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YouTube - The ExaFlood

dtopps — Thu, 03 May 2007 02:42:22 GMT

Neat 5 minute video on the huge increases in bandwidth consumption we will see...

About 5 minutes long, it is worth watching for two reasons: as an example of a well done, informative, concise yet amusing video. But also for the content - we really are looking at a huge increase in volume.

The Top 5 Viral Videos That Changed Someone's Life

dtopps — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:03:51 GMT

These videos are all well known...

Link to More Than Fine: The Top 5 Viral Videos That Changed Someone's Life (For the Worse)

...but what is not so well known is the adverse effects that can result.

Mobile Medicine

dtopps — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:30:20 GMT

University of Virginia has been doing a similar set of videos to ours...

Link to Mobile Medicine

Worth taking a look at...if you can get them to run...

I could not open any of these ASF files on several machines that I have at my disposal. Yes, they do talk about using the TCPMP player but the ASF format, while not common, does not need TCPMP to run (I don't think...unless they somehow customised it to the extent that that player is mandatory).

Anyway, take a look...let us know what you think, and in particular - were you successful in viewing any of them?

One thing that struck me is that ASF files are usually highly compressed and quite small...but these are compressed to about 3MB/min. Will be interesting to see why they are so big.

Google opens YouTube TestTube

dtopps — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:39:11 GMT

Not much on there so far...

Link to Google opens YouTube TestTube - Download Squad

But this might be worth watching for new mashups for short videos...

IBM Tool 'Reads' Web Video for the Blind

caschroeder — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:48:54 GMT

IBM has made a tool for Web browsers that will help the blind and visually impaired access streaming multimedia on the Web.

...designed to handle any file that is embedded in a Web site, including Adobe Flash or Windows Media files.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6166491.html

Another interactive tabletop

dtopps — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:27:52 GMT

Oh my goodness, they're popping up all over the place now...

http://video.google.ca/blogpost?docid=-80456302291...

This one from Intuilabs looks a bit more limited than the others, plus it is not rear or internal projection...but nonetheless, you can see that this style of working would catch on rapidly.

Google Earth on a tabletop

dtopps — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:24:43 GMT

Similar to what I posted a while back, here is another tabletop screen that can accept complex user input.

http://video.google.ca/blogpost?docid=642066872835...

This Google video shows its use in a Warcraft game and with Google Earth. Good to see that there are few different companies working on this kind of technology. To me this is clearly the next significant thing in computer interaction.

Cost projections and feasibility for production are good.

Vidipedia - The web's first video enclyclopedia

dtopps — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 23:21:11 GMT

Hmmm, I wonder if this will thrive.

Link to Vidipedia - The web's first video enclyclopedia - Main Page

While it initially seems like a good idea, I'm not sure that it quite fits with the essentially eclectic nature of sites like YouTube with that attraction of serendipity.

I don't think many browsers of YouTube go on there looking for a specific video. They go there to see what the latest fascinatum is. And if you do want to search, both YouTube and Google Video have plenty capable searches...and vastly increased pool in which to search. So you are much more likely to find what you want there, not because it is better organised or because the search engine is better - just because the scope of the content is orders of magnitude greater...well at least at the moment.

They do have some of the more popular recent uploads...but I suspect that Vidipedia is too late to the scene to catch up now...unless they find something else to attract users.

Multi-Touch Interaction Research

dtopps — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:34:16 GMT

I posted this a while ago but it came up again in recent conversation.

Link to Multi-Touch Interaction Research

This is a fascinating multiple touch point interaction screen - worth watching the 5 minute video. At first the multi-touch seems glitzy but pointless...until you watch how he is interacting with the underlying models. What an intuitive way to work with your data and images.

Apparently the technology to make this commercial is very realisable - they reckon 18 months till we see this in production!

Test post for image upload

dtopps — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:26:27 GMT

Well let's see if this works...

Slick!

Use YouTube to learn Photoshop:

dtopps — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:18:40 GMT

More about screencasting but some good examples of short videos...

Link to Use YouTube to learn Photoshop: etc: quick links to good stuff

YouTube video quality is not great but it is easy to use. The point is that you can do useful educational stuff with low quality small video files. Check out the links further down the page for some good short tutorials.e.g. this one on removing glitches from photos...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcJbN8CA49c

PocketSnips wiki

dtopps — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 22:31:37 GMT

We have a functional wiki up and running...

Link to PocketSnips - Home

Thanks to Mike Korolenko, there is a test wiki now up and running. This is for internal use by the PocketSnips team, not for general consumption.

You may not be able to get into it yet but userid's and passwords should be assigned on Monday. I have posted some test material - some of it was very easy to do. Other bits were a bit finicky.

There is also a blog linked to that site. Just to clarify - that is a test blog for examining how to integrate various collaborative tools that we are using for the project.

Test of Image posting

dtopps — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:53:24 GMT

Sorry to be annoying...this is just to test whether we can post images here yet.

alger_brush_188x195 - that is the link to an image

This is an Alger brush, used for removing corneal foreign bodies.

Digital Ethnography

dtopps — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:27:13 GMT

Check out the first YouTube that Sue Pelletier has linked to...

Link to Face2Face Meetingsnet » Blog Archive » Friday fun: Videos and cute pictures

Don't be put off by the other cutesy pictures. The first clip is one of the most well put and interesting synopses of Web 2.0 and the semantic web that I have seen for a while. Only just over 2 minutes long, it uses some interesting little screencast effects to get its message across very effectively.

Adobe puts video on Flash Lite

dtopps — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 04:38:09 GMT

For mobile phones...

Link to Pocket PC Thoughts - Daily News, Views, Rants and Raves

An interesting new development...this might mean that our PocketSnips videos could be more easily viewed on smart phones.