C4[1] Videos Available

Thanks to the volunteer work of Pat Hughes, Bob Frank, Mike Miley, Chuck Remes, Dave Dribin and Victoria Wang, I’m pleased to finally offer videos of C4[1]’s presentations.

I’ll upload one video per week, updating this entry as I encode+upload the videos:

• Wolf Rentzsch: Indie Ethos
• Wil Shipley: Monster Marketing
• Daniel Jalkut: Application Acquisition
• Shawn Morel: Virtualization Vivisection
• Allan Odgaard: Experiences from Creating TextMate
• Bobby Andersen: Icon Intermission
• Bob Ippolito: Exploring Erlang
• Adam Engst: Hacking The Press
• Tim Burks: Bridges and Beyond
• Cabel Sasser: Coda Confidential

You can peek at the schedule if you want the detailed presentation descriptions.

(Video geek tidbit: it takes my MacBook Pro six to seven hours to encode an hour of video. It then takes Viddler another hour or so to transcode it to Flash video. Many CPU cycles died to spare your precious bandwidth.)

Way back when I considered turning these videos in DVDs that I could sell to increase C4’s budget. However online videos like TED and Google Tech Talks have really driven home how great frictionless sharing of high-quality presentations can be. So spread these videos far and wide, all these are great speakers talking about subjects dear to their heart.

Update: Some folks have indicated they want to download the videos for sending to their Apple TVs or disconnected watching (say on a plane ride). That’s easy: sign up for Viddler account and then load the video’s Viddler page again. Now you’ll have a “Download” tab on the right side of the page that will allow you to download the original .mov file I uploaded.

Mucho thanks to Viddler for the rockin’ site and the tons of bandwidth. I priced out the costs of vending these videos on Amazon’s S3 — renowned for its low prices — and came up with a $12,000 bandwidth bill. Yeowch.

Update Feb 8: Shipley’s live. Guess that means I win the twitter fight.

Update Feb 15: Posted Daniel Jalkut’s talk.

Update Feb 22: Posted Shawn Morel’s talk. Also added Allan Odgaard to the video list, somehow I accidently left him off. He’s up next.

Update Feb 29: Posted Allan Odgaard’s talk.

Update Mar 7: Posted Bob Ippolito’s talk along with a surprise bonus of Bobby Andersen’s impromptu icon talk.

Update Mar 14: Posted Adam Engst’s talk. Sorry I’m late, had too much fun during Pi Day.

Update Mar 21: Posted Tim Burks’ talk on RubyCocoa and Nu.

Update Mar 28: Posted Cabel Sasser’s talk. That’s all she wrote, folks. Phew.

Saturday, February 02, 2008
12:00 AM