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Doing more good

Posted by Unknown Kamis, 12 Oktober 2006 0 komentar

Creative Commons are having a fundraiser:

ORG is looking for members:

and recruiting a full-time Executive Director to build on the great work Suw Charman has been doing there bootstrapping ORG.

Technorati Tags: creative commons, digital rights, Open Rights Group, ORG

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A five point plan to save us from crappy Flash video

Posted by Unknown Rabu, 11 Oktober 2006 0 komentar

Now YouTube has Google backing, they can stop making us watch Flash video. Everyone who cares about video quality, from Hollywood, to the BitTorrent-using TV bootleggers use mpeg4. Everyone who doesn't uses Flash.

I've pointed out before how Apple screwed things up, but it is still fixable. Heres my 5 point plan.

Apple, drop the tacky upgrade ads. Seriously, they make you look like the Giselle wannabee here. You don't need the money from the upgrades, you give away better editing tools on the Mac, and you're just pissing people off needlessly.

GooTube, write a detection script, and give us MPEG4 quality if we have QT or another player installed. Google Video has nice MPEG4 versions, but they force you to download them completely and play later. Stop that.

Apple, make QT play DiVX AVIs and the other MPEG4 variants. You have the codecs, you have the parsing, you have the engineers. You should have done this 5 years ago. Heck, just bundle Perian and port it to Windows.

Google, drop your client, adopt Democracy Player and promote it.

Everyone: forget DRM.

After all we deserve better than having to put up with Flash video.

Technorati Tags: Apple, DRM, formats, Google, iPod, Live TV is Dead, movie, pirate, podcasting, QuickTime, video, YouTube

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An Omenous conjunction?

Posted by Unknown Senin, 09 Oktober 2006 0 komentar

Neil Gaiman writes:

An interview with Terry Gilliam about Good Omens (really, if someone would just give Terry $65,000,000 he could get going. Do you have $65,000,000 you don't need? Check your pockets. Maybe it's in a drawer somewhere. No? Look harder.).

Google buys YouTube, meaning a couple more chaps may suddenly have that much money lying around.
PS - Terry Gilliam's first usenet post (I watched him make it in our office's stock room).

Technorati Tags: bubble, movie, YouTube

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Vendor management and personal data

Posted by Unknown Senin, 02 Oktober 2006 0 komentar

Doc wrote about Vendor Management Systems to counter Customer Management Sytems.

One technique I picked up from Stuart is to register a domain (preferably your own name), and forward any email to it to your inbox. Then, when you need to give a vendor an email address, give them their name at yours, eg godaddy@kevinmarks.com. That way, if the subsequently get spam, or unexpected mail, you know who it was. This can confuse people on the phone though - "what's your email?" "earthlink@kevinmarks.com" "Don't you mean kevinmarks@earthlink.com ?" "Nope".

Dave wants a way to keep his movie reviews where he controls his own data. We have a way to do this with hReview - post the reviews on your blog, then get the vendors to read them. The smarter review sites, like Yahoo Tech are already doing this.

Technorati Tags: hReview, microformats, web 2.0

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Geolocation and privacy

Posted by Unknown Kamis, 28 September 2006 0 komentar

As our gadgets come to know where we are, we need to think about who should be able to find this out.
A metaphor that came to mind is that we need be building the Weasley's clock, not the Marauder's map.
Update: Jorge points out that Microsoft Researchers in Cambridge have built a prototype.

Technorati Tags: digital rights, ethics, geo

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Foxtrot gets Web 2.0 spot on

Posted by Unknown Selasa, 26 September 2006 0 komentar

This is the era of Web 2.0. users get to generate their own content.

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Any comment is superfluous.

Technorati Tags: web 2.0

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Warhol codename flashback

Posted by Unknown Selasa, 19 September 2006 0 komentar

Microsoft's new video sharing site, Soapbox, was codenamed 'Warhol'. As 'Warhol' was the original codename for QuickTime, back in 1990, I found this rather amusing.
Does the iTunes store's support for video podcasts count as Apple's video sharing competitor?

Technorati Tags: microsoft, QuickTime, video

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