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Archive for September, 2006

Ambient Vector announce Nakama

Congratulations to Sutha, David and the team at Ambient Vector with the launching of Nakama.

What is Nakama?

Nakama lets you share pictures and videos from your phone with your friends on the web, and on their phones too, and there’s nothing to download or install.

What can Nakama do?

Want to post your pictures straight to your MySpace, Flickr, Blogger, MSN or other gallery or blog? Send a picture or video from your phone to go@nakama.ca and we’ll post it for you. Ever taken a great picture or funny video? Send it to your friends! Nakama lets you send it to ALL their phones in one step. It’s that easy: no more fighting with your phone or spending a lot to send it to each friend.

I’ll have to get a phone that lets me take pictures and video.

Nakama

Techsmith Morae Givaway at CanUX 2006

Techsmith was kind enough to give us a copy of their usability testing product so we could give it away at CanUX 2006. So we interviewed people to see who wanted it the most.

Download this video in High Quality Windows Media

[tags]CanUX2006 CanUX Techsmith Morae TechsmithMorae[/tags]

Video-blogging is for anyone

So there has been a slew of sentiment and commentary on whether or not video blogging is for everyone; whether blogging will become as vapid as TV; does video convey information as effectively as text and the debate is being waged by fine folks like:

Brad Templeton, Dina Kaplan, Alec Saunders, Luca Filigheddu, Jeff Pulver, Mathew Ingram, Paul Kapustka, Robert Scoble and Rob Hyndman among others.

so two things:

Adam Ant

1st:

"We’re not punk, we’re not New Wave, we’re Ant Music."
Adam Ant

Bands don’t like to be labeled and I don’t like the idea of segregating the “blogosphere” by implying that a blogger’s (I believe vloggers are bloggers) choice of medium determines the quality of his or her work. I might be a great example of what people are talking about when they talk about shoddy production values, but this blog would make even less sense if it was prose alone.

2nd:

“Are some flowers more beautiful than others? The garden is beautiful. Do I prefer brother over brother? Comparisons are part of this political world. Where there is one, there is no conflict. Where there is two or more, there is conflict. Two is the devil. Conflict begin with the devil. We count 0 to 1, then back to 0. It is a circle.”
Peter Tosh

Peter Tosh

Maybe that quote is a bit out there but I guess I am trying to say that we all should support each other. So keep on truckin’ all you people who make (or want to make) vlogs, linklogs, photoblogs, moblogs, podcasts and tumblelogs (maybe not those fuckin’ tumblelogs).

[tags]vlog, video blogging, vloggers, video[/tags]

Influential?

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Pffff. The only thing that Bryce influences is the gravity of smaller masses.
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ZING

Well the big needs to be knocked down a notch after the success of CanUX 2006, but I am sure he appreciates the vote-of-confidence from Mark.

As for diversity… HELLO. Chicken, Poulet, Pollo, Huhn, Κοτόπουλο, Kip (NOT tonight). I may hang with the saltines but I am fowl.