/* CSS Document */ Streamload Blog: May 2005

Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Spotlight: Everything You Need to Master Internet Video

Damien Stolars has put together a comprehensive book featuring easy to understand explanations and examples of applications for anyone who wants a deeper understanding about everything Internet video-related. Billed as a start-to-finish guide to Internet video for everyone who needs to understand it:

• web professionals
• managers
• software developers
• marketers
• hobbyists
• investors

Damien allows you to download a few chapters of his book to preview here:

http://www.masteringinternetvideo.com/excerpts/

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Thursday, May 26, 2005

Open Source Entertainment: Project Orange Coming to a Theater Near You

Project Orange
The Blender Foundation and the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts, have agreed on producing a 3D Animated Movie Short, to be created with the Open Source 3D suite Blender and other OS tools such as Yafray, Python, Verse, Gimp, and Cinepaint.

Open Movie
Not only will the project be realized with Open Source/Free Software, but also the resulting movie - including all the production files and software - will be published under an open public license. This makes it an exciting premiere as first ever "Open Movie" project!
The movie will be rendered on film resolution, becomes available on DVD and is targeted to be transfered to film for theatres.

Read full story here:

http://orange.blender.org/cms/Home.553.0.html

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Tuesday, May 24, 2005

iPod Plug-In Sets Music Free

Excerpt from Wired Magazine:

IPod users are raving about a plug-in that makes the Winamp digital jukebox a better way to manage the iPod than Apple's iTunes.

The plug-in, called ml_iPod, allows iPod users to bypass iTunes and manage music collections in Winamp instead. The iPod is supposed to work with iTunes only. A new version of the software was released Monday.


Read full article here:

http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,67593,00.html?tw=wn_story_top5

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Monday, May 23, 2005

Podcast support in next version of iTunes

Excerpt:

At the Wall Street Journal's D Conference, Steve Jobs tonight showed ipodder-like features in the next release of iTunes, supposedly available within about 60 days. I was glad to see this, since the "architecture of participation" has been the only one of the big Web 2.0 themes that Apple had seemed to be missing. He was slightly dismissive of populist podcasting, describing it as "Wayne's World for radio", and celebrating the arrival of professional radio stations into the market, but nonetheless, he was very high on the podcasting phenomenon, and the excitement that millions of users have displayed about it. In the Q&A, Jason Calcanis of Weblogs, Inc. asked if there was any possibility of using the iTunes music store for paid podcasting. Jobs replied that for the moment they were only considering it as free content, but that he was open to looking into it.


Read full article here:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/05/podcast_support.html

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Tuesday, May 17, 2005

PlayStation 3 worth waiting for, says Sony's CEO

Excerpt:
LOS ANGELES - Sony may not beat Microsoft to the market with its next video game console, but the Japanese company said Monday it will trump the software giant with a better machine.

Ken Kutaragi, chief executive of Sony's game division, said the PlayStation 3 will have twice the processing power of Microsoft's Xbox 360 game console that goes on sale in the fall. He rattled off a barrage of statistics to prove his case, noting the Cell microprocessor in the PlayStation 3 would be 35 times more powerful than the chip in the current PlayStation 2.


Read the full story here:

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11665195.htm

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Monday, May 16, 2005

Streamload Successfully Navigates Connections Conference

Streamload made a successful showing at this month's Connections Conference put on by Parks Associates, a leading research firm for the digital & home networking markets. We met many new companies in the digital lifestyle space and editors who cover the digital home and networking markets. We also reconnected with friends and colleagues who are doing some really amazing things to make people's enjoyment of digital entertainment and access to new worlds of digital entertainment easier and more ubiquitous.


Here are some photos from the event. You can see Streamload's booth and a preview of some of the fun elements of the service we will be releasing with a new version of the service that will be rolling out this summer:

http://www.streamload.com/admin_mike/connections

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XBox 360 Unveiled

The full wraps were taken off of XBox 360 at this weeks E3 conference. Below are some useful links for anyone curious about the future of gaming entertainment:


Highlights and Specs:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/12/AR2005051201726.html


Features and Screenshots:

http://www.xboxsolution.com/article2187.html


Official Site:

http://www.xbox360.com/

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Digital listening growing, radio slipping

Excerpt:
An increasing number of people are turning to computers or portable players for music, even though traditional radio still leads the competition, a recent market study has indicated.

In March 2005, approximately 77.2 million customers listened to music stored on a computer, up 22 percent from 63.2 million during the same month last year, according to a report from market researcher The NPD Group. The study also found that online radio stations had 53.5 million listeners this March, up from 45.3 million a year ago. Free streaming of music also saw gains, with a rise of 37 percent, to 46 million listeners.

Read Full Story Here:

http://news.com.com/Digital+listening+growing%2C+radio+slipping/2100-1027_3-5706376.html

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