A tour through one of the most influential years in America, with Steven Spielberg, E.T. the beginnings of rap, hip-hop, and break dancing, arcade video games, home video games, $99 personal “computers,” 44 channels of cable TV, a major recession, the unveiling of the Vietnam Memorial, the first word processor used by Steven King which costs $12,000, fads that are returning today – such as the Smurfs and 3D glasses for TV, and finally one of the worst cars ever made by General Motors which directly led to their bankruptcy in 2009.

You can use these with your DSLR camera, which is what I use to shoot movies. It’s all about the glass, folks, and these Zeiss CP.2 Compact Prime lenses have quite a nice glass!

Well, you can’t, really, but you can fake it real good. Youtube works great, but I really like Vimeo which sadly is Flash-based and does not work on the iPhone. But you can instruct your WordPress blog post to swap out the Vimeo video for an MP4 version of the video that does work on the iPhone.

Here’s how you do it:

1. Encode your video and output an MP4 iPhone compatible video. Upload it to where you host your files. I use Quicktime Pro and the default settings.

2. Download the EXEC-PHP WordPress plugin. This will let your posts interpret PHP code without any hassle.

3. Add a new post. Click the HTML tab, and paste this code in, changing the values accordingly.

<?php
if(strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],’iPhone’) || strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],’iPod’)) {
print <<<END
<embed src=”http://pathtovideo.m4v” width=”XXX” height=”XXX” href=”http://pathtovideo.m4v”>
END;
}
else {
print <<<END
*****VIDEO EMBED CODE*****
END;
}
?>

I work for a large electronics retailer in Manhattan and have been wanting to get the company into more social media. We do thousands of customers a day in the store, and millions of unique visitors on the web.

Photographers naturally gravitate to the web and as mobile professionals, social media is a good fit for them, and us. It’s a tough sell, however as my employer is a very shy company… however I got them to agree to let me try some tricks to increase our numbers, and the results were nothing short of astonishing. For the last year or so we’ve only had about 1,700 “fans,” which is pretty bad. I was able to skyrocket our numbers twenty-fold in no time at all. As of this writing, there are over 20,000.

The time difference between the screenshots below is less than one week!