An In-Depth Look at the Google TV Interface http://bit.ly/chYF7B
I still think it ‘s a mistake to try and put interface on the same screen as the display. Â Put the controls on a second touch device! Works great with an iPhone.
UPDATE: Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, agrees with me. Check out his last point.
Episode 5 of The Terence and Philip Show http://bit.ly/dkkAdT
Terry and I talk about “What to do if you’re starting out now” in production or post, and why Advertising is a “bad deal for everyone” and what the alternatives are. The growth of Internet broadband and what’s happening in Australia coming full circle back to what to do if you’re starting out now. Around 20 minutes this week.
Flash Video On Android Is Terrible http://bit.ly/bjjoZg or http://bit.ly/aUGBpZ
I know, I’m a Flash hater and always posting just how bad it is. And you’re right, I’m no fan of Flash on OS X – it’s been a dog for years and even with hardware H.264 acceleration it’s only marginally better. I also don’t like Flash because it is still controlled by one company and not an open standard.
That said, there’s a lot of value still in Flash, but seriously Adobe, you’ve been promising Flash on a smartphone for a long time now and complaining that Apple won’t let it on their iPhone, except you haven’t actually delivered something worth putting on an iPhone yet.
Above I’ve quoted two different reports of the current state of Flash on Android. It will get better before final release, but from the reports that needs to be a quantum leap.
Meet The YouTube Stars Making $100,000 Plus Per Year http://bit.ly/avmIpe
It’s hard to make a decent living off YouTube but there are those who do it successfully and this list of 10 individuals making over $100,000 a year explains how they achieved it.
Here’s how they got their estimates:
- Revenue only comes from banner ads served near content (we ignored pre-roll or overlay since we can’t easily isolate by publisher).
- Since YouTube banner ads have a two-second load delay, we estimate 2.59% of viewers click away before an ad loads based on separate research.
- Ads were served near all videos that loaded (since there are partners, this is generally true).
- CPM for the banner ads was $1.50 (Google auctions a lot of this inventory off; we rounded this 2009 estimate down to be conversative).
- YouTube is splitting ad revenue with partners 50-50.
The Tragic Death of Practically Everything http://bit.ly/bpVUQe
Inspired by Chris Anderson’s latest edition of Wired Magazine that declared “The Web is Dead” (by manipulating statistics and graphs to support an incorrect argument) Technologizer takes a walk through the “deaths” of so many things we still use every day: Internet Explore, the Mac, Linux and more are all dead.
Simplistic, inaccurate “journalism” is why newspapers and media should be dead and gone.
RT @iDiyas: Apple patent opens new frontier for gaming-documenting http://bit.ly/a7si9G
I’m not even sure why this interests me, but it does. Taking “action snaps” from your game at crucial moments and making them into a cartoon. Now Apple patents a lot of ideas that don’t make it into products, so this may never come to anything, but it is interesting.
Imagine an Enhanced Reality game – where extra elements are overlaid a live camera view – and getting a comic record of the adventure.
The Future of Picture Editing http://bit.ly/aNRLVA
I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Zak Ray when I travelled to Boston. I like people who have an original take on things and Zak’s approach to picture editing – and his tying it to existing technologies (that may ned improvement) – is an interesting one.
And yet, despite such modern wonders as Avid Media Access and the Mercury Playback Engine, modern NLEs remain fundamentally unchanged from their decades-old origins. You find your clip in a browser, trim it to the desired length, and edit it into a timeline, all with a combination of keys and mouse (or, if you prefer, a pen tablet). But is this process really as physically intuitive as it could be? Is it really an integrable body part in the mind’s eye, allowing the editor to work the way he thinks? Though I can only speak for myself, with my limited years of editing experience, I believe the answer is a resounding “noâ€. In his now famous lecture-turned-essay In the Blink of an Eye, Walter Murch postulates that in a far-flung future, filmmakers might have the ability to “think†their movies into existence: a “black box†that reads one’s brainwaves and generates the resulting photo-realistic film. I think the science community agrees that such a technology is a long way off. But what untilthen? What I intend to outline here is my thoughts on just that; a delineation of my own ideal picture-editing tools, based on technologies that either currently exist, or are on the drawing board, and which could be implemented in the manner I’d like them to be. Of course, the industry didn’t get from the one-task, one-purpose Moviola to the 2,000 page user manual for Final Cut Pro for no reason. What I’m proposing is not a replacement for these applications as a whole, just the basic cutting process; a chance for the editor to work with the simplicity and natural intuitiveness that film editors once knew, and with the efficiency and potential that modern technology offers.
It’s a good article and a good read. Raises the question though – if Apple (or Adobe/Avid) really innovated the interface would people “hate it” because it was “different”?
Copyright – what’s it really for? http://bit.ly/dAKuzl
The primary purpose of copyright is not, as many people believe, to protect authors against those who would steal the fruits of their labor. However, this misconception, repeated so often that it has become accepted among the public as true, poses serious dangers to the core purpose that copyright law is designed to serve.
If you think you know copyright and what it’s for, you’re probably wrong.
3-D filmmaking’s radical, revolutionary potential http://bit.ly/bxJb5S
I’m not a huge fan of 3D – I don’t mind it but I don’t generally seek out 3D versions of a film because:
This Salon article considers what we could do with 3D other than what people are doing with 3D.
For the sake of argument, though, let’s think about what might happen if 3-D movies embraced only the first or the second parts of that description — if they became more intimate and character driven, or if they went in the other direction and became more structurally and stylistically abstract, even trippy.
The result could be genuinely revolutionary. It could let us experience movie storytelling — and movies, period — in a new way. It might even give rise to a new art form, one that’s related to its ancestor, cinema, but that takes off in new directions and does things we can’t even imagine yet because so few people in the entertainment industry have been willing to look beyond entertainment as they’ve always known it.
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Monsoon Multimedia – Vulkano for Macs, iPhones, iPads http://bit.ly/93kGwD
Does anyone know more about this than is in the Macsimum News item and on the company website? It looks awesome:
Consumers can now watch and control any home TV channel through a wired or Wi-Fi (and soon on 3G) connection from anywhere by installing a Vulkano and downloading a free software application on to their device of choice or from the respective app store. They can watch and control live TV and schedule a recording through an included EPG (electronic program guide), transfer, watch and control these recordings at any time on their TV, computers, smartphones or iPad type devices.
Vulkano lets users watch YouTube on their big screen TV and by leveraging UPnP (Universal Plug n Play) they can stream video and photos from their smartphones, computers and cameras wirelessly on to their living room TV without having to use cables. In the near future, Vulkano will offer free service upgrades such as Google TV, Yahoo! Widgets, Netflix, Hulu and others.
The link from the article doesn’t seem to work, but follow http://www.monsoonmultimedia.com/products.html and it does.