Category Archives: screencast

The Yahoo! Mail Web Service screencasts

Posted on March 28, 2007 by

The Yahoo! Mail team rolled out a groundbreaking service today — the Yahoo! Mail Web Service. As Chad says in the announcement: “With the Yahoo! Mail Web Service, you can connect to the core mail platform to perform typical mailbox … Continue reading →

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How to layer postproduction visuals in a screencast

Posted on March 5, 2007 by

Jeremy Zawodny and I produced another screencast last week, a look inside Pipes with Pasha Sadri and Ed Ho. The Pipes guys shared their insights while we asked a few questions and recorded the screen and the audio. I’ve been … Continue reading →

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Screencasting with Yahoo! partners

Posted on January 22, 2007 by

An exciting part of my job is the exposure I get to startups that are doing new and interesting things. Last week, for example, Jeremy Zawodny and I sat with the Renkoo team while they walked through all the ways … Continue reading →

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Preview of the del.icio.us publisher api

Posted on December 19, 2006 by

I just posted a short screencast on the YDN blog of the cool new publisher api coming from del.icio.us soon. I’ve also embedded the video below. Lots of interesting possibilities with this new service, for sure. Embed video:

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Write and hear your own presidential speech

Posted on October 25, 2006 by

I’m not much for browsing the web for the sake of browsing, but the recent coverage of StumbleUpon inspired me to try it again. It paid off immediately. My second click took me to this site. Watch how I put … Continue reading →

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How we made the BBAuth screencast

Posted on October 5, 2006 by

The news that seemed to get overlooked by the amazingness that became Hack Day was the release of a login API, BBAuth, or Browser-based Authentication. This new service allows any web site or web application to identify a user who … Continue reading →

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Screencasts mature…now with advertising!

Posted on August 1, 2006 by

I’m liking some of the innovations coming out of IDG’s InfoWorld these days (my old digs). I’m told the podcast advertising is working really well for them, but I’m particularly interested to see that they have begun screencasting in earnest…and … Continue reading →

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Video for education (or Really Simple Video)

Posted on July 14, 2006 by

I had some fun putting together a screencast recently to showcase an internal Yahoo! technology that my team is working on. I downloaded Camtasia, wrote a short script and then produced what turned out to be somewhat high quality video … Continue reading →

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Reach vs target marketing: how to reduce the waste

Posted on May 18, 2006 by

There are 2 somewhat opposing forces that advertisers are always trying to reconcile: broader reach higher precision Search marketing solves the former. And niche publishing solves the latter. It seems to me that there are ways everyone could benefit from … Continue reading →

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