ICS are hosting three seminars with an introduction to SharePoint 2010. The seminars are on January 24th (Basingstoke), 14th February (Reading) and 13th March (London) – all in the UK in 2012:
“The SharePoint 2010 Overview Seminar provides a quick start guide to everything you need to know to …
Continue reading »Earley and Associates have published a blog post last week on Metadata and Taxonomies:
“Business makes extensive use of taxonomy and metadata in a variety of scenarios including accounting, databases and inter/intra-net based applications to provide structure and organize information. All this is normal and straightforward. Chaos arises, however, …
Continue reading »KIT Digital, provider of video asset management software and related services, have announced the purchase of IP video management and delivery company, Ioko for $91.4 million in cash and stock.
“Ioko provides an end-to-end managed cloud-based platform for multi-screen video delivery over connected IP devices to telecommunications cable, media and …
Continue reading »Strictly one for the techies, but a comprehensive and confidently written article by Jan Ozer on Streamingmedia.com nonetheless. Jan covers the H.264 specification, codec implementations, licensing and quality relative to other competing technologies plus a number of other fundamental topics. This is taken from the adoption and support section and …
Continue reading »Tim Siglin at Streamingmedia.com has written a thorough review of Adobe’s Flash to HTML5 conversion package ‘Wallaby’ currently in beta.
“Last week, the preview version of Wallaby was posted on Adobe Labs, along with the disclaimer that is indeed a technology preview (meaning it’s not very stable or well-documented) and …
Continue reading »In a recent blog article, Encoding.com providers of video encoding services, fought back against Sorenson Media’s claim that “Sorenson Media have the right and only proven enterprise-grade Cloud transcoding solutions”. At Digital Asset Management News, we cannot help but agree that Sorenson may have overstated their position in the market, …
Continue reading »With the rise of high definition video formats, more and more videographers are turning to WD external hard drives to store their ever increasing volumes of video data.
“However the rise of high definition videos, 2K and 4K image resolution files that require huge storage space compel video makers to …
Continue reading »The IPTC (International Press Telecommunications Council) and PLUS (Picture Licensing Univeral System) have a released a free Adobe Bridge plugin which allows users to view and edit the full set of IPTC Core, IPTC Extension and PLUS metadata frameworks.
The toolkit includes:
As the tech leviathans, including Google, Adobe and Apple, fight it out in the global arena for video format supremacy, the rest of us are left with a bewildering array of choices and incompatibilities to factor into the design of our video workflows:
“For content publishers and consumers, there is …
Continue reading »Jan Ozer provides several tests of H.264 and VP8 to see how these standards for video compression compare.
“VP8 is now free, but if the quality is substandard, who cares? Well, it turns out that the quality isn’t substandard, so that’s not an issue, but neither is it twice the …
Continue reading »Sorenson Media will partner with Adobe and Amazon Web Services to present a training workshop entitled ‘The Business & Technology of Online Video’ at 2010 Streaming Media East on 11 May 2010. The workshop is free to registered Streaming Media East Conference attendees.
“Sorenson Media today announced that the company …
Continue reading »DAM vendor, MediaBeacon yesterday (15th April) announced in this press release that their product was “the only DAM solution that can run on the new Apple iPad”:
“Because other asset managers have decided to develop their solution on proprietary plug-ins like Microsoft Silverlight or Adobe Flex or Flash, they will …
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