Is There Tech in Iowa?
Is there interesting technology being used and developed in Iowa? You bet there is! And to prove it, I have teamed up with my friend Andy Brudtkuhl to bring it to you. In the very near future, you’ll start to see videos about technology in Iowa at techiniowa.com (be patient, we’re almost there).
To kick things off for our first episode, Andy recently talked with Des Moines business owner, Nathan Wright of Lava Row about social media. I thought it was a great discussion! (video below)
What do you think?
If you know any folks doing some interesting things with technology, drop me or Andy a note and we’ll add them to our list.
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My green screen guinea pig
I just finished up my first “green screen” project for fellow Central Iowa Blogger, Doug Mitchell and his associate Paul Gratton — for their new venture, Rental Metrics. Their goal was to quickly pitch their services to help potential customers understand this new business and how Rental Metrics can help. (If you haven’t talked to Doug or Paul about this new venture, be sure to do so… I think they’re on to something with this forward-thinking business model.)
Thanks to Doug for being my green screen guinea pig and to Paul for being a great co-producer. You guys were a pleasure to work with, and I really enjoyed learning more about what you are up to.
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Merry Marketingmas - A look at interactive holiday cards
It’s inevitable. Every holiday, Christmas is no exception, marketing agencies and big corporations shell out the big bucks and long hours to make a splash in people’s busy holiday lives.
I keep stumbling across various holiday greeting card sites (or colossal wastes of time, whatever you want to call them) and thought I would share a few. They may not be the most tasteful, and certainly not in the spirit of what I consider Christmas to be, but their technical merit alone warrants a look.
First, and most impressive (though disturbing on many levels) is R/GA’s Tattoo Santa. I have no idea how they figured out how to map text and images to moving video, but it’s impressive.
If you’re feeling scroogey, you can plaster your face on a dancing Scrooge at OfficeMax’s Scroogeyourself.com. They also have (I think it was last year’s campaign) Elfyourself.com, where you plaster your face on a dancing elf, and can even call in to leave an audio message that will get included in your message. Interesting… all I can say.
AdMission put together a matching game.
Thought has an evil looking santa with a chainsaw game (Red Christmas). Not one for the kids for sure!
Hmmm. You know… All of this is not leaving me feeling very festive on this last day of work before vacation. Maybe I should call it quits here. 
Anyone have any others worth sharing? Post ‘em below. And do have a Merry Christmas!
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Google Video team joined the Sitemaps folks to introduce Video Sitemaps
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Consumers want to feel they are being heard, and they love having an impact on the future development of products.
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The following are a set of best practices to ensure that advertisers, advertising agencies and marketers get the most from their online video ad campaigns.
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What does it cost to advertise in the Web-video medium? The answers vary as wildly as the range of Web video content itself.
links for 2007-12-12
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Wisconsin based sub sandwich shop chain creates the first human flipbook video to promote it’s restaurants.
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Nathan Wright talks about “viral” video creation, expectations and a few lessons learned.
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Kevin Nalts discusses YouTube’s recent announcement regarding opening up its video revenue sharing model to more contributors.
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9 separate sources that you can utilize in order to automate the process of uploading your video to the various video sharing sites
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RexNet.tv is a new video portal for video property tours… currently only in Virginia.
