JamieG Analysis

Recently my work has taken me into researching and developing RIAs. (Rich Internet Applications) These are business applications that are developed to operate over the web. Just type in your URL address, login and work. In many ways this is the future (Unless you have a good reason like doing graphics, and video editing.)
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Video has become the future of the internet. Between 40-90% of all traffic has been reported to be P2P sharing, with the bulk of that Video. And if its not P2P traffic, its most likely from YouTube or any of the hundreds of copies.
Obviously there is a great need to bring this unabated use of [...]

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Firstly I would like to say that this article is not about the possible evil use of DRM. In the blogesphere, the word “DRM” has a very negative connotation. I would like the reader to look past this and examine some of the technical issues I would like to discuss. However, I do [...]

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There is a podcaster, Adam Hay, who does a podcast called RookieDesigner.
Recently he asked for submissions of questions. So I have taken the opportunity to make a recording and send it to him.
The recording is here.
To quickly go over this recording, I talk about future Web trends (What web3.0 may be) in the RIA [...]

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To follow on from my inital post, lets now look into Web Video.The current players are;

Flash Video (H.263 and On2 VP6)
Quicktime Video (Older Sorensons, more recent H.264)
Microsoft Windows Media 9.

If we look at these, it is widely accepted that the most widely used codec is those based on FLASH. A combination of H.263 and [...]

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