Technology, chrome, Google, HTML5, JavaScript, Video

The Chrome Experiment: Arcade Fire September 3rd, 2010

Rock band Arcade Fire has teamed up with Google to redefine the music video and to show the world what is possible with HTML5.

“The Wilderness Downtown” combines HTML5, JavaScript, and Google Maps to create an immersive Web experience that is truly unique for every user.   The music is great, and the video is a joy to watch.  But as a Web geek, I’m most impressed by the subtle synchronization of lyrical and musical cues, window effects, and animations that are made possible by the HTML5 audio, video, and canvas tags.

To watch this video, you’ll need Google Chrome or another HTML5 compliant browser.

Web Development, Browsers, HTML5, IE9, Microsoft, MSIE, Video

Promising but Controversial IE9 Platform Preview Released at MIX10 April 15th, 2010

By now news has spread around the Web that Microsoft announced the Platform Preview of IE9 at MIX10. Our own John Sutton was there and touched on it in our blog here. Reactions around the Web have generally been positive, but there’s been some criticism about the marketing machine, their test results, the features they’re touting, the platform restrictions, and even the fake browser UI that’s been slapped on the thing.

It’s important to realize if you evaluate it that it’s just an early preview and the user interface is, generally speaking, not even there!

Application Development, Web Content Management, Web Development, ASP.NET, Video

.NET Brightcove Video API Integrates with Sitecore November 19th, 2009

So a follow up to my post on Professional Video Services, here’s something I just found.

Application Development, Information Architecture, Internet Strategy, Social Networking, Visual Design, Web Content Management, Web Development, Video

Professional Video Services for Businesses November 11th, 2009

An unlikely source for cutting edge technology news of course, but USA Today has an interesting article discussing the future of online video for businesses. They point out that video has a huge and critical future for most everyone doing business online these days, and there’s several major players coming in that exceed the offerings by such commonly known entities from YouTube and Vimeo.

Specifically, pay services targeted for businesses include:

Web Development, cloud computing, explanations, Video

An Introduction to Cloud Computing November 6th, 2009

CNN has posted a simplified explanation of what Cloud Computing is and published this handy explanation video.

Web Content Management, Web Development, Flash, Video

Flash and Flash Video June 30th, 2009

I have this question asked to me atleast once a week: what’s the difference between Flash and Flash Video, or do you need Flash to play a Flash Video. I found a nice article that articulates the difference.

“The thing most users don’t understand is the difference between Flash and Flash Video. Flash is the interactive part of the process, which allows the creation of the player that is designed to interactively manipulate the video: stop, fast-forward, rewind, etc.

Flash Video on the other hand, is just the video file that the Flash SWF file plays, using the Flash Player. SWF files may include video content that has been imported from FLV or F4V files, or may merely reference external FLV/F4V video files which the SWF file will play back at certain pre-defined or user-input intervals.”