Category: Streaming and Multi-Media

Searching Podcasts

Wired News: Podcast Chaos Be Gone
Wired article about two new companies dedicated to searching podcasts.

From the article:
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.

Why? Really, why?

“DeoZones” Screenshots
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.

Click the link above to see sample images.

From the site:
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.

OpenVlog at MobVCasting

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