Filed under: Online Video
It’s hard to believe, but Cisco is shuttering the popular Flip line of pocket video cameras. It’s particularly bittersweet news for me, since I started my video consulting business a couple of years with nothing more than a Flip cam and a Macbook. However, I must admit that I can’t remember the last time I used my Flip, having long since moved on to a Kodak Zi8, my iPhone, a Sony handycam and Canon 60D for my video needs.
Still, it’s fitting to note the Flip’s role in political history, since it helped make early tea party rallies go viral. People around the country used Facebook and Twitter to help organize those first rallies in early 2009, then posted quick videos to show each other how many people had attended, as well as expose illogical, or sometimes even violent, interlopers. In the end, it really is amazing how much technology – and the political environment – has changed in just two short years.
The Flip is dead! Long live the Flip!
Leave a Comment so far
Leave a comment
