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A camera is a device that records images that can be stored directly, transmitted to another location, or both. These images may be still photographs or moving images such as videos or movies. The term camera comes from the word camera obscura (Latin for “dark chamber”), an early mechanism for projecting images. The modern camera evolved from the camera obscura.
Cameras may work with the light of the visible spectrum or with other portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. A ...

How Microsoft Uses Video to Increase Employee Productivity

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Did you know that Microsoft has their own YouTube? No, I don't mean Bing Videos. I mean Academy Mobile. Never heard of it? Me neither, until I read this piece yesterday at Ragan.com. Academy Mobile is just like YouTube--users can upload videos, rate videos, comment ...

We Already Have The World's First iPad 2 Movie

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You may remember Majek Pictures--the filmmaking duo of Anna Elizabeth James and Michael Koerbel. They're the ones that made waves last June by shooting and editing a short film, "Apple of My Eye," entirely on the iPhone 4. That film has nearly a million views ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons

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Is it really Friday already? Another week is in the books, and it's time to round up the best of the viral success stories from this week. We have animals (honestly, you simply can't publish a list of top viral videos without including animal clips ...

Take YouTube 101 At A College Campus Near You

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YouTube is really serious about improving the overall quality of the video content on their site. Like... really, really serious. In addition to providing a free service for content creators to upload and share video, and sharing ad revenue with the partner channels, they've also ...

Did Apple Cheap Out On The iPad 2 Video Cameras? Yes & No

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The iPad 2 was only announced five days ago, and won't ship until late this week, but already we're seeing the beginnings of a small backlash against the device's two cameras. The strongest criticism comes from Wired, in an article entitled "Just How Bad Is ...

The Online Video Weekly News Reel - 6 March 2011

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February is gone, March is here, winter's ending, spring is near. Well it might not feel like it in parts of the world as there's snow in Milwaukee and it's still below freezing here in the Czech Republic, but temperatures are starting to rise, days ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons

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I wrote yesterday about the discovery problem with online video.  There's so much video being uploaded at such a rapid pace that it's literally impossible for every video to have an even chance to be found. The average viewer has neither the time nor the ...

Apple Announces The iPad They Should Have Released A Year Ago

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Apple just made Xoom's road to success a lot harder, by announcing the iPad 2. Apple's big product announcement event today has garnered a ton of press, and rightly so. You'll never guess what they announced... A new iPad! Called the iPad 2! And guess what?! ...

Michael Jackson To Create Crowdsourced Online Video From Beyond The Grave

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With the success of films like Star Wars Uncut and, more recently, Life In A Day, the concept of crowdsourced film projects is gaining traction. The latest well-publicized video project seeking content assistance from fans and viewers comes from a pretty unlikely source: Michael Jackson. ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons

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Happy Friday everyone. It's been a long week for me, and I'm looking forward to the weekend. Your weekend comes a little early, in the form of the weekly viral video round up. I've got another great collection of clips that went viral this week---each ...

Motorola's Honeycomb-Based Xoom: The Most Attractive Tablet Device for Video Is Available Now

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One of the most anticipated devices in the emerging tablet market, the Motorola Xoom, is now available for preorder at BestBuy.com. The Xoom will be the first device to feature the new Honeycomb version of the Android operating system, which was specifically designed with tablet ...

A Tale of Two Viral Hoax Videos Done Right

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Hoax videos are pretty trendy right now. You probably heard about the Jerusalem UFO videos, which many have labeled as the work of well-organized pranksters. Or maybe you heard about the Central Park iPhone marriage proposal that ultimately turned out to be staged. Either way, ...

Honeycomb Tablets Are Already Better Than iPads... for Video Marketers

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Remember when the iPad was announced, and I wrote about how useless it seemed for people like us that deal with video all the time? Most readers skipped the fact that I was writing about the device from a video standpoint and just labeled me ...

YouTube Partnering With LG To Create A Mobile Device for 3D Junkies

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Despite my wishes to the contrary, 3D is still pretty hot in the world of video. Hollywood keeps pumping out films in 3D, and even television commercials and TV shows are getting into the act. So naturally the technology should come to mobile devices, right? ...

Sony Reveals Filmy, AVCHD viewing on Playstation 3

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I thought this interesting, but not mainstream Monday-Friday interesting, so here we are on a Saturday. It seems that Sony is working to instill brand loyalty, or perhaps reward it, by offering an application on the Playstation 3 that allows you to watch AVCHD video ...

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