac ads.

Maybe this could become a fully-fledged show like MTV’s Celebrity Deathmatch. I think next time they could […]

Web 2.0 in video

Web 2.0 explained in a music video format:

Warning: some of my favorite buzzwords are missing (like user-generated content and citizen journalism)

Tags: journalism, user generated content, video, web 2.0, youtube