Category Archives: Open Web

bringing the first 3D HTML5 video to the web with Firefox, NVIDIA and Youtube

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Christopher Blizzard

Starting with Firefox 4, WebM videos encoded with 3D data will be displayed in high-quality stereoscopic 3D using NVIDIA 3D Vision hardware. 3D hardware has moved from movie theaters and into people’s homes through TVs, laptop and desktop machines. 3D … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Mozilla, NVIDIA, Open Web, Video, Youtube | 48 Comments

a map of the open web

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Christopher Blizzard

A few months ago I sat down with Philipp Schmidt and Arun and helped to map out what the open web skill set would look like, mapped as a cloud. This was the first draft, and I thought that it … Continue reading →

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making it easy to convert videos – the miro video converter

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Christopher Blizzard

When talking with people who aren’t total video nerds one thing that people have always struggled with is an easy to use tool for getting a file from one format to another. Enter the Miro Video Converter. It’s a super-easy … Continue reading →

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reminder: lessig chat tomorrow (thursday, feb 25th) at 6pm eastern / 3pm pacific

Posted on February 24, 2010 by Christopher Blizzard

The Open Video Alliance will be hosting an online chat with Lawrence Lessig tomorrow at 6pm eastern time / 3pm pacific time (see more time zones here.) There are a lot of events in person as well. I will be … Continue reading →

Posted in Lessig, OGG, Open Web, Standards, Video | 6 Comments

mozilla hosting an event for the sunlight foundation’s great american hackathon – join us!

Posted on November 30, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

Update – we’ve decided to cancel our hackathon event due to a lack of interest. Sorry!

Posted in Evangelism, Events, Open Web | 4 Comments

why open video?

Posted on November 30, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

The open video alliance has put up a wonderful little video up that tries to talk about all of the issues around open video and why it’s important. It’s based on Interviews that were done at the recent Open Video … Continue reading →

Posted in OGG, Open Web, Video, Web Standards | 4 Comments

coherency vs. incrementalism

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

This really wonderful post by Anil Dash echos a lot of what I’ve been talking about in the context of the larger web. I had a discussion with Ben Galbraith recently about this topic during a Mozilla lunch. He and … Continue reading →

Posted in Evangelism, Firefox, Open Web, Standards, Web Standards | 11 Comments

dailymotion and open video

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

Today Dailymotion, one of the world’s largest video sites, announced support for open video. They’ve put out a press release, a blog post on the new openvideo site as well as a demo site where you can see some of … Continue reading →

Posted in Daily Motion, Firefox, Freedom, OGG, Open Web, Video | 33 Comments

continued theora improvements

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

Monty posted another update on the work that’s been going on to improve the Theora encoder. It’s worth re-posting here because I think that it includes some compelling images and graphs that show you improvements. So I would suggest that … Continue reading →

Posted in OGG, Open Web, Video | 17 Comments

my thoughts on google’s 3d experiment

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

Google has announced the availability of a plugin that implements 3D technology and makes it available over the web. You can read about the announcement in in the Google Code Blog and in an excellent article by Ryan Paul in … Continue reading →

Posted in 3D, Design, Firefox, Google, Mozilla, Open Web, OpenGL, Performance, Standards | 25 Comments