Posts Tagged ‘video’

Roll Your Own TwitPic-like Media Hosting Using Posterous

One of the more useful aspects of Twitter is the ability to quickly broadcast images, videos, and other media to your followers, making it an effective “mo-blogging” (mobile blogging) platform. Twitter doesn’t have this ability built in, though; sending pictures or video clips to Twitter requires using third-party services like TwitPic. Most Twitter clients will automatically upload images to these third-party hosts and add a link to your tweets… Continue reading

Obama’s Top Ten Tips For Video Blogging

I started a video blog documenting my journey fighting breast cancer across America. President-elect Barack Obama started a video blog documenting how he plans to implement change in America. What do we have in common? Absolutely nothing; His vlog is way better. So if you are like me and want to video blog like Obama,  I offer these tips that I picked up from watching the President-elect's weekly… Continue reading

Top 10 Web Apps in 2008

Here at Lifehack, we like to review the web apps that were released over the course of the year and see how they went — which apps stood the test of time and remained popular after the hype of their launch had subsided? In this article, we'll look at ten apps that did particularly well and provide users with a valuable services. I've tried to craft a rational list —… Continue reading

The Ten Videos to Change How You View the World

I believe that a sign of good information is that it makes you think. If reading a book, listening to a lecture or watching a video doesn’t change how you think, it probably isn’t that important. But if you encounter something that forces you to change your views, even if you don’t completely agree with it, you’ve found something valuable. The problem is where do you find these… Continue reading

Lessons in making a vote for me video

Ever do a truly crappy job at something you cared about? That was me a month ago when I put together my first YouTube video. I did it - God forgive me for my sins - because the organizer of the Business of Software Conference in a fit of Pure Evil decided the only way for speakers to get on was to do a vote for… Continue reading

Edit Online Video Online

Online video has gotten massive during the last few years, partly due to the ability to embed video from one source to another. This is a great concept for writers and anyone who wants to share videos. However, it'd be nice to be able to cut down and edit such video so you're sharing exactly what you want to. Particularly useful, and something I haven't yet seen outside of… Continue reading

5min How To Videos

If you find that some of your favorite YouTube videos are HowTo's, then you should check out 5min.com, a video sharing site dedicated to short tutorials. The vision behind 5min is a very simple one: any solution can be visually explained in no more than 5 minutes. Our aim is to create the first communal Life Videopedia allowing users from all over the globe to contribute their knowledge by sharing… Continue reading

Five Ways YOU Could Use Video

In the US at least, this appears to be the year of the Internet Presidency, and this trend got me thinking about ways that that you might use Internet video to improve you universe.

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Learn Science Through Videos

MAKE Magazine, a source of endless interesting projects and ideas, posted a link to a science video podcast done by a high school teacher in Indiana and his students. You can learn about thermodynamics, and boiling and more. Any way to get information into our heads in a non-traditional way ends up being a great way to learn, because the experience adds to our ability to remember the information. Check… Continue reading

Videoblogging and Vodcasting for Education

Schools aren't just about books, football, and flirting any more. In fact, it's pretty darned hard to get past that glazed look and penetrate the constant iPod haze. The site WWWTools for Education has a big list of resources on how to use podcasting technology to introduce interactive elements to the education experience. (And yes, I know I was being really stereotypical). Videoblogging and VodCasting for Education - [WWWTools for… Continue reading

Podcasts from Podcast Academy 2 in Boston

Podcast Academy 2 wrapped up in Boston on Saturday with a reminder that the next Podcast Academy will be hosted by Yahoo! in Santa Clara, California shortly. One great thing about the hosts of THIS session, Boston University, was that their crack team of AV people had the podcasts and presentations up on the web in almost no time. Counting the live streaming media that was made available, it brought… Continue reading

Podcasting for Sharing

I'm all about the idea of creating content versus just consuming content. This morning, I listened to Richard Lucic and Zach Pogue from Duke University. They talked about how podcasting really boosted the value of information given BACK by the students. So, instead of a student turning in a five page paper full of garbage, the peer effect of putting out an audio podcast that the entire class would hear… Continue reading

Convert Flash Video (.flv) to AVI (.avi) or MPEG (.mpg)

Hitrec at VideoHelp forum introduces a software called RivaFLVencoder which able you to convert .flv files (Flash Video) into avi and mpg files. This is extremely useful when you download youtube or google videos and you don't like it play in flv player. With this conversion, you can play google videos in many systems, such as iPod Video. One catch: Most of the time, audio can be transcoded… Continue reading

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