Interviews with Digital Media Thought Leaders

Easily Making Audio-Visual Presentations Over The Net

Podcast Video | Posted by Phil Leigh on May 3, 2008

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If you would like to learn how to create narrated PowerPoint presentations using only your telephone & computer, and generate hyperlinks to them for inclusion in emails, this interview is for you.
 
Subject: Our guests today are Joe Gustafson and Greg Flynn.  Joe is the CEO of Brainshark and Greg is a Vice President. Brainshark is a service used by one-third of the top 100 companies in America. It permits their executives to create narrated PowerPoint presentations using only their computers and a telephone. Additionally, it generates a hyperlink so that the presentations can be placed in emails and websites. Finally, it tracks information about who looks at the slides, how often, and the time spent on each slide. 

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How Students Use Video Recordings of College Lectures (Part 2 of 2)

Podcast Video | Posted by Phil Leigh on April 4, 2008

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If you would like to learn how leading colleges and universities are using audio-visual recordings of professor lectures, this interview is for you.  (Part 2 of 2).

Subject: Our guest today is Mark Jones who is the CEO of Echo 360. His company provides an electronic appliance enabling college professors to record their lectures for two purposes. First, is to make them available to attending-students on-demand so that they might review the material whenever desired. Second, is for use in distance learning so that students at any remote location, including their homes, may take classes from respected universities. Read more…

How Students Use Video Recordings of College Lectures (Part 1 of 2)

Podcast Video | Posted by Phil Leigh on April 2, 2008

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If you would like to learn how leading colleges and universities are using audio-visual recordings of professor lectures, this interview is for you.  (Part 1 of 2).

Subject: Our guest today is Mark Jones who is the CEO of Echo 360. His company provides an electronic appliance enabling college professors to record their lectures for two purposes. First, is to make them available to attending-students on-demand so that they might review the material whenever desired. Second, is for use in distance learning so that students at any remote location, including their homes, may take classes from respected universities. Read more…

The Future of Newspaper Classified Ads

Podcast Video | Posted by Phil Leigh on March 25, 2008

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If you would like to learn what online newspaper classified ads might look like in the future, this interview is for you.
 
Subject: Our guest today is Michael Gerrity who is the CEO of The Real Estate Channel. It’s a website that has video-centric classified ads for properties that are for sale.

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Future of Video Advertising (Part 2 of 2)

Podcast Video | Posted by Phil Leigh on March 15, 2008

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If you would like learn what video advertising might be like in the future, this interview is for you. (Part 2 of 2)

Summary: In Part 2 of this two-part interview Jayant (CEO of YuMe Networks) demonstrates the remaining two ad formats which include clickable skins and shareable ads.

Next the interview proceeds to the question & answer session in which I ask questions that occurred to me during the demos and earlier discussion. Topics covered include (1) comparison of disruptive and non-disruptive ads, (2) competitive landscape, (3) the company’s operating history and performance statistics, (4) venture financing from Khosla Ventures and Accel Partners, and (5) YuMe’s targeted market. Read more…

Future of Video Advertising (Part 1 of 2)

Podcast Video | Posted by Phil Leigh on March 13, 2008

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If you would like learn what video advertising might be like in the future, this interview is for you. (Part 1 of 2)

Subject: Our guest today is Jayant Kadambi who is the CEO of YuMe Networks. His company is an Applications Service Provider (ASP) that places ads in digital video.  YuMe offers a variety of ad formats including pre-roll, post-roll, mid-roll, overlays, player skins, and others. You can get a look at samples at their ad gallery. Read more…

Future of Television

Podcast Video | Posted by Phil Leigh on March 11, 2008

Summary: If you would like to watch a video that demonstrates what television might be like in the future, this show is for you.
 
Just before the Democratic primaries in Ohio and Texas, Clinton and Obama had yet another televised debate. It started at 9:00PM EST and I just wasn’t interested in staying up to watch the whole thing. However, the next morning the online edition of The New York Times had the entire video available in a clever package.

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A Point-and-Shoot Camcorder for the Mass Market

Podcast Video | Posted by Phil Leigh on July 11, 2007

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Owing to exponential growth at YouTube nearly everyone is conscious of Internet video. Increasingly, many of us want to make our own. As a result, companies are starting to market un-complex “point-and-shoot” camcorders that make the process simple enough for the mass market.
 
Today’s guest is Rich Phipps who is Director of Business Development at Thomson Audio Video, which markets under the venerable RCA brand. Recently they introduced a $129 “point-and-shoot” camcorder that stores the pictures in solid state memory, instead of tape.

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