Editing video in the cloud or "I shot Raging Bull 2 on my cellphone. Now what?"

Video editing software has an amazing range of prices and abilities. But surely the most fascinating new realm of editing software is the on-line editor, where videos can be spliced and diced in the cloud. That’s right, you can trim heads and add cross-dissolves way up there in the digital stratosphere. How do they do it? Magic.

The latest release of Apple's flagship video editing application hits a few bumps in the road and offers a significantly streamlined workflow as well.

When Final Cut Pro X was released in late June, there was a lot of hubbub. It was not the happy feel-good hubbub usually attributed to an Apple release, however. It was closer to the hubbub of the townspeople gathering to burn a witch at the stake. It got so rowdy, in fact, that it warranted this sketch on the Conan O’Brien show. Apple’s not usually the brunt of late night comedian tomfoolery. How could technology’s hippest company find itself getting burned by late night’s hippest comedian?

When I first heard about Node.js, I may well have scoffed. I don’t tend to scoff a lot, but using JavaScript to run a server engine seemed a bit like circumnavigating the globe in a swan-shaped paddle boat.

Don’t get me wrong, I love JavaScript. I also love giant swan boats, but I know that they don’t travel well, and they don’t do well in high seas. At any rate, JavaScript is often the right tool for the right job when it comes to creating dynamic front-end interfaces when you don’t need a lot of power, like say on a mobile device. But running a server using Javascript seemed a grossly underpowered swan boat for this particular ocean. So I dug deeper and what I found was badass.

Katie Delahaye Paine’s book helps businesses go beyond analytics software to measure what’s important to their organization's success.

Comparing measured business performance data with key benchmarks to measure progress over time will often make the difference between an efficient operation that executes strategic tactical plans and one that flies by the seat of its business attire. Measure What Matters: Online Tools for Understanding Customers, Social Media, Engagement, and Key Relationships offers some ideas to streamline your analytics practices.

If you’re wondering how to take advantage of the many cloud-based services out there, we have some ideas.

There’s much ado about cloud computing these days. Apple’s iCloud is just around the corner (okay, well, if by corner you mean ‘this Fall’) and promises dozens of features to help you access and manage content across devices. New SaaS apps are being released on a near daily basis. The topic even made Time magazine so you know it’s an idea whose mainstream time has come. So how do you take advantage of all these emerging resources?