Alternageek Episode 36: BrightKite And Flip Video

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In this week’s episode, TechMonkey talks about the location based social network BrightKite and the Flip Video ultra portable video camera.

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deesadler 05.27.08 / 8am

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The Flip Video has some serious issues with their software. Many people once they take a video can not get the video off due to the software. They’ll give you a new camera, but the video is gone.
techmonkey 05.27.08 / 11am

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Thanks for the info. I hadn’t heard about that particular issue. The people I know that own Flips have not had any issues with them.
deesadler 05.27.08 / 5pm

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Since I am a user group manager, we all got one (hundreds of us) for the Flex/AIR launch event. We had a faulty one, and my new one is also faulty.
techmonkey 05.27.08 / 8pm

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I checked online and Flip identified an issue with its firmware that sometimes caused an error when using the Flip Video software on a PC or MAC. They issued a firmware fix at:

http://www.theflip.com/support_advisory.shtml

Not sure if this is related to the problems you have seen, but maybe that’s why I have seen no issues. I don’t use PC or MAC so I don’t use the Flip software at all. I just pull the video off of the USB mass storage mounted filesystem when it’s connected to my Linux system.