Song Airlines’ Linux-based distributed media system – Engadget – www.engadget.com
Category: Streaming and Multi-Media
Macromedia entering into video conferencing services arena
Macromedia Looks to Make Web Conferencing a Breeze
1 cent cheaper per minute than WebEx.. Funny
Gizmodo reports on a Newsweek article that shows some companies have a clue
Gizmodo : TiVo and Netflix to Partner for Downloadable Content?
If it really is in the works, this could be BIG
Open Media: The Open Source Media Project
Open Media
An interesting new project from JD Lasica and Marc Canter.
From the site:
Coming soon: A site, affiliated with the Internet Archive, devoted to advancing the cause of personal media.
In related news: Microsoft launches it’s music store
RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter RAIN gives a nice compilation of information and some pointers to articles concerning this and what it might mean for Apple’s store.
(Also of interest is the story on Philly wanting to be the first 100% wireless city, WiFi everywhere)
Microsoft unveils it’s Portable Media Center
Tech Digest: Microsoft’s Portable Media Center on its way
TechDigest gives a nice run down on the positive and negative aspects of this new gadget.
What I would like to hear about it authoring of interactive content for these types of devices. Anyone know?
Konscious Convention Broadcast
Konscious.TV Konscious Convention
A bit of blatant self promotion. Monday and Tuesday night we will be broadcasting on MNN (Time Warner channel 34 in Manhattan) and streaming online from within Madison Square Garden during the Republican National Convention as well as from a couple of spots around the city. All of the camera people will be using the Interactive Tele-Journalism system for a truely engaging interactive television experience. Check it out!!!
Video “noticing” application
Diver
Diver looks to be an interesting tool for navigating around the frame in video and allows the user to create a “path” through the video. Very interesting. Uses QuickTime and also available via the web. Created by the Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning.
From the site:
DIVER is a tool for authoring and sharing DIVES. A DIVE is an annotated perspective on any video record. Content can be captured by equipment ranging from basic consumer video cameras to specially built, high-resolution 360-degree panoramic cameras with a multi-microphone array.
QuickTime on Sprint phones
Sprint Picks Apple for Content
Basically a press release but interesting developments regarding QuickTime streaming to Sprint mobile phones.
The CoDeck is featured on Rhizome!
Rhizome.org: Net Art News: Here’s Lookin’ at you, George!
Great news.. Good Job Ahmi and Ophra!
For readers that don’t know, the CoDeck is a collaborative project between myself, Ahmi Wolf, Dan Melinger and Mark Argo that allows a community of users to upload and share videos that they have created. It has a web interface for information about the works and for commenting on them. The most interesting part of it (IMHO) is that it takes the form of a vintage Betamax with a single board computer running linux and all the fixins. We utilized the controls on the deck to implement skipping to the next video (Fast Forward), watching the previous one (Rewind) and so on. You can also create a video response to any video that is currently playing by changing the channel and using the built in camera and microphone to create a response video right then and there.