Archive for the tag 'video'

Jun 10 2010

SaaS: The Business Model – Video

Published under Business, Presentations

On Feb. 27 at St. Louis Innovation Camp 2010, I gave a talk on the SaaS business model. I posted the slides, handout, audio, and transcript soon thereafter. Here, finally, is a video of the 44-minute-long talk. Why did it take over three months to get online? Read on below.
This is an x.264 video, shown [...]

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May 27 2010

Take a Strategic Vacation

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This is yet another story that I’ve told dozens of time to individual and groups, and now finally written down. Here is a short video talk:

As usual, the vimeo page offers it for HTML5, non-Flash platforms like the iPad.
Back in 2004 I co-founded Mobile Workforce Management, a vertical market SaaS firm. For the first 6+ [...]

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May 19 2010

The Prolog Story

Published under Technology

I’ve told this story in person dozens of times, it’s time to write it down and share it here. I’ve again experimentally recorded a video version (below), which you can view on a non-Flash device here.

I know a little Prolog, which I learned in college – just enough to be dangerous. Armed with that, and [...]

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May 07 2010

When Will It Ship? Estimates and Promises

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I’m trying something new with this post: a short video presentation of approximately the same content.

This is a Vimeo video, embedded as Flash. You can go over to Vimeo to watch it with HTML5-video devices like an iPad. I expect to offer better quality and more options as I learn more.
Here is an area of [...]

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Jan 10 2009

Very slick video dragging

Published under Technology

Brett Rampata pointed out this very slick “Direct Manipulation of Video” demo video:
Here is a more explanatory video from the same project:

I’m curious how difficult it was to create that behavior. I’m confident that our customers (we build a variety of video applications for our customers at Oasis Digital) would be thrilled by it.
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Oct 16 2007

Growing a Language, by Guy Steele

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This is an oldie-but-goodie: Guy Steele’s “Growing a Language” talk from OOPSLA 1998.
It is amazing to me that Guy, whose is something of a legend in language design, and who thinks so clearly about what makes a good language, was also key in designing Java. Java has been extremely slow to grow in the sense [...]

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