Flash Ant: Flash and Rich Internet Applications (RIA) Blog . :: Echo, echo, echo… I think I hear Open Source Flash Communication Server!
Reblogged:
What is Red5, you ask? It’s a project on OSFlash that aims to create an Open Source Flash Communication Server. The speed at which the project is progressing is quite astounding. An Open Source Flash Communication Server alternative appears to be mere months away
more at osflash.org/red5
Discover Music through The Music Genome Project by Pandora
They have a great interactive player that allows you to search for music that you like and it plays music that you would probably like. You can give thumbs up and thumbs down as well as add more artists to the mix. Too bad that it has to be slightly crippled due to the DMCA.
From the site:
Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or “genes” into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song – everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It’s not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records – it’s about what each individual song sounds like.
Gnash – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation (FSF)
From the site:
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.
Videoblog directory: the most complete directory of videoblogs or vlogs: 4770 videoblogs and counting.
MeFeedia starts offering reviews..
Auto-generates thumbnails (here are some from generated from my mobile video blog: MobVCasting“:
Portable Video at USC
Portable video blog and workshop series at USC. I love the image of KC on the PSP!
P2P Videoconferencing Gets Better – Robin Good’s Latest News
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.
From the article:
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.com Netcasts
Anyone a Soap Opera fan? I would love to hear thoughts about how this stacks up to watching them on TV.
Get FireAnt: Better than Television | 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.
Miscellaneous Docs and Tools
Sony Ericsson has Bluetooth Remote Control software for their phones and Mac/Windows PCs as well as an API to go with it.
(Once again, I think I have linked to this in the past but I can’t find it so here it is again.)
Mindjack – Piracy is Good? How Battlestar Galactica Killed Broadcast TV
Very interesting and thorough article about recent trends in downloading television programming.
From the article:
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.