In this episode of the Imaging Executive podcast, co-founder Sol Lipman tells us about his new video service that avoids boring barriers to communication by limiting everything to just 12 seconds.

Pure Digital has sold more than million of its simple-to-use Flip video family of camcorders.

The company says it's succeeded in its goal to "make video fun again -- and we transformed the camcorder market in the process."

Marketing VP Simon Fleming-Wood tells how Pure Digital changed the consumer video business, and what to expect in the near future.

The 6Sight Future of Imaging conference is coming soon â and here chairman Alexis Gerard lets us know what we can look forward to this November 18-20 in Monterey, CA.

You can pose and re-shoot to get the perfect portrait -- but what about those snapshots captured in real life, in special moments where you canÂt do an instant retake -- and you donÂt know until after the momentÂs passed that the photo is not right?
For a few of us, there is Photoshop and its brethren that let us painstakingly fix our shots.
For the rest lacking either the skills or the time, there havenÂt been affordable options -- until now.
In this weekÂs podcast we speak with Daniel Ciraldo, founder of a new service called PicWash that will make your photos look their best for just $7 a shot.

In this weekÂs podcast we have news of a smaller SLR design, an eyeball-like camera, and a new web service for really short videos.
Then  Jennifer Kruger interviews Wally Adamchik:
A Marine for ten years, he is now the President of FireStarter Speaking and Consulting.
He tells us the lessons found in his new book, No Yelling - The Nine Secrets of Marine Corps Leadership.

Adobe has just delivered the improved Photoshop Lightroom 2, adding powerful image editing and management tools. Adobe's Senior product manager Tom Hogarty discusses the overall market for photographic software, and describes the enhanced capabilities of Lightroom 2.

Product marketing manager Steve Jean discusess the Theatre HD Player that displays photographs on an HDTV.

And Product manager Andrei Andrievsky tells us about the pocket-sized Zi6, an uncomplicated HD video camera that will sell for just $179.

This week on the AIE Imaging Executive podcast we speak with one of the true computer pioneers who is now leading the charge in a new arena: using 3D cameras as input devices for virtual worlds, computer applications, and more.

Mitch Kapor is the developer of the first spreadsheet, Lotus 1-2-3.

He is now chairman of the board for Linden Research, the creators of the Second Life simulation.

Kodak is offering its imaging science to mobile phones, and theyÂre appearing first in the new Motozine ZN5 from Motorola. John Blake, general manager of the digital capture and imaging devices group, tells us more on Kodak's future plans in mobile imaging.

This week our podcast presents Luis von Ahn, assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon university. He and his team have developed what they call "Games with a purpose" to help improve computer intelligence.

The www.gwap.com site provides what they say are "fun tasks that are easy for humans -- but beyond the capability of computers."Among them are two imaging-specific games:ESP, in which players guess what words another will use to describe an image-- which helps create descriptions of uncaptioned images.Matchin, in which players are asked which of two images they like best -- which helps computers recognize what images people prefer.

You can now easily make online video adds with your own photos voice over, and movie clips. Consumer online video editing site One True Media noticed that many businesses were using its service for their advertising -- and so the company launched SpotMixer, a video ad creation site aimed specifically at small- and medium-sized businesses.

We'll talk with CEO Mark Moore about how these tools can benefit your business, and how you can work with them to help your existing customers as well."

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