If you own a Flip camera, you now own a piece of history. Cisco, the owner of Flip has decided to cancel all production and and the entire Flip video camera line.
A few years ago, that was the first handheld video camera that made it simple and easy to press the red record button. The major drawback to that was that it there was no way to plug in an external microphone to get great quality audio.
I had a conversation today with someone who felt that using a Flip-style video camera to record stream of thought video was better than creating video in a studio setting where you can control the video, lights and audio.
I told this attorney that it doesn’t matter what camera you use to create your video.
Shooting video is really simple now. We have the Flip Mino camera, where you just push the no-brainer red button. We have the Kodak Zi8, now. We have the Sony Webbie camera. Really simple: Just push the big button in the middle and start taking your video. We can even use digital point-and-shoot cameras to take hi-def video now too.
This statement comes to you directly from Jeanette Gibson, the New Media director at Cisco. Never heard of Cisco? You should have. They’re the largest company behind the internet. In fact, they make the internet work. This video interview by SocialMedia.biz asked how video and social media are used at Cisco. The answer provided the…
