Author Archive | Ken McCarthy

Flash, Real, QuickTime, or Media Player.

Which way to go?

A subscriber suggests that the prevalence of Media Player and Real Video has more to do with the effectiveness of the corporate sales departments of those companies than anything else.…

Here’s a site that uses some interesting tricks. Most noticeably it integrates flash animation with video.

But you’ve seen all this before by now, haven’t you?

What’s really interesting about this site is its content.

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Dinner was great… but who’s going to do the dishes?

Beyond Glamour – Part One:

It’s the unglamorous, but necessary, details that make the world go ’round.

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Who’s your personal computing hero?

Steve Jobs or Bill Gates?

There’s never been any competition as far as I’m concerned.

New product demos from the master…

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/specialeventoct05

(Watch for the Video iPod demo at 22:32)

Enjoy!

– Ken McCarthy

P.S. …

“They laughed when I sat down at the piano, but when I started to play…”

It’s one of the most famous direct response headlines of all time.

Ad legend John Caples wrote it when he was still in his twenties.…

In 1994, I ended a talk I gave about the future web with this statement:

“Someday we’re doing to look back and wonder how we ever got a long with such primitive technology.”

As I looked at the videos on …