November 30, 2006
Retired
sLop (the blog you are reading) is retiring..
The archives should stay up indefinitely though so feel free to continue linking in if you like..
In the coming weeks, I should have something new up. Please stay tuned.
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September 23, 2006
storymashup
Manhattan Story Mashup
This is what I will be participating in today... Play along online!
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September 12, 2006
Asterisk 1.4 Coming Soon!
Digium - The Asterisk Telephony Company
Ok, this is a big deal. The next version of Asterisk supports GoogleTalk!
From the Press Release:
Asterisk 1.4 is the first major release of Asterisk since the release of Asterisk 1.2 in November 2005. With over 20 new functionality additions including IPFAX compatibility, unified messaging capabilities and Jabber/Jingle/GoogleTalk protocol compatibilities, Asterisk 1.4 features overall quality and performance improvements, as well as increased scalability and interoperability.
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August 26, 2006
Don't, definitely do not download this song!
Weird Al- Dont Download This Song
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August 14, 2006
Why Videocommunication Didn't Catch On
WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show: Why Videocommunication Didn't Catch On (July 25, 2006)
From the post:
Computer scientist Jaron Lanier looks at why—despite all the predictions—videocommunication never caught on.
Pretty interesting. Discussing the non-verbal cues that we are missing in video conferencing.
(I wish WNYC would have permalinks on their site for each of these segments. I would rather post on my own blog than on Delicious but for now I have to click on the Delicious link and copy the URL and so forth. - That's for you Brian, if you are listening)
Thanks Spencer..
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Video Video Comments
Techcrunch Blog Archive Grouper lets video viewers leave video comments
YouTube too.. I think. With the proliferation of online video services, we are starting to see a good amount of competition on features. Good stuff..
Thanks Josh
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Yet another video system for adding tags/comments in time
Techcrunch Blog Archive Viddler to make moments in video searchable
"The keystone feature here is the ability to add tags and comments tied to particular points in a video. Those tags are then searchable, so if I want to find the particular point in one of my videos that I tagged “touchdown,” that’s easy to do. I can also have a conversation with other users regarding a particular moment in a video and choose to embed the video on another site in it’s entirety or only from a particular point I select. While users can link to particular points in a Google Video as of last month, that’s easier and is just the beginning in Viddler."
Add it to the list..
Viddler
ClickTV
Video Comments WordPress Plugin (Self serving link)
Thanks Jeff...
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Record iChat Audio and Video
Ecamm Network: Conference Recorder - Record iChat AV Conferences - Save Audio and Video Memories
Nice..
From the site:
"Finally, an easy way to record your iChat audio and video chats. Conference Recorder is an add-on for iChat AV which automatically transforms your conference sessions into QuickTime movies. "
GarageBand 3 allows the recording of audio and snapshots from iChat conferences as well..
Wondering where I can find an API for iChat to develop these types of things myself...?
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What are Todd and Emily saying?
If I buy this file, will I find out?
Cruxy is new service for selling independent media:
Cruxy is at the crossroads of entertainment, information, commerce, and community. Discover, purchase, and download original songs, podcasts, short films, videoblogs and images.
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ITJ Project Beta Released
Interactive Tele-Journalism
So.. I have finally released ITJ on SourceForge.net.
With support from Konscious and Manhattan Neighborhood Network we have packaged and uploaded the latest version and it can be downloaded at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/itv-ism/.
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August 03, 2006
YouTube APIs.. Is this new?
Hmmn.. This could be very interesting..!
"YouTube is excited to offer APIs to the developer community. Using our APIs, you can easily integrate online videos from YouTube's rapidly growing repository of videos into your application. The APIs currently allow read-only access to key parts of the YouTube video respository and user community."
Thanks Steven.
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July 30, 2006
Popularity Dialer - Relaunch (and Dugg)
Go Jenny and Cory, go!
"Have you ever been in a situation where you wished your cell phone would ring? Maybe you wanted to look extra important or popular on that hot date. Or maybe you just needed an excuse to escape from an unpleasant meeting."
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Verizon DSL constantly changing IP address
So, I haven't called support and I know that is the first thing I should do when problems like this arise but it just seems too fishy.
To make a long story short, I recently decided to switch from regular home phone service from Verizon (who also supply my DSL) to VoIP service. I have had VoIP and regular phone service for quite some time and things were well. Recently though, we had a pretty nasty electrical storm and one of the things that got zapped was my Asterisk box which handled the integration between normal phone service and VoIP.
After a bit of research, I found the Verizon does in fact offer naked loop DSL (DSL without a phone number) for existing customers and that I could continue with my DSL and transfer my phone number over to my VoIP provider and basically save myself $50 a month.
Now here is the troubling bit. After filling out the paper work and sending it to my VoIP provider who subsequently contacted Verizon to get the process started my DSL has been tremendously flaky. So flaky that my IP address is repeatedly changing. Not once a day, not 10 times a day, somewhere in the vicinity of 100 times a day! I probably don't need to mention how bad this is for services like VoIP. Essentially making it useless and unusable.
I could chalk it up to damage from the electrical storm (but I didn't notice it until after sending in the paperwork) or:
Could this really be a Verizon tactic to prevent people from going with 3rd party VoIP?
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July 27, 2006
Dear telephone, meet the internet
Pheeder
"Pheeder is a whole new way of using your cellphone: it lets you communicate with all of your friends simultaneously, with a single phone call. To use it, you just call Pheeder, leave a message and hang up. Seconds later all of your friends, or anyone you want, receives the message at the very same instant. And if they want, they can send a reply to your message."
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July 20, 2006
Flash, FFMPEG and now Thumbnails!
A couple of days ago I got FFMPEG working to automatically generate FLV video files for OpenVlog. Today I finally got thumbnails generating correctly. Here are the commands:
This creates a JPEG:
ffmpeg -i inputfile -t 0.001 -ss 1 -vframes 1 -f mjpeg -s 320x240 outputfile.jpg
This creates a QT Movie that I am using as a reference movie (just one frame of video):
ffmpeg -i inputfile -t 0.001 -ss 1 -vframes 1 -vcodec mpeg4 -an outputfile.mov
I got this working with lots of help from the following pages:
Converting Video Formats with FFmpeg
Extracting JPG Frames Using FFmpeg and mjpeg Parameter
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July 15, 2006
Flash, FFMPEG and more..
Over at OpenVlog I have just finished implementing an automatic Flash conversion for video that is sent in. It was quite a task from getting FFMPEG running on Dreamhost with LAME and AMR support (you need to change your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable), understanding Ruby enough to get FLVTool2 installed and working (another environment variable issue) and building a fancy Flash video player..
I think it was worthwhile in the end..
A Sample: I love NY (click on the Flash Version link).
Next will be making thumbnails with FFMPEG so that I don't use the silly "Click Here" graphic anymore.. I suppose I should still say, "click here" as for some strange reason I can not get the mouse pointer to change over top of the QuickTime plugin. That is a story for another day but the gist is, use JavaScript instead of reference movies. The added benefit is that IE users don't have the extra alert.
Thanks to Cat and the FreeFormed.org crew for the impetus.
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July 14, 2006
Lame and Sox for use with Asterisk
VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk: Soothing the Savages with Hold Music
Some good little command line snippets for conversion to GSM..
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July 12, 2006
Peter takes a look at the 3 new video blogging books!
blip.tv (beta)
Check it out!
Here are the 3 books:
Videoblogging by Jay Dedman and Joshua Paul.
Secrets of Videoblogging by Michael Verdi, Ryanne Hodson, Diana Weynand and Shirley Craig
Videoblogging For Dummies by S. C. Bryant
Here is the one that Peter didn't buy:
Hands-On Guide to Video Blogging and Podcasting : Emerging Media Tools for Business Communication
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July 03, 2006
New Video Comments WordPress Plugin
ITP Research >> Video Comments WordPress Plugin Version 1.2 Released
Here are some new features you can expect:
1: A GUI interface inside the WP administrative screens for posting.
2: Revised comment display on the main post page. Now the timecode is hyperlinked and will bring up the plugin and seek the appropriate place in the video.
3: The ability to put a thumbnail or your own text in the post for launching the player.
4: A couple of random bug fixes.. GREAT!
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Online Video -- Moving Forward..?
This morning Dan pointed me to an article in Today's NY Times about Nobody's Watching. Nobody's Watching is a sitcom in the form of a reality show about creating a sitcom. (A bit convoluted, no doubt).
Nobody's Watching is a pilot that hasn't yet been picked up by any networks but has been posted on YouTube. This online posting and the subsequent audience response that it has garnered has the networks rethinking their decisions. Taking a look at the YouTube page, we find that the show has had more than 300,000 views and more than 600 comments. While not huge numbers compared with television audiences, these are big big numbers for any online video.
Based on this, I am betting that the networks are about to learn something about the possibilities of online video. I am also betting that they get it wrong...
Stephen Speicher in Engadget's The Clicker: The Clicker: People are watching "Nobody's Watching" writes:
"Now, make no mistake, the likelihood of this show rising from the heaps and living to the tender age of two (err... episodes) is about as likely as Stephen Colbert replacing Tony Snow as the current administration's Press Secretary, but really that's not the point. This experiment shows that people will watch, comment on, and enjoy pilots on the web in a way that today's traditional broadcast systems won't allow. What's missing is the networks taking the next (obvious) step: instead of spending multiple years and countless dollars trying to determine what to show the viewing public, why not let the audience decide? Put the pilots on the internet before you make the decision. Not only does this give a more accurate assessment of what people might watch, it has the potential to dramatically speed up the decision process.
and
"Yet, despite their best efforts, the entrenched powers behind modern broadcasting just cannot get their heads around the potential of the internet. This is evident at every turn. Whether it be the pulling of the wildly-popular "Lazy Sunday" clip from YouTube (and then later re-releasing in a harder-to-find corner of the NBC site) or the treatment of the internet as a dumping ground for dead projects, the current regime views the internet as, at best, additional revenue. More often than not, the internet is considered a nuisance.
Exactly right, given the opportunity, people will tell you exactly what they like and what they don't. There is incredible value in this, should the networks decided to start paying attention.
YouTube is an incredible phenomenon. If you haven't yet explored it, I suggest you checkout my playlist: Interesting videos from YouTube. It shows a wide range of what YouTube has to offer (the good and the overwhelming bad), from Nobody's Watching to home videos about cats and everything in between.
Speaking of online video, "research" has brought me to: Where the Hell is Matt and Rocketboom's version. I personally respond to the freedom offered by "regular people" to just have fun with the medium. I also think there is power in how these folks are referencing each-other.
Last, I have to make plug for Ze Frank's The Show. Ze gets it, he truly engages his audience! He shows that the possibilities for audience participation and feedback are endless. On his wiki member's of his audience (now participants themselves) have taken it upon themselves to transcribe every single one of his daily shows. Ze even fits in time to play chess by vlog as well as inviting and showing audience member's doing their "Power Moves".
So.. Online video, starting to move forward? YouTube becoming more than just drivel?
Incredible..
Disturbing..
Perhaps both. And that is how it should be.
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June 30, 2006
Checkout David Lynch's Daily Weather Report
Too bad he doesn't put it in an RSS feed..
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Updated QuickTime Embedding Plugin
Due to overwhelming demand (1 person), I updated my QuickTime Embedding Plugin for WordPress to support Auto Play and Hiding the movie controller.
Just thought you might like to know.. ;-)
Oh yeah, John has been very hard at work on the next version of our Video Commenting Plugin. Prepare to be impressed (I am). It should be released over the weekend.
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June 24, 2006
Video Comments, Video Comments, Video Comments
mobvcasting >> Blog Archive >> Interactive Video Blogging Session at Vloggercon
At this session at Vloggercon 2006, I presented the video comments plugin which this video is using.. Check it out. Click on "Watch Video" after the jump. (Warning, the video is long and big)
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June 22, 2006
Split Screen Video Blog
Split Screen
I love this (v)blog. All split screen video art. Now complete w/RSS and Enclosures..
From the site:
Split Screen is a weblog dedicated to the art of the split screen and multi-layered visuals, as seen in movies, music videos, commercials and other media based on moving images
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make TV
makeTV
Despite that I absolutely loathe people calling webcasting, streaming and the like "TV" this site is interesting.
From the site:
MakeTV to Watch TV: MakeTV is a live broadcast channel open to both viewers and producers. (Wish I could copy & paste but they used Flash for the site so I can't. Oh well..)
Essentially, anyone can plugin and stream to anyone watching the content from this site.
Strange that the stats show 0 Total Broadcasts and 0 Viewable Archives.. Wonder what the deal is..
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British community webcasting
Webcast Guide: Home
From the site:
The webcast guide is a central interactive hub for webcasting users, viewers and suppliers in the United Kingdom. The site has been funded by the Local e-Democracy National Project and aims to help civic leaders discover webcasting and guide them to appropriate solutions.
What's Offered:
What's Live: Links to webcasts currently broadcast in the public sector
Equipment Exchange: A place where people can rent out equipment
Ideas Exchange: A place where people can swap ideas
Resources: Research documents and guides about webcasting
Guide: An interactive needs analysis engine with automatic PID generator
Solutions: Links to vendor webcasting solutions with customer reviews
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What is Participatory Media?
Clay asked me, what my working definition of Participatory Media is. Since I didn't think he would like my riff on his jello and nails comment, I came up with this:
Broad definition:
A participatory medium is one which encourages audience participation in the creation, distribution and consumption of itself.
My specific spin:
A medium with similar properties to mass media (audio and video) with the addition of social interaction interwoven into the creation, distribution and consumption of it.
Even better might be how Wikipedia defines it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_Media
I suppose that after having taught a course called "Producing Participatory Media" a couple of times, a definition should just roll off of my tongue. Fortunately, the concept itself has changed and grown quite a bit since then (ahh, the sweet pace of change in this interwebbed world).
Perhaps one of my former students would be better at answering this question?
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June 16, 2006
Videoblogging, The Book
Amazon.com: Videoblogging: Books: Jay Dedman,Joshua Kinberg,Joshua Paul
Jay, Josh and Josh's book, up on Amazon..
From the description:
Amazing, isn't it? You're on equal footing with multibillion-dollar TVand movie producers. Videoblogging lets your audience see your cause,your story, or your personal creations—and you can distribute your showto anyone with Internet access. And since the videobloggingcommunity is all about sharing, more than 20 expertshave kicked in tips and ideasto make this book the ultimatevideoblogging crash course. So head for the checkout, grabfresh batteries for your videocamera, and let's get started!
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June 15, 2006
The "Other" Video Comments System
In-side Video Comments
Josh Paul demonstrated his Video Comments system at Vloggercon right after I demonstrated ITP's. His is a system for stringing together videos that are direct responses to the original.
Pretty interesting.. The vloggers love the idea!
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June 14, 2006
Click.TV video comments
TechCrunch >> Blog Archive >> Click.tv Moves Video Ideas Forward
Had an interesting experience at Vloggercon this past weekend. Although Josh pointed this out to me in the past, I was surprised to find a company pitching similar video commenting concepts that we have been working on.
So.. Perhaps my focus should now shift to getting start-up funding ;-) Any takers?
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dsj - DirectShow <> Java wrapper
DirectShow Java Wrapper: humatic - dsj
Very Nice..
From the site:
Need to play Windows Media files and streams, DivX video or DVDs in java? Access WDM capture devices? Control a firewire DVCam? Then maybe this can help you. dsj is an ongoing project to provide a java wrapper around Microsoft's DirectShow API. It offers a set of high level classes that give java easy access to functionality widely missed by java programmers and also lets you dive deeper into the interiors of Windows' core api for 2D media. On the java side dsj tries to keep things open as possible - you may use it standalone or let it feed data into JMF or other APIs.
They also point to a bunch of Open Source projects that are of interest:
Related projects (dsj does not use OpenSource, GPL or LGPL licensed code, but - as you are here - these projects may be of interest, too) :
JMDS - DirectShow Capture api Java wrapper: jmds.dev.java.net - fobs4jmf - ffmpeg c++ & java bindings: http://fobs.sourceforge.net
java VLC - VideoLan java bindings: http://jvlc.ihack.it - DXInput - DirectInput Java wrapper: www.hardcode.de
jARToolkit - ARToolkit java bindings: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jartoolkit/ - jFFmpeg - JMF codec pack: http://jffmpeg.sourceforge.net/
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TiVo hopping on the IPTV bandwagon
www.StreamingMedia.com
Why do I find this quote hilarious:
"The range and quality of broadband video is exploding on the Web, but it's not TV until it is on the TV," said Tom Rogers, CEO of TiVo. "With the TiVoCast service, we are once again transforming the television experience by bringing the rapidly expanding array of video content on the Internet into the living room."
All big names. Sadly, nothing about independent voices/video.. Actually, I do see a couple of new media brands in there: Heavy and Rocketboom.. It's a start.
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VLC to Darwin
Archive de streaming
How to stream a file from VLC to Darwin/QuickTime Streaming Server. Don't know why I couldn't find this information in the past:
vlc my_movie.mp4 --sout '#rtp{dst=127.0.0.1,port=1234,sdp=file:///path/to/DSS/movies/my_sdp.sdp}'
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Nathan pulls the dirt on YouTube's EULA
People With Ideas >> Blog Archive >> YouTube: ALL YOUR VIDEOS ARE BELONG TO US
"YouTube: ALL YOUR VIDEOS ARE BELONG TO US"
Got picked up by The Register as well:
YouTube owns YourStuff | The Register
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June 11, 2006
Video Comments, WordPress Plugin
ITP Research >> Video Comments, a WordPress Plugin
Keeping the conversation alive in media blogs
Video Blogging, Vlogging or what ever you want to call it was born into a tradition of self publishing on the internet and benefits greatly from the infrastructure developed for blogging. The tools to create media and now to distribute media online are accessible and affordable. Furthermore, video blogging is often considered participatory and socially interactive. Much of this is due to what blogs have done, enabled true two-way conversation through comments and loose networking through trackbacks.
Unfortunately, while video blogging benefits from these, it doesn't really do much to improve or enhance this capability with video.
At ITP Research, myself and a couple of others have been working to change this or at least push commenting and trackbacks a bit further. We have created a Video Commenting plugin for WordPress that allows people to leave comments in-time with a video. This, we believe is one of the first steps to allowing conversation to happen around video and furthermore enable richer conversation with video.
Check it out, download it, modify it, use it... Video Comments, WordPress Plugin
From the site:
It’s really exciting to see the number of blogs that exist today, thousands of voices are talking about every possible topic. Blog syndication and commenting allows readers to subscribe, discuss and carry the conversation further, however, with the different forms of media becoming a normal part of many blogs there’s a need to keep this open communication open. Audio and video blogs are forming communities and to encourage conversation the viewers must be able to respond, so we developed a plug-in for WordPress called Video Comments.
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June 06, 2006
Mobile Image and Video Posting
Where.com - WHERE Mobile 2.0 API
From the site:
The WHERE Mobile 2.0 API allows developers to add mobile pictures and mobile video clips to web sites with a few simple steps
Very similar to what I have been planning on doing with my Video and Image Moblogging with a (video enabled) Camera Phone Scripts
-Thanks Jenny!
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May 31, 2006
The Streaming Suitcase
The Streaming Suitcase
Aww.. I thought it was going to be a suitcase that streamed but it is almost as good: A series of manuals, published under a Creative Commons license for streaming. Includes streaming audio and video on Linux, streaming with PD and of course MacOS and Windows Media streaming.
From the site:
Welcome! The Streaming Suitcase is a resource for those wanting to learn to stream. The material is all licensed under Creative Commons and is free to download and distribute.
Thanks Scott!
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May 29, 2006
Command Line QuickTime Goodness
qp: Command Line QuickTime Player
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May 28, 2006
Yippee!
FMJ - Freedom for Media in Java
From the site:
FMJ is an open-source project with the goal of providing a replacement/alternative to Java Media Framework (JMF).
JMF is still dead in the water, despite some folks from Sun making a little bit of noise a couple of months back. Let's hope this effort keeps it going.
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May 27, 2006
Broadcast Your Podcast
BROADCAST YOUR PODCAST
From the site:
BYP offers podcasters the chance to transmit their podcasts on FM. BYP units are handmade FM transmitters made by BYP following the circuit design of micro radio pioneer Tetsuo Kogawa. By connecting a BYP unit to your computer or mp3 player podcasts can be transmitted on FM to your neighbourhood.
Originally found on SmartMobs.. Thanks Alex!
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Community Funding of Video Blogging
I like the concept.. A bit like turning video blogging into a sustainable "public medium". Maybe.
Would like it even better if the creative output of this was Creative Commons licensed, perhaps Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License would be appropriate.
From the site:
Have Money Will Vlog? What’s the deal?
Many good projects need only action to be successful. With the distribution of the internet, a person with a good video project can be seen by thousands of people. But some ideas need money.
Money for equipment.
Money for travel.
Money for time.
Traditional artists can apply for grants to make their work. Have Money Will Vlog supports videobloggers trying to do the amazing. The power of the community can fund projects on a regular basis. You easily spend $10 or more everytime you go out to see a movie…so consider donating $10 a month to a videoblog project. If we have 100 people that give $10 a month, that’s $1000. Let’s energize creators.
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May 26, 2006
Poor Earth..
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May 23, 2006
Shamless self promotion
mobvcasting
Lot's of new videos on my vlog! Check'em out.. ;-)
Oh yeah, I updated my WordPress QuickTime embedding plugin.
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May 21, 2006
ion - and iondb - v. nice!
People With Ideas ion 1.0 RC3 and iondb.com
Just had a short opportunity to try out the new ion and iondb. Haven't had a chance to get some heavy usage but right off the bat the webstart is great! The db is fantastic as well, sharing what you are watching with others is one of the first steps to making video on the internet more social and community orientated. Keep going!
One of these days I will contribute a bit back to this project.
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May 19, 2006
How to Build a Video Podcast in 3 Steps
Streamingmedia.com: How to Build a Video Podcast in 3 Steps
Haven't read it fully but looks to be a good resource..
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Colbert Roasts Bush
Colbert Roasts President Bush - 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner - Google Video
Slightly dated, I know but Colbert has some guts!
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Place Shifting on Mobile Devices
PDAStreet: News: Placeshifting: Carrier Friend or Foe?
Will things like this convince the carriers that they should be just that, carriers and let people do what they will with the networks (oh my god, let people do what they want on OUR network, that's crazy..! wait a minute, isn't that how the internet became so useful?)
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Cool Hunting at the ITP Show
Cool Hunting Video: ITP Spring Show 2006
For those of you wondering what I do all day every day, check out this video of the ITP Spring Show from Cool Hunting. Very nicely produced!
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May 16, 2006
Quick Beyond Broadcast write-up in Wired
Wired News: Brave New World for Public Media
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April 27, 2006
Online video via RSS comes to Linux
Democracy: Internet TV
Now supports Linux..!
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April 22, 2006
Film subtitling and translation by the community
Looks to be a great resource for getting a film subtitled and translated..
dotSUB is a resource and gathering place for subtitling films
from one language into many languages using our unique subtitling tools.
These tools expand the power and reach of films by making it possible for
people to view and enjoy films in their native languages.
dotSUB provides free browser based tools that allow anyone to
translate films from one language into countless other languages.
dotSUB locates and obtains appropriate permissions from
filmmakers and rights-holders around the world who seek a wider audience for
their work.
At dotSUB, filmmakers, distributors, professional and volunteer
translators work together in a variety of ways to create a great wealth of
multi-lingual moving image content, leveraging the potential of film to
communicate, educate and entertain.
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April 20, 2006
Busker Du has launched!
Busker Du
One of the project from my class, a service for recording and distributing Busker performance has launched.. It is great, I love the podcast!
From the site:
Busker Du (dial-up) is a recording service for buskers through the telephone (preferably public payphones hidden in subway stations).
Audio recorded will be posted to this audio-blog and made available to all who cherish lo-fi original music. Try it out at your favorite subway station or street corner.
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April 19, 2006
Vloggercon 2006
Vloggercon
VLOGGERCON 2006 is the intersection between media-makers and technology. A space for dialog and interaction. Of creation and collaboration. A media village born on the internet, and making camp for one weekend in San Francisco.
Coming up quick!
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ITP End of Year Events - Thesis Presentations and End of Semester Show
ITP Spring Show 2006
A two day exhibition of interactive sight, sound and physical objects from the student artists of ITP.
This event is free and open to the public. No need to RSVP.
ITP Thesis Presentations 2006
ITP's graduating students will be presenting a wide variety of highly creative and interactive projects that they have constructed over the course of their final project seminars.
Students have been encouraged to undertake projects that bring together the conceptual and design issues that they have engaged in during their two years of study at ITP.
Projects will include installation based work, digital video and audio pieces, interactive 3D, games and educational applications, to name only a few.
ITP will be providing a live webcast of all the thesis presentations.
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April 09, 2006
Media 3.0
Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer
A new show to air on NYC TV. I scheduled the recording of the first one which is to air Monday at 11PM. I will give a better report after watching but it sounds interesting:
Media 3.0 is a weekly half-hour news/talk show about the media & technology business hosted by award-winning inventor, technologist, composer, author and producer, Shelly Palmer. The business and technology of media industry are changing at an ever increasing rate. As chairman of the Advanced Media Committee of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences NY, Palmer is one of the experts leading the industry’s rapid evolution.
From PVRs to PDAs, from IP Video to VOD ... Technology changes everyday, but business rules and our legal system don’t always keep up. Is it a parlor trick or a paradigm shift? Shelly Palmer, along with lead analyst Lydia Loizides, and subject matter experts focus on the issues that dominate the front pages of today’s business journals.
Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer is a show for consumers, media execs, investors and just about anyone interested in this exciting arena where the business of media meets technology. Fast-paced and combative, Media 3.0 doesn’t pull any punches. Interviews with senior management, opinions from respected business leaders and smart people who will make even the most complicated issues seem simple ... It’s Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer.
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April 07, 2006
Beyond Broadcast: Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory Culture
Beyond Broadcast, May 12-13 2006 — Beyond Broadcast 2006: Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory Culture Archive
Beyond Broadcast, a conference being put on at the Berkman Center is coming up in a bit more than a month. The conference second day will be a second convening of the Open Media Developers Summit and is shaping up nicely.
Please feel free to visit the blog and wiki, attend and participate.
From the blog:
You are invited to an open convening at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. We will explore the thesis that traditional public media — public broadcasting, cable access television, etc — face a unique opportunity to embrace new participatory web-based media models — podcasting, video blogs, social software, etc — and create a stronger and more vital public service.
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April 03, 2006
Podcasting WordPress Plugin
Mighty Seek - Web Application Security Podcast and Blog PodPress
Looks like a nice and fully featured WP plugin..
Features
Full featured and automatic feed generation (RSS2, iTunes and ATOM)
Auto Generation of enclosure tag
Preview of what your Podcast will look like on iTunes
Podcast Download stats
Support for Premium Content (Pay Only)
Makes adding a Podcast to a Post very simple
View MP3 Files ID3 tags when your Posting
Control over where the player will display within your post.
Support for various formats, including Video Podcasting
Supports unlimited number of media files.
Automatic Media player for MP3, MP4, MOV, FLV, ASF, WMV, AVI, and more, with inline and Popup Window support.
Preview image for videos
Easy way to link to your podcast within iTunes
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March 26, 2006
Techdirt: Why Aren't The Telcos Paying Google For Making Their Network Valuable?
Techdirt: Why Aren't The Telcos Paying Google For Making Their Network Valuable?
It is true, cable franchises pay the networks for the privilege of carrying them. This is on a per-subscriber basis and allows the television networks to double dip in a sense, get per-subscriber fees as well as ad revenue.
The argument that Google makes the broadband networks valuable is true although there are a plethora of such services, no lack of content which is why the cable co.'s started to pay the networks in the first place.
There is NO WAY the telcos would fall for this (Verizon/CBS stupidity aside) on broadband lines unless they truly still envision the internet as 1,000,000 channels of TV.
Now, don't get me wrong, I don't think that Google should pay either. We (the consumers here) are already paying. Unless Google wants to be on the providers home page or portal there is no reason for them to pay.
I hope they do light up all of that fiber they have been buying and route around the telecos and allow me a WiFi Mesh or WiMax connection.
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TurnHere - Short Films about Cool places
TurnHere.com ~ The video insiders guide to neighborhoods across the world
My good friend Paul is featured pointing out all of the new buildings going up in the area. Nice..!
The site concept is interesting. I am glad to see that niche video content sites are popping up (as opposed to YouTube and Google Video).
I have a couple of problems with how it is built such as there isn't a search box (I want to see all of the Brooklyn films but could find no way to do it). There is no way to leave comments or otherwise say that I like any particular video. Also, this might be a personal bias but I think there is too much Flash used. It is fine to present the videos in Flash but why the rest of the site? Last, I wish they would give me an RSS feed with MPEG-4 videos so I can watch on my new Mini hooked up to my TV.
Overall though, I love it.. Good content!
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Mark Cuban calls bullshit, bullshit
Emmy Advanced Media - Television Business News: Cuban Likes Obesity
Shelly Palmer tells us about Mark Cuban calling out Disney's Preston Padden in obvious over exaggeration..
From the post:
There aren’t many of us who could call bulls__t on Preston Padden–at least not in front of a room full of press and politicos. However, Mark Cuban, CEO of HDNet and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, did it twice in 10 minutes at the Consumer Electronics Association’s 2006 Entertainment Policy Summit in Washington, D.C. Preston Padden, executive vice president-government relations, The Walt Disney Company, was trying to tell the audience that there had been over six million illegal downloads of Disney’s animated hit movie, “The Incredibles.” Mark wasn’t buying it. “I call bulls__t!” he said, with no small degree of effervescence in his voice. “Maybe if you said ‘Star Wars,’ but ‘The Incredibles’? No way!!!”
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"HBO busted me for using bittorrent"
Gen Kanai weblog: "HBO busted me for using bittorrent"
HBO is going after users for downloading content using BitTorrent. Here are some stories, letters and so on..
HBO could simply start doing things like simultaneous release (or at least shorten the time), offer it through iTunes and the like and maybe, perhaps just embrace the BitTorrent phenomena and offer access to a good high quality seed for 1 or 2 dollars. Would be cheaper than the lawyers..
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March 24, 2006
I/ON TV
People With Ideas - Blog Archive - 10-foot “Potato” UI fun
The guys at Open Network Television are hard at work on more great features for their video aggregator I/ON. This time it is a television interface for those of us with Mini's or Windows Media Center's. I can't wait to try it out on my Mini as STB and hope to have some time at some time in the future to start hacking around with the source.
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Choose your own adventure films
anyfilms.net
I would copy and past some of the text here if the text wasn't in Flash (therefore not allowing me to copy). (With all browsers supporting precise layout and text control, why render these elements in Flash? The other elements I can understand, mostly.)
In any case, this is interesting but I don't get the grid..
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Cingular jumps on the VOD bandwagon
PDAStreet: News: Cingular Debuts Video-on-Demand Service
More mobile networks launching VOD. You probably know my feelings about these services by now..
I love how most articles about this have the obligatory statement about consumers less than enthusiastic response:
"But are consumers ready to watch mobile video and TV on their small handset screens? According to a new RBC Capital Markets survey of 1,001 Americans, perhaps they aren’t. The RBC study found that three-quarters of those surveyed weren't interested in watching TV programs or movies on their mobile device, let alone using a cell phone for music even."
Even better is the confusion over plans and pricing:
"It is not to be confused with Cingular's MobiTV-run television offering, which delivers live television broadcasts over the operator's standard 2.5G or EDGE network - 70 to 135kbps. MobiTV costs $9.99 per month and requires a data plan, ranging in price from $4.99 for 1 MB to $19.99 unlimited.
The new service is free to Cingular customers with an unlimited $19.99 per month Broadband Connect plan, which also includes all-you-can-eat messaging and image sharing. As a premium offering, the HBO channel costs an extra $4.99 per month."
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Mobile Games Tied with Live TV
Startup to Wed Mobile Games, Live TV Shows - Yahoo! News
Very interesting:
AirPlay Network Inc. said it will introduce a lineup of cell phone games tied to live television broadcasts. While watching TV, subscribers could use their cell phones to compete against others in "real time" by predicting plays in sports, choosing winners on reality TV shows or picking answers on game shows.
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March 23, 2006
'The Fourth Screen' Mobile Media Festival
The4thScreen.com :: global mobile media festival
This festival looks very interesting. They are pushing people to think about the phone in a different way, not just as a television that is carried in your pocket as it seems the providers are pushing for:
'The Fourth Screen' Global Mobile Media Festival will focus on the mobile phone as an emerging social, cultural and technological phenomenon.
We invite artists, technologists, and other creative thinkers to submit creations, inventions and concepts in two categories:
1/ moving images: videos made with mobile phone, movies, animation and games intended for mobile delivery
2/ wise technologies: software art, software and hardware that proposes new uses for mobile multimedia communication, applications that have positive cultural, social and economic impact in diverse cultures
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March 16, 2006
Revolutionary or 20 years too late?
Turning the Television Into an Electronic Easel for Future Mondrians - New York Times
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March 15, 2006
Axis 214 PTZ Camera, a dream come true..
I have been waiting for one of these for years. A network PTZ camera that does true standards based streaming. Most of the others from Linksys, DLink and so on seem like they fit the bill but their flavor of "MPEG-4" is only codec deep (if even that) and requires playback to be handled with their proprietary ActiveX or Java players.
Not so with the Axis 214 which not only serves true MPEG-4 content but it is playable with QuickTime and any other player that can handle a standard RTSP MPEG-4 stream. This also means that the streams can be reflected by QuickTime/Darwin Streaming Server to allow for a much larger audience than the camera itself can handle.
Unfortunately, getting it to work with the QuickTime Streaming Server but in the end it was well worth it.
In the interest of saving the rest of the world some time I am posting an email message from Kyle Robertson from Apple's Streaming Server User's Listserv that was immensely helpful.
Continue reading "Axis 214 PTZ Camera, a dream come true.."
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March 11, 2006
New WordPress Plugin for Embedding QuickTime movies
QuickTime Embedding WordPress Plugin
I got tired of my XML-RPC posts with QuickTime movies messing up the design of my blog. WordPress automatically would add end param tags and paragraph breaks and all of that inside my Embed and Object tags.
Check it out
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March 03, 2006
Mobile video: Get started with the QuickTime for Java API
Mobile video: Get started with the QuickTime for Java API
From the article:
In this article, I'll first suggest some practical (and potentially very popular) uses for mobile video, and then present two programs to get you started using the QuickTime for Java API to create video content for the iPod. These programs let you easily add captions to existing video files and convert legacy video files into an iPod-compatible format. At the end of the article, I'll leave you with some example code that you can use to learn more about manipulating videos using the QuickTime for Java API.
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March 01, 2006
QuickTime and Flash
QuickTime and Flash 5
A bit old but a good description of how to work with Flash and QuickTime. Includes a crazy demo movie
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February 28, 2006
Cat is using my mobvcasting software
Cat's Mobile Vlog
Set up your own mobile video blog: ParseVideo
Mine is: MobVCasting. There is also a public one at: Open Vlog
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Northwestern University's Project Pad
Project Pad - Home Page
A series of tools for media annotation for use in education...
Part of a larger project called Sakai (which has a good tag line but I don't know much about.)
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Odeo, Audio Tagging, Blogging and more
Odeo
This is old news but..
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February 24, 2006
MNN goes to the Vlogs
MNN Events
MNN, Manhattan's Public Access Station is starting to offer video blogging classes.
Here is the first:
Going beyond the Channels: Vlogging as an alternative means of Distribution
Wednesday March 1st, 2006, 6:30-8:30 pm
Manhattan Neighborhood Network, Open Studio
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The promise
Boing Boing: Promise TV -- PVR records a month's worth of shows from all channels
"What the Promise does is grab the entire broadcast TV multiplex -- all the channels being broadcast in the UK -- slices them up according to the free, over-the-air electronic programming guide, and stores an entire month's worth. Why program a TiVo to get certain shows for you when you can record every single show on the air, all at once, and then use recommendations, search, a grid, or any other means you care to name to figure out which of those thousands and thousands and thousands of hours of programming you want to watch."
Wow..
Here is the site: http://promise.tv/
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Case Study: Live Streaming to Flash Player (via FFMPEG)
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Drazen writes up the procedure he uses to do live streaming to an embedded SWF.
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February 23, 2006
Television goes Social (on the internet)
eVoke TV - eVoke TV Corp.
Very nice.. Enter into chat rooms, see what others are talking about, clap and so on.. Very interesting..
From the site:
eVoke TV helps connect you to your preferred TV programming by providing Web-based “TV listings” with a better user experience.
We are using Web 2.0 techniques to transform the static nature of TV Listings into a dynamic forum connecting TV watchers to the wealth of content available on the internet. We intend to serve the growing population of broadband internet users who are connected to the Web while watching television programming.
Their blog: http://evoketv.blogspot.com/
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February 21, 2006
Shoot, Mix and Share Video
//// Welcome to eyespot ////
Just came upon this interesting new platform for online video editing. Flash based and targeted to non-video folk. I like the MMS submission process for mobile users and blog publishing though I wish it created a feed for use in things like FireANT. Guess that is a bit hard when everything is Flash video based.
From the site:
Shoot, Mix, and Share your Video.
Use the eyespot Mixer to combine your videos, photos and music. Share your video and mixes with the world for Free.
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YouTube success brings lawyers
A Video Clip Goes Viral, and a TV Network Wants to Control It - New York Times
From the article:
When a video clip goes "viral," spreading across the Web at lightning speed, it can help rocket its creators to stardom. Alas, the clip can also generate work for corporate lawyers.
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Video BOMB (down) or Rocket (up)
Video Bomb - Front Page
From the site:
Video Bomb is a community site where people filter up the best videos on the internet. It's creates a democratically chosen flow of internet TV.
Interesting but I still have to ask Why? The top material on the internet has no trouble being distributed. Perhaps there should be a threshold system where we only see the videos that haven't hit a certain level but are above some other level...
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QuickTime Streaming (without a Mac)
abstract plane - products - uplink
Not sure about either of them as I haven't tested on a PC but looks good..
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Various Flash Video Players
FLV Player Flash video online.
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FlashMeeting
FlashMeeting - The One Click Videoconference
Despite my early resistance to all things Flash, this application is very nice. I had a chance to participate in a Flash Meeting today and actually enjoyed it. Definitely a far cry from the days of CuSeeMe ;-)
The one strange thing is the cue to talk. I would prefer that it was a bit more conversational and therefore I felt more natural in the chat room than talking into my mic.
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February 15, 2006
Myth(TV)ology
Fedora Myth(TV)ology :: Welcome
Everything MythTV and Fedora
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February 13, 2006
Get your podcast on iTunes
Apple - iTunes - Podcasts - Frequently Asked Questions
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February 12, 2006
Vlogrolling
Make your own vlogroll and vogroll
Nice vlogroll creation utility:
"generate your own spectacular vlogroll so all your buddies get hooked up, dont leave em in the dark"
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rocket boom ebay auction closes at $40k!
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February 08, 2006
Web 2.0 Video APIs and Mash-ups
The future..?
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February 07, 2006
Our Media's List of Open Media Projects
Open media projects | Ourmedia
From the site:
Ourmedia.org, a nonprofit open media project, supports the following kindred efforts that are helping to enable the grassroots media revolution (also called citizens media, participatory media, personal media, We Media and open-source media). We hope to work with many of them in the months ahead on a planned network of open media sites as a way to cultivate an independent commons of information and creativity.
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Dee's Podcast Interviews from OMDS
Dee Blind Mice >> Blog Archive >> OMDS
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Manamana
Manamana - Google Video
I sing this all the time.. People think I am crazy:
Thanks Dad!
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February 05, 2006
Interactive TV Web
DVB Multimedia Home Platform tutorials and information for interactive TV developers
From the site that brought you the book (or was it the other way around): Interactive TV Standards
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Almost a dream machine
Dream-Multimedia
Open Linux based Set-Top-Boxes! Unfortunately, DVB only, no ATSC. Us poor poor North American iTV developers are left behind yet again..
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Mobile DTV Alliance
:: Mobile DTV Alliance ::
A new consortium of companies pushing DVB-H in North America. I find this much more interesting than current TV on mobile devices as DVB-H has some nice interactive features. Unfortunately, I am not sure it will ever be accessible to independent content providers.
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Mobile TV.. Yawn.
Cielo Group presentation at NATP Mobile
From the company that brings us MLB and NBA video products on phones.
This image from their ad campaign sums up my feelings:
They look a bit bored, don't they..?
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January 30, 2006
Fabio Sonnati's Flash Video Blog
Fabio Sonnati's Flash Video Blog
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Flash Ant: Flash and Rich Internet Applications (RIA) Blog . :: Echo, echo, echo... I think I hear Open Source Flash Communication Server! more at osflash.org/red5
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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:
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Gnash - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) From the site:
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Videoblog directory: the most complete directory of videoblogs or vlogs: 4770 videoblogs and counting. Auto-generates thumbnails (here are some from generated from my mobile video blog: MobVCasting":
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Portable Video at USC
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P2P Videoconferencing Gets Better - Robin Good's Latest News From the article:
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CBS.com Netcasts
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Get FireAnt: Better than Television | Directory
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Miscellaneous Docs and Tools (Once again, I think I have linked to this in the past but I can't find it so here it is again.)
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Mindjack - Piracy is Good? How Battlestar Galactica Killed Broadcast TV From the article:
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Vara Software : Videocue
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Macromedia - Macromedia Mobile
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socialight | friends | mobile phones | fun
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Google Video: Trash Mixed With Treasure - New York Times
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New York Times Video
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No Animals Were Hurt Not sure why they are doing it this way but.. From the site:
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wwwSomnambulator
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LibertySpeeches.org: A Joint Project of the American Constitution Society and the Liberty Coalition
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www.StreamingMedia.com :: Google To Acquire dMarc Broadcasting
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Truveo Video Search
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Brits show appetite for mobile TV As mentioned in the article, the service they are exploring is DVB-H (a standard for mobile digital video). This is somewhat analogous to putting a digital TV tuner in a handheld device and is significantly different than the on-demand streaming services that the US carriers are pushing. What difference does it make? I am not sure I have a goodr response yet. I do believe that it means this is only good for live content though it can be interactive. I would love someone to point me to some interactive DVB-H content demos.
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Free Press : For Fox, the TV Set is Just Fine
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The Doc Searls Weblog : Friday, January 6, 2006 The problem was storage again. It was always better to have a locally stored copy of the video than to try to get it over the net in real time. It just didn't use the net efficiently, and the 'buffering' experience really sucked. In fact, what I realised was that live TV was a waste of time too. But now we had enough storage. People spend lots of money on iPods and TiVo's, whose whole purpose is to turn live streams into files so you can pause and skip them, moving the storage into their houses, and pockets. This personal storage is why Podcasting makes sense. Downloading is always better than streaming, and Edited better than Live, except in one instance. That difference is when you have 2-way interaction. When you can speak back to the person at the other end, either via iChat AV or Skype, or just by having a textual back channel to a conference. That's where Live is needed.
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The Basics of the MMAPI for Java Developers
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Yahoo! Go - How It Works - TV Yahoo is integrating TV with internet based video search and Flickr along with Music and Movies, complete with reviews (and sooner or later all of the other things you can find on Yahoo's site).
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Epeus' epigone - Kevin Marks weblog Let's hope the QuickTime team is listening.
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Release 1.0 / Publication / Reinventing TV: Network TV Signs Off. Networked TV Logs On. From the abstract:
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GBN: The Future of Independent Media Andrew Blau writes a great essay contemplating Independent Media in the face of the quickly changing technological landscape. A very good read: From the text:
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The New York Times: David Pogue's Columns (Forum/Message Board) Well, I can't find the original article (not unusual for the NYTimes site) but the reader feedback on one of David Pogue's columns regarding the digital living room is very interesting. A nice glimpse into what people are using and what they might be using in the future (along with what they are definitely not going to use). Keep clicking Next after the jump. It goes on and on.
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TiVo.com | Contact Us Anyone tried this yet? (Besides Andrew that is)
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Google Jabbers And Jingles In any case, a quicky on Google's use of Jabber and their extensions (Jingle). A little tidbit about Asterisk support forthcoming near the end.
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Streamingmedia.com: Video iPod Sales Growth Portends Big Things for Streaming Media in 2006 My Comments: Mobile streaming video.. Hmmn.. Mobile carriers think it is the next big thing. If the iPod video is a success and I think it will be, it will be more about personal control over media and fair pricing than TV anywhere, neither of which the mobile carriers understand. For instance, I can't stream my home movies through Verizon's VCast service but I can offer a download of them through iTunes for iPod consumption.
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Publish Video Messages Online From Your Smartphone - Robin Good's Latest News
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Future Of Television Is Self-Service, P2P Distributed Media Consumption - Robin Good's Latest News
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AVING - Global News Network
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SPLITCAM video clone capture driver software Thanks Spencer
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pcHDTV
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THE.SCENE A: The Scene is the piracy underground where 99% of pirated movies, songs, video games, etc start out. There, thousands of pirates upload, download, and trade files (often illegally) using FTP sites. From there, the files make their way onto the peer-to-peer networks, that so many know and love.
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TV Stardom on $20 a Day - New York Times
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Squared 5 - MPEG Streamclip for Mac OS X
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Emmy Advanced Media - Television Business News: Who Are The Real Pirates?
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Java to appear in next-gen DVD players | CNET News.com Java will be used for control menus, interactive features, network services and games, Nishimura said. Cool! But as Chris Adamson says, "Gimme some tools!" (from: We Love Blu-Ray Java! It's Perfect! Now Change.
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Beyond TV: TVSpy.com Next Generation TV Wow.. I was surprised. You wouldn't know it but there are people in TV who really "get it"... Larry Kramer from CBS most notably get's it. Here is what I had to say on the day of: First of all, I have to say that Larry Kramer gets it. He really does. He is open to experimentation. At CBS he has launched many interactive initiatives from a broadband news channel to podcasts of daytime soaps to fantasy sports sites to deep entertainment content add-ons to viewer/user photo posting to writer and producer blogs to actual audience participation through SMS. Phew.. CBS isn't the only media company doing this type of experimentation. The other networks, cable and broadcast are doing the same or similar. Notable is ABC News Now, ESPN, Playboy and the like. The question is, whether or not this is enough. Will this engage and empower viewers enough to keep them despite the ever growing number of alternative content channels. The networks certainly know how to deliver programming to a passive audience. They are just beginning to support a more engaged and digitally connected viewer. A later speaker in the day, IBM's Saul Berman described the audience by categorizing them in 3 camps. "Massive passives", the folks that CBS has always served, lean back, over 35, want to be entertained but don't feel compelled to buy the latest gadget or create their own media. The next camp, arguably the focus of most of these efforts he described as "Gadgetiers". He describes this group as heavily involved in content, they are fans, will seek out other individuals who are interested in the same content they are. They will purchase the latest devices, use time shifting (TiVo) and will space shift (TiVo To Go). They are also the heavy buyers, the early adopters, in short, the people that the advertizers (and therefore the networks) covet. It remains to be seen whether what the networks are starting to do will appeal to this group in the long run. In the short term, it is clear, if you put it out there they will come. How long they stay is another matter. The last camp, the "Kool kids", the ones really getting all of the attention, are the hardest to understand. He suggests that this is the group that rejects DRM and "walled gardens", in short, the group that wants media on their own terms. This is the group that uses P2P software and is heavily social. They have dream devices that aren't out in the market as of yet. I know that the kks (short for "Kool kids") are what have network executives up at night. They are the hackers and inventors who are really driving the internet. TV and media in general will fit into their game or be disregarded. Ok.. So the big question at the end of the day? Will the cable and TV networks run scared and do everything possible to protect their business models or will they embrace the new like they must. My feeling after this conference is that they have learned something from the music industry and will try to embrace but there will still be a major shakeup and Yahoo! and Google just might become the "new" networks. Good or bad.
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Technorati Tag: MyBBCPlayer I can't wait to try it! Will I be able to in the US?
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Streamingmedia.com: Grabbing, Ripping, and Saving Streams
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What's Holding Back the Digital Living Room? - New York Times Perhaps I am jaded today but I think the concept that Silicon Valley is pushing forth is flawed for many reasons. First and foremost is that entertainment companies don't understand interactivity (games aside) and tech companies don't understand entertainment, specifically that their content doesn't *work* on TV. After saying all of that, I do believe that there is a way to "infect" the entertainment industry with interactive technology. Some day I will let you all know how. ;-)
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Cover Pages: XMLTV From the site:
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Think Secret - Road to Expo: Reborn Mac mini set to take over the living room From the site:
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"DeoZones" Screenshots Click the link above to see sample images. From the site:
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The Set-Top Sage Knows All, Sees All - New York Times Is it possible create an "open" set top box? One that can decode a signal, whether it be from a cable company, digital tv broadcast or satellite?
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I have been doing something that I call MobVCasting for some time. Essentially, it is video blogging with a twist. My vlog posts are created, edited as well as posted directly from my mobile phone. I use MMS (or Multimedia Messaging or picture messaging or whatever your provider calls it) to post videos to my vlog. You can see what I do by visiting http://www.mobvcasting.com/wp/ I am almost to the point where I feel comfortable offering this capability to all who are brave enough to try. Although I am not ready for offering personalized service (which would entail posting to your blog though mobvcasting), I have opened up a test MobVCasting vlog that anyone is free to post to. I am calling it OpenVlog at MobVCasting. You can see it at: http://www.openvlog.mobvcasting.com/ Anyone is welcome to use their mobile phone to post to this "open" vlog. You will need a video capable phone and the ability to send MMS (multimedia messages or picture mail or whatever your provider calls it) to an email address. The address for this service is openvlog@mobvcasting.com. The subject of your message will be the title of the post and any text in the body of the message becomes the body of the text. One last thing, your mobile phone provider may charge you to send MMS messages. So if you give it a shot, don't go overboard until you get your first bill. Please feel free to send any questions or comments my way: shawn@mobvcasting.com
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Welcome to the GPAC Project on Advanced Content
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I would be remiss if I never posted a link to this: NewTek TriCaster combines everything found in a television live truck into a box small and light enough to fit into a backpack. I wish it had support for something other than WMV live streaming though..
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Helmet Cams and Helmet Cameras by Viosport - Wearable Video Technology
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Instructions for Recording Skype Conversations | Echo Chamber Project Kent Writes:
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Radio Regen, Community FM Toolkit for Community Radio From the site:
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The Lives of Teenagers Now: Open Blogs, Not Locked Diaries - New York Times They have become the participatory generation. From the article: That reality is now inextricable from the broader social, cultural and sometimes, as in Melissa's case, deeply personal experience of being a teenager. And it is one that will undoubtedly have profound implications for the traditional managers of content, from big media companies and libraries to record labels, publishers and Hollywood. [Later in the article] The Pew survey shows "the mounting evidence that teens are not passive consumers of media content," said Paulette M. Rothbauer, an assistant professor of information sciences at the University of Toronto. "They take content from media providers and transform it, reinterpret it, republish it, take ownership of it in ways that at least hold the potential for subverting it."
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TECTONIC: How will you consume your open media?
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ITunesDB - wikiPodLinux
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Cinelerra sites
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Hear Us Now: Resist the Tower! Fight Media Power! Don't let the FCC regulate your media behind closed doors. Turn up your speakers and tune in! And sign our petition calling for the FCC to hold at least 10 public hearings across the country.
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Newest Webcams These webcams were found automatically through a variety of clever search techniques. Their owners might or might not have intended for them Interesting how "security cameras" are not "secure" themselves..
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Sling Media :: Welcome Just what the world needs, more access to broadcast television. ;-)
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META[CC] -Main
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Vlog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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About Evolvetv | evolvetv.tv We don’t care about missing blonde women or Hollywood lifestyles. We think sharks are mostly harmless and we have no interest in watching sporting events. We believe solutions emerge from our judicious study of discernible reality.
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Everybody Hates Chris: Everybody Hates The Pilot - Google Video
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Streamingmedia.com: Successful Webcast Ingredients
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Kaa - Freevo 2.0 Wiki
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DropDV: import mpeg into iMovie
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Podcast In A Box
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The Aristocrats
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Streaming Server and Firewalls
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digitalmedia.oreilly.com -- Welcome to the O'Reilly Digital Media Center -- computer books for digital media including photography, graphics and audio.
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Hasbro Projector, PVR, Other Gadgets for Kids - Gizmodo
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O'Reilly: The Ultimate Portable Studio
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Poll Results
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Mobile device TV market "small but enthusiastic"
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MNN Announcement
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Today @ PC World - Makin' Movies With the Vidster
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With Irreverence and an iPod, Recreating the Museum Tour - New York Times
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Loudblog Thanks Spencer..
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Wikipedia:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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local report: home Here is some press that I just came across: Art and Innovation Collide
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Participatory Culture: News and Ideas Nice interface, easy to use.. Great stuff!
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ONTV: Ideas Through Digital Content From the site:
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Streamingmedia.com: Multiple Delivery Mechanisms for Streaming
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Online Video and the Future of Television - PrimeTime
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TVover.net - Watch Live Internet TV
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business2blog: Scoop: Disney Considering Teaming Up with Apple on Video iPod
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Lawmakers Allow Voters to See It Now - Jul 19, 2005
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Very nicely done..
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Podcasting - Blog Maverick - www.blogmaverick.com _
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Boing Boing: Pinouts for CVS's "disposable" camcorder
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Linux frees iPod's inner recording studio
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The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > TV's Future Is Here, but It Needs Work I like the statement: What he doesn't mention is the serious amount of content being created by non-commercial interests and being distributed on the internet for free. For any set top box to make it they have to offer what the cable/tv companies don't, media for the people by the people. What good is using the internet without it?
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MacDevCenter.com: Magnificent Seven: What's New for Users in QuickTime 7
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Mason Glaves's Blog: JMF, wherefor art thou? More on the issue from Chris Adamson: Don't forget, the reader comments in both of these articles, including a comment from jdinkins of the Sun Java Swing team regarding them taking over JMF. Let's hope they put some real resources on this.
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Microsoft-Free Home Part 4: The Linux HTPC--ExtremeTech Build It
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TV next killer app for cellphones, analyst says
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Finally!!!!
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As Dave points out in the comments to this post: sLop: Java wrapper for ffmpeg there is a new open source FFMPEG JNI JMF wrapper: Omnividea FOBS - FFMpeg C & JMF Bindings.. Gotta love those acronyms.. :-) Sorry.
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DTV broadcast standard for handhelds gains momentum
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The Best Portable Video Players - PVPs/PMPs
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Media Community Platform: Easy Email Reply
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Main Page - Me TV Wiki - CNET News.com
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Video Phone Rides VoIP Wave
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"Once you can surf by it, all your content kind of turns into television," says Halle, who once worked on interactive TV projects for a Public Broadcasting System station in Boston but became frustrated by the high cost of available gear. The Project for Open Source Media (POSM), as Halle calls it, is designed for the era when anyone with a $200 camcorder or a video cameraphone can become a broadcaster. The interactive TV box costs $500 plus a $100 TV turner card.
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Podcasting Music - The legal implications - CBI
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O'Reilly Network: Movies of Software
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sLop: QuickTime Latency Here are the configuration changes from the QuickTime/Darwin Streaming Server streamingserver.xml file: From: <PREF NAME="reflector_buffer_size_sec" TYPE="UInt32" >10</PREF> From: <PREF NAME="disable_overbuffering" TYPE="Bool16" and From: <PREF NAME="overbuffer_rate" TYPE="Float32"
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Jason Freeman - Quicktime for Java
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NPR : An Impending Period of Transitional Chaos for Media
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HOW-TO: PSPcasting on your Mac - Engadget - www.engadget.com.
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TheFeature :: How Not To Do Mobile Chat - How Cingular and American Idol got it wrong ($.30 per moderated message!!!!).
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Mac OS Rumors :: The Original Mac Rumor Site. What might even be more interesting is this paragraph: A direct plea for Apple not to sue them this time..? A lot of Apple fans are upset, including me, about the recent court case that has Apple arguing that web site publishers are not journalists and shouldn't have the same protections. Hog wash (only stronger).
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I have done exhaustive research regarding this in the past but I still have persistent problems with latency when using QuickTime or MPEG-4 streaming in my projects so I am doing the research again (and posting it here so I can find it later). Here are the links for further examination (from Apple's Mailing Lists): Last: Use these libraries to build own streaming server and client: LIVE.COM Streaming Media: RTP/RTCP and RTSP Open Source Libraries Ok.. now to try out all of the possibilities..
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Orb Networks :: Home (Can you tell I am bitter today).
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Narrowstep TV Station in a Box Perhaps someone will tell me. Ooooh, I see, TV Station in a Box is all of their productions wrapped into one. See the documentation for mediaserver, channelserver and adserver to see what it is all about... Ok.
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Just some links: Use that data.. Not at $30/MB (like I get charged from ATTWireless)..
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TheFeature :: Cameraphones as Personal Storytelling Media
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Streaming Media East 2005: New York, NY
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informitv - Interactive TV - News - BBC to pilot local interactive television news service Can't wait to see what they do...
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Site Entry Pushing me to BitTorrent with all of these stupid DRM and Windows only requirements.
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NCAM/Media Access Generator (MAGpie)
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Popwire Technology : WMV-9 Export Component
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So.. I finally received my phone bill which reflects all of these vlog posts from my phone. Here is the breakdown from my bill: So, deciphering this, I got charged almost $30.00 for data usage, $2 for 5 MMS messages that were less than 100KB and almost $10 for MMS messages that were greater than 100KB. Setting aside the data usage for now (because I think that is from some streaming tests that I was doing), the MMS messages are either $.40 or $.80 per message. Considering that I am using this for video blogging, almost all of these messages are going to be greater than 100KB (my phone/ATTWireless has a 300KB sending limit) and therefore will cost $.80 each. Now for the rant: I attempted to change my wireless plan with ATTWireless online. Unfortunately, in order to change my plan, I have to "migrate" to Cingular who recently been bought ATTWireless. This in itself isn't so bad but low and behold, I would have to get a new phone, pay an activation fee for the privilege and signup for an another year of service. Yeah!!!!!!!! I love wireless providers (not). Ok, so after calling the wonderful 611 number they provide, I talked to someone who had no idea what MMS is. In any case, I found that I could change the optional services on my account and for $2 more than what I am paying for text messages already I could add 20 "picture messages" to the service. So I went for it.. Now, I still have some concerns: In any case, as Jay brought up to me, first, I need a WiFi phone with Skype and second, micropayments suck since I need to decide whether or not I actually want to pay for posting a video to my blog each and every time I shoot one.
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Linux.com - Framegrabbing Applications Also of note is the Apache plugin mod_video.
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Ecamm Network: iChatUSBCam - Video Conference with iChat AV using a USB Webcam
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Tryst: Home
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Webcasting - DoWire.Org They are building a prototype for a low cost audio webcasting system with images. Very interesting...
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hymn -- decrypt iTunes and iPod music / unprotect AAC files
Fabio offers some very nice and detailed knowledge regarding Flash Video. I am particularly impressed with the FFMPEG to FLV information.
Open Source Flash Communications Server in the works
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
January 29, 2006
Musical DNA
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.January 28, 2006
Open Source Flash Rendering
Gnash is a GNU Flash movie player. Till now it has been possible to play flash movies with proprietary software. While there are a few other free flash players, none supports anything higher than SWF v4 at best. Gnash is based on GameSWF, and supports many SWF v7 features.
MeFeedia Updates
MeFeedia starts offering reviews..
Portable Video at USC
Portable video blog and workshop series at USC. I love the image of KC on the PSP!
VSee get's some attention
I had a chance to try out VSee a couple of years ago and was thoroughly impressed. Milton and crew have done very nice work on this product.
If you are looking to try out one of the latest and best performing video conferencing technologies available out there, you have come to the right place.CBS Soap Opera Podcasts
Anyone a Soap Opera fan? I would love to hear thoughts about how this stacks up to watching them on TV.January 25, 2006
FireAnt :: Directory
The nice folks behind the FireAnt (video blogging aggregation software) have launched a new directory. It is complete with tags, ratings, browsing, searching and all the goodies.Bluetooth Remote Control
Sony Ericsson has Bluetooth Remote Control software for their phones and Mac/Windows PCs as well as an API to go with it.
January 23, 2006
Piracy is Good? How Battlestar Galactica Killed Broadcast TV
Very interesting and thorough article about recent trends in downloading television programming.
Now we have a paradox: the invention of an incredibly powerful mechanism for the global distribution of television programming brings with it a fundamental challenge to the business model which pays for the creation of the programs themselves. This is not at all BitTorrent's fault: the technology could have come along a decade ago, and if it had, we'd have stumbled across this paradox in the 1990s. This is a failure of the value chain to adapt to a changing technological landscape — a technological desynchronization between producer and audience. Once again, there's no need to find fault: things have changed so much, and so quickly, I doubt that anyone could have kept up. But the future is now here, and everyone in the creative value chain from producer to audience must adapt to it.Vara Software releases Videocue 2
Seems a bit like another product (Serious Magic's Vlog It). Competition in this space is good for all though..January 21, 2006
Flash capable phones
Nice Socialight infomercial..
Nice mobile social software. Check it out..!January 20, 2006
Pogue sums up some of the things wrong with Google video
From the article:
Google is surely aware of these limitations and has plans to address them. One aspect of Google Video, however, will not be so easily changed: its copy-protection scheme, a new one that Google wrote itself. You can't burn the shows to a CD or DVD, and can't play them back on portable players like iPods. In fact, most of the TV shows don't play back at all without an active Internet connection, which, for most people, also rules out laptop playback on planes, trains and automobiles. This is sickening news for anyone who thought that two incompatible copy-protection schemes - Apple's and Microsoft's - were complex and sticky enough already. And compared with the ABC and NBC shows available on the iTunes store, the value of the CBS shows looks even worse.January 19, 2006
NY Times Video
So the Times has a good amount of video online. Too bad they don't have a feed with enclosures (also too bad that it is Flash and therefore has no chance of being portable).
January 18, 2006
Unique way to present a movie online
A film about Alan Turing presented 1 frame per user at a time. You have to hit it on the right date or just after the 5000 viewer to see the whole thing.
Each unique visitor unlocks one frame, out of the total 5000. Each time 5000 is exceeded, the counter is reset, at which time a full version will be available for the next 24 hours. Currently, after 15946 visitors, the film is 19% its proper length.It's time for you to be Somnambulated!
I love it..!Al Gore's MLK speech...
Let's hope people keep speaking out against Bush!Google getting into Radio Advertising
AOL purchases Truveo, a video search company
Hmmn.. I like the search engine. AOL was smart.
From the site:
Welcome to Truveo. We have spent the last couple years developing some new technology to find all of the best video on the web. Please try our video search engine and let us know what you think. Just type a query into the search box above or select one of the popular searches below.We are pleased to announce that Truveo is now part of AOL�. You can read more about this acquisition here.Mobile video might take off in Britain
Fox not jumping on mobile video bandwagon
Garth Ancier, chairman of the WB, is quoted in the article in a good summation:
“You have to look at each of these things and how many people are participating, what they’re paying, what their pain tolerance for paying is, do they want it with commercials, without commercials, do they want to own it, do they want to lease it,” he said. “I think everything right now is basically in sort of a test stage.”January 17, 2006
The end of broadcast as we know it...
Doc writes:
The meta-story behind Intel's Viiv and Clickstream announcments yesterday is not just the death of TV as we know it, but the gang-stabbing of it by Intel, Apple and their new partners in the broadcasting and entertainment industries. Or, if you prefer, by the reconstituted entertainment industry, which will still be about production and distribution, but without the current channel-based TV system (which will come to an FCC-mandated end in 2009 — it was originally scheduled for 2006 — when every TV station will be required to move off its branded VHF channel and up to some unbranded UHF digital channel, by which time nearly everybody will stop watching over-the-air TV anyway, getting everything we used to call TV over cable, satellite or Internet).
Epeus' epigone - Kevin Marks weblog
Kevin Marks Follows Up with:
In 1998, I went to work at Apple on QuickTime, and started work on live streaming. This was hard work, but interesting - making a personal TV Transmitter for anyone with a Mac, so they could use the internet for lots of people to watch them at once. Having built this technology, I started looking for uses for it, and was rather bemused to find there weren't any.
EXACTLY!Sample Chapters from "Developing Scalable Series 40 Applications: A Guide for Java Developers"
Looks pretty good and thorough. Chapters relating to the J2ME MMAPI, including an introduction, audio playback, other media playback, capture and a summary.
Yahoo! Go - TV
I had mentioned Yahoo and their TV initatives earlier so I figured I should give a pointer. While this exactly what I found the most interesting, it has a similar concept. (The Yahoo! Go TV Concepts were more interesting)How Apple lost it's Web Video mojo, and how it could get it back
Kevin Marks, a former Apple QuickTime engineer details what happened at Apple to allow QuickTime to become a second class media player/format and how they now have a chance (thanks to podcasting and video ipods) to try again.Reinventing TV
Scott Kirsner write in an older Release 1.0 about Networked TV. It is a good article, too bad it costs so much.
Television, because of its high production and distribution costs and FCC regulation, has always been the most massive of all the mass media. It seeks the middle ground, and usually finds it. The ads that accompany today's shows are made with a similar shotgun mentality: There's no such thing as one-to-one marketing on the tube. Any niche-oriented programming that does exist tends to be available only to small audiences, on obscure satellite channels or community cable access stations.
That will change over the next decade, as a growing number of television sets, PCs and mobile devices are connected to what Jeremy Allaire, the founder of Brightcove, has dubbed "the Internet of video." Plugging TV into IP rather than into a terrestrial cable system or a fleet of geosynchronous satellites, could redeem - or at least reinvigorate - the medium. The hermetically sealed world of television is about to be cracked open and rewired, transformed into an open publishing platform as a variety of new devices and services emerge to make independent video content easier - and perhaps even profitable - to produce and distribute to smaller subsets of the population.The Future of Independent Media
I thought I linked to this a while ago but I couldn't find it recently when recommending it to a student.
The technologies that enable us to make and consume motion media are becoming better, cheaper, and more widely available—and with blistering speed. As a consequence, patterns of media production and consumption are changing just as rapidly. The Internet continues to create new opportunities to connect with audiences. Video games are becoming a platform for critique and education. A new generation of media makers and viewers is emerging, which only increases the likelihood of profound change. Images, ideas, news, and points of view are traveling along countless new routes to an ever-growing number of places where they can be seen and absorbed. It is no understatement to say that the way we make and experience motion media will be transformed as thoroughly in the next decade as the world of print was reshaped in the last.Digital Living Room - Stalls
January 16, 2006
Video Bloggers, get on TiVo
From the site:
The TiVo Videoblog Project is currently experimenting with ways to make the new medium of videoblogs accessible on television. If you have a videoblog or are interested in participating, please fill out this form.
Jabber, Jingle, Google and Asterisk
What a funny bunch of words..
iPod video, will it lead to more streaming video consumption?
From the article:
The biggest unanswered question, of course, is whether the average consumer, who has preferred her iPod audio and video downloaded, not streamed, will warm to the idea of streaming content that could really be accessed from anywhere she has cell or wireless data service.
It was suggested in the article that the answer might come at CES or at MacWorld. While interesting related items were announced at CES (nothing at MacWorld AFAIK) I don't think this actually has anything to do with what the consumer will actually adopt.More MobVCasting software popping up
From the entry:
A company called ComVu is developing two technologies that allow this to happen by simply using your smartphone. Already in beta: live "one to many" transmission from a mobile device and "do-it-yourself" video networkingMassive Media, distilled
Robin Good edits and re-presents Dan Melinger's Massive Media thesis.
Button Camera and Microphone
Really interesting Bluetooth button camera.
From the site:
If you wear this button-looking device on your suit, it records the situation of a spot and transmit the data to remote areas using the wireless transmit technology (Bluetooth) in real time. The device detects movements of an object and records them automatically. You can have access and communicate several Self Guard devices from anywhere you can use the internet. So, even if you are not present in the spot, you can install this model in various hidden places and take control of the situation while giving instructions. It comes up with rechargeable battery.January 15, 2006
NYC Grassroots Media Coalition Conference - February 11
December 31, 2005
Use your camera with multiple apps simultaneously
From the site:
SplitCamera is a freeware virtual video clone and video capture driver for connecting several applications to a single video capture source. Usually, if you have a web-camera connected to your computer, you cannot use it in more than one application at the same time, and there is no standard Windows options that makes it possible. SplitCam driver allows you to easily multiply your web-camera video in any conferensing software like ICQ, Yahoo, MSN Messenger, or whatever... and to broadcast it to many users at a time. With SplitCam you can connect up to 64 clients to a single video source. In a few words: SplitCam does just what its name says: it splits the video stream coming from the video source and tunnels it to numerous other client applications.December 14, 2005
The perfect Linux HD capture card (it seems)
Makers of the Linux based (at least the drivers) HD-3000 HDTV card. Now if I can ever get around to building my myth box..Content for P2P about P2P (almost)
From the FAQ:
Q: What is "The Scene" in real life?December 13, 2005
Rocketboom on TV..
Lots of vlog reporting but the main juice here is that Rocketboom is on TiVo's.. Hmmn.
From the article:
TiVo, which can now be used to watch Web video on home television sets, just signed a deal to list Rocketboom in the TiVo directory - making it as easy to record as conventional television programs like "60 Minutes" and "Monday Night Football." Giving up no creative control, Ms. Congdon and Mr. Baron will get 50 percent of the revenue from ads sold by TiVo to appear before and after their newscast, and their show will gain access to more than 300,000 TV sets connected to those new TiVo boxes.
December 12, 2005
MPEG Conversion Software
Looks like a nice peice of freeware.
From the site:
High-quality converter for MPEG files, QuickTime and transport streams compatible with the new iPod!
You can use MPEG Streamclip to: open most movie formats including MPEG files or transport streams.December 10, 2005
Good Question
Shelly asks a good question that the media companies should be asking themselves. Particularly the music companies. In essence, they need to realize that fair use is fair and good and people WANT media on their own terms.
From the post:
How many times will you buy the same master file? That question is being answered every day on P2P networks, via email and podcasts. Obviously, some consumers are willing to pay for the convenience of not having to bother converting their own files to be used in all of their devices. But there are far more consumers who would rather not pay for the same thing over and over again.December 09, 2005
Blue-ray players will run Java
From the article:
"The Blu-ray Disc Association, the standards body for the format, has decided it will adopt Java for the interactivity standards," said Yasushi Nishimura, director of Panasonic's Research and Development Company of America, speaking at Sun's JavaOne trade show here. "This means that all Blu-ray Disc player devices will be shipped equipped with Java." Future of Television Conference
So, I went to the Future of Television conference a couple of weeks ago and was somewhat suprised. Last year, I poked my head in to see what was being discussed and it was a big snooze. After checking out the website, I figured it was worth my time this year so I went.
I am writing from Future of Television Conference at NYU's Stern School of Business today. I am here for several reasons, first of all I would like to know what the networks and traditional media concerns think of the scrappy interactive folks. Second, I am here doing recon. Specifically, I would like to know how long video bloggers and other decentralized media creators have before traditional media begins to offer enough of what they are doing to satiate "consumers". (Perhaps that is not exactly my fear but close enough for now.)MyBBCPlayer
So, the BBC is launching a P2P media delivery platform. The link above will tell you to what the blogger's have to say.Video Stream Ripping (Recording)
Fair Use? Yes!
David Pogue writes "What's Holding Back the Digital Living Room?"
In the article he posits a couple of theories ending up with:
Could it be that the digital living room concept is equally flawed--and all Silicon Valley's horses and all Asia's men are barking up the wrong tree?December 08, 2005
EPIC is about to arrive, powered by Googlezon
December 05, 2005
XMLTV
Continuing with my links to computer in living room technology.
XMLTV is a set of utilities to manage your TV viewing. They work with TV listings stored in the XMLTV format, which is based on XMLApple Rumored to be building Mini into a set-top-box
The living room is HOT!
Apple's Mac mini will be reborn as the digital hub centerpiece it was originally conceived to be, Think Secret sources have disclosed. The new Mac mini project, code-named Kaleidoscope, will feature an Intel processor and include both Front Row 2.0 and TiVo-like DVR functionality.TiVo - Yahoo Integration Screen Shots
Interesting.. Looks like WebTV is making a come back! ;-)
Searching Podcasts
Wired article about two new companies dedicated to searching podcasts.
Podzinger and blinkx scour audio content for keywords by translating the audio into text and creating an index for quick searching. It's a significant step above traditional search engines that identify only keywords in a podcast's metadata, such as the headline and introductory notes describing the audio file's general content.November 19, 2005
Why? Really, why?
If this is all people can think of for interactive TV, it will never fly. Unfortunately, this is par for the course in iTV thinking.
To get more information about items appearing on the screen, the viewer mouses over objects on the screen with their mouse. "Deozones" (clickable items) are highlighted as the viewer mouses-over them. If interested, the viewer clicks on the object for more information and/or to purchase the item.iPod video conversion app
What is an STB?
Don't know, then read this article.OpenVlog at MobVCasting
November 17, 2005
Video Comments get's blogged
GPAC - MPEG-4 Framework
November 13, 2005
Streaming Video Mixer, Switcher and so on..
Helmet Cams Galore
Thanks Abe..
Also interesting is this: http://www.digave.com/videos/how.htm
Kent Bye from Echo Chamber Project has solved Skype recording on his Mac
Seems my instructions are a bit out of date and don't work exactly right anymore.
After much experimentation, I've finally figured out how to record a Skype call on my Macintosh without having to use external hardware or hearing an echo of my own voice.Community Radio Toolkit (book with discussion forum)
What you will find here by the end of 2005, is a complete web version of the 212 pages of the book, complete with active discussion forums for readers. We will also have staff deployed to follow up information requests and extract the usable information from these discussions. So there’ll be information digests and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s) too.
In the meanwhile, following the enthusiastic response from delegates at our Community FM conference, we’re posting samples of the book and launching an experimental forum for you to discuss what you think of the book. If this resource is to become truly comprehensive, and stay up to date, we need you to join in with the discussion on the forum to tell us what you think of what you’ve read and to share your experiences.November 06, 2005
The Participatory Generation
NY Times is running an article about a recent Pew survey that is demonstrating that teenagers have embraced publishing media online. From myspace and the like to creating their own websites featuring music remixes, videos and so forth.
According to the Pew survey, 57 percent of all teenagers between 12 and 17 who are active online - about 12 million - create digital content, from building Web pages to sharing original artwork, photos and stories to remixing content found elsewhere on the Web. Some 20 percent publish their own Web logs. MobVCasting on the Vlog Map
Map of Vloggers around the worldNovember 04, 2005
OMDS Article
Michael Sharon has written a nice article summarizing the Open Media Developers Summit.
From the article:
Two weeks ago, on a rainy Friday and Saturday in October, 65 programmers and developers debated these and many other questions at the first Open Media Developer's Summit held at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) in down-town Manhattan. October 31, 2005
Understand the iPod iTunesDB
From the site:
This page details the format of the binary files used on the iPod to keep track of the music it contains as well as its play history. Collectively we refer to these files as the iTunesDB however there are in fact a number of files, each with their own format, that make up this database.October 30, 2005
Command line video effects processing utility
ppmfilter is a command line video effects processing utility.Cinelerra.. Linux based Open Source Video Editing
Need to check this out sometime.
October 19, 2005
Fighting FCC closed door decision making
I like the animation ;-) October 10, 2005
A world of webcams
From the site:
Random live webcams from the Net
to be public. But they obviously are. Many of them are security cameras in companies or
semi-public places. If you hover over the picture you'll see what location information is available. TV to Go.. (I feel like I am repeating myself)
From the site:
The Slingbox enables you to watch your TV programming from wherever you are by turning virtually any Internet-connected PC into your personal TV. Whether you’re in another room or in another country, you’ll always have access to your television.October 09, 2005
Closed Caption Text from Blog RSS feeds..
From the site:
META[CC] seeks to create an open forum for real time discussion, commentary, and cross-refrencing of electronic news and televised media. By combining strategies employed in web-based discussion forums, blogs , tele-text subtitling, on-demand video streaming, and search engines, the open captioning format employed by META[CC] will allow users to gain multiple perspectives and resources engaging current events. The system we are developing is adaptable for use with any cable news or television network.
October 02, 2005
Wikipedia Vlog Article
September 27, 2005
"reality-based broadcasting"
An internet only news show..
From the about page:
EvolveTV is born out of a frustration with the media landscape. When CNN is more painful to watch than Fox (after all - Fox is entertainment, not news), there quite simply must be a market for an alternative. Our mission statement is pretty simple:September 26, 2005
Google Video, thoughts..
Google video has the full premeire episode of Everybody Hates Chris for a limited time. I would love to see the stats for this one.
In any case, this is the first time I have really checked out Google Video since it launched. I am not so sure about the Flash based video, I find the playback performance a bit weak compared to QuickTime and Real on my Powerbook. I am impressed by the random feature but not really by the content. I find enough standard TV fare on TV, I don't need it on the internet as well. It is for this reason, that unless I need to look something up, I will turn to Ourmedia.org, Yahoo Video, Current.TV and MeFeedia for my online video watching pleasure.September 23, 2005
Webcasting 101
Looks to be a good article regarding webcasting/streaming from step 1.
From the article:
Ready for live Webcasting? Here, a streaming media leader walks you through the steps.Python Media Related Scripts
From the site:
The Kaa Media Repository is a set of python modules related to media.MPEG 2 to DV Conversion
From the site:
DropDV is a Mac OS X droplet which converts MPEG video into DV video streams. After conversion, your video can be edited with iMovie, Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, or any other DV video editing system.September 21, 2005
Podcast In A Box`
Interesting.. Anyone tried one of these yet?
September 20, 2005
Wow..! What a dirty joke..!
They are taking submissions for versions of the joke to include on the DVD.
Is Hollywood starting down the road towards participatory media or is this just an isolated trial in a risky film anyway?
QuickTime Streaming Server and Firewalls
How to use the Streaming Server behind NAT and other firewall configurations. Which ports to open and what configuration options to change.September 17, 2005
News from the Vlogosphere.. Nice..
ORA's Digital Media Zine
Great stuff.. Got that RSS feed.
Hasbro Media Devices for Kids
Personal media, seems to be the newest trend in toys.. Crazy.. Good but Crazy..The Ultimate Portable Studio
Amazing article.. Need to do on the road audio work? Check this article.
People like Mefeedia
Interesting.. I know nothing about Grouper.
I don't really think this is contest meaningful but...Mobile TV survey results..
I have one word for mobile TV operators: INTERACTIVITY3 Bills up in Congress that will Kill Public Access
Hmmn.. I am going to have to read these bills.
Here is some more information from the Alliance for Community Media: http://www.alliancecm.org/index.php?page_id=201Vidster
Mattel has released the "Vidster". A video camera for kids.. Love to take one of these apart and make it into a video blogging tool.September 01, 2005
Podcasting Museum Tours
This is old but apparently I never posted it here.Nice, a blogging platform specific to audio blogs/podcasting.
From the site:
Loudblog is a sleek and easy-to-use Content Management System (CMS) for publishing audio content on the web. It automatically generates a skinnable website and an RSS-Feed for Podcasting. Just upload your audio files, add some notes and links, and you're done!August 22, 2005
Wikipedia - Spoken
Very nice.. I will have to get a feed of these.. (RSS included) Too bad my iPod doesn't play Ogg files.Local Report
For those of you wondering what I have been up to for the past month or so, here is your answer: Called, Whitman Local Report, this is a performance piece utilizing mobile phones to create a montage of video "reports" and phone "reports" all in real time (live).
I created some custom software that runs on the phones (Nokia 6710's) to shoot and automatically upload video from the participant's phones (30 of them) and more software to playback the videos as they come in (with some controls for play, pause, stop, next and previous).
Hans, my technical collaborator, took care of setting up an Asterisk server and queue to receive the phone in reports and play those out as they came in.
We have one performance to go, please tune into the live stream, come to the live event or check it out afterwards. The previous 4 are available now if you would like a taste.August 09, 2005
DTV for MacOS X released
From the site:
This is a big day for us we just released a Beta of DTV for Mac OS X.
A couple of important things missing: Comments and Permalinks to the vlog entries. Vlogs aren't vlogs without them.OnTV: Open Source Video Blogging and Streaming Subscription and Viewing
An alpha release with some nice features such as searching, marking as a favorite, sending to friends and so on. Includes the ability to view streams.. Very nice..
The Internet is filled with
innovations,
artistic expressions and independently created entertainment. Our goal
is to make that digital content easy to find, view, share and manage.
ONTV builds conduits between you and others, to enable the exchange of
thoughts, ideas, and emotions, embodied within digital content.
With the Beta Release of I/ON,
we hope to begin to make our vision a reality. I/ON is an Internet
Video Console that allows you to watch the web - accessing rich media
content directly, on-demand. Modes of Media Delivery
Interesting discussion regarding some obscure and emerging areas of content delivery: P2P, Quality Layers and Personal Area Networks.
From the article:
P2P, personal area networks, and progressive layering of downloads are just a few of the mechanisms that will ensure streaming's success in the future.
Conference: Online Video and the Future of Television
From the site:
This one-day conference, created by Archival.tv and Intelligent Television (http://www.intelligenttelevision.com), brings together archivists, educators, technologists, entrepreneurs, producers, legal experts, and investors to explore the enormous promise offered by the availability of online video and television content. Demonstrations and interactive panel discussions will highlight new video technologies, services, legal issues, and economic models. Participants from diverse -- and until now, largely disconnected -- specialties will be especially encouraged to interact.July 22, 2005
Internet TV (IPTV and Streaming) Station Listing
From the site:
Tired of the same old TV shows? Sick of annoying advertising? Turn off the TV and turn on Internet TV.
Below you will find the most detailed guide of free TV over the Internet. The stations below will either be live TV or video on demand broadcasts. Below each description of the TV station, you will find the category and type of video stream in bold.
An old rumor that is gaining momentum.
Which was first, the product or the rumor? I think perhaps Apple reads the rags for product ideas :-)July 19, 2005
State Assembly TV
Finally..
July 18, 2005
QuickTime Pro, redone in Java (Free and Open Source)
amateur: Home
From the site:
Amateur is a free clone of Apple's QuickTime Player implemented in Swing using QuickTime for Java. However it is uncrippled and does not require registration or a serial number to provide full functionality.July 09, 2005
Mark Cuban on podcasting
Mark Cuban compares the recent Podcasting craze with the Stream craze of the 90's.July 08, 2005
Repurpose that disposable camcorder
From Boing Boing:
CVS Pharmacies sell a one-time-use camcorder that you have to bring to their shop once you're ready to get your videos, which are delivered on DVD. Enterprising hackers are racing to reverse-engineer the camcorder so that they can extract their own video and make multiple uses of the camera without paying repeatedly.Use Linux to turn your iPod into a recording device
Skype Casting Product
Record Skype calls on your PCJune 03, 2005
David Pogue describes Akimbo
In short Akimbo is developing a new set top box that allows downloads of TV shows off of the internet. David describes the issues, such as lack of content due to piracy concerns and so on..
"This is piracy paranoia run amok. It's insane to think that anyone would pay so much for cheesy cable reruns and oddities like three-minute how-to videos for new mothers."
June 01, 2005
Chris Adamson gives us a nice overview of what is new in QT 7 as well as a nice side by side comparison of MPEG-4 and the new H.264 Codec
May 28, 2005
Mason and company throw down the gauntlet on JMF. Let's hope Sun is listening.
In summary:
So, how about it, Sun? Where is JMF going from here?
Chris Adamson's Blog: Java Media without MediocrityMay 19, 2005
Build Your Own Linux Home Theater PC
May 08, 2005
TV next killer app for cellphones, analyst says
Not so sure about "killer app" but definitely worth checking out. It certainly won't be "TV" as we are used to. Probably more along the lines of video blogging and other INTERACTIVE media.April 30, 2005
QuickTime 7 and QTJ
QuickTime 7 Update Guide
From the article:
Updates to QuickTime for Java
QuickTime for Java (QTJ) is now fully supported in QuickTime 7. QTJ is now installed by default in QuickTime 7.April 28, 2005
Java, JMF and FFMPEG round 2
April 25, 2005
Digital TV for Handhelds goes Standards Based
Does it offer any interactive components?
From the site:
Apr. 18, 2005
A number of wireless industry leaders announced support today for the DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld) standard, at the National Association of Broadcasters conference. DVB-H is an open standard for delivering broadcast digital TV (DTV) to mobile devices such as smartphones and PDAs.DVB-H delivers an improved end user experience over current video streaming services that utilize cellular networks and reduce network capacity for voice services, according to the DVB Project consortium. Trials are underway in the US, Germany, France, UK, Finland, Sweden, and other countries, with more trials expected to launch later in 2005 and throughout 2006April 22, 2005
The Source for information on Portable Video Players
An MMS to Email Gateway Provider
CNet sponsoring a Future of TV Wiki...
Wow...!
From the site:
Welcome to CNET News.com's Me TV Wiki. Here, you can collaborate with other readers to predict the future of television, collectively writing and editing your own chapter of this special report. A few potential points to address: How do you think people will watch TV in five years? What kind of shows will be available to download, and at what cost? Will 30-second commercials become obsolete? Who will control the TV industry?Video Phone for Vonage
Interesting.. Things like this have been around for a while in the corporate sector.. Perhaps this will break into the home..?Free your Vlog (as in Free Beer)
Step-by-step instructions for setting up a free videoblog.The crazy financial boom may be over but the ideas and tech just keep coming..
Yahoo! News - Plugged in - Next Big Tech Ideas May Be Small Ones
Nice article from Yahoo regarding a couple of interesting topics: POSM (Project for Open Source Media), Asterisk, Odeo, Blogger and more...April 21, 2005
Nice writeup regarding the legal issues surrounding podcasting
Pretty much applicable to any downloadable audio file on the internet.April 20, 2005
Screencasting
Good article on screencasting (recording and streaming your screen).JavaScripting QuickTime
JavaScript Scripting Guide for QuickTime
So.. Apple has finally started to support JavaScript for plugins. The catch is that you need Tiger. <snide remark>A big help to us developers</snide remark>
From the article:
The QuickTime plug-in is scriptable from the Safari browser, but MacOSXv10.4 (Tiger) or later is required.April 18, 2005
George Cook's QT Resources Page
April 15, 2005
QuickTime Latency Part 2
Soooo.. Following the various instructions in my posting from March 21 QuickTime Latency, I am able to reduce the delay from encoder to server to client to near zero...!
To:
<PREF NAME="reflector_buffer_size_sec" TYPE="UInt32" >0</PREF>
>false</PREF>
To: <PREF NAME="disable_overbuffering" TYPE="Bool16"
>true</PREF>
>2.0</PREF>
To: <PREF NAME="overbuffer_rate" TYPE="Float32"
>1.0</PREF>April 14, 2005
Execellent QuickTime for Java page
April 11, 2005
New QuickTime SMIL Documentation
SMIL Scripting Guide for QuickTime
April 09, 2005
Great Segment on All Things Considered
Regarding Advertising, TV, Radio, Podcast, Video Blogging and Unmediated.orgApril 07, 2005
Flash beats out Java for video yet again
Video Ad Pioneer Ditches Java
The fate of Java in the video world takes another hit. It really is too bad that Sun hasn't done anything with JMF in a couple of years and Apple can't figure out how to make QuickTime for Java usable.
Woe is me..Will this turn video blogging into the next podcasting..?
I might have to get one of these nifty PSP thingamagigs now.. I would like to see a couple more hacks to them first, like the addition of a web browser or a JVM. Anybody know any of those projects are underway?April 01, 2005
3 Great Mobile/Media Articles from The Feature
TheFeature :: Why Are Mobile Operators Bowing To Hollywood?
TheFeature :: MMS Reborn As A Platform - Now we are talking.. MMS is the platform I use to create all the silly little video segments on this site.March 27, 2005
Share those tunes..
This is great.. It is a pain to get music off of my media machine on to my laptop this should help. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to recognize my wireless connection.
From the site:
getTunes is a Mac version of myTunes, a small application that allows users to download music from local Rendezvous-shared iTunes music libraries (instead of streaming the songs). Don't steal music.March 21, 2005
Apple and HD TV Network Rumors
Interesting..
"These days more than ever we value the relationships we have with our sources and never encourage anyone to break an NDA or other legal obligation. We certainly don't offer any enticement, financial or otherwise, for information. Because of the sensitivity of Apple's projects in the HDVN arena we are very intentionally working from non-"insider" reports and everything we know can be turned up without resorting to NDA-breaking by anyone who looks in the right places...."
QuickTime Latency
Latency on Streaming Server - Some information - How to change a setting on the QTSS that controls one aspect of latency created by the server.
Re: latency problem - Explains the reasoning for the latency from Apple's point of view.
Re: Instant-On & double frame rate - Gives a rundown on editing the server config to reduce latency.
Re: Video conferencing - More of the same
Getting real-time streaming to be more real-time - interesting note regarding specifing time stamp increments in video/audio samples to reduce latency. A major hack.
Re: I found there are more than 7 seconds time delay between the real live - More about what the latency is all about.
Re: Getting real-time streaming to be more real-time - Change the SDP file to set the default buffer on the player lower.
Re: Streaming latency between two separate computers - Use multicast
Re: Request for User-Configurable Latency Parameters - One of the original emails quoted above for changing latency parameters.
Re: buffering time - Changing buffering time in home made QT playback app (using QT API, should therefore work with QT4J).
Re: buffering time - More of the same.
Have a XP Windows Media Server.. Get Orb.
Ok, so you have a XP Windows Media Server at home and you want to watch YOUR TV from your PDA, get Orb.. Just what I have always wanted, to pay $30 per MB to watch my recorded shows while in a taxi. In any case, an interesting service and software.Wow.. It does EVERYTHING, but what is it?
Perfect marketing materials.. I don't even know if it is software, hardware, a media server, a player or all of the above.March 20, 2005
TV on your mobile
MobiTV
Verizon VCastCameraphones as personal storytelling media
Nice article from Howard Rheingold:
The cameraphone exists at this moment in that ephemeral, potent and confusing phase of its adoption cycle where people are still deciding what kind of social medium it is.March 19, 2005
Doom9's MP4 FAQ
Answers questions like:
1) What is MP4? I have heard it is a "container format"? What's that?
2) What extension is MP4 using?
3) How can i create spec compliant MP4 files?
7) How can i mux Subtitles into MP4 files?
and much more..
Streaming Media East 2005
The exhibitors list has been published.. Some interesting things, like Webcast in a Box (although I think it is Real only). What I don't understand is why companies continue to market themselves and their products as "proprietary". For me, a streaming media professional, this means, stay away, far away..BBC to do local interactive TV news..
From the site:
The aim is to create a new model of local television, based on news and information, in partnership with the community, working with the public, private and voluntary sectors to build and sustain the service.MovieLink Doesn't want customers who will actually use their service
From the site:
Sorry, but in order to enjoy the Movielink service you must have Windows 98/SE, ME, 2000 or XP, which support certain technologies we utilize for downloading movies. We do not support Mac or Linux.March 18, 2005
MAGpie Text Track Editor
I have linked to these folks before but it is worth another entry directly to MAGpie. Basically, MAGpie is a text captioning tool for QuickTime, Real and Flash (Beta).Popwire WMV-9 Export Component for QuickTime
From the site:
Do you want to produce Windows Media 9 content faster, easier and cheaper on your Mac?
Popwire's WMV-9 QuickTime Export Component is the answer for you.
March 17, 2005
My Phone Bill
ADDL DATA $0.03/KB 986 KB(S) 29.58
MULTIMEDIA SNT 5 EVT(S) 2.00
>100KB MLTIMEDIA SNT 12 EVT(S) 9.60
The main one is: Will I still get charged more for MMS messages that are greater than 100KB?March 08, 2005
Perfect use of BitTorrent
Legit and huge, 2.6 GBStreaming MPEG-4 with Linux
Good article, all open source utilities for creating and streaming MPEG-4 on Linux.Crossmedia Jukebox
Article about an interesting project that took place in Amsterdam.
From the Article:
The system allows people to upload clips via the internet to the Outloud server whereupon the clips are transmitted on to SALTO TV (Amsterdam's open channel) where it is possible for viewers to determine the extent to which the clips are played by voting. The clips can also be viewed on the web.March 07, 2005
Video4Linux Framegrabbing
Hans and I were just IMing about webcams and Linux and I had to remember some of the apps that I have looked at and played with.. Well, here they are (this site has a good rundown so I don't have to write one).March 06, 2005
Start Videoblogging!
From the site:
Videoblogging is a new form of expression. We are a group of people who have videos as a normal part of our blogging. On this website you can read about people who videoblog. We also want to help anyone who is interested in using videos as a part of their blog. That's why we're writing as many how-to articles as possible.Mobile Video on the Go
Nice Blog about wearable, geo-located video production and consumption..March 03, 2005
QuickTime; screen broadcasting
Nice.. Works as a QT source for any application.iChatUSBCam
March 01, 2005
Automatic movies...?
Clip uploading and sharing with "Automatic Movie" creation..
From the site:
Vimeo is a site for organizing and sharing video clips. Several clips can be played together to create a movie.
ZeD - Open Source Television
ZeD - Open Source Television
A very interesting television project being done by the CBC. Damn, I wish television in the US was as risk taking as it is in Canada and the UK.
From the site:
CBC Television's late-night TV project, ZeD. ZeD is a launch pad for ideas, individuals and creative expression. It's a blend of short films, micro-cinema, experimental works, performances by bands, poets, comics and choreographers, and - always - contributions from the audience.OVOLab has another hit here..
Another impressive app from the folks at OVOLab. Remote control of iTunes...The Amoeba has done it again..
From the site:
Airfoil lets you send any audio to remote speakers attached to your AirPort Express. AirPort Express - It's not just for iTunes anymore.February 27, 2005
Movies were meant to be watched together.
WOW!!!
From the site:
Finally, high-quality streaming for the rest of us. Using Apple's revolutionary Rendezvous technology, you can make your movies available on the network for everyone to watch together, or even password protect them for private showings. Broadcast family movies, student films, or class lectures without ever having to worry about multicast addresses, SLP announces, or port numbers: Tryst puts all the power of streaming at the touch of a button.February 26, 2005
Podcasting by Phone
Podcasting for everyone... by phone and by uploadFebruary 25, 2005
Webcasting and Multimedia in the Public Sector
A new community of folks involved in webcasting in the public sector (non-profits, government and so on).A great new bittorrent hosting service
From the site:
Prodigem is a content hosting service. It uses Bit Torrent peer to peer (p2p) filesharing to enable you to distribute extraordinarily large media files at an extraordinarily low cost. In fact, the service is currently free.February 24, 2005
decrypt iTunes and iPod music / unprotect AAC files
(m4p --> m4a)
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Get that DVD's Content
Doom9.net - The Definitive DVD Backup Resource
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P2P Audio Streaming
PeerCast P2P Radio
From the site:
PeerCast is a new, free way to listen to radio and watch video on the Internet. It uses P2P technology to let anyone become a broadcaster without the costs of traditional streaming. This means you get to hear and watch stations not normally found on commercially funded sites.
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The podcast network
the podcast network
As the name states, a network of podcasts..
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Next Generation JavaHMO for TiVo
Galleon - Home Page
Galleon is a free media server for TiVo which allows you to enjoy many kinds of content and interactive applications right on your TV. The server runs on your home computer and organizes your media collection so that they can be viewed on your home network. Galleon also brings Internet content and applications to your TV.
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More TiVo Enhancements
JavaHMO
Java Home Media Option
JavaHMO implements a media server for the Home Media Option from TiVo and adds new innovative features beyond the existing functionality provided by TiVo's implementation.
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Today's New York Times: Bloggers Add Moving Images to Their Musings
The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > Basics: Bloggers Add Moving Images to Their Musings
From the article:
Web logs - the personal online journals better known as blogs - use text to dissect nearly every conceivable topic, and now video blogs, or vlogs, which incorporate moving images, are on the rise. Mobile blogs, or moblogs, have brought blogging into the cellular age by allowing people to post video and photos taken with camera phones to a blog, or to call in an audio posting.
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February 23, 2005
Books on MP3 - Free..
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February 21, 2005
Concrete T.V.
Concrete TV
An interesting streaming and public access show: all found footage with fast editing.. Perhaps this is a video mashup ;-)
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February 20, 2005
Dept of Ed vs. Buster the Bunny
Ryanne's Video Blog
Ryanne's Video Blog has an interesting interview piece regarding the recent issues that have come up between the show and the Department of Education over an episode that included a segment with a that has same sex parents. This could perhaps be the pivitol piece that kicks citizen journalism via video blogs into high gear.
Check it out: Dept of Ed vs. Buster the Bunny
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February 19, 2005
Nice home movie posting and viewing site...
MedicineFilms > Posting Video to the Internet, Sharing your life with the World, Upload Your Home Movies, Watch Home Movies
Vlogs are to Blogs as this site is to Friendster.. Make sense..?
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February 14, 2005
New ASCAP Internet Related Licenses
ASCAP Internet License Agreements
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February 12, 2005
Corante: Broadcatching..
Corante > The Importance of... > Broadcatching
All about RSS + BitTorrent + Media.. Nice compilation of articles.
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Find those TV Shows online
not to be confused with Google's new TV search.
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4 Minutes About Podcasting (Video)
Learning The Lessons of Nixon 4 Minutes About Podcasting
From the site:
Four Minutes about Podcasting is a short film tells you why podcasting can make your life better, and shows you everything you need to know to set up a simple program to have new podcasts downloaded automatically. In only four minutes!
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February 11, 2005
What the feeds are saying... Images and keywords
10x10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time / by Jonathan J. Harris
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Podcating with Skype
Unbound Spiral: Skype Podcast Recorder = SkypeCasters
From the site:
Introducing instructions for SkypeCasting. The front-end solution for podcasters to create great sounding audio recordings from interviews and conference calls using Skype.
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Web based audio and video blogging service
Userplane: AV Mail
Uses Flash Communication server and so on.. Interesting.
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TiVo To Go enables some Fair Use
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February 10, 2005
NBC, starting to get it...?
NBC Career Opportunities - Job Opportunities
An interesting listing for a "Product Development Leader, Broadband Video" at NBC.
What interests me the most about this ad is the line:
* Build key capabilities for broadband video: (eg. video archive, searchable video, free video/ad supported (stream/download), paid video, PVR-like functionality/personalization ... personalized storage area, wireless component ... feeding/cashing video to portable devices from online "docking station", video blogging and chat capability, allow for hosting/posting/archiving/search of video submitted by consumers)
although the "consumer" word bugs me out.
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February 08, 2005
Windows Podcast aggregator
Doppler : Podcasting redefined
Looks like a pretty nice Windows Podcast aggregator.
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Vloggercon Video Archives are up..
vloggercon: VloggerCon 05: Conference Sessions Online
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February 05, 2005
New Podcast Aggregator
www.podcasttuner.com
From the site:
There's a new kid in town. A podcasting tool that does everything you wish the others did...
-Subscribe to podcasts with a single click
-Tell you at a glance what shows have new content available
-Listen to podcats without launching another app
-Display OPML show notes without launching a browser
-Send only content you designate to iTunes
-Send individual episodes to iTunes with a single click
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February 03, 2005
NYTimes rounds up the WiFi phone scene
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Ok, now I wish I was going to E-Tech this year..
O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2005
Will somebody please give me a view through iChatAV?
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Taking Back Television: An Open Approach to the Development and Deployment of Next Generation Media
TimHalle, Director, The Project for Open Source Media (POSM)
Date: Tuesday, March 15
Time:4:40pm - 5:25pm
Location:California Ballroom B
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List of ITV Companies, Manufacturers and Organizations
Interactive TV List of Companies, Manufacturers, and Organizations
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Open Media Platform
The Project for Open Source Media
Open Source ITV platform under development..
From the site:
The Project for Open Source Media is an independent research and development company doing business in three primary areas.
The construction and distribution of the Open Media Platform, an open source platform for the development and distribution of next generation television technologies.
Providing consulting services to entities wishing to develop next generation television content and applications either on the Open Media Platform or on proprietary platforms such as TiVo and Open TV.
The development of next generation television content and applications either on the Open Media Platform or on proprietary platforms.
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Apple, QuickTime, Standards, H.264 and why Microsoft is evil
MacCentral: Apple: Video's future is Tiger, QuickTime 7, H.264
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QuickTime for Java A Developer's Notebook has been released
oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: QuickTime for Java: A Developer's Notebook
and it was worth the wait..!
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February 02, 2005
The missing QTJ chapter -- STREAMING
ONJava.com: Streaming QuickTime with Java
An online suppliment to Chris Adamson's recent QuickTime for Java A Developer's Notebook.
From the article:
In this article, I'll introduce the basics of simple webcasting with QTJ.
AWESOME!!!!!
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Intro to Java TV programming
Introduction to Digital TV Applications Programming
From the article:
Television viewers with Java-enabled digital television receivers will be able to receive and interact with Java TV applications while watching network programming. The tool for interacting with Java TV applications is the viewer's television remote.
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Home Media Devices
Streamium wireless home entertainment - PC link your home entertainment system.
Philips and several other companies have taken the idea of streaming radio tuners one step further and created devices that allow you to view media content from your PC and the internet (photos, music, videos) on your TV.
The interesting thing is that these devices seem to be conforming to a standard called UPNP which I believe has to do with Zeroconf/Rendezvous.
It also looks like TiVo is going in this direction as well with their Home Media Option.
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February 01, 2005
TiVo releases Java based Open Source Platform for building applications
TiVo Home Media Engine SDK
I am sold.. Unfortuantely things are looking bad for the company. I think I will bite anyway.. This is the kind of thing that I think can turn a company around.
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January 29, 2005
Quicky from Fortune about Adam Curry, Dave Winer and Podcasting
Technology - Podcasting: From MTV to MP3 - FORTUNE
From the article:
In the '80s ponytailed heartthrob Adam Curry broke ground as one of MTV's first veejays. Two decades later Curry, 40, has popped up at the intersection of blogs and radio.
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January 21, 2005
Bob Metcalfe's "The Video Internet" Webcast
Yahoo! Video Search Results for metcalfe "the video internet"
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January 12, 2005
Forget the Mini-ITX, here's your new DIY set top box
Apple - Mac mini
Add in a wireless keyboard, mouse, S-Video or RCA video output, Mac PVR or EyeTV and perhaps an RSS/BitTorrent receiver and you are ready to go or shoudl I say, stay home and watch..
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January 10, 2005
On the Media Podcasting.. Perfect
Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism, Etc.: 'On the Media" to be Podcast
On the Media is the perfect NPR program for Podcasting (although all of the programs are worthy). Wonderful..
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January 09, 2005
Ogg Vorbis, Java Style
JOrbis -- Pure Java Ogg Vorbis Decoder
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January 07, 2005
Finally, an Open Source MPEG-4 solution in Java!
MediaFrame (mediaframe.org), open streaming media
From the site:
Open source streaming media in Java
MediaFrame is an Open Source streaming media platform in Java which provides a fast, easy to implement and extremely small applet that enables over 97% (AdShadow 2002-03) of web users to view your audio/video content without having to rely on external player applications or bulky plug-ins. MediaFrame does not require special servers, software or programming knowledge (feature list).
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VLOGGERCON IS ON
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December 21, 2004
New forms of media delivery
Santa Delivers New Forms of Media Delivery
Nice summation of some of the interesting going-on's over the past year. Podcasting, iPods, Digital Media Servers/Centers, Juice boxes and more.. It has definitely been an interesting one.
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