Ever wanted to blend something outrageous like a golf club or marbles? Well, the people at Blendtec did. They recorded some videos of their Total Blender chopping everything from toy cars to pens. Then they put the videos up on the Internet and now have had well over 11 million views. We went to talk with George Wright the genius behind the idea to find out what this has meant in terms of marketing. We asked him how the use of technology, and specifically video, has helped their company. He is an awesome guy and had some very cool things to say.

www.willitblend.com

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Spam wars 2.0. Richard Bliss VP of Marketing with GWAVA explains the new methods spammers use to get at your email.

www.gwava.com

www.gwavanation.com

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This was a short cast today and we had a fun time during out Podcasting class. If you missed it keep a look out for the next one. Or sign up on our Email list and we can let you know when they are.

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In a few years we are all going to be watching a different kind of TV. It’s called DTV Digital Television. So is it time to be getting that new big screen?

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Ok after a long break we are back to the CopperCasting. Don’t have the show notes up yet look for those soon. Things have just been crazy. So without further adieu. Here it is.

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In this episode Cammon and Matt invite Nate to join the CopperCast as an official host and member of the CopperCast team. This week the team discussed sweet HD sound and what it’s all about, the new delivery method through HD-DVD and Blu-ray DVD formats, and a bit about surround sound.
Some of the resources we used today:
www.soundandvisionmag.com
www.soundandvisionmag.com/article.asp?section_id=5&article_id=1442
http://www.blu-ray.com/info/
http://www.dolby.com/consumer/technology/trueHD.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Digital
http://new.volvocars.com/wwygavt/
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Welcome to the Hines Mansion one of Provo’s favorite historic sites. We got to visit and see all classy rooms. If you didn’t get the chance to visit yourself then take a look here. Better yet go check them out at there website www.hinesmansion.com
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This was a fun evening that we got to go and visit Clean Flicks in orem. They are a company that rents / sells movies edited for content. If you didn’t get to go visit them for the party. Check them out here.

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The Enhanced Audio CopperCast Episode 2:

In this Episode Cammon and Matt invite a guest Nathan to join them. The three of them recap on the movie downloading topic by sharing experiences they had with both Amazon and Apple.

Then they talked about ScanDisk and the new 4 gig SDHC (High Capacity) memory cards and what this means for recording video.

Have you heard of Pluggd.com’s new product HearHere that allows you to search for keywords in audio and video files? This is the next topic they talk about.

The last two topics cover the Fonpods (pronounced “phone pods”) and some South Korean advances in highspeed gigabit wireless networking.

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