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On our way to today's location for interviews. Fun way to look at Portland traffic.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
The Japanese Do Love Their Robots
Flash 10.1 for Mobile Ships - Well sort of.
Adobe has shipped Flash for Mobile
Of note in the press release
Flash Player 10.1 will be available as a final production release for smart phones and tablets once users are able to upgrade to Android 2.2 “Froyo.” Devices supporting “Froyo” and Flash Player 10.1 are expected to include the Dell Streak, Google Nexus One, HTC Evo, HTC Desire, HTC Incredible, DROID by Motorola, Motorola Milestone, Samsung Galaxy S and others. Flash Player 10.1 was also released to mobile platform partners to be supported on devices based on Android, BlackBerry, webOS, future versions of Windows® Phone, LiMo, MeeGo and Symbian OS, and is expected to be made available via over-the-air downloads and to be pre-installed on smart phones, tablets and other devices in the coming months.
As of this writing Android 2.2 is only available on the Nexus One. This could be a long summer as this rolls out. In some ways I hope for the best, but we will see how it functions once it is on more devices. I also love how it says "future" versions of Windows Phone.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
'Toy Story 3' Sets Toon Opening Day Record
Wow... We like our Toy Story. This is a timeless tale and leave it to Pixar to make another story driven winner. Read more about the details of Friday's gross of $41 Million. Of interest is this stat-
Toy Story 3 played on approximately 7,700 screens at 4,028 locations, 2,463 of which offered 3D presentations. 3D accounted for 60 percent of Friday's business. The 3D share was in line with Shrek Forever After, which offered 3D at 2,373 of its 4,359 locations on its opening. With the arrival of Toy Story 3 and the requisite loss of 3D showings, Shrek Forever After plunged 63 percent to an estimated $1.6 million on Friday, lifting its total to $219.1 million in 29 days.
3D seems to be leading the way right now for hollywood to make more money. It will be interesting to see where the numbers end up after the weekend completes. By the way Box Office Mojo is becoming one of my favorite sites to go to on the weekends.
My blog's readers are Mac Geeks!
I was digging into my blog stats and noticed an interesting fact as seen below. They are Mac people. Interesting!
What should be all of our mantras!
From Seth Godin's Linchpin
Be remarkable
Be generous
Create art
Make judgment calls
Connect people and ideas
...and we have no choice but to reward you
Pick 2 of the above and go do them!
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Testing of a video distribution system for Pinnacle Media.
Here is a video we did for RuffWear last year. Fun to see how we will be able to deliver video for our clients soon!
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
iPads at ESPN
via engadget.com
I love it when a large broadcaster thinks outside the box and this is a great article on some great tech being used at ESPN!
The case for Apple getting another network in the US
A couple of things missing however is the world wide numbers as well as iPads are not factored into these numbers. I believe it is time for Apple to figure out a way to get out of the AT&T exclusive though.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Saturday, June 12, 2010
"Would you please turn of your Wi-Fi devices!"
Steve Jobs during his keynote on Monday famously asked just that question.
But that’s not quite what happened. There wasn’t one or two Wi-Fi networks running at the Moscone conference center, but several hundred, all beating each other up. According to InfoWorld’s consultation with an Apple engineer at the event, over 500 networks were in operation at the same time.
Great article over at American Public Media by Glenn Fleishman
Boxee Box by D-Link Release Set for November in North America
Earlier this week we got confirmation that the Boxee Box by D-Link will ship this November in US and Canada. We realize many of you have waited months to purchase the Boxee Box, and we know how frustrating this is. Believe us when we say that both Boxee & D-Link want to start selling Boxee Boxes yesterday.
The original plan was to have the Box out by the end of Q2 (i.e. just about now), but that time-frame proved overly ambitious.
Our vision is to make the Boxee experience on a set top box as good as (and where we can, better than) the one you already know on a PC. The goal is to play HD videos from the web or a local network in 1080p and use hardware acceleration whenever possible. And to provide a TV browser experience that can handle almost everything you throw at it, including Flash 10.1. Not to mention making all this happen for an affordable price and on a quiet device that will not feel obsolete 12 months after you buy it.
We are looking forward to the November launch with D-Link and believe it will deliver a user experience that sets the standard for accessing stuff from the Internet and from your home network on your TV.
Moving forward we want to keep you up to date so we will share progress via Boxee’s Development Blog and the Boxee Box by D-Link Fan Page on Facebook.
In the meantime, it feels good to have a date set for the release of the Boxee Box, and we can’t wait to get it to you.
via blog.boxee.tv
This is not good with Google TV coming into play about that same time. I do love Boxee so much though!
Thursday, June 10, 2010
The surprising truth about what motivates us
via youtube.com
Change the way we think about our employees and they reward us.
What is Adobe Smoking?
Adobe sees Flash on over 250 mln smartphones
By predicting its Flash Player would be in over 250 million smartphones by the end of 2012, Adobe said it expects its Flash software to be supported in 53 per cent of the more than 300 million smartphones expected to ship in 2012.
Not sure about this predction as they are not even shipping a non beta version on anything other than Android. Wish them luck! I really think HTML 5 is really showing the way with Chrome and Safari this is going to be an interesting couple of years.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Sunday, April 18, 2010
A Geek's Impression of His First Weekend with the iPad
Like many technology enthusiasts (aka geeks) I watched the iPad announcement with excitement and was both thrilled and frustrated when the announcement was made. I was thrilled because it looked like it could do so much and yet I asked myself why would Apple design a product that really did not seem to fit in with any traditional market segment. It is a product that to most seems to be a net book or is it a tablet? This product just does not fall neatly into a specific product category. Maybe that is best.
I was struck with the potentials of this device from day one and even wrote about it here. On Friday I broke down and decided to slip into the reality distortion field and see just what can be done from a media geeks standpoint. Well... A lot. Before I delve to deeply into my findings I am writing this in Pages on the iPad, and will attempt to see how many things in the next week I can do without using my laptop.
Now onto the findings....
As you could see by the unboxing video I couldn't wait to open it till I got home. I could say that my daughter wanted to hold it, but really I just wanted to take a look at it. I will have to admit it is a bit frustrating to have to activate the iPad with iTunes. Fortunately I had seen a tip early in the week that talked about activating it and not syncing all of your apps if you have an iPhone or an iPod Touch. When asked choose to not sync your apps and the on the app screen while holding down command click on one of the apps and the whole list will uncheck. This is important because it will take forever to sync all of your apps. Once activated the fun begins though.
The iPad is a media consumption dream come true. As you can see by this picture of my home first page of apps I have availed myself of many of the available sources so far including ABC, Netflix, TWiTPad, and an amazing find called AirVideo. ABC has really polished their app with some great user interface features and good quality video. Definitely a front runner right now in delivery of video to the iPad. According to The Wall Street Journal which took a look at ABC's application for the iPad ten days after the device's launch, revealing that users have streamed at least part of 650,000 television episodes in what the network deems a very successful launch.
The network said that in the 10 days since the iPad's debut, its TV-show watching app has been downloaded 205,000 times, giving the Walt Disney Co. unit a presence on nearly half the 450,000 devices that Apple says it has sold. Moreover, users have watched at least part of 650,000 television episodes using the app, generating "several million" ad impressions, according to an ABC spokesman, although the precise number is still being calculated.
Very impressive numbers and I can see why after attaching some video from it.
The Netflix app needs some work from my experience. The app once loaded is really Netflix's website. It is responsive, but some of the links seem to lag and it is really difficult to push some of the links, but the video looks really good. So the struggle of the links is well worth the final outcome. Would I watch a feature length movie, well probably not, unless I had the 3G version and I was traveling somewhere. Hmmmmm maybe I will have to upgrade in a few months or get a mifi, but I digress.
The final crown jewel in this media geek's mind is a paid app called AirVideo that allows you to install a media server on your Mac or PC and stream it to your iPad. Here you can see Alex Lindsey getting ready for the iPad unveiling with Andy Ihnatko from a MacBreak weekly I downloaded on our home media server. This has some great potentials I think even in museums that would like to have historical videos. This really opens up some fascinating ideas.
This has been an amazing weekend of incredible discoveries when it comes to media consumption. Tomorrow a few apps that you must have!
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