eric rochow

My father-in-law calls every weekend to tell me about the wonderful weather in N.C. But we also talk about Gardenfork and Real World Green.

He is Gardenfork’s community liason to the retirement crowd, spreading the word of online video to the retirement masses. Today he brought up an important point for everyone to keep in mind [...]

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I am big on customer service. Its a big part of my job.
I’ve watched as Netflix has tried to slay the Blockbuster dragon, and now they have moved things up a notch. They have eliminated email customer service and built a call center in Oregon because, people in Oregon are polite.
From an article in the [...]

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Matt Danzico is planning on crisscrossing the United States relying soley on people who read or watch him on the web.

Around the World in 2.0 is an Internet-based film project created to explore trust and connectivity. The primary objective of the project is to rely solely on users of video sharing websites, such as [...]

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I’ve often thought, as I’m downloading yet more pictures from our digital camera into the computer - what to do with all these picts? Last night at a Meetup, I met Anny Manby of SharedBook, whose company has a brilliant idea.

Make photo books of all those pictures.
Shared books takes the Print feature of [...]

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Not that I’m the only one that’s been predicting this, but Tivo is moving forward with the convergence of the TV screen and the internet by making available more content from the web that one can watch via a Tivo box.
“Broadband video is growing rapidly on the Web, but the television will continue to [...]

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Here’s a good article by John C Havens about PodCamps and PodCamp NY. John has asked me to be part of a panel at PodCamp NY. I’m flattered.
An Insider’s View from the Podcamp “Unconference”

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Network2.tv is hosting an event this Wednesday,
If you will be in NYC on Nov 15th and would like to meet with people interested in the state of Video and TV on the Net, please join us. To RSVP, please click here
Jeff has built Network2.tv, a sort of TV Guide for the web. My friend [...]

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OK, I’m jealous. My friends at Crashtestkitchen across the pond were contacted by Simon and Schuster publishers of The Joy of Cooking to give away 10 copies of the new edition (the 9th edition, BTW). So they did an episode where they cooked a recipe from the Joy of Cooking, and after watching the episode, [...]

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I came across this not by any meme or viral marketing, but by just seeing an ad they placed in the NY Times Dining section. tv.winelibrary.com
WineLibrary.com is the online e-commerce site of a wine store in New Jersey. Click on the “Video” tab and their head of operations, Gary Vaynerchuk, sits at a table in [...]

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Brightcove is going to start working with small video publishers like myself. I had on my to do list some research into how to get gardenfork.tv to a larger audience, and i like the Brightcove idea.
Rather than me rehash what has already been written, here’s a link to the blog entry
and the announcement on [...]

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