In Search for the Perfect Social Media Video Camera

David Berlind from InformationWeek has an interesting post about the available options and questions raised by the appearance of the smaller HD camcorders.
He also posts his thoughts on Mac iSight cameras, USB and FireWire connectivity, productivity and ease of use.

From the article:

Thanks to the speed of USB 2.0, the majority of the new cameras hitting the market today have eschewed Firewire (IEEE 1394) ports for connecting to PCs. This makes life difficult given where we want to go with video and social media because we're currently looking at two configurations where Firewire comes in handy. One is live streaming using solutions Kyte.TV and Ustream.com for some some of our big events like Interop. The other is capturing video directly into our MacBooks using Quicktime.

In both cases, we want cameras with decent optics whose live video can be routed directly into the MacBooks. In the case of the latter, we've tried using the MacBook's built-in iSight camera but somewhere between the middle of last year and today, all of our MacBook's decided to start imitating old martial arts movies.

Read full post here.