Our guest blogger today is a repeat visitor – Professor Karthik Shyamsunder. As HTML5 is in the news a bit lately, we thought we’d follow up with some more thoughts on the topic. In my previous blog post, I discussed the new tag, its usage, and how we are going to have native tags … [Read more]

Google TV in the works? — The Wall Street Journal (and about everyone that guesses on these things) thinks so. They may (or may not) show it off at their I/O conference May 19 and 20 for developers in SF. It’s expected to be on Android and will leverage the wider development community for applications. … [Read more]

Next week this time I’ll be attending Streaming Media East in NYC. Should anyone reading this blog also be attending and want to catch up, please let me know. I look forward to catching up with old colleagues and learning new things. Looking over the sponsors, presenters and exhibitors; I think it’s telling that it’s a … [Read more]

4.35MM people use Ustream.tv to watch the Chile Earthquake and Hawaii Tsunami Live: I saw this figure on The Tech Journal and I have to admit I have mixed reactions on this one. On the one hand, it seems a bit voyeuristic.  But then when something so terrible happens, it’s nice to know that technology … [Read more]

Out of personal interest this general topic was on my radar screen anyway, but Google’s announcement late last week sped up the timetable. In their DC policy office Google announced several capabilities for putting captions to videos: Auto-captioning: They will do automated captioning of YouTube videos. To start, it will only be certain channels (mostly educational) … [Read more]