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Bill Gates tried to ‘buy’ into Bologna

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012

Bologna is not for sale In a little side street off Via Saffi, not far from the center, is one of Italy’s most unfamous museums. In fact, in the world of radio communication, it’s probably one of the most unfamous in the world, yet, this is where the original machine is located by the master [...]

Google Video in Russia

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

In producing a video of the Trans Siberian tour, Google have for some odd reason given up using their standard photography and opted instead for video. Why was this? The article in the Guardian a couple of days ago refers to that once-in-a-life-time trip across two continents and several time zones by train from Moscow [...]

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Predappio’s ancient past.

Friday, January 15th, 2010

The hills of Predappio hide a fantastic history – and it has nothing to do with that other well known feature: Mussolini! Our latest video guide of the Oratorio dell Maesta illustrates a little unkown, and certinaly least visited chapel probably in the whole area. Almost on top of the mountain – behind Mussolini’s house [...]

Learning through video

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Online learning resources are helping modern day parents educate their children easier and quicker than ever. However, the medium of video is affecting this trend to an even greater extent even if traditional forms are still struggling to make real ground across the internet board. According to elearners.com: “Over 3.9 million students (in the USA) [...]

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Why Video is a handicap.

Friday, November 20th, 2009

The new online medium of Video is presenting some fundamental problems with users. Despite it obvious advantages and ease of absorbing information with little to no effort required people still seem to have video fatigue. But why? Well, for a start a little browse through some of this week’s tweets on Twitter points to a [...]

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Hitchin Museums on video

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Hitchin may be a small town in Hertfordshire but it prides itself on being historically linked as an old market town oozing with ancient cultures and famous people. The Hitchin.net web site states that: Although now best known for it’s weekly market Hitchin’s history stretches far back in time. The earliest part of Hitchin’s history [...]

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Optimizing hotel videos

Monday, October 12th, 2009

Video guides when done right with rich content will eventually rise to the top of search engine lists. As the saying goes: Content is King. Slowly but surely our video guides are beginning to see positive results on Google’s search engine. Having discussed this subject a few times before, such as here, here and here, [...]

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Snappy or informative hostel guides?

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Hostel video guides are an effective way to promote any hostel and hotel for that matter, but what exactly is the best way? Well, there’s several points to consider in choosing the way it should be produced and of course what market you’re aiming at: quality of video footage, quality of information, quality of actual [...]

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Video ads Vs traditional banners

Monday, September 7th, 2009

An interesting piece on the success rate of video advertising is explained by HotelView.com about the advantages of video guides: In Internet terms, video is considered “rich media” because it provides a sensory-rich experience, delivering information in an entertaining way. Video on the Internet, once requested (by clicking on the “video tour” icon) presents its [...]

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Hotel videos & lousy background music

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

Over the next day or so we will create a ‘Hotel’ category of videos. So far we’ve only tested a few video guides and as we’re organising our Bologna pages we’re more confident than ever that our services will superceed some of the terrible examples shown in TvTrip and Trivop. For example, here is one [...]

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