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 came out pretty well. Lots of stuff left off and lots of stuff [...]
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 tool for Windows and Mac users that converts video files. Just drop a video [...]
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 at the event near San Francisco.
The event will also be broadcast live with open video, [...]
Update – we’ve decided to cancel our hackathon event due to a lack of interest. Sorry!
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 Conference.
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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 I took (intentionally) different positions on topics to see what kind of discussion [...]
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 the things that you can do with open video and Firefox 3.5. They are automatically [...]
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 people wander over and have a look at his update.
The headlines include:
1. They [...]
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 Ars Technica.
Ryan points out that there are significant differences between what Google has built [...]
This is essentially a re-post of what both Tristan and Paul wrote up, but I thought it was worth re-posting because it’s that good.
If you have Firefox 3.1b3 you can try the demo here.