Sunday, January 19, 2003

The argument for Open Media Management Interfaces 101 The argument for Open Media Management Interfaces 101 - by Harold Gilchrist Media Management Systems need open methods and interfaces.  Specifically, the vendor community needs to support standardized interfaces to input and output the media objects contained within their proprietary Media Management Systems.  This is not to say the standard way would be the only way or even the preferred way.  The point is to makes the interfaces to Media Management Systems open to other's software and other systems through standardized openly published methods. 11:08:59 PM  comment []       Can XM Put Radio Back Together Again? Washingtonpost.com -> TechNews.com -> Can XM Put Radio Back Together Again? "Where does this leave radio in an era when the time spent listening to AM and FM is dropping? In an era of Internet music downloading, Internet radio, MP3s, burnable CDs, commercial-free digital music stations on your home cable and satellite systems, not to mention the distraction of cell phones, BlackBerries, PalmPilots hooked to the Internet, portable DVD players, TiVo and home video consoles that will soon function as vast digital entertainment libraries?" 10:25:32 PM  comment []       Politics and audioblogging Jon Udell -> Politics and audioblogging -> "Speaking of quotes, I have a question. Although we often create or follow links to streaming audio, these usually refer to entire streams. I rarely see parameterized URLs that pinpoint specific quotes, analogous to the way we use fragment identifers in HTML pages to isolate paragraphs. Why not?" I have a similiar question.  I got a new RIO MP3 player for Christmas.  I been using it to listen to 30 to 50 minute Internet shows on the way to work.  There is no way to fast forward or rewind through the mp3s.  You must listen, from start to finish or skip to the next  mp3.  Why is there no rewind or fast forward on these devices? - H.G. 8:31:08 PM  comment []       The power of the voice InfoWorld -> The power of voice -> By Jon Udell "As with other forms of practical obscurity, this artificial barrier was bound to topple, and now it has. Fast-Talk Communications' revolutionary phonetic indexing and search technology brings the magic of full-text search to the formerly opaque realms of audio recordings and video soundtracks." 8:26:49 PM  comment []       Weblog comment viewing automation??  Scripting News -> Every time I post a comment on a weblog I have to remember to go back and see if anyone followed up. We have to figure a way to automate this. Agree or disagree? [Scripting News] Great idea!!  How about following a separate RSS file or some RSS like file for each post.  This way I can follow all comments of posts I want to in my newsreader or maybe a comment reader. - H.G. 6:18:14 PM  comment []       Revolutionary possibilities Boing Boing Blog -> CafePress to do books. CafePress is branching out into print-on-demand books, CDs and DVDs. He does, however, tell me CafePress has exciting plans to expand into publishing in early 2003: The company's media-services division will offer print-on-demand books, audio CDs and DVDs. Using the same general principle, it'll produce, to order, your novel, album or film with glossy covers and jewel-box inserts, a move that has revolutionary possibilities. And though self-publishing already exists on the Web, CafePress has honed the production-and-fulfillment process to make it far more viable. Link Discuss (Thanks, Derryl) [Boing Boing Blog] 1:40:22 PM  comment []         Granite Mobile   "I'm getting interested in the possibilities opening up for audio / video / mobile blogging etc. This weblog will be covering some of these areas as well as being simply a mobile input itself". 11:53:17 AM  comment []       New .NET-based Weblog service Robert Scoble: Scobleizer Weblog -> Wow, that was fast. Mike Amundsen added weblogs.com support to his new .NET-based Weblog service. [Robert Scoble: Scobleizer Weblog] 8:49:12 AM  comment []       Philips and Italian wireless carrier launching video MMS RatcliffeBlog: Business, Technology & Investing -> The prospect for video messaging is cited as a basis for rapidly expanded wireless carrier revenues. The assumption has been that multimedia messaging (MMS) would have to wait for the introduction of "3G" networks. Philips and Italian carrier Wind have announced a MPEG-4 video messaging service for 2.5G networks, like the GPRS systems available in the United States. What to do with it? Right now the focus is on user-created content, like video messages and dating services. But, remember that Philips and Sony have <A href="javascript: popupPressRelease('http://www.newscenter.philips.com/InformationCenter/NewsCenter/FPressRelease.asp?lArticleId=2651&lNodeId=13', 550,450);">purchased InterTrust. It will also be interesting to see how Philips applies this kind of MMS services <A href="javascript: popupPressRelease('http://www.newscenter.philips.com/InformationCenter/NewsCenter/FPressRelease.asp?lArticleId=2648&lNodeId=13', 550,450);">through its 802.11 efforts. [RatcliffeBlog: Business, Technology & Investing] 8:21:20 AM  comment []

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