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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.; Full Rich Media Definition >>

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Mozilla warns of Flash and Silverlight 'agenda': The founder of Mozilla Europe claims Adobe and Microsoft's rich-media tech threatens the open nature of the web but concedes they are currently necessary for multimedia content. Companies building websites should beware of proprietary rich-media technologies like Adobe's Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight, the founder of...; Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Web, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp., Flash, HTML 5, Channel Management, Marketing, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, Silverlight, rich media, Microsoft, Adobe, Mozilla; News items 2008-04-30
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
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
Freeing the Message From the INBOX: Freeing the Message From the INBOXTopic Rich Media for INBOXHi;Email is one media type of Internet Communications. Really today we are far beyond that, with IM, presence, VoIP, and Video. Doing stuff with that media or having it become interactive is what Rich Media is all about. I would propose...; Tags: Rich Media; Discussion threads 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