Four short links: 20 March 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...
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Christopher Schmitt and Simon St. Laurent discuss HTML5
Are we entering a new revolution on the web? HTML5 author and conference organizer Christopher Schmitt sat down to talk with O’Reilly editor Simon St. Laurent about why it’s a great time to be a web...
View ArticleFour short links: 20 April 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...
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Top Stories: May 7-11, 2012
Here’s a look at the top stories published across O’Reilly sites this week. Giving the Velocity website a performance makeover Learn how producers slimmed down the Velocity conference site, cutting the...
View ArticleFour short links: 4 June 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...
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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...
View ArticleFour short links: 15 November 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...
View ArticleFour short links: 5 March 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...
View ArticleFour short links: 16 April 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...
View ArticleFour short links: 22 April 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...
View ArticleFour short links: 2 July 2013
How to Make Help Microvideos For Your Site (Alex Holovaty) — Instead of one monolithic video, we decided to make dozens of tiny, five-second videos separately demonstrating features. How Google is...
View ArticleFour short links: 11 July 2013
Sifted — 7 minute animation set in a point cloud world, using photogrammetry in film-making. My brilliant cousin Ben wrote the software behind it. See this newspaper article and tv report for more....
View ArticleFour short links: 8 October 2013
Lightworks — open source non-linear video editing software, with quite a history. Puzzlescript — open source puzzle game engine for HTML5. pudb — full-screen (text-mode) Python debugger. Freelan —...
View ArticleFour short links: 25 October 2013
Seagate Kinetic Storage — In the words of Geoff Arnold: The physical interconnect to the disk drive is now Ethernet. The interface is a simple key-value object oriented access scheme, implemented...
View ArticleFour short links: 31 October 2013
Insect-Inspired Collision-Resistant Robot — clever hack to make it stable despite bouncing off things. The Battle for Power on the Internet (Bruce Schneier) — the state of cyberspace. [M]ost of the...
View ArticleFour short links: 2 December 2013
CalTech Machine Learning Video Library — a pile of video introductions to different machine learning concepts. Awesome Pokemon Hack — each inventory item has a number associated with it, they are kept...
View ArticleFour short links: 11 February 2014
China’s $122BB Boom in Shadow Banking is Happening on Phones (Quartz) — Tencent’s recently launched online money market fund (MMF), Licai Tong, drew in 10 billion yuan ($1.7 billion) in just six days...
View ArticleFour short links: 6 March 2014
Repo Surveillance Network — An automated reader attached to the spotter car takes a picture of every license plate it passes and sends it to a company in Texas that already has more than 1.8 billion...
View ArticleFour short links: 30 May 2014
Video Quality Report — transparency is a great way to indirectly exert leverage. Control Your Traffic Flows with Software — using BGP to balance traffic. Will be interesting to see how the more...
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Peer to Peer Reaching the Browser through WebRTC
WebRTC promises to deliver computer to computer communications with minimal reliance on central servers to manage the conversation. Peer-to-peer systems promise smoother exchanges without the...
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