Ernesto on May 11th, 2009

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Ernesto on May 9th, 2009

Aimed perhaps at iPhone marketing campaigns, iPhone users and, on a meta level, those of us slightly jealous of them (at least when those cool commercials come on)? Oh, and be aware there’s a bit of rough language at the beginning, just in case the kids are in the room with you. 

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Or as Pete Cashmore writes on the Mashable blog: “no one wants to advertise on your cat video.” The comment comes in the wake of a report that indicates YouTube may lose $470 million in 2009, despite owning 41% of total domestic video streams. That’s a tremendous amount of audience. Unfortunately, not one that wants [...]

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Ernesto on November 1st, 2008

Testing Dare video message to flickr blog etc. Originally uploaded by Ernesto and Kristen Burden Looks like at 176×144 you can get a more than 30 seconds…  but sadly, no audio…the audio works at higher file sizes and aspect ratios but I can only get about 14 seconds of video or less to send through [...]

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The LG Dare takes great video, but I had to poke around quite a bit and try a bunch of different offerings to find a good tool for encoding it to work with any of the simple video editing programs I have.  Found this program, SUPER © by eRightSoft referenced on the Dare forums here.  Works well for batch conversion, [...]

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Ernesto on October 11th, 2008

  We used to visit Beech Hill Farm in Hopkinton all the time when we lived in Concord (David was little then, and Sofia just a baby!).  Now we still try and get up there once or twice a year.  It's a great vibe for a fall, day especially because even though it's always busy [...]

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