Archive for the ‘Video’ Category

Posted on March 10, 2011 - by Wayne Sutton

Dell Commercial At SXSW 2011 Starring Baratunde

During SXSW 2011, a group of friends recorded a Dell Commercial at the Hilton, Austin for the Dell Vostro V130 staring Baratunde Of The Onion. Take a look.

This is the Dell Vostro V130. There was no tiger blood involved although it in the making of this video commercial. This is a great laptop that will make you stylish, professional and on point at work and in the boardroom.

While settling in for the evening at the Hilton Hotel the night before SXSW, the following crew of creative tech folks put together this video: @baratunde @waynesutton @hajjflemings @robertmurray @amoyal @adriarichards @drgoddess

Posted on January 16, 2011 - by Wayne Sutton

Explaining the confusing state of online video via Nettuts+

There’s a lot of talk in the bubble right now about Google vs Apple but this time it’s not about mobile phones but online video formats. Google plans to ditch H.264 support for in Google Chrome for WebM and then ask everyone to download a new plug-in if you’re using Safari or Internet Explorer. This sounds like we’re going back to 2001 and flash plugins for online video.

If you’re a little confused of about what Google and Apple are battling over the guys at Nettuts+ posted the The State of Video on the Web blog post. A must read.

Posted on March 24, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

Content Strategy FTW video & presentation from Kristina Halvorson @halvorson talk at SXSW

Photo by Warren Parsons

One of the most anticpated talks I was looking forward to at SXSW was by Kristina Halvorson @halvorson called Content Strategy FTW . I first heard Kristina speak at FOWA a year ago and I knew she would “crush it” at SXSW. A few of my NC friends such as Kipp Bodnar, Jeff Cohen and Jim Tobin attended the session as well and “over heard” how I thought Kritian’s session would rock and she didn’t disappoint us. Jim even wrote a great recap of here session called:Content Strategy is Much More than Web Copywriting: More SxSW Notes.

During her session I sat on the front row with my Macbook Pro and a usb webcam to live stream her talk. It’s a little shaky but I think well worth a listen if you’re in the content strategy/blogging/writing for the web business. Below is the video and her slides from Content Strategy FTW session at SXSW.

The SXSW Video. FYI it’s via the lap cam.

Also check out Kristian’s book called Content Strategy http://www.contentstrategy.com

*Discloser: No this is not a sponsored post. I just recognize awesome when I see awesome.

Posted on March 24, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

SXSW Presentation: Becoming Real-Time Video Blogger in 2010 – Future15 Session

I’m still playing catch-up from SXSWi but I wanted to share the presentation from the Future15 Becoming Real-Time Video Blogger in 2010 session I presented at SXSW. The Future15 sessions were new to SXSWi this year allowing for more speakers to participate in a 2 hour time block on a niche topic with each speaker having 15 minutes to present. I like to call it a mix of “ignite” like talks meets SXSW. Take a look at the presentation below and let me know what you think. It’s currently being featured on Slideshare’s Spotlight: South by SouthWest SXSW 2010 section today too.

During the Future15 Online Video section other speakers and friends presented on other video topics such as:

• Video Search Optimization Strategies To Grow Your Business – Bill Leake, Apogee Search
• Hyperlocal Focus: Growing A Vibrant Community Media Ecosystem – Bill Simmon, VCAM
• Just the Host: Web Video Divas Dish! – Amanda Congdon, Oxmour Entertainment Inc / Sometimesdaily LLC – Amanda Congdon
• Web Video: Can We Now Say Something Sucks? – Liz Shannon Miller, NewTeeVee – Liz Shannon Miller
• Attracting Big Sponsors With a Super-Niche Webshow, Freezer Burns, Gregory Ng

I lived streamed 3 out of the 5 presenters and will be posting some of their presentations and video from there talks too. After my talk Tod Plotki from Green Buzz Agency asked me what did I think about the role of video in corporate marketing. Here’s my video response below. Note: I think I was still nervous from the presentation

How do you see video being used in social web in the upcoming months?

Posted on September 10, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

LiveStream launches custom interactive events with Facebook & Twitter similar to uStream

LiveStream’s new service features:

• Fully branded user experience on your website, syndication partners website, Livestream.com and Facebook.
• Viral At The Core – Through chat, your viewers promote links to your live event and destinations using Twitter and Facebook status updates.
• Social At The Core – Watch within Facebook, build followers for your Twitter profile and Facebook pages/applications.
• Scalable – The Livestream Platform can handle hundreds of thousands of simultaneous viewers.

More info: http://cdn.livestream.com/services/customevent/

Here’s a screen shot from Ustream’s Facebook live event page.

Ustream’s service features:

• Ability to customize headers and banners
• Live interactive video to promote upcoming projects and engage fans
• Ability to chat with millions of fans simultaneously
• Facebook live stream box allows fans to communicate with their favorite brands and artists and to spread their comments virally among friends

More info: http://www.ustream.tv/facebooklive

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Both services seems to target bands and artist who want to broadcast live and interact with fans on Facebook and Twitter. While I think this is a great idea and plug for both platforms including Facebook. My question is why host a live video on Facebook when you can host the event on your main website? But I do get the simplicity factor since bands, artist  and people spend so much time on Facebook, so just add the ability to host a live video show directly from a fanpage. hmmm

Has anyone used either one of the services from within FaceBook and you’re not a in a band or a music artist? If so how was your experience?