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FlipVideo: Pre-Spring San Francisco Drive

In late March, I took some special visitors on a VW Touareg ride around my favorite city, San Francisco. Brought my new FlipVideo along for the ride to capture the steep hill flights of Russian Hill-North Beach and sights of cable cars, Golden Gate Bridge, Lincoln Park, Ocean Beach and Haight-Ashbury.

I’m impressed at the FlipVideo Ultra’s video quality, ease-of-use and simple software (a few bugs). But the quality suffers when you upload to YouTube. Might be better to try a different video service.

FlipVideo (30 minutes of recording) can be purchased for under $130 at retail with rebate, or from the Flip site for a little more. For about $40 more you can get 60 minutes of record time.

This video by David Pogue of NY Times is funny and helpful.

Some specs: 640 x 480, Advanced Profile MPEG4, 30 frames per second (constant)

kenekaplan IDF, Intel, Intel Developer Forum, Photos

Intel Shot Luge

Intel Shot Luge, originally uploaded by mobil’homme.

The martini bar at Ducca inside the Westin in San Francisco. This was originally a party for press and analysts, but we turned it into an international social media bash. Bloggers from France to San Francisco, including Chris Heuer, Mike McGrath, Daniele Barbosa and cool Intel bloggers, too.