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Archive for January, 2009

When the Web 2.0 “Cloud” Apps go dark: Pageflakes Flaky

Posted in 37signals, Enterprise 2.0, Pageflakes, Web 2.0, cloud computing, recession on Saturday, 31 January 2009, 11:29 am | Leave a Comment »

Ok, so my RSS reader is Pageflakes, an online “webtop” RSS reader. I’ve come to like the the way Pageflakes has all my RSS feeds (with graphics) physically laid out in tabbed pages. Until two days ago. When Pageflakes just died. Without any notification. Gives putting your valuable data (in this case several hundred URLs [...]

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Community Sourced Web 2.0 Sneaker Site Ryz: Turning Japanese

Posted in Japan, Ryz, Web 2.0, community site, crowd sourcing, design, ecommerce, footwear, open sourcing, wisdom of crowds on Friday, 30 January 2009, 1:30 pm | Leave a Comment »

Ryz, the Portland, OR-based community-sourced sneaker design competition and ecommerce company (which I’ve written about extensively and for which I did consulting in 2007) has lauched their entered the Japanese market, both bricks & mortar and online. Check out the latest news from RYZ, in their holiday letter to their community, from last month.

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Great book I started over CNY: “The Lean Forward Moment” by Norman Hollyn

Posted in Indie filmmaking, books, film editing, screenwriting on Friday, 30 January 2009, 11:54 am | 1 Comment »

Started reading Norman Hollyn’s book, The Lean Forward Moment: Creating Compelling Stories for Film, TV and the Web over Chinese New Year. This is something I’ve been looking for: a holistic view of how to put audiences into the “flow” state (i.e., they forget about time, are leaning forward in their seats). Hollyn is an [...]

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Canada streams its films

Posted in online movies, online video on Friday, 30 January 2009, 8:03 am | Leave a Comment »

A friend has alerted me to a cool site: the National Film Board of Canada has a web site streaming in high quality films from its vaults. Check it out. Yep, you’ll find hockey films here. And plenty of others too.

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Less Variety

Posted in Anne Thompson, Variety, blogs, film criticism on Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 12:51 am | Leave a Comment »

Variety just laid off the one columnist of theirs I read (online) religiously, Anne Thompson. Anne will do fine. Variety, I’m not so sure. Seems like nose cut off to spite face. Old media seems to have enough challenges, without doing things like this to hasten their own demise… Good luck, Anne. I’ll link to [...]

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“Comes with Movies”

Posted in Hulu, Indie filmmaking, digital cinema, digital distribution, downloads, iTunes Store, music, online movies, online video, set-top box on Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 12:41 am | Leave a Comment »

The future movies will follow the future of music. The file sizes are just a little bit bigger. For the future of music, read this interesting article in the IHT, “Music World Embracing Unlimited Downloads” which discusses “Comes With Music”–a Nokia phone service with unlimited music downloads. Scott Kirsner, as usual, is tracking it. He [...]

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Wanna make movies? Check out the Canon HV40

Posted in 24P, Canon, HV30, HV40, cameras on Thursday, 8 January 2009, 10:24 am | 3 Comments »

Scott Simmon’s Editblog alerted me to a new camera in Canon’s HV line of super small high-def cameras, the HV40. (Stu Maschewitz and other “dv rebels” have been touting the HV20 (and HV30) for a while.) The big feature is “native 24P” mode and a custom button for saving presets. Not sure if you can [...]

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Red Won’t Be At NAB in 2009

Posted in 4K, 5K, Adobe, Adobe Premiere, AfterEffects, Apple, Apple Color, Cineform, Final Cut, NAB, Red Camera, Red Epic, Red digital cinema, Scarlet on Thursday, 8 January 2009, 9:57 am | 1 Comment »

Jim Jannard announced yesterday that Red won’t attend NAB in 2009: RED has decided to skip NAB 2009. We will hold our own RED DAY when we feel we are ready to present the new systems and when they are fully ready to showcase. Date and location will be announced in future. A minor delay [...]

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