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BlogsTags > videoFour short links: 22 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 22, 2013 Meshlab — open source, portable, and extensible system for the processing and editing of unstructured 3D triangular meshes. HTML5 Video on iOS (Steve Souders) — While it’s true that Mobile Safari on iOS doesn’t buffer any video data as a … Four short links: 16 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 16, 2013 Triage — iPhone app to quickly triage your email in your downtime. See also the backstory. Awesome UI. Webcam Pulse Detector — I was wondering how long it would take someone to do the Eulerian video magnification in real code. … Four short links: 5 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 5, 2013 Eulerian Video Magnification — papers and the MatLab source code for that amazing effect of exaggerating small changes in file. (*This work is patent pending) CopyrightX — MOOC on current law of copyright and the ongoing debates concerning how that … Android offers a standard platform for health care appsBy Andy OramFebruary 25, 2013 Video systems can streamline hospital care in all sorts of ways from displaying messages (“Quiet time is 1 to 2 PM today”) to taking patient surveys, showing patients their X-Rays, and helping patients view their records from their beds. But … A Kindle developer’s 2013 wishlistBy Sanders KleinfeldDecember 2, 2012 2012 was a good year for Kindle developers. With the unveiling of the first-generation Fire tablet in late 2011 and the release of the KF8 Mobi format in early 2012, designing beautiful ebooks for the Kindle platform became a reality. … Four short links: 15 November 2012By Nat TorkingtonNovember 15, 2012 Atkinson Dithering in Real Time — a Processing app that renders what the video camera sees, as though it were an original Mac black and white image. Patching Binaries — a patch for a crashing bug during import of account … Do citizens have a ‘right to record’ in the digital age?
By Alex HowardJuly 25, 2012 When Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) and I talked this summer about his proposal for a digital Bill of Rights, I followed up by asking him about whether it might be more productive to focus on the rights that we already … Four short links: 4 June 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJune 4, 2012 How To Be An Explorer of the World (Amazon) -- I want to take this course on design anthropology but this book, the assigned text, looks like an excellent second best. StuxNet Was American-Made Cyberwarfare Tool (NY Times) -- not even the air gap worked for Iran, “It turns out there is always an idiot around who doesn’t think... Top Stories: May 7-11, 2012 
By Mac SlocumMay 11, 2012 This week on O'Reilly: We learned how the Velocity Conference site got a big makeover thanks to Velocity practices, Liliana Bounegru offered a brief history of data journalism, and Joe Wikert explained how booksellers can reinvent themselves. Four short links: 20 April 2012
By Nat TorkingtonApril 20, 2012 Tupac Coachella Behind the Technology (CBS) -- interesting to me is Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg were considering taking Shakur with them on tour. Just as Hobbit, Tintin, etc. are CG-ing characters to look normal, is the future of "live" spectacle to be this kind of CG show? Will new acts be competing against the Rolling Stones forever? Javascript... Christopher Schmitt and Simon St. Laurent discuss HTML5 April 12, 2012 HTML5 author Christopher Schmitt talks with O'Reilly editor Simon St. Laurent about why it's a great time to be a web developer. Four short links: 20 March 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 20, 2012 jPlayer -- jQuery plugin for audio and video in HTML5. Dual-licensed MIT and GPL. Tesseract (Github) -- Square has open sourced (Apache license) their Javascript library for filtering large multidimensional datasets in the browser. Tesseract supports extremely fast ( QR Code Madness -- I recently received an MMS (multimedia text message) with a picture to a QR code. First,... Four short links: 5 March 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 5, 2012 Pirates Adopt H.264 -- no more XViD encoded avi files, now it's x264. I'm impressed by the rigid rules and structure of The Scene. YouTube's ContentID Disputes Are Judged By The Accuser (Andy Baio) -- the last couple years have seen a dramatic rise in Content ID abuse, using it for purposes that it was never intended. Scammers are... Four short links: 2 March 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 2, 2012 Interview: Hanno Sander on Robotics (Circuit Cellar) -- this is what Mindstorms wants to be when it grows up. AAA++ for teaching kids. Hanno is a Kiwi Foo Camper. Context Needed: Benchmarks -- Benchmarks fall into a few common traps because of under-reporting in context and lack of detail in results. The typical benchmark report doesn't reveal the benchmark's... Four short links: 2 February 2012
By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 2, 2012 Beautiful Buttons for Bootstrap -- cute little button creator, with sliders for hue, saturation, and "puffiness". CMU iPad Course -- iTunes U has the video lectures for a CMU intro to iPad programming. Inspiring Matter -- the conference aims to bring together designers, scientists, artists and humanities people working with materials research and innovation to talk about how they... "The President of the United States is on the phone. Would you like to Hangout on Google+?"
By Alex HowardJanuary 24, 2012 President Obama will join the first presidential Hangout on Google+ on January 30, 2012, as part of the White House's commitment "to creating a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration." Harvard's Berkman Center hosts star-studded forum on media and the "vast wasteland"
By Andy OramSeptember 13, 2011 May 9, 1961 marked the first public appearance of Newt Minow as FCC chairman, where he achieved immortality by raising the claim that television was a "vast wasteland." The phrase entered American life so thoroughly that citing it has become almost reflexive in media commentary over the intervening fifty years. Last night, the Berkman Center held a gala event re-examining media, and the main guest of honor was...Newt Minow! Four short links: 4 August 2011
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 4, 2011 Skate Through NYC With A GoPro -- this is the first I've seen of the GoPro cameras, which are two dimensions of clever. First, it's video instrumentation for activities where we haven't had this before. Second, it's clever specialization of the Flip-style solid-state recording videocameras. (via Infovore) Pulse Sensor -- open source heart rate sensor project on Kickstarter. DIY... Four short links: 30 June 2011
By Nat TorkingtonJune 30, 2011 Electric Dreams - The 1980s 'The Micro Home Computer Of 1982' (YouTube) -- from a reality show where a gadget-using family are forced to relive 30 years of technology invention, one year each day. This clip is where they're forced to choose a microcomputer from the rush of early hobbyist machines in the 80s: Spectrum, Dragon-32, etc. (via Skud)... Checking in on HTML5 video June 3, 2011 HTML5 video still needs work, but YouTube's Greg Schechter says it's heading in a good direction. In this interview, Schechter explains how HTML5 video introduces new architectural needs and new opportunities. Four short links: 24 May 2011
By Nat TorkingtonMay 24, 2011 Delivereads -- genius idea, a mailing list for Kindles. Yes, if you can send email then you can be a Kindle publisher. (via Sacha Judd) Abnormal Returns From the Common Stock Investments of Members of the U.S. House of Representatives -- We measure abnormal returns for more than 16,000 common stock transactions made by approximately 300 House delegates from... Four short links: 11 May 2011
By Nat TorkingtonMay 11, 2011 webshell -- command-line tool for debugging/exploring APIs, open sourced (Apache v2) and written in node.js. (via Sean Coates) sample -- command-line filter for random sampling of input. Useful when you've got heaps of data and want to run your algorithms on a random sample of it. (via Scott Vokes) Yale Offers Open Access To PD Materials in Collections --... Four short links: 8 April 2011
By Nat TorkingtonApril 8, 2011 A Practical Guide to Varnish -- Varnish is the http accelerator used by the discerning devops. Ferrofluid Sculptures (New Scientist) -- hypnotic video of an iron-based fluid that is moulded by magnetic fields, which I include for no good reason than it is pretty pretty science. (via Courtney Johnston) Twisted Highscores List -- clever leaderboard for tickets, reviews, commits,... Pride and prejudice and book trailers April 7, 2011 The literati may despise them, but book trailers can be effective marketing tools when done right. Brett Cohen, vice president of Quirk Books, discusses the production and tracking efforts behind his company's trailers. Pride and prejudice and book trailersBy Jenn WebbApril 7, 2011 The literati may despise them, but book trailers can be effective marketing tools when done right. Brett Cohen, vice president of Quirk Books, discusses the production and tracking efforts behind his company's trailers. Four short links: 6 April 2011
By Nat TorkingtonApril 6, 2011 Timeline Setter -- ProPublica-released open source tool for building timelines from spreadsheets of event data. See their post for more information. (via Laurel Ruma) Return to Shenzhen Part 1 -- Nate from SparkFun makes a trip to component capital of the world. It's like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for geeks. a special market that dealt exclusively with bulk... Granicus opens government with streaming video
By Alex HowardFebruary 2, 2011 Over the past decade -- and long before "open government" was a popular topic -- Granicus built a sustainable business as a cloud-based platform for streaming government video. Four short links: 21 January 2011
By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 21, 2011 Proof-of-Concept Android Trojan Captures Spoken Credit-Card Numbers -- Soundminer sits in the background and waits for a call to be placed [...] the application listens out for the user entering credit card information or a PIN and silently records the information, performing the necessary analysis to turn it from a sound recording into a number. Very clever use of... Shoot Video Tutorials Like A Pro
By Jesse FreemanJanuary 17, 2011 In this post I will highlight a my setup and what you should consider buying to make professional looking video tutorials. Chrome's lack of support for H.264 is meaningless for the open web
By RJ OwenJanuary 14, 2011 Yesterday Google announced that future versions of its Chrome browser would not support the H.264 video codec. This codec is seen by many as the only viable alternative to Flash, and support for it in browsers as the default implementation for the <video> tag was thought to be the future of the web. Google's decision to drop H.264 in favor of WebM yesterday has left many feeling upset, decrying the decision as bad for the open web and a sign that Flash Player will not actually die in the near future, but live on. Yet Google's decision is ultimately unimportant to the open web. There is one simple reason for this: Firefox doesn't support H.264 either. Four short links: 11 January 2011
By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 11, 2011 Dive Into 2010 (Mark Pilgrim) -- Mark wrote a hugely popular guide to HTML5 which was available online and published by O'Reilly. 6% of visitors used some version of Internet Explorer. That is not a typo. The site works fine in Internet Explorer — the site practices what it preaches, and the live examples use a variety of fallbacks... Four short links: 31 December 2010
By Nat TorkingtonDecember 31, 2010 The Joy of Stats -- Hans Rosling's BBC documentary on statistics, available to watch online. Best Tech Writing of 2010 -- I need a mass "add these to Instapaper" button. (via Hacker News) Google Shared Spaces: Why We Made It (Pamela Fox) -- came out of what people were trying to do with Google Wave. The Great Delicious Exodus... Never Give a Client Three Choices
By Spencer CritchleyNovember 24, 2010 In most design fields it's conventional wisdom that you should give a client three versions or "comps" of an idea, so they can choose their favorite, or maybe combine what they like best about two or all three of them.... Ebooks and the threat from "internal constituencies"By Roger MagoulasNovember 2, 2010 Will internal constituencies bias how publishers value print book and ebook business models? Roger Magoulas examines that question and looks at the complementary relationship between print and electronic forms. Ebooks and the threat from "internal constituencies"By Roger MagoulasNovember 2, 2010 Will internal constituencies bias how publishers value print book and ebook business models? Roger Magoulas examines that question and looks at the complementary relationship between print and electronic forms. Four short links: 27 September 2010
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 27, 2010 Google Acquisition Spending Spree (Venturebeat) -- Google is now on track to acquire a new company every two weeks this year. (via azaaza on Twitter) Where Good Ideas Come From (YouTube) -- this perfectly describes Foo. A Taxonomy of Data Science -- great first post on a new blog by data practitioners. Rockbox -- open source (GPL) firmware for... Four short links: 30 August 2010
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 30, 2010 Free as in Smokescreen (Mike Shaver) -- H.264, one of the ways video can be delivered in HTML5, is covered by patents. This prevents Mozilla from shipping an H.264 player, which fragments web video. The MPEG LA group who manage the patents for H.264 did a great piece of PR bullshit, saying "this will be permanently royalty-free to consumers".... Four short links: 23 July 2010
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 23, 2010 5 Reputation Missteps (and how to avoid them) (YouTube) -- a Google Tech Talk from one of the authors of the O'Reilly-published Building Web Reputation Systems. Solr on EC2 Tutorial -- the tutorial shows how to index Wikipedia with Solr. (via Matt Biddulph) clive -- a command line utility for extracting (or downloading) videos from Youtube and other video... YouTube: Flash will play a critical role in video distribution
By Andrew TriceJune 30, 2010 There's a great writeup on YouTube's developer blog covering their experience with HTM5 video, Flash video, and the future of video distribution on the web. If you have some spare time, be sure to check it out. YouTube: Flash will play a critical role in video distribution
By Andrew TriceJune 30, 2010 There's a great writeup on YouTube's developer blog covering their experience with HTM5 video, Flash video, and the future of video distribution on the web. If you have some spare time, be sure to check it out. Four short links: 26 April 2010
By Nat TorkingtonApril 26, 2010 E-Commerce Booming in China (Economist) -- bad time for Google to be leaving, just as online sales take off. Chinese consumers in stores check quality by hand but buying online requires trust, aka brands. This is a turn towards Western-style commerce built on trademarks and brand promise of quality, and away from the prevalent wild East style of commerce... Four short links: 23 March 2010
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 23, 2010 British Prime Minister's Speech -- a huge amount of the speech is given to digital issues, including the funding and founding of an "Institute for Web Science" headed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. (via Rchards on Twitter) Periodic Table of Science Bloggers -- a great way to explore the universe of science blogging. (via sciblogs) For All The Tea in... Four short links: 22 February 2010
By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 22, 2010 Schuyler Erle's blog -- Schuyler, a leading geohacker, is in Haiti as part of a World Bank effort to rebuild geospatial infrastructure. His blog posts and twitpics are excellent. Panton Principles -- basic groundrules for useful open data in science. Raises the flag of licensing: arbitrary license clauses or hastily-repurposed software licenses lead to a quagmire of incompatible licenses... Four short links: 23 January 2010
By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 25, 2010 WikiLeaks Fundraising -- PayPal has frozen WikiLeaks' assets. Interesting: they need $600k/yr to run. The Great Australian Internet Blackout -- online protest to raise awareness about the Great Firewall of Australia. HTML5 Video: Problems Ahead -- YouTube and Vimeo won't support a free codec (file format). The web is undeniably better for Mozilla having entered the browser market, and... Four short links: 22 January 2010
By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 22, 2010 notmuch -- commandline tagging and fast search for a mailbox, regardless of which mail client you use. Processing for Android -- pre-release versions of a Processing for Android devices. Mobile visual programming makes for interesting possibilities. Binary Body Double: Microsoft Reveals the Science Behind Project Natal for Xbox 360 -- machine learning to recognize poses and render in the... Innovation Battles Investment as FCC Road Show Returns to Cambridge
By Andy OramJanuary 14, 2010 Yesterday's FCC panel show that innovation and investment are not always companions on the Internet. An in-depth look at the current state of the debate over competition and network neutrality. Four short links: 31 December 2009
By Nat TorkingtonDecember 31, 2009 Botnets and the Global Infection Rate (PDF) -- fascinating insights into botnets, control tools, and business models. Atlassian Uses OpenSocial for Internal Integration -- they use it inside their firewall to build a better dashboard. OpenSocial defines two concepts--an API for defining and working with social data (profiles, attributes, relationships) and specification for gadgets. OpenSocial's fundamental promise was interoperability--write... RIA's go Hollywood: An Introduction to Integrating Video Into Your ApplicationBy Tim TodishDecember 29, 2009 In this article we're going to cover an exciting, and increasingly popular way to deliver an amazing user experience, video. Few mediums can grab one's attention quicker than video. Let's face it, people on the Internet have almost no attention span -- we've even reduced our conversations to 140 character chunks -- so the faster you can grab and engage the user the better. Four short links: 28 December 2009
By Nat TorkingtonDecember 28, 2009 GTFS Data Exchange -- site for sharing the files that Google Transit collects from public transit agencies. This lets third party developers write apps that don't involve Google. Tenureometer -- if you are what you measure, let's build good measures. This is one for higher education, designed to measure scholars' impact on their fields by counting how much they... Four short links: 16 December 2009
By Nat TorkingtonDecember 16, 2009 OECD Broadband Portal -- global data on broadband penetration and pricing available from June 2009. Easy Statistics for A/B Testing -- it really is easy. And it mentions hamsters. This is worth reading. (via Hacker News) last.fm's SSD Streaming Infrastructure -- Each single SSD can support around 7000 concurrent listeners, and the serving capacity of the machine topped out... 1 to 50 of 101 Next Stay Connected
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