Voxeo Talks

Want to leave a comment on our blog but don’t want to take the time to type it in? If you look at the bottom of this or any Voxeo blog post, you will now see below the comment area this image:

Just click on that image and start talking into your webcam!

As explained in more detail in our “Behind The Blog” post, we’ve installed a new WordPress plugin from a startup named Seesmic that lets us easily create videos to embed in our blog posts and also allows us to accept video comments.

You do NOT need to have a Seesmic account to leave us a video comment!

Just click on the link and start recording. Don’t worry, you have the option to re-record your video and also to cancel the video comment (by clicking the “back to text comment” link) if you don’t like how it came out. If you do have a Seesmic account, the video comment you leave here will be posted to your Seesmic account for others to see, but again, you do NOT need an account to leave a comment here.

So what are you waiting for? If you have a webcam handy, click the link below and tell us what you think of this service!

P.S. If you’d like a spiffy new MacBook Pro with an embedded webcam, consider applying for one of our job openings - the MBP is our corporate standard!

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When you hear mention of “Orlando, Florida”, what do you think of? Probably 99.9% of the time people think of certain giant theme parks located a bit south of the city. There is, however, a vibrant “downtown” Orlando in which our office is located. When I was down there last week (I normally work out of a home office in Vermont) I was testing out a new video camera and so I recorded some video showing the surrounding area. These were just test videos that I uploaded, but since they are now on YouTube, I thought I’d post them in case you are looking for a way to procrastinate and want to see what February looks like in Orlando:

By the way, this could be the view you see everyday if you came and worked for us - we are hiring! See our Jobs page for details.

I tweaked the camera’s settings a bit (including shifting from 16:9 to 4:3) and shot a night view from an adjacent tower:

I added a title slide, credits, etc. And yes, I probably could have edited out the part with me walking by the various columns. Remember… these were test videos, eh?

For the techies out there, the camera I am using is a JVC Everio GZ-MG330A. It’s a hard-drive camera that is small! Seems to work real well and imports nicely into my MacBook Pro. Editing, titles, etc. was done with Apple’s iMovie ‘08 which also did the conversion and upload to YouTube.

Anyway, we’ll have more videos coming out soon… in the meantime enjoy the view of Orlando.

P.S. Maybe next time I’m down there I’ll do a walking tour to show you what downtown Orlando looks like at ground level… roaming Segways and all.

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