April 5, 2011
Hundreds of journalists have moved through KDMC's digital media training programs, in which we show them how to produce cutting edge news content in non-traditional formats, from video to map mashups, custom widgets to slideshows, social media integration to standalone multimedia packages. Once the journalists return to their home publications to put their new skills to work, they often run up against technical "limitations" in their content management systems that prevent them from being able to publish certain media types to their sites. Many publications are sitting on top of content management systems that are either antiquated or weren't... more »March 29, 2011
The news page for Cordillera-owned NBC affiliate in Lexington, Ky. (DMA 63), is third in the U.S. in number of Facebook fans — almost 57,000 with more coming daily to check out the news department's weather alerts, story teasers, polls and interactive features. Bruce Carter, the station’s news director, expects to have 100,000 by year’s end: “That’s bigger than our audience for our noon newscast.” Just 18 months ago, Bruce Carter, the news director at WLEX Lexington, Ky., wasn’t convinced that Today, Carter is the keeper of what he believes is one of the most popular Facebook pages... more »January 17, 2011
January 17, 2011 — All this foofaw over video codec support in browsers is most important in the mobile device arena, where more HTML5-based applications are coming to the fore, and where the browser landscape is much different than on the desktop. “It’s interesting that Google would make this kind of move considering Chrome is not even on any mobile devices yet,” said Michael Mullany, vice president of products at Sencha, which makes an HTML5 SDK for building mobile applications for mobile browsers. “The clear openness argument of Google is a bit disingenuous. It’s about commoditizing stuff where the competitors... more »January 17, 2011
January 13, 2011 — It’s back to square one when it comes to forming a consensus about the HTML5 video codec. The tug-of-war over which codec would emerge as the widely supported standard shifted sides again Tuesday, when Google announced it would support WebM, the project it began last summer after it acquired codec maker On2. WebM is the codec of choice for the Chromium project, which is the open-source project behind Chrome. Mozilla’s Firefox also supports the WebM and Theora codecs. Previously, it appeared the codec with the widest support was H.264, with backing from Apple, Google and Microsoft.... more »October 11, 2010
I have fond memories of the old days of dial-up AOL (and no, not just because they’ve acquired us now ). I remember thinking how stalkerishly awesome it was that I could see if another AOL user had read the email I had sent them, if they hadn’t replied yet. Then the Internet had to come along and ruin everything. But wait, a nifty startup just popped onto my radar which brings that functionality to Gmail. EmailOracle is going to seem like a nightmare to some people at first glance. But it’s actually really cool — and smart.... more »October 5, 2010
Hundreds of journalists have moved through KDMC's digital media training programs, in which we show them how to produce cutting edge news content in non-traditional formats, from video to map mashups, custom widgets to slideshows, social media integration to standalone multimedia packages. Once the journalists return to their home publications to put their new skills to work, they often run up against technical "limitations" in their content management systems that prevent them from being able to publish certain media types to their sites. Many publications are sitting on top of content management systems that are either antiquated or weren't... more »June 24, 2010
Soccer fans around the globe are enthralled with the drama being played out on fields in South Africa for the World Cup. As a result, they are testing the limits of the Internet's ability to deliver video streaming to computers and handheld devices. At the same time, cyber criminals are taking advantage of interest in the World Cup to deliver new attacks and trick fans into visiting rogue sites. Networking vendor Cisco said this week that global Web traffic is up an average of 27 percent during World Cup matches, as fans look for updated scores and news... more »May 4, 2010
Face.com Opens Facial Recognition API Face.com , the developers of the facial recognition technology behind Facebook apps like Photo Tagger and Photo Finder announced that it is opening up its API, which will allow developers to take advantage of this technology anywhere on the web. We had a chat with Face.com founder Gil Hirsch, who talked about the technology, the API, Facebook's Open Graph, and what kind of apps we can expect to see around this API. Basically, the API allows third-parties to utilize the technology behind Photo Finder and Photo Tagger to create new and unique ways of utilizing... more »May 3, 2010
Since the arrival of our new iPad about 4 weeks ago I have finally had enough time to properly evaluate the new toy and all I can say is, Wow. Finally we are starting to see mobile devices that can really change the way users interact with content. The iPhone is a great device, the best for its size but it did not give me the feeling I was interacting with a true digital interactive magazine or website with my hands and the iPad does this well. Over the next couple months I am really looking forward to the new... more »