360Flex Road Trip Begins

For the 4th year in a row Betsy Weber, TechSmith’s Chief Evangelist, and I are on a spring road trip to visit the Flash community. I picked up a Flip Mino HD a couple of weeks back which means a real stab at some seriously rich lifestreaming…

The journey begins:

Fast forward to our arrival in Indianapolis 4 hours later and I got a quick chance to ask Betsy and Nick why we were there:

The keynote is at 8:30 AM (just over 5 hours from now as I type). I’ll update as possible.

Jing Pro: The First Paying Customer

Whoot! I’m stoked to claim bragging rights as the very first paying customer for Jing Pro. That’s right for a modest $15 bones a year you can get some real time MPEG4-AVC (h.264) recording and transcoding goodness sans branding and I beat all you people to the punch! Slackers!! Ahem, well I did cheat and use insider connections, but its a dog eat dog world right. ;-)

Here’s the very first customer email to get sent out:

Finally some proof that it pays to know TechSmith’s Sales Manager Brian “Tour de” Lesperance (get a real golf game Tour):

It took a lot of effort by a lot of people to get this crazy little “what if” from a backyard project to full blow product–I’m just happy and proud to have played a small part. Thanks peeps–it was a fantastic ride (I’m affectionately flipping you all the bird right now). ;-)

If you want more info about Jing (free) or Jing Pro ($14.95 a year) check out Tony’s (Jing Product Manager) blog post or visit the various links sprinkled on this page.

Macworld Bound Jing Demo Machine

Tomorrow I’m heading out to San Fran for Macworld 09. I’ll be giving demos of Jing, my favorite TechSmith product, and yacking about video and visual communication. If you’re attending come on by and say hello–I’d love to chat. Oh, and if you’ve got any recommendations for for food and drink (ahem, beer) I’d love to hear them.

…uh, yah…I hate being subtle….we’ll be making a nice little announcement about Jing on Tuesday, January 6th. ;-)