Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
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tips for an effective talk: how to start, cycling in on the material, using verbal punctuation to indicate transitions, describing “near misses” that strengthen the intended concept, and asking questions. By MIT Professor Patrick Winston.
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Adobe Air based FLV (Flash video file) editor, by Berlin-based Benjamin Dobler at richapps.de. Can a.o.:
* Read flv Metadata
* read/edit/modify/delete cuepoints
* cut and stitch flvs
* convert the sound of the flv to mp3
* convert flv to swf
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“FLV Extract” Extracts video and audio from FLV files without decompressing or recompressing. The video is saved to AVI (H.263/FLV1 and VP6/VP6F are supported) and the audio is saved to MP3 (requires the .NET Framework 2.0 )
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Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer: tool to convert (encode) or play any Multimedia file.
GUI to ffmpeg, MEncoder, mplayer, x264, mppenc, ffmpeg2theora & the theora/vorbis RealProducer plugIn.
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IP- and browser header checker, but this one gives also whois (RIPE) info for the IP address you’re at.
(from: MetroPipe: Privacy Tools)
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“you can’t ask users what they think, you have to watch what they do”
“Normal users of social networks use Facebook apps in the same way that middle America forwards emails to one another.”
(another insightful post by lsvp)
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Stages for Performance: with both the recipient and their profile['s visitor]
Lighter Weight Communications: maintain some “heartbeat” with an occasional ping
Context for communications: helping prompt more by helping to surface topics for communicati
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Another brilliant piece by Clay Shirky on how the internet changed PR: “Winfrey had embraced the internet as a way to talk to her fans, and to let them talk back to her (or at least her staff). [On the internet,] her fans were also talking to one another”
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