Published on March 21, 2008
Joost is using March Madness 2008 to do a large-scale test of live P2P video streaming. I just loaded it up, and I have to say that I’m pretty impressed. I put the feed next to the same game on CableTV, and Joost was only about 5 seconds behind. The resolution wasn’t much compared to even analog cable, but it was certainly good enough to follow the game. You can see a screenshot of the two to the right, Joost is on the left and CableTV is on the right.
Here’s the Joost information page on the March Madness test.
Published on January 22, 2008
Digg’s official Google Gadget has been broken for the last day or so, but now it’s back with a new layout, and much more functionality. It has tabs for different categories, and now includes the thumbnails that are submitted with story submissions.
The Digg Google Gadget is the main way I stay up to date with Digg Top Stories, so the new functionality is great to see.
Published on November 27, 2007
Google Maps now has a terrain view, showing images of 3D terrain and, if the city is big enough, buildings. New York’s Map has translucent buildings, and of course the Grand Canyon is a pretty good display of the terrain imagery. When I first read about this new feature at Download Squad I was afraid that they would be doing topographic lines or something, but the soft rendered terrain they are using is clean while still communicating quite a bit of (non-scientific) information.
Published on November 19, 2007
I recently posted about MyMileMarker.com, and how it filled a big void in my mobile life ever since I quit using the PalmOS with jMileage. Today I was filling up, logged onto MyMileMarker’s mobile site with my iPhone, and found a new Mobile Safari specific interface. The older mobile interface worked fine, but I had been hoping that they’d make this update. I’ll get some screenshots of this new interface and post them as soon as I can.
They have also updated the normal mobile version of the site, expanding compatibility to more phones. I love the site so far. I have a few datapoints in it now, so I can get line graphs of my mileage and miles driven, as well as forecasts of miles driven and cost to drive. If you have a car, you should give MyMileMarker.com a try! You don’t really need a data enabled mobile device either. It’s easy enough to jot down your stats at the pump on your receipt, stick it in your wallet/purse, and enter the information in at home.
Read the official post about the updates.
Published on October 30, 2007
Airtight Interactive, responsible for the amazing SimpleViewer have launched a new online image viewer that really pushes the threshold. The flash-based TiltViewer takes the concept of SimpleViewer into the third dimension. Rather than waste time trying to explain it, I’d rather you just check it out.
Here’s my photography portfolio in TiltViewer, hosted on Flickr.
For $95 you can get TiltViewer Pro that will remove branding and let you customize the application. $95 feels a little steep to me when solutions like Slieshow Pro are out there for $20, so hopefully the price will come down with time.
