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  • Of Seesmic, TikTok and Qik

    Of Seesmic, TikTok and Qik

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesInternet coelacanths like @documentally remember a different era. We remember internet video communities in the early days of Seesmic and Qik. Seesmic was a video instant messaging platform. We could either post disconnected videos about anything, or we could reply to each other and have converssations. KDFA had "Le Bar est ouvert",…

  • Happiness and Social Media

    Happiness and Social Media

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is the turn of the Washington Post to discuss whether people are happier after leaving social media. As with every other article I have skimmed on the topic it discusses addiction and more without discussing the reason for which social media might be bad for one’s mental health.  Remember that social…

  • Video Editing And Social Media

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the past if you wanted to be a video editor you also needed to be a camera operator, and to be a camera operator you needed to be a video editor. By knowing both skills you shot good material because you knew how hard bad material was to use. As a…

  • Day 46 Of Self-Isolation in Switzerland – Contemplating A Walk In The Rain

    Day 46 Of Self-Isolation in Switzerland – Contemplating A Walk In The Rain

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s raining hard today and I’m still contemplating a walk in the rain. It should allow for some different photographs than usual. If I go to the motorway then I can photograph the vortices of wind behind trucks dragging up water from the road. If I go for my daily walk when…

  • Seesmic video and HTML 5

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteRemember the video version of seesmic, the one that spawned.the francofous? Things changed for two reasons. Bandwidth issues and ressources. Flash would suck down the laptop battery within a few minutes. It meant that you could.only Seesmic from a fixed position. With html5 that problem will dissapear. What I look forward…

  • A “Transcribe this” button for seesmic videos

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteSomething I would love to see on Seesmic, and which would encourage me to use it more is a “transcribe this” button for when I record certain videos. The logic is simple. Sometimes we discuss things that we would like to see discussed but not everyone wants to listen to us…

  • Twhirl and video recording

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteLoic Le Meur yesterday released Twhirl to anyone willing to give their name and e-mail address. As a result I am using the latest version of twhirl and it finally offers the ability to record straight from twhirl. That means you can record video straight from twhirl. No more web interface.…

  • Leweb was a great event

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesLeweb for me was about two things, meeting my seesmic friends and meeting new people. It’s through meeting friends that are familiar to me on the web that I had the best times. In particular I enjoyed meeting with Alex, nutrisionist 2.0 as is mentioned in his tagline. What was great about…

  • A busy few days

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTomorrow I will be in Lausanne once more, this time to meet the people from Bloggy Friday. It’s Switzerland’s bloggers and social media types coming together for a chat and the traditional fondue (or so it’s been for the past few weeks) and an opportunity to hear about new projects. Last…

  • Ijustine, me and seesmic

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteNo face to face meeting but I appear in the seesmic plug by Ijustine for the Macbreak Episode . It’s quite amusing to see me in the same video clip as her 🙂