Google has released Google Media Server, a PC-only beta, “desktop gadget” for Google desktop that utilizes Universal-Plug-N-Play to stream media from your home PC to a network-connected display.
Google’s first toe-dip into the TV advertising pool?
Download Google Media Server.
Summaries. Pondering.
iPhone 2.0: Enterprise Ready. Developer Ready.
iPhone Enterprise Beta Program lets suits try 2.0 firmware early
Will Apple’s 3G iPhone Come In Late June, Too?
iPhone SDK, Apple’s Touch Platform, and The Next Two Decades
iPhone ready to take on BlackBerry with enterprise push
iPhone announcements exceed mobile experts’ expectations
iPhone SDK details
AOL has also created a version of AIM for the iPhone in five days despite its developer’s lack of experience for the Mac. Users simply swipe to change active chats.
The iPhone App store
BBC iPlayer Beta now available for iPhone
Developers excited [...]
Indie film grants and funding.
Toshiba—HD DVD Interruptus. A shame, because HD DVD authoring and production is both cheaper, and easier to author for independent producers.
Tulip is software for visualizing very-large sets of data. Download Tulip at Sourceforge.
Tag your environment with EEML-Extended Environments Markup Language.
(EEML) protocol for sharing data between remote environments, both physical and virtual. [...]
CosmoPod
CosmoPod is a Safari add-on that helps you download and convert Flash, DivX, WMV and Real Media videos from the Internet to your Mac / iPod / iPhone / AppleTV automatically.
CosmoPod is almost universal. It will work on most sites broadcasting video content.
CosmoPod lounges in Safari’s address bar and activates whenever a video is detected [...]
An updated pre-release version of the Adobe Media Player has been posted at Adobe Labs.
Install/Download
AMP documentation/release notes
Steve Jobs, from Apple’s “Hot News”
Third Party Applications on the iPhone
Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new [...]
Rogue Amoeba’s Radioshift is a neat (Mac OS) app that is essentially a VCR for over 50,000 AM/FM stations across the World. It’s $32 and has a fully functioning demo.
vvvv is a free (for non-commercial use) Windows-only program for real-time video synthesis.
Checkout a synopsis of features, as well as projects from the vvvv Gallery.
Combining podcatching, bittorrent, a Youtube downloader, and a multi-format video player, Miro is the just-released evolution of the Participatory Culture Foundation’s Democracy software project.
Also checkout PCFs Make Internet TV, a wiki for video tools/tips, covering editing, shooting, publishing and licensing.
Download Miro.
New feature I noticed while tooling around the Safari 3 Beta. Make a selection, right-click and select “inspect element”—up pops the “Web Inspector”, similar, though not as feature-rich, to the Firebug Firefox extension.