Category: video

  • Eircom slowing YouTube?

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    Tom Raftery
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    In the last few days I have noticed a marked slow-down in the rate in which YouTube videos are downloading. As far as I can  see there are three possible explanations: YouTube is suddenly being swamped by traffic and can’t serve up videos as fast YouTube video file sizes have increased (if a new codec…

  • Just published second video podcast!

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    I have just published my second video podcast – an interview with Jan Blanchard of touristr. I got loads of great feedback on my first vidcast and I tried to take as much of it on board, as possible. Click To Play As always, please feel free to leave feedback in the comments.

  • Startup 2.0

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    Startup 2.0 concluded last night with the awards followed by good food, great conversations and a drink or two (ahem!). If you haven’t already heard, the results were: 1st Sclipo 2nd 5min 3rd Properazzi and joint 4th placed were Trivop and 11870.com. All the finalists had fantastic offerings and choosing amongst them would have given…

  • My first video podcast

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    I published my first video podcast this evening over on PodLeaders.com. As it is the first one, I am re-publishing it here too. The podcast is an interview with LouderVoice‘s Conor O’Neill. Conor discusses how the site is based on Microformats (making the data fully portable), how the sites makes extensive use of tagging and…

  • Video editing software recommendations

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    I bought a new video camera recently with the intention of doing some video casting. It is a fine camera. Carl Zeiss lenses, shoots in full HD and all. But in my zeal to buy it, I forgot to ask one important question – will it work on the Mac? Unfortunately, in this case, the…

  • Video quality on YouTube versus Blip.tv

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    I wanted to test out a couple of video publishing platforms so I made a short clip of my youngest trying to pick up and eat some banana cubes! I uploaded the clip to YouTube and Blip.tv I was shocked with poor quality of the result in YouTube in comparison to Blip.tv. Check out the…

  • My move from OS X to Vista – Day 6

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    Good news for a change! I received an email from Miel Van Opstal alerting me to the fact that NVIDIA has updated its video driver for the Vaio (Miel is the guy in charge of the Vaio Influencer program in Microsoft). Previously SecondLife refused to run on the Vaio because of video driver issues. Steve…

  • Well done Leon!

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    A good friend of mine’s son, Leon O’Connor, recently won a national award for the following film he made. All the more impressive when you consider Leon is only seven! Let it play to the end, the final section, after the credits is great. Well done Leon. http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=4218040584681429985&hl=en