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November 20, 2005
Browser Safe Fonts
Common fonts to all versions of Windows
Excerpt:
Here you can find a list with the standard set of fonts common to all versions of Windows and their Mac substitutes, referred sometimes as "browser safe fonts". This is the reference I use when making web pages and I expect you will find it useful too (knowing what fonts can you use in a web page is essential for a web designer).
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November 19, 2005
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.
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iPod video conversion app
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What is an STB?
The Set-Top Sage Knows All, Sees All - New York Times
Don't know, then read this article.
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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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
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November 17, 2005
Java + Flash = Finally Something!
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Java + BitTorrent Library
TorrentSniffer - TorrentSniffer
TorrentSniffer is a Java library for reading BitTorrent information. TorrentSniffer currently implements the following sections of the BitTorrent Protocol Specification 1.0: Metainfo File Structure, Bencoding and Tracker 'scrape' Convention. The primary purpose of this library is to retrieve the number of seeds and peers of a torrent. This is done by using the Tracker 'scrape' Convention.
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DIY Mobile Phones
Build-it-yourself cell phones | CNET News.com
Surj Patel is leading the way towards DIY mobile phones.
Nice CNet article..
Here is a WiFiPhone project: http://www.jesseross.com/wiki/index.php/Site/WiFiPhone
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Video Comments get's blogged
blog: utilidades y recursos para blogs
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GPAC - MPEG-4 Framework
Welcome to the GPAC Project on Advanced Content
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November 14, 2005
Socialight hits the Times
Post-Its for Passers-By - New York Times
From the article:
Socialight leaves virtual Post-it notes, called sticky shadows, in specific sites around the city. A text message pops up when a cellphone is carried into the designated space, which is generally smaller than a city block but larger than an intersection. Started last month in a Chelsea loft by two 2004 graduates of New York University, Socialight now has dotted the metropolitan region with more than 500 stickies.
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Conductive Thread
Lame Lifesaver - Conductive Thread for Lame Repair
Meant for fencing lame use, this page gives a nice overview of how to work with conductive thread. Thanks to the ITP PComp list for the link.
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November 13, 2005
Streaming Video Mixer, Switcher and so on..
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 Galore
Helmet Cams and Helmet Cameras by Viosport - Wearable Video Technology
Thanks Abe..
Also interesting is this: http://www.digave.com/videos/how.htm
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Nokia's Open Source Projects
OpenSource.Nokia.com - Projects
SIP, maemo (the OS for the 770) and Python are notable.
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Cisco makes a dumbass move
Slashdot | Linksys WRT54G drops Linux
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Shelly's on to something here..
Emmy Advanced Media - Television Business News: The WiMax Price Club
A nice idea...
From the site:
They’re popping up all over America -- in backyards everywhere -- it’s the latest do-it-yourself craze – the WiMax Price Club. Want free Internet access for life? No problem. Just go to http://www.WiMaxPriceClub.com and order your tower kit online. When it arrives, get your building permit (if required by local zoning laws) and erect your new 80’ antenna tower in your back yard or on your rooftop. Just plug in the included WiMax repeater and you’ll be online in a jiffy! Imagine over 70 megabits up and down, FREE for life! Nothing else to buy
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Kent Bye from Echo Chamber Project has solved Skype recording on his Mac
Instructions for Recording Skype Conversations | Echo Chamber Project
Seems my instructions are a bit out of date and don't work exactly right anymore.
Kent Writes:
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.
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SMS signup via phone in
ChristDaily.com Television Commercials by Shelly Palmer
Content aside, the ability to phone in and signup for SMS is great. Such a simple idea, I am surprised that it has been overlooked till now. It would be easy to setup Asterisk to grab caller-id and pump out an SMS message.
Excerpt from site:
these two direct response television commercials show off a new way to subscribe to a brand new information service. The spots offer the audience an opportunity to purchase a subscription to an SMS (short message service) cell phone service via an IVR (interactive voice response) system. This is important because so many cell phone users don't know how to send a text message - but they can easily dial a toll-free number.
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Community Radio Toolkit (book with discussion forum)
Radio Regen, Community FM Toolkit for Community Radio
From the site:
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.
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November 06, 2005
Ninjamonkey on Instant Mobile Social Networks
Ninja Monkey Party 411 : Instant Mobile Social Network Or; Listserv + Email-to-SMS Gateway = LOVE
Ninjamonkey describes a service he setup for his birthday party a couple of weeks ago using off the shelf components. Of course the magic sauce was that his crowd includes some tech savvy and highly motivated social drinkers.
From the page:
Social networks and mobile applications are obvious bedfellows, but aside from a few noteables like dodgeball almost nothing has been done to exploit them. The thing that many people may be missing is that SMS is pretty much like email, except with extreme size restrictions (160 characters/message) and controlled solely by the telcos (which is sort of like having a draconian ISP with terrible, terrible service). This means that as long as you can find a way to translate between email and sms (with, say, a publicly available email-to-sms gateway) you can pass messages between them.
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The Participatory Generation
The Lives of Teenagers Now: Open Blogs, Not Locked Diaries - New York Times
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.
They have become the participatory generation.
From the article:
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.
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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MobVCasting on the Vlog Map
vlogmap.org | Vlog Map | Video Blog Map
Map of Vloggers around the world
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Serimony get's blogged..
A Brooklyn Life: Newish Store Alert: Serimony
Karen's store, Serimony get's blogged on A Brooklyn Life.
Ps. Don't be afraid, abrooklynlife, while it is small on the outside, it is actually very big (feeling) on the inside ;-)
(Ahh, the joy of referrer logs)
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November 04, 2005
OMDS Article
TECTONIC: How will you consume your open media?
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.