JamieG Analysis

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 [...]

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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 need to [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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I’ll get straight to it. The Secret sauce is… Drum roll… “Open Source”. Let me explain. Firstly, let me go back many years ago, when I was playing with Flash and Flash Remoting back in the early days when the Flash Remoting Server was $10,000 or there about per server. The price killed the product. [...]

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