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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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- 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
- 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
- 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
- On2 joins with Widevine for Flash Video DRM
- Earlier this week, Widevine made an announcement that they were offering DRM for Flash Video. Liz Gannes over at NewTeeVee had some information, and from what I could glean from the press release, it seemed like Widevine was simply offering a downloadable client that would somehow encrypt Flash Video files....
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Rich Media, Online Video, On2, Flash, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- The new Scrapblog coming soon
- I got the opportunity last week to test drive Scrapblog, a flash based application that allows you to mix up photos and videos to create a multimedia scrapbook that you can share and send to friends. The new release is planned for March, but thanks to Carlos Garcia and the...
- Tags: Scrapblog, Flash, Rich Media, Flex, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- User Experience, Rich Internet Applications and the future of software
- I had a great conversation tonight with a group of people including Mark Piller of Midnight Coders that helped me bring together my thoughts on how software should look down the road. One of the things I constantly wrestle with is where desktop apps fit into the RIA world and...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Experience, Rich Media, Design, Devigner Workflow, Web browser
- Blog posts 2007-02-09
- No Flash or WPF/E in the Wal-Mart movie deal hurts customers
- Wal-Mart splashed into the downloadable video world today by announcing that theyre selling digital copies of movies from ALL of the major studios on their new website. But the behemoth that is Wal-Mart decided to disregard cross platform entirely and only support Windows. Why do that when there is a...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Adobe, Flash, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Rich Media, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., digital-rights management
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- Adobe's "Philo" - branded Internet TV and some possible competition for Joost
- Adobes "Philo" project has been around for a while but it seems to be gaining some momentum lately. Back in October, at Adobes MAX conference, we saw a short demo of Philo by Kevin Lynch at the keynote. Jeremy Geelan had this to say about the Philo demo at...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Adobe, Flash, Rich Media, Brightcove, Philo
- Blog posts 2007-02-03
- Universal Desktop Daily - Friday, January 05, 2007
- Hey, look at this, the first UDD of the new year. Im sorry Ive been slacking this week with these but Ive been swamped with work. I still have a lot of fun doing them so hopefully you enjoy a few of the links from time to time. ...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Flex, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Universal Desktop Daily, Rich Media, Mix07, WPF
- Blog posts 2007-01-05
- Microsoft's Mix 07 registration opens
- I saw over on Cnet that Microsoft has opened registration for Mix 07. I think Mix is going to be a very, very solid conference. As the CNet article notes, this is Microsoft branching out and having a conversation with developers about their web technologies. The fact that Ray Ozzie...
- Tags: WPF/E, Mix07, Devigner Workflow, Expression Studio, Design, Ajax, Atlas, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- Universal Desktop Daily - Tuesday, December 12, 2006
- Steve Borsch has an interesting post about Assembling a Rich Internet Application. Steves got an excellent blog and I always enjoy it when he talks about RIAs. Thanks to John Dowdell for the link. TechCrunch has some info on Gotuits new service which allows users to "cut and tag...
- Tags: RIA, Microsoft .NET, WebORB Blog, Gotuit, Rich Media, Universal Desktop Daily, .NET 3.0, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2006-12-12
Additional Resources
- Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Disks (SSDs) and Linux
- Is 20th-century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking for...
- Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Mandrake, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- MobileTechRoundup show #141, jkOnTheRun is aquired, Sony Reader, battery life, and more
- I had a good time recording MobileTechRoundup show #141 with the two newest members of the Giga Om Media group, James Kendrick and Kevin Tofel. Don't worry listeners and readers, you will still get the same content from those two and from me here on the podcast for the foreseeable...
- Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Sony Corp., Battery, Sony Reader, Kevin, Podcasts, Internet, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- iPhone gas application roundup
- On 18 June 2008 I published my iPhone app wishlist and I'm happy that most of my most requested applications have been released (Thank you Texas Hold'Em!). Two my most request applications dealt with fuel, specifically a fuel economy tracker and a cheap gas finder. Several iterations...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Vehicle, MPG, AccuFuel, Gas Finder, Roi/Tco, GPS, 3G, Handhelds, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Gaping holes in RealPlayer patched
- Digital media delivery firm RealNetworks has shipped a high-prority patch to cover four gaping holes in its flagship RealPlayer software, warning that the vulnerabilities could put users at risk of code execution attacks. The patch comes a few hours after Secunia released an advisory warning for one...
- Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., RealNetworks RealPlayer, Digital Music, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
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