Online video is everywhere you look and Cisco predicts that it’s not going away anytime soon. In fact, they think that within the next three years online video will account for a whopping 90 percent of all Internet traffic.
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When the first Flip Video camera went on sale in 2006, it was quite an amazing little device. It provide good quality video at a high resolution (640×480) with excellent sound quality priced much less than the digital video and digital solid state video cameras of the time. A mere five years later, it is all shutting down. The cameras are no longer manufactured and the FlipShare.com site will shut down on June 12.
Cisco phasing out FlipShare: 30 days to save your videos
Cisco has a knowledge base page about the site shutdown here:
Important Updates for FlipShare
Video which was shared directly from FlipShare.com (via Twitter for example) will not be available starting June 12. Video files which were uploaded to Facebook or YouTube will remain there and viewable.
If you have not downloaded the most current version of the FlipShare software for Microsoft Windows or Apple Mac OS X (release date Nov. 27, 2010), you might want to do so by visiting Cisco’s FlipShare download page.
Yesterday Cisco paid homage to Old Spice’s recent response campaign with their own YouTube response project, featuring ‘Ted From Accounting.’ Just like Old Spice, Cisco announced the campaign in the morning, asked people to send in tweets, and posted a number of personalized videos throughout the day. However, unlike with the Old Spice campaign, you probably had no idea anything out of the ordinary was going on yesterday. With a mere 2,750 views on 18 videos in the first 24 hours, the campaign paled in comparison to Old Spice’s 40 million plus views. So where did Cisco go wrong?
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As volcanic ash clouds continue to spread across Europe, causing travel delays and cancellations, more and more businesses and people are turning to the web for conferencing and communication. In the past week, since the widespread air traffic bans began, video and web conferencing is thriving.
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Cisco recently released figures that show that roughly half (52%) of IT decision makers say their company has a policy prohibiting use of social media applications or collaboration tools. The report finds that while social media tools may be a rave among a section of Internet users, enterprises, particularly in India, have restrictive policies that prevent their employees from using these to their business advantage. In fact 96 percent of the country’s IT decision makers admitted to prohibiting the use of social media tools in the workplace.
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