Tuesday, January 21, 2003

Harold's Open Media Management argument Harold's Open Media Management argument 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 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. [Audioblog/Mobileblogging News] Phil brings up some good examples:  The Danger Hip-Top blogs and the Nokia 7650 Club Nokia.  Both are good examples of beneficiaries to an Open Media Management standard.   Sony's Screenblast or Imagestation services and Apple iLife environments would also be obvious beneficiaries, as would Ofoto, XDrive and Ryze.  Anybody who has media on-line somewhere. Even Macromedia and Adobe would benefit from this sort of open standard. Adobe's Album product is a natural, as is Macromedia's ambitions to build 'rich internet applications.' I'm gonna do a big post on this tomorrow. [via Marc's Voice]   As I keep seeing this thread I wonder whtether this is really just an evolution of existing standards that we have such as XML, XML Schema, RSS 2.0, MetaWeblog API.  Better handling for streaming data types and richer semantics for binary media in MetaWeblog would be steps in the right direction.   2:23:23 PM    comment []

More Video Messaging Philips and Italian wireless carrier launching video MMS 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 purchased InterTrust. It will also be interesting to see how Philips applies this kind of MMS services through its 802.11 efforts. [via RatcliffeBlog: Business, Technology & Investing]   Async video content (personal in nature) seems like a natural that will be as common from mobile devices as it is from PCs.  Seems that the mish-mash of standards will continue to present the biggest barrier to adoption. 2:16:12 PM    comment []