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- Rich Media
- Information that consists of any combination of graphics, audio, video and animation, which is more storage and bandwidth intensive than ordinary text. See rich text.
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- My Awesome IT Job: Director of Rich Media Group at Microsoft
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Rich Media, Strategy, Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Get your Flash on during the presidential debates
- In a big indication that we're only beginning the social revolution for politics and that RIAs will play a big part, CurrentTV is going to be doing live streaming and a real-time overlay of Tweets using Flash. The broadcast will be available on the CurrentTV Hack the Debate site as...
- Tags: Rich Internet Application, TV, Rich Media, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Live Webcast: Unleashing the Value of VoIP
- Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, is fast becoming much more than just a cost-effective way of simply routing voice conversations over the Internet. Today, VoIP is also used for data exchange as well as empowering rich media applications such as video conferencing and so-called "presence" technologies that indicate...
- Tags: Webcast, Rich Media, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking
- Webcasts 2008-09-25
- Rich Internet application startup ideas Y Combinator wants to see
- Y Combinator posted a list of a bunch of different startup ideas they'd like to see and fund. It's a sizable list with 30 different thoughts waiting for enthusiastic entrepreneurs to take a shot. But what struck me most about the list was how RIA-heavy it is. I as much...
- Tags: Rich Internet Application, Rich Media, Site Builder, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- Wondershare Rapid E-Learning Suite Deluxe (exe)
- Rapid E-Learning Suite Deluxe combines four smart tools for users with basic desktop application knowledge to create rich media content and interactive quizzes as a comprehensive learning and training. Reduce your development time and cost. No need of hiring a development team or learning a programming language. Rich Media Rapid...
- Tags: Multimedia, Video, Tool, Rich Media, Wondershare Software, Corporate Communications, E-learning, Productivity, Training And Certification, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2008-06-19
- With .tv a New Rich Media Star Is Launched on the World Stage
- Hollywood.TV wanted to provide 24/7 access for a worldwide audience to view online celebrity-related materials at their own convenience and find a vehicle for communication through the Internet that doesn't impose the traditional limitations and restrictions of television. The challenge was to define a name for the venture that transcended...
- Tags: VeriSign Inc., Rich Media, Security
- Case studies 2008-06-13
- CommuniGate Pro (tgz)
- CommuniGate Pro provides modular suites and full unified IP Communications with one address (name@domain.com) allowing any one, any place to use various forms of rich media communications without concepts of toll or location. From e-mail to collaboration, VoIP, Instant Messaging, presence and applications like voicemail and conferencing to rich media...
- Tags: IP, Rich Media, CommuniGate Systems, CommuniGate Pro, Telephony, Networking
- Software downloads 2008-06-11
- Salesforce.com Helped Customers Succeed and Gained Brand Loyalty Using Macromedia Breeze to Deliver Best Practices Presentations
- Salesforce.com is the world leader in on-demand Customer Relationship Management CRM services. They wanted to reach customers day or night, keeping viewers engaged with rich media experiences. The project team needed to ramp up production quickly, to deliver easy-to-navigate content, and to do it cost-effectively. In addition, the team wanted...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Brand, Macromedia Breeze Live, Macromedia Inc., Brand Loyalty, Best Practice, Rich Media, Collaboration, Team Management, Sales Force Management, Management, Sales
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- The debacle of the BBC's iPlayer
- Tim Anderson has a writeup of his experience with the BBCs new iPlayer and it isn't pretty. If you aren't familiar with the iPlayer, it's a desktop player that the BBC rolled out to allow users to watch BBC programming up to 7 days after the air date. All in...
- Tags: Rich Media, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- Does the Rich Internet Application "battle" hinge on rich media?
- Robert Scoble has his first article up for FastCompany and he talks about Rich Internet Applications. Specifically he talks about what Adobe, Microsoft, and Sun are doing to support these new kinds of applications. Robert comes at it from an interesting angle. He's a big video guy, so understandably he...
- Tags: Silverlight, Rich Media, Microsoft, Flash, Apple, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- VeohTV - The killer desktop application for video?
- Veoh announced VeohTV today TechCrunch coverage and I got a chance to check out the briefing and get a tour of the service. The new application is a downloadable player that aims to take the web video experience full screen and has a bunch of features including: Searching Veoh...
- Tags: yourminis, Rich Media
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Rich Internet Applications make big splash on PCWorld's top 25 sites to watch
- It looks like PCWorld thinks Rich Internet Applications RIAs are going to be a big thing to watch this year because their list of the Top 25 sites to watch has a few recognizable names. The first is Popfly, Microsoft's mashup creator that is targeted at geeks and average users...
- Tags: Silverlight, Rich Media, Goowy, Flex, Flash
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- Big Rich Media news for both Silverlight and Flash
- It's been a big week for news in the Rich Media space and both Flash and Silverlight have been able to make a splash. Rich Media is arguably one of the most important use cases for the major Rich Internet Application platforms. It drives penetration and the rise of YouTube...
- Tags: Brightcove, Flash, Rich Media, Silverlight
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- A YouTube Competitor in Silverlight and 1080p Flash Video
- Microsoft may be looking to create a competitor to YouTube that would support user uploaded content and 720p video. BigMouthMedia has some quotes from Tim Sneath, the group manager for WPF/Silverlight evangelism at Microsoft about their desire to deliver a new kind of experience for video-sharing.Rich media is getting a...
- Tags: Silverlight, Rich Media, Flash
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- openmeetings - Open source video conferencing and collaboration with OpenLaszlo
- According to his blog, Sebastian Wagner has released an open source project called openmeetings. openmeetings is billed as a "video conferencing and group collaboration application" much like Adobe Connect. This one is built on top of OpenLaszlo with the new streaming media support and Red5, and open source media sever.The...
- Tags: Rich Media, Rich Internet Applications, OpenLaszlo
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Bill Gates and Steve Jobs sound excited about Rich Internet Applications
- I didn't have a chance to watch all of the video from the D conference but I was pointed to part of the discussion in which Bill and Steve talk about software and I came away with the impression that both men were very excited about what the blending of...
- Tags: Rich Media, Rich Internet Applications, Experience
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- Confusion, fear and doubt around Rich Internet Applications
- There is a post up over on Read/Write Web which aims to paint a picture of Rich Internet Applications and poses the question, RIA: What is it good for? Unfortunately I think they miss the mark a bit with both the definition of RIAs and the analysis behind the technologies....
- Tags: WPF, Silverlight, Rich Media, Flash, Apollo, Ajax
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- The scoop on Silverlight for developers
- The speculation is over and today is the day Microsoft takes the developer covers off of Silverlight. There are a bunch of announcements today, so Ill break them down one by one, but for those in a hurry, heres the summary. First, Microsoft is announcing that the CLR will be...
- Tags: Silverlight, Rich Media, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Adobe takes the wraps off of Philo, brands it Adobe Media Player
- Adobe is making it official tonight by announcing the Adobe Media Player, an IPTV solution that will be deployed as an Apollo application and look to take on competitors like Joost and possibly even some of the channels on sites like YouTube and Brightcove. The new product...
- Tags: Rich Media, Rich Internet Applications, Flash, Apollo, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- Comcast jumps into Flex 2 for media content
- Thanks to Mike Potter, I found Comcasts "The Fan" application which is listed on their labs.comcast.com site and is serving up video clips and promotions for a lot of their cable content. The site was built using Adobes Flex 2 technology, and is an excellent example of how big media...
- Tags: Rich Media, Rich Internet Applications, Flex, Flash
- Blog posts 2007-04-14

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