As I had pointed out in earlier posts, the Apple marketing machine is on course to ‘do it again’.
According to Apple Insider, Apple has already sold out its initial stock of iPad models via pre-orders. Sure, Apple may purposely have kept its stock fairly low to achieve the “we’re sold out already ‘cuz everybody wants [...]
Archive for March, 2010
I’m beyond excited. Today I learned the highly anticipated Adobe Creative Suite 5 will launch in April – and my friend Gary Bettan from VideoGuys ( http://twitter.com/videoguys ) told me he had a dealer seminar today and it was announced that all CS5 programs will be 64bit.
This is huge. I’ve been waiting for this for [...]
Matt Cutts Discusses How Google Crawls Your Site
Published by March 20th, 2010 in Search Engines. 0 CommentsHere is an excellent article from StoneTemple.com. In this interview with Google Megalord Matt Cutts we learn how the Big G crawls your site, how the Google bot deals with duplicate content and affiliate links, and much more.
If you are on Cox Communication’s Premier plan and your modem is disconnecting when you try to upload anything all you’ll likely have the D-Link DCM-202.
Yesterday, Cox increased the speeds for Premier plan customers. Upload speeds were increased to 4 or 5 Mbps, downloads increased to about 25Mbps. Unfortunately Cox messed up and didn’t apparently [...]
How To: 24p Firmware Upgrade on Canon 5D Mark II
Published by March 15th, 2010 in Photography. 1 CommentIf you are the lucky owner of a Canon 5 D Mark II you may have heard that Canon finally released a firmware upgrade to allow your baby to record in 24p mode. It’ll also allow your 5D to record at 29.97 fps rather than the cumbersome 30p.
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Lady Gaga: Product Placement, Pantyhose, Oh My!
Published by March 14th, 2010 in Editing with Kroy and Production Tips. 0 CommentsProduction/Editing tip:
When you watch a music video from a top shelf act, nothing is an accident. Nothing. Every little product placement, fetish item, gesture, look etc. is planned and usually has a reason for being there. “Sex sells” is a truism, but that’s not the full story. There’s some off-the-wall, even kinky stuff that just [...]
6 things about porn that are kind of gay when you think about it
Published by March 14th, 2010 in Production Tips. 0 CommentsToday’s shooting tips…
Here are 6 things about porn that are kind of gay when you think about it. As Seinfeld would say “(gay)…not that there’s anything wrong with it…”. Of course there’s nothing wrong with being gay. But if you shoot porn for straight consumers you should watch out for some stuff – like [...]
Shrinking Steve Jobs Presents the iPad, Seth Godin Cries
Published by March 6th, 2010 in Sales & Marketing. 1 CommentUpdate 03/12
Looks like I wasn’t as clever as I thought with the “shrinking Steve Jobs” thing – Rocket Fuel apparently thought of this gag before I did. Well, it is kinda obvious. Regardless, the actual point of this post still stands:
Marketing Tip: Selling Mediocre Stuff
Seth Godin, who (rightfully) says that one needs to have something [...]
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