August 2006
The Archives
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08.21.06Sharpcast rocks!For the last couple of weeks I have been playing around with Sharpcast. A combination of a software and a web service that let you organize and share your photos. The screenshot at the top of this article is from the desktop application. This is the shared and web based version of this album. Sharpcast is in public beta and the team has a lot of work in front of them, but based on my experience with this beta I can say that these guys have a potential winner on their hands. What is Sharpcast? An organizing software ...
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08.16.06Traditional distributors playing with new modelsIn The future of TV distribution I write about how the traditional TV-distributors loose quite a bit of control of the content when they turn into broadband providers. To gain control they start messing around with the network neutrality. But apparently they're also experimenting with other models: GigaOM: Comcast wants to be Yahoo
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08.16.06New media center on on its waySpanish company Fluendo is currently working on an open source cross platform media center called Elisa. It looks very promising and if the project gets big enough this could turn into a very interesting platform. It is a bit early in it's development for me to try it yet, but I will follow it closely. Have a look at the screenshots and the screencast demo. You also find a Google Video Version of the screencast here.
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08.16.06Automatic transfer of files from Media Center to iPod and PSPI haven't tried this one out yet, but another product from Pegasys is already my favourite video encoding tool. I use TMPGENc Xpress 4.0 for most of my high quality video encoding already. VideoSync from the same guys seems like a promising product. It supports DVR-MS files from Windows Media Center Edition (in addition to a bunch of other formats). The most interesting feature is the possibility to set up a watch folder. Meaning that you can tell the software to constantly watch a folder on your computer and immediately start transcoding and publishing to your favourite mobile device if a new ...
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08.15.06Quick EBU Connect updateCurrently I have a bit of people coming over from a newsletter from the EBU Connect conference in Croatia. To make it as easy as possible for you to find the content you are looking for I have decided to give a little collection of links: My image gallery from EBU Connect 2006 The Video of the seasons in Norway Articles related to my presentation Predicting the future The convergence that makes things difficult Commercials gone wild The future of TV distribution Other interesting articles Patrick Damsted: Making a truly personal presentation How to make illustrations even if you can't draw My idea of how to avoid making boring presentations In general: ...