Educating Through Video Conference

March 13th, 2008

Q: We are using technology for teach read and write for children and aults, using video conference and Pen Mouse. Can you recommend about this?, just is very difficult enter this market. -  Jose Benito

Help DeskA: Hi Jose. Are you asking if that is a good market and how to enter it?

My first inclination is, what kind of investment would a student need to participate in something like this. Obviously they need to have a computer with Internet connection and a pen mouse. But… I don’t know very much about the market and am unable to tell you if this is a good market or not.

If I were doing research to evaluate if I should enter this market, I would do the following:

Find out if there are any competitors. This is usually a good indicator if anyone is already earning money in this market - or not. One way to determine who

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How To Redirect A Domain (Not WebPage)

February 6th, 2008

Help DeskQ: Could you show a video tutioral on doing a 301 redirect for an entire site. - Elizabeth Ashe

A: Hey Elizabeth. If you’re not going to use a domain anymore, the easiest and least technical way is simply to redirect the domain at your domain registrar. As requested, here’s a quick 4 minute video to show you how to do that on GoDaddy.

 

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Another Free Screencast App

February 4th, 2008

Apps obsessionStumbled upon (really not stumbled not through SU) a pretty cool video screen capture application. You even get 250MB storage for it. I haven’t downloaded it but imagine it is similar to Jing.

You can only record up to 5 minutes. I don’t recall Jing having a time limit on recordings, but I’m sure uTIPu has it’s plus points.

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Big Viral Video Mistake

January 8th, 2008

About 2 years ago or there abouts, just when video was starting to go big online, a friend of mine created a video to promote her website. It’s beautiful video. You know, one of those that force you to sit, watch and reflect even if you don’t want to. The message was deeply moving, highly relevant to her site and it just exploded her traffic and newsletter subscriber base.

She hit the jackpot with that video and it did so well, soon people were asking to purchase downloadable copies and DVD’s of it. Well, she did that, converting the video to several popular video formats. Once in a while she will receive complains about quality. The video had a lot of images and text that faded in out but that’s not the problem.

The biggest issue - the original video (let’s call it the master) is created in Flash and SWF at that too, not FLV. Converting SWF is

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When New Technology Is Introduced

October 10th, 2007

People suffered from having to learn new tech in the old days too. The fact the video isn’t in English makes this funnier. Hilarious!

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