Category Archives: Streaming and Multi-Media

Flash Media Server Sending Images

One of my students in my live web class is developing an interesting application that sends screenshots to other people. I put together some sample code to help him along and thought this would be of general interest. Using the … Continue reading

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Major League Baseball and the Live Web

Some time ago, I cut the cord.. disconnected from cable. Some time after that, I got rid of the antenna as well. I still watch television content, just not over the air or via cable; rather with a Mac Mini … Continue reading

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Nielson Says: Americans Watching More TV Than Ever; Web and Mobile Video Up too

While I expect Nielson to say that, what I didn’t expect was that they would show mobile viewing on par with internet viewing. That is certainly suspect and looking a bit more closely at their charts it makes more sense. … Continue reading

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Podcast Aggregation..

I was just looking through the feeds that I subscribe to in iTunes (audio and video podcasts) and noticed that every single one of them had a little exclamation point next to it indicating that it stopped updating as I … Continue reading

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YouTube New Features

Just checked out a video of McCain on Letterman. Noticed a couple of interesting features that YouTube is giving folks like CBS. First there was an ad before the video, second the video played in H.264 although it did have … Continue reading

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Online Video Player Survey

For a project that I am working on, we are doing a quick survey to see what features and functionality people are interested in with regards to online video players. This doesn’t pretend to be an exhaustive survey of the … Continue reading

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C-SPAN online coverage of debate

C-SPAN has a really interesting site for showing the debate videos. It has a transcript search, a blog aggregation, a twitter message board and so on. Here are some screen-shots: Transcript along with video Twitter and Blog Aggregation: Transcript Keyword … Continue reading

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Internet Radio Royalty Rates

It seems that things have changed in the royalty rates for online music. I just read this report from DiMA: MAJOR MUSIC INDUSTRY GROUPS ANNOUNCE BREAKTHROUGH AGREEMENT. I am a bit confused as to wether or not this is a … Continue reading

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Politics and the Internet and Participatory Media

This is just too good to pass up.. On WNYC 820 AM right now, the Brian Lehrer show is doing a segment which is audience driven. A wiki is open for suggestions and discussion among the audience and essentially being … Continue reading

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Mobile, 5 Years in the future

I was just interviewed for an upcoming book and one of the questions was: Fast forward 5 years into the future, can you paint me picture of the mobile world? Here is what I said: I am going to beg … Continue reading

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