Proposal for Open Media Management servers.
Here's a followup to my initial proposal for us to create open source, media management servers - (probably) utilizing Apache Cocoon.
By creating what amounts to intelligent proxy and registry servers for media, on-line tools and communities can share media (within the spirit of the Creative Commons) or AT LEAST just not have to duplicate the code that EVERYONE is gonna need for managing media. Whether you're moblogging from your photo camera, streaming media from some service, storing files on a virtual hard drive, subscribing to on-line services, cow-towing to whatever Microsoft shoves down your throat, stealing MP3 files, buying media legally or even creating media yourself - every modern on-line system today has to:
- keep track of where the media it, and what device it's on
- enable it to be easily integrated into the blog, community, page, webapp or service, etc.
- keep meta-data around about the media; who owns it, created it, what the 'deal' is, it's size, shape, depth, etc.
- scale itself to the available bandwidth
- follow it's owner around through their digital lifestyle (home, school, office, on the road)
 [Marc's Voice]
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