And I suspect they will not be for a long time. They run a good service and if they what to get rid of a couple of freeloaders, thats their prerogative. They managed to survive on small markets, so there's quite some opportunity. For me, I stopped buying cd's, I stopped searching for music for ages (the top iof the chart is easy to find, but Spotify has all the less well known albums too), so Spotify saves me a lot of money and a lot of time.
The video content will grow quite rapidly, now that several big archives are donating stuff for use in Wikipedia (like he German Bundesarchiv and the Dutch Nationaal Archief). For now, primararly thousands and thousands of photo's, but it is strange to think that video's will follow soon? Also media outlets like Al Jazeera are distributing material with a cc-license. (cc.aljazeera.net).
Wikipedia will be a big player with the video-content soon enough.
Well, you might want to look around then, there a plenty of examples where soldiers do train within a virtual environment.
For example, here in the Netherlands the Dutch TNO institution has rebuild an entire virtual village in Afganistan used by soldiers to train team skills.
http://www.tno.nl/images/shared/overtno/magazine/tno_mag_3_apr_2009_06_09.pdf
The Dutch and Belgium tax payers (they pay for the public broadcasters VPRO and VRT (and the educational broadcaster Teleac/NOT) who co-host the show) with additional funds from the Dutch and Belgium governments and private sponsors.
It is not obscure! You have to get in mind that the VPRO is one of the large Dutch public broadcasters with lots of airtime on tv and radio. The co-host, VRT is the Belgium public broadcaster. They have a beagle site at http://multiblog.vrt.be/canvasprogrammas/beagle-kaart/
Many public broadcasters here in the Netherlands, endorse the idea of 'Don't care where and how you watch or listen to us, if you are listening to us'. In that adagium, Youtube, facebook, twitter fit very well.
True, you have to be in a certain area. But this can be quite large. When I viewed a demo on the IBC, at least twenty people were inside the 'zone'. All were 'Wowed ':-)
I refuse sitting in my living room wearing those nasty 3D-glasses. I'll wait untill Philips opens up its WOWvx department again. I've seen this live and my initial reaction was, well, WOW!
Please take into account the possibilty... I know many people who secretly admitted they wanted the internet because of porn. But after seeing a couple of sites, they also discovered many many more. And they got a girlfriend.
Actually, a social network called Hyves is just doing that. They have used XMPP, you can import twitter-feeds and import photo's from Flickr via rss. They are working on connecting their services to Facebook, Myspace etc.
For those who don 't know Hyves, its a 5-your old network with 9 million members, most of which are Dutch. In fact, most Dutch have a Hyves profile.
They make good money with advertisements, including socalled 'hyvertisement' where members can advertise with their friend's friends for a couple of euro's. Also payed for services make a decent buck for them.
For now, they have resisted offers from almost all other networks. Facebook is getting bigger in the Netherlands, but still lagging way behind Hyves. Other networks, except maybe last.fm or linkedin, are virtually non-existant here.
When I go to my physician, he asks me questions, and feels and presses around the area I have pains to make a diagnoses. How on earth can a doctor in SL make a good diagnoses when he's not able to touch the patient?
The problem is not that some results are correct, the problem is that some results are not correct. So you do not know if google pours out the right answers. It is all about trust. And for now, Google Squared cannot be trusted.
(And poorly stated propositions? I could use bolean search etc, but very few people do that. These are the questions that a student uses if he/she wanted to make a table for a report)
I've tried several searches and found that all searches are completely false, misleading or screwed up.
Example 1: Dutch provinces. Wolfram accurately lists 12 and has the right names. Google lists dozens results, including Belgium rivers, shows the picture of a soccer player (with the same name as a
Example 2: Dutch prime ministers. Wolfram shows the current one correctly and some older ones. All the info Wolfram shows is correct. Google lists many. Mostly the names are correct, but there is a picture and description of a car salesman with the same name, among others.
Example 3: Countries in the EU. Wolfram shows 27 correct names. Google shows lots and lots of names. On the first pages it is ok, but on page threee, Sports is listed as an country (with the capital listed as $9500 ??) as well as Switzerland (not a EU-member) and English.
So the tables are completely useless, it also sources Wikipedia almost all the time.
Ok, we all hate the RIAA etc. But fact is, audiovisual art costs real money. So how can we support the artists and make sure good movies are still made? How would you like to pay?
It is hardly a surprise that not many people really take time to consume news.
If you would look into the statistics of a news site, you would notice the enormous number of pageviews on the front page, how few people end up at the level of an article and how fewer people ever visit a back ground story.
The challenge for journalist is thus to engage readers, but also not to waste their time.
For that, journalists must carefully choose the media for telling the story.
Infographics can actually help in time management. Also assisting in block reading would be useful.
Examples:
A headline, a short video of a fire, a Google map and some bullets for trivia you don't see on the video and there's the story of the fire. View and you'd know. More work to do, but probably faster to consume than text only
Or the live coverage of a demo: live mobile phone webcam, Google map with the route, twitter alike list for instant updates, bullets for trivia (like how many people). Afterwards some pics would be nice. and voila... Fast, interactive, live and engaging;
Political news? The issue in a small sentence, then a table with bulleted points from the parties and other stakeholders, maybe even with quotes or video's. Some photo's of the issue would be nice.
Harder to do then just plain text? Definitely! More compelling and giving more insight? Absolutely!
I can't understand how they could be so keen on throwing $500 billion at failed banks and mortgage deadbeats, yet they have no problem cutting NASA's $30 billion budget. And then there's Obama's national health insurance which is bound to cost a few hundred billion, if not a trillion or two when it's up and running.
NASA isn't crucial for running the country nor for saving lives (directly).
AFAIK the public broadcaster NOS didn't get paid by Microsoft. They took the technology because it was better for the user experience then Flash (back then, Flash 9).
If Flash 10 is better for a next project, I'm sure they will choose that. I think sports are the best for those tools: the events are scheduled before and are basically images/video combined with stats and facts. Right now there isn't a huge event.
Just curious, is there an open source alternative with javascript/ajax and Ogg Vorbis available which can compete with flash and Silverlight? I mean free server components, free developer tools and free web plugins if needed. If not, why not?
No one else uses the software?? If I recall correctly, many broadcasters used it during the Olympic Games for example: NBC in the US and in the Netherlands the Dutch NOS. They showed up to 12 live unedited streams via Silverlight (they also showed it in wmv, btw). Huge succes! Beacuse the buffering and channel changing is much smoother in Silverlight, they choose this above Flash.
Those broadcasters are not really 'no one'...
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And I suspect they will not be for a long time. They run a good service and if they what to get rid of a couple of freeloaders, thats their prerogative. They managed to survive on small markets, so there's quite some opportunity. For me, I stopped buying cd's, I stopped searching for music for ages (the top iof the chart is easy to find, but Spotify has all the less well known albums too), so Spotify saves me a lot of money and a lot of time.
The video content will grow quite rapidly, now that several big archives are donating stuff for use in Wikipedia (like he German Bundesarchiv and the Dutch Nationaal Archief). For now, primararly thousands and thousands of photo's, but it is strange to think that video's will follow soon? Also media outlets like Al Jazeera are distributing material with a cc-license. (cc.aljazeera.net). Wikipedia will be a big player with the video-content soon enough.
Well, you might want to look around then, there a plenty of examples where soldiers do train within a virtual environment. For example, here in the Netherlands the Dutch TNO institution has rebuild an entire virtual village in Afganistan used by soldiers to train team skills. http://www.tno.nl/images/shared/overtno/magazine/tno_mag_3_apr_2009_06_09.pdf
Actually, there are British scientists on board.
Thats why they have also a twitter/hyves/youtube account :-)
http://vprobeagle.hyves.nl/
http://twitter.com/beagleproject
http://www.youtube.com/user/VPROBeagle
And a fan-site:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=57984394055
The Dutch and Belgium tax payers (they pay for the public broadcasters VPRO and VRT (and the educational broadcaster Teleac/NOT) who co-host the show) with additional funds from the Dutch and Belgium governments and private sponsors.
Erhmm... that should be: 'Don't care where and how you want to watch or listen to us, as long as you are watching and listening to us'.
It is not obscure! You have to get in mind that the VPRO is one of the large Dutch public broadcasters with lots of airtime on tv and radio. The co-host, VRT is the Belgium public broadcaster. They have a beagle site at http://multiblog.vrt.be/canvasprogrammas/beagle-kaart/ Many public broadcasters here in the Netherlands, endorse the idea of 'Don't care where and how you watch or listen to us, if you are listening to us'. In that adagium, Youtube, facebook, twitter fit very well.
Actually they did. and quite exentsive with that. But as its a Dutch/Belgium cooperation, the site is mostly in Dutch. http://beagle.vpro.nl/ But there is a section in English (and in Spanish and in Portuges) http://beagle.vpro.nl/#/page/item/12/english/
True, you have to be in a certain area. But this can be quite large. When I viewed a demo on the IBC, at least twenty people were inside the 'zone'. All were 'Wowed ' :-)
I refuse sitting in my living room wearing those nasty 3D-glasses. I'll wait untill Philips opens up its WOWvx department again. I've seen this live and my initial reaction was, well, WOW!
Please take into account the possibilty... I know many people who secretly admitted they wanted the internet because of porn. But after seeing a couple of sites, they also discovered many many more. And they got a girlfriend.
Actually we would care. There's no office in the Netherlands where the employees are this clean-cut and well dressed :-)
Of course Europeans see McDonalds as foreign. But the brand is emphasising the American way of life, which is considered positive in many countries.
Second hand? Ebay, Amazon offer loads of second hand books.
Actually, a social network called Hyves is just doing that. They have used XMPP, you can import twitter-feeds and import photo's from Flickr via rss. They are working on connecting their services to Facebook, Myspace etc.
For those who don 't know Hyves, its a 5-your old network with 9 million members, most of which are Dutch. In fact, most Dutch have a Hyves profile.
They make good money with advertisements, including socalled 'hyvertisement' where members can advertise with their friend's friends for a couple of euro's. Also payed for services make a decent buck for them.
For now, they have resisted offers from almost all other networks. Facebook is getting bigger in the Netherlands, but still lagging way behind Hyves. Other networks, except maybe last.fm or linkedin, are virtually non-existant here.
When I go to my physician, he asks me questions, and feels and presses around the area I have pains to make a diagnoses. How on earth can a doctor in SL make a good diagnoses when he's not able to touch the patient?
The problem is not that some results are correct, the problem is that some results are not correct. So you do not know if google pours out the right answers. It is all about trust. And for now, Google Squared cannot be trusted.
(And poorly stated propositions? I could use bolean search etc, but very few people do that. These are the questions that a student uses if he/she wanted to make a table for a report)
I've tried several searches and found that all searches are completely false, misleading or screwed up.
Example 1: Dutch provinces. Wolfram accurately lists 12 and has the right names. Google lists dozens results, including Belgium rivers, shows the picture of a soccer player (with the same name as a
Example 2: Dutch prime ministers. Wolfram shows the current one correctly and some older ones. All the info Wolfram shows is correct. Google lists many. Mostly the names are correct, but there is a picture and description of a car salesman with the same name, among others.
Example 3: Countries in the EU. Wolfram shows 27 correct names. Google shows lots and lots of names. On the first pages it is ok, but on page threee, Sports is listed as an country (with the capital listed as $9500 ??) as well as Switzerland (not a EU-member) and English.
So the tables are completely useless, it also sources Wikipedia almost all the time.
Ergo: do not use it. Not yet in any case.
Ok, we all hate the RIAA etc. But fact is, audiovisual art costs real money. So how can we support the artists and make sure good movies are still made? How would you like to pay?
If you would look into the statistics of a news site, you would notice the enormous number of pageviews on the front page, how few people end up at the level of an article and how fewer people ever visit a back ground story.
The challenge for journalist is thus to engage readers, but also not to waste their time.
For that, journalists must carefully choose the media for telling the story.
Infographics can actually help in time management. Also assisting in block reading would be useful.
Examples:
Harder to do then just plain text? Definitely! More compelling and giving more insight? Absolutely!
I can't understand how they could be so keen on throwing $500 billion at failed banks and mortgage deadbeats, yet they have no problem cutting NASA's $30 billion budget. And then there's Obama's national health insurance which is bound to cost a few hundred billion, if not a trillion or two when it's up and running.
NASA isn't crucial for running the country nor for saving lives (directly).
AFAIK the public broadcaster NOS didn't get paid by Microsoft. They took the technology because it was better for the user experience then Flash (back then, Flash 9). If Flash 10 is better for a next project, I'm sure they will choose that. I think sports are the best for those tools: the events are scheduled before and are basically images/video combined with stats and facts. Right now there isn't a huge event.
Just curious, is there an open source alternative with javascript/ajax and Ogg Vorbis available which can compete with flash and Silverlight? I mean free server components, free developer tools and free web plugins if needed. If not, why not?
No one else uses the software?? If I recall correctly, many broadcasters used it during the Olympic Games for example: NBC in the US and in the Netherlands the Dutch NOS. They showed up to 12 live unedited streams via Silverlight (they also showed it in wmv, btw). Huge succes! Beacuse the buffering and channel changing is much smoother in Silverlight, they choose this above Flash. Those broadcasters are not really 'no one'...