Category Archives: social media

DataPortability Video Released!

I’ve just finished and shared my video for the awesome dataportability workgroup:
DataPortability - Connect, Control, Share, Remix from Smashcut Media on Vimeo.
Enjoy!

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Free Cross Platform Screensharing & Collaboration: Adobe Brio

I’ve been trying out a number of offerings on the screensharing and collaboration front lately, so was very, very pleased to find Robin Good’s great review of the newly launched Adobe Brio over at Master New Media today.

There are a whole lot of reasons that this has me excited:

It’s totally cross platform, because it’s browser-based
It’s [...]

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Screencasts, Video Demos & Post-Production Services: Smashcut Media Launched

Smashcut Media is my latest project, and is essentially a micro-studio for producing professional screencasts and other new media. Largely serving the Web 2.0 startup ecosystem, I’ve opened up a number of services and options for potential clients and now have a price guide available upon request. You can also download a brochure detailing what’s [...]

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RSS: 2 Ways To Get (Or Give A Friend) A Handle On It

As fate would conspire I’ve wound up producing two different ways of trying to point out the basics of RSS for newcomers.
The first was a recent client project, for the awesome social feed reading application Feed Each Other. I had a lot of fun working with Udi at Feed Each Other on this one, and [...]

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Screencasts Come Of Age, I Turn Full-Time Screencaster

Screencasts Turn Three
A little over three years ago the term screencast didn’t exist at all. In the same month that the medium comes of age, I have made the commitment to professional screencasting as a full-time career.  Jon Udell coined the term (with a little help from his blog community) and basically (re)invented the medium while he [...]

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The Old Way Of Learning Doesn’t Cut It Any More

If the old way of learning ever had any value, it’s certainly starting to show it’s limitations now. In the following video (by the same guy who brought you the cool Web 2.0 video, Michael Wesch) we get a very compelling view of the way that students learn today, and also the myriad ways [...]

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Jaiku Messaging From Your Non-Symbian/Java Phone (Quick & Dirty Hack)

Okay, so Jaiku is flavour of the month again thanks to the Google acquisition, and you know you have to start using it, however hard you might resist. But unless you have a symbian or Java phone, you’re basically screwed. Sure you can use SMS, if that’s your bag. Unless you live somewhere like Japan [...]

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Video Blogging For Wordpress Screencast Tutorial

Wordpress has quite a few video blogging solutions if you are willing to dig them up, but Revver’s recent foray into WP plugins covers pretty much everything you might need to get started. The latest installment of the Tubetorial 7 Must Have Killer Plugins For Wordpress series covers getting this installed and what it can [...]

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7 Killer Must Have Wordpress Plugins #2 Live On Tubetorial: Google Sitemaps

I’m pleased to announce that the second in our seven part guide to killer Wordpress plugins is now live over at Tubetorial. This episode is dedicated to the handy dandy Google Sitemap Generator plugin by Arne Brachold.

This is a plugin that makes it very easy to optimize your blog’s sitemap and make some fine adjustments. [...]

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Mood Messaging Made Easy With MoodSwing & MoodBlast

If you, like me, have an unhealthy addiction to microblogging, social network and IM services, and happen to be on a Mac, you can ring out the bells of glory today. MoodSwing, a Quicksilver plugin, and its menu-bar cousin MoodBlast are a pair of must have tools that make it easy to beam out your [...]

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