The elegance of social synchronicity
March 20, 2009
Yesterday, while reviewing the various and sundry news of my friends and acquaintances on Facebook, one of those friends (not an early adopter of technological toys) had posted a video of her front garden. It was very nicely done, and I loved seeing the progress of her garden. I was also impressed with the video quality and smoothness of the motion as she moved around the various plants using the zoom and moving around for different angles. I asked if she had bought a videocam, and her response was that it was a Flip Video. Of course I went out to the net to check on what exactly a Flip Video is…it is a small cell phone sized video camera with a usb plug and you can buy one that has 30 minutes of memory or 60 minutes of memory. The little blurb says you can upload to Youtube.com or any of a variety of social networking sites, such as Facebook, very easily…
In true synchronistic style, I then told some folks at the office about it. It is an impressive toy for less than $150 and of course, I want one. This afternoon, I get a tweet from Techcrunch about [insert drumroll] Flip Video…Cisco apparently has bought the small company that makes Flip Video – PureDigital Technologies for a cool $590M.
This is what I really love about the information age… once you have focused your attention on a particular item or subject matter – suddenly it is all around you. Very much like the act of observing the behavior of particles influences the behavior of particles… the act of observing phenomenon on the web creates phenomenon on the web.
And in this case, inspired me to comment about it on my blog. And BTW, the best price I have found for the FlipVideo 60 minute is on Amazon. Check it out.
