Network, I Need Your Help

Network, I need your help. More specifically, Kenroy George needs your help.

Kenroy is a talented web designer/developer and a good friend. He is offering a brand new 13" MacBook Pro to the person that helps him land a full time job. He's a victim of our economy and subsequent layoffs.

He's got my recommendation. The guy is a rock star designer, a good friend, a great person to work with. I can't say enough good things.

You can download Kenroy's resume here [PDF Link].

YouTube Confessions

Those of you that know me know that I purport to be one of those "social media experts." That's a funny thing. I've made my career in video - analog briefly and then online. I have a confession to make...

Just the other day I posted my very first video to YouTube. You know YouTube, right? Of course you do. What kind of new media superstar am I if I just uploaded my first video to YouTube?

Like most consumers, I'm lazy. I don't own a video camera. I'm not a big picture taker. I don't have children whose memory I'm striving to preserve. So why would I go to extraordinary means to get a video online?

I haven't seen my mother in a long while. I recently moved and I wanted to show her the deck at my new apartment. My mother isn't the most savvy when it comes to these things, so I knew I needed a super easy way to share my deck with her. I shot a quick video on my new iPhone and, right from the phone, trimmed heads and tails and uploaded the video to YouTube.

I was flat out amazed at how easy this was. Forget my experience, which was seamless, as they say in the biz, but, my mother's experience? Well, she didn't call me to ask why some crazy link I sent her wasn't working!

I love it; Posting things from the stupid to the (relatively) interesting.

A video of the NYC Water Taxi pulling into the Frying Pan near my house in Chelsea.

How about this? I was in a taxi, heading down Park Ave and saw the tell-tale flashing lights in front of me. I readied my iPhone and captured what seemed to be a pretty horrible car accident. FDNY, NYPD, stretchers and all. I was able to immediately upload the video to YouTube and then Twitter about it. I'm a breaking news bad ass. Safe to say, it's my top viewed video to date. Hope the stars of this short video are doing better tonight than they were earlier today.

The point is, this stuff is becoming, well... seamless. I'm pretty excited about that. Maybe a little late to the YouTube party, but excided none the less.

Putting It All Together

Since last Sunday I've been in the small town of Westborough, Massachusetts. It's a few miles West of Boston and my company, FeedRoom, has an office here. We acquired this office along with a company called ClearStory Systems back in December of last year.

Since that acquisition I've heard the hype from our management about how important it is that we bring core digital asset management (DAM) capabilities into our FeedRoom enterprise video platform (we call it EVP). But, spending this week here with the ActiveMedia team, I came to a realization: it's not hype at all.

It is, actually, the total opposite of hype. We are doing something that is, without trying to sound cliché, revolutionary. I blogged about this on our company website but, because it's the company website, I had to hold back a little bit.

I don't have to hold back here: This shit is fucking bad ass.

This is real and it's happening. In short order we will be the only company in the world (that I know of) that combines true digital asset management, online video publishing and the infrastructure to support it all.

In the startup and VC markets online video has been hot, hot, hot. Digital asset management? It's been around for a long time. People don't talk about it, but the fact is, it's used in every major corporation and organization.

Do you see what I'm getting at? This is why, well, this shit is fucking bad ass. It's all coming together: the people, the product, the market. We're there and being there is exciting to me.