Month: January 2006

Open Source Flash Communications Server in the works

Flash Ant: Flash and Rich Internet Applications (RIA) Blog . :: Echo, echo, echo… I think I hear Open Source Flash Communication Server!
Reblogged:
What is Red5, you ask? It’s a project on OSFlash that aims to create an Open Source Flash Communication Server. The speed at which the project is progressing is quite astounding. An Open Source Flash Communication Server alternative appears to be mere months away

more at osflash.org/red5

Tech Art January Roundup

artnet Magazine – Technical Knock-outs
Dorkbot, “Superlowrez” at vertexList and “Dewanatron” at Pierogi.
From the article:
For the show, vertexList brought aboard eight artists, among them the stalwarts of the Brooklyn art scene: Joe Amrhein, Brian Conley, Matt Freedman, Kristin Lucas, Jillian Mcdonald, Joe McKay, Akiko Sakaizumi and Jude Tallichet. All of them agreed to work with the same gadget for the project, a custom-built box of 12 x 14 electronic light-up “pixels.” Since this dimension is calculated to be just under the pixel-content of the normal computer cursor, the format is extremely constraining (additionally, each box has a chip that can hold just 1,984 “frames” of information.)

There is no here here

Abstract Dynamics: There is no here here
Google, like the internet itself draws its power from being neither here, nor there, but inbetween everywhere at once, immanent. There is no here there, only results, only meanings.

meanings…?

In any case, interestingly enough, Google for here gives a nice top to bottom list of what people link to when they say “go here” or “download here” or … Actually, you get very similar results (in the beginning at least) if you Google for download here or “go here”.

Interesting that people don’t write, “download there”. I love the second result: “ThereCare > Where can I download There?”

Last, if you change from treating the web as a consumption network and want to know about it as a publishing network, try Googling for upload here instead. The results are truely Shaken.

Musical DNA

Discover Music through The Music Genome Project by Pandora

They have a great interactive player that allows you to search for music that you like and it plays music that you would probably like. You can give thumbs up and thumbs down as well as add more artists to the mix. Too bad that it has to be slightly crippled due to the DMCA.

From the site:
Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or “genes” into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song – everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It’s not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records – it’s about what each individual song sounds like.

Wireless Networking in the Developing World

Wireless Networking in the Developing World
Creative Commons Licensed book

From the site:
The massive popularity of wireless networking has caused equipment costs to continually plummet, while equipment capabilities continue to increase. By applying this technology in areas that are badly in need of critical communications infrastructure, more people can be brought online than ever before, in less time, for very little cost. We hope to not only convince you that this is possible, but also show how we have made such networks work, and to give you the information and tools you need to start a network project in your local community.