Google Funds ARM Theora Codec
Ryan Paul at Ars Technica has some good news for those following and supporting open formats for video. He describes an existing project, TheorArm, started to address the lack of hardware support for...
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NewTeeVee has the scoop. Many technology blogs and commentators predicted that when Google acquired On2 it would open up the VP-8 codec. According to NewTeeVee’s sources, the move will be announced at...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > New Copyright for Chile, Microsoft for HMTL5, AT&T’s...
Chile gets a new copyright law As Mike Masnick explains it at Techdirt, it doesn’t sound as radical as India’s. The new limits and exceptions are no doubt welcome but hardly sweeping. Worse, the come...
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TCLP 2010-05-02 News
This is news cast 212, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, a quick update on the advertising experiment. This week’s security alerts are Symantec plans to PGP and a massive quantity...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Web API for Facial Recognition, Distilled Risks of New...
Alpha release of face recognition web API Via Nat Torkington’s Four Short Links on O’Reilly Radar. This is the future about which Adam Harvey was concerned. face.com provides a facial recognition...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Diaspora is Funded, Single Molecule Computes at Insane...
Diaspora reaches its KickStarter funding goal Over the weekend the open source, distributed social network project, Diaspora, reached its funding goal of $10K. The four founders won’t start work for a...
View ArticleUnofficial Firefox Build with H.264 Support
I’ve written about the battle for a standard video codec for the web repeatedly, with a special emphasis on the need for that codec to be open and unencumbered. Mozilla has made a principled stand on...
View ArticleAnnouncements from Google I/O
Today had my head spinning as many announcements have been flying out of Google’s big developer conference, I/O. For me, the biggest is news that Google is not only opening up the VP-8 codec they...
View ArticlePatent Problems May Already Threaten New Open Video Standard
I am still saving my full comments on the Google led project to bring a new standard for open video to the web. This story, though, seems to be bearing out some of my first impressions, that WebM could...
View ArticleFollowing Up for the Week Ending 5/23/2010
New OAuth 2.0 draft released TPB goes down in face of latest legal threat Google faces US, German regulators over WiFi data collection Google also faces criminal action in Germany And a civil suit in...
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TCLP 2010-05-23 News
This is news cast 214, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, thanks to new monthly donor, John Taylor Williams and his wife, Mia. Thank you to fellow Flattr beta testers who have been...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Problem Privacy Bill in Canada, VLC Update Supports...
Canada’s not very privacy friendly privacy refrom bill Michael Geist has all of the pertinent details. Cory at Boing Boing likened this to the US’s PATRIOT Act but it actually reads like a subset of...
View ArticleFollowing Up for the Week Ending 5/31/2010
H.264 and VP-8 compared, with still frame examples WebM data points, mostly positive More criticism of Genachowski’s “Third Way” for net neutrality Rep. Doyle backs Title II reclassification Three...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Future Firefox Will Sync, Canadian Copyright Provably...
Firefox Sync to be built into future version of the browser I want to say I had read this suggestion before though I cannot find evidence of commenting on it previously. Ryan Paul has some details of...
View ArticleFollowing Up for the Week Ending 6/6/2010
Judiciary Committee still has questions for Facebook Diaspora’s proposed social model Changes in response to Google’s WiFi snafu may reach farther Google starts handing over WiFi data Lawyer claims...
View ArticleFollowing Up for the Week Ending 6/13/2010
Australian police to investigate over Google WiFi scanning Criminal intent revealed by probe of Google WiFi scanning Google releases WiFi sniffing audit Google would rather face a single, large law...
View ArticleFollowing Up for the Week Ending 6/20/2010
Law firm steps in to defend folks from USCG IEEE still flogging DRM scheme it thinks consumers will accept State department has incorporated internet censorship into its policy priorities Senators...
View ArticleFollowing Up for the Week Ending 7/11/2010
ACTA consensus on transparency breaking down WIPO worried at why countries felt ACTA needed to be handled outside of WIPO An update to the interactive ACTA timeline MP Angus calls out Moore, Clement...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Framework for Badging Non-Profits, YouTube Experiments...
A badging framework for non-profits Glyn Moody pointed this out over on his blog, Move Commons. I tend to agree that helping communicate applicable principles, even netting it down to a recognizable...
View ArticleFollowing Up for the Week Ending 7/25/2010
FCC’s third way plan isn’t bringing the two sides of net neutrality any closer together Next round starting against initially named defendants in USCG’s massive demand campaign US caves on...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Mobile Cloud, Name Changes and Reputation, Joke Patents...
Building a cloud out of smart phones Advancing beyond theory, a group of international researchers have cobbled together a proof of concept out of a dozen or so cell phones and a dedicated router. As...
View ArticleWebM Powered Semantic Video Demo
From the WebM project blog[1], a link to a JavaScript and WebM powered demo on what is possible with open video when it also carries rich metadata. It is actually just a taste of a larger project, Web...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Why Privacy Isn’t Dead, H.264 Royalty Waiver Extended...
Why privacy is not dead Many of the people I follow online re-posted the link to this brief article by danah boyd on Technology Review about how our implementation of privacy in networked systems...
View ArticleFollowing Up for the Week Ending 9/5/2010
Indian e-voting researcher released, Freedom to Tinker UK Pirate Party guide to the Digital Economy Act, TorrentFreak Net neutrality now law in Chile, Slashdot First test of Righthaven suit, considers...
View ArticleHelp Support Free Video Formats
I saw via Groklaw’s news picks a plea for help over at the FSF. What they are looking for is the kind of advocacy and education work I actually rather enjoy. Rather than just declaiming creators should...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > TV Interview with Captain Crunch, New Report on...
TV interview with Captain Crunch from 1983 Lauren Weinstein digitized this video from his personal tape collection. This fascinates both for the effort he put into extracting the material from a...
View ArticleMozilla Experiments with Recording from the Browser
The fine folks at Mozilla Labs announced a pre-alpha add on for Firefox that enables recording audio and video directly from the browser. We’ve experimented with audio recording in the browser as part...
View ArticleFollowing Up for the Week Ending 10/31/2010
KEI letter to European Parliament regarding ACTA, KEI US says it will basically ignore anything in ACTA it doesn’t like, Techdirt Prominent law professors urge Obama to end ACTA endorsement, Techdirt...
View ArticleGoogle Reveals Plan to Only Support Open Video Formats in Chrome
Mike Melanson at ReadWriteWeb, among others, has this latest development with regard to video standards on the web. With the adoption of the video tag into HTML5 minus a default codec, the question has...
View ArticleYouTube Now Saves All Videos in WebM
Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb has excellent news in the struggle for open standards based video on the web. Google will now save all videos uploaded to its YouTube sharing services in WebM, the...
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