What is mostly seen in these days are short films taken with the camera build into a mobile phone. But now you can also watch a Full-length film shot on phone as the Guardian reports.
This technique demanded a new approach to filming due to the limitations of the camera in the mobile phones as of today. Giving the movie his own tone. Have you seen other “productions” on mobiles yet?
IPTV is getting more and more attention these days! The news from Reuters shows that also the big players (here Deutsche Telekom owned Club Internet) are starting serious offerings.
Deutsche Telekom’s French Internet arm, Club Internet, will be the first in Europe to sell Microsoft’s software for TV and video on demand over Internet Protocol networks to consumers, the pair said on Friday.
JupiterResearch Finds That MySpace Music Community Activity Far Outpaces Online Music Sites:
Jupiter says that Communities influence music choice and discovery far more than Online stores or e.g. MTV.com. Take MySpace: it seems more “real” to people searching and discovering music. You also find MySpace band pages through you friends what implies a higher trust.
Have you already used this way to find new “stuff”?
There are many new sites coming up. This one is really trying to change another field: teaching. You can create own courses at: nuvvo. Give it a try!
eLearning is something that will rapidly develop in the coming years. Now everybody can do the teaching. Is this giving us better material to learn from? Let’s find out!
I have run accros this interview with David Weinberger. Author of The Cluetrain Manifesto and Small Pieces Loosly Joint. Made in Hamburg/Germany in Feb. 2006 at Handelsblatt. Has some interesting points in it! So, enjoy watching it:
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I would like to list some of the start-ups coming from Germany and review them on a regular basis. I am thinking of giving them a permanent page soon.
Some of them are already well established like:
Some are upcoming and going fast:
Further upcoming sites:
Feel invited to add further sites and information about them.
Today a short link to a nicely written overview of TV content available on the Internet: download your tv the current options.
Enjoy reading!
I do want to add sources available in Europe later on. If you like to respond with some interested offerings… feel invited!
Lately nearly everybody tries to get into the VoIP arena. Some take the same route as Skype (like Yahoo, MS, Google etc.) and some try to find other ways to make VoIP happen.
Yahoo works together with at&t in the U.S. What i find let’s say interesting due to the fact that at&t has it’s service CallVantage. But they provide DSL together so they provide VoIP… I think. Basically they try to make call to traditional phone cheap. Having better prices than the at&t service. But the prices seem to change quickly in these days…
Next we have Lycos. They call it Lycos Phone and focus on calls and payed video content (?). The trick for them is that they work together globe7.com. Through this services you are able to watch advertising or participate somewhere and get free minutes voucher for it. What could virtually make your calls free then… But looking into all the ads all the time to save the 1-2 cents / min.? Decide yourself…
Great feature is that you get your own VoIP Number reachable from e.g. land line phones, a voice box and fax receiving once you have become a Gold Member.
Than we have a totally different approach to VoIP: Jajah. Like a combination of VoIP over the Internet and a land line phone. You simply type in your number and the number you do like to call. Jajah is then connecting the two and you simply pick up your own landline phone. The connection is established to the destination number and you have a cheap call AND use your existing phone. No headphone and mic needed! Nice!
And there is the recent attempt of Skype to get all of the market in making all calls free to any land line or mobile phone in the U.S. Beat this!
It is out! The first professional movie rendered with the open source 3D renderer Blender. You can download it here. It is also distributed as a Torrent. I have downloaded the 425 MB version in about 2 h. The HD version with 5.1 Surround Sound took a bit more than 4 h. The original servers have been overloaded by requests at that time….
All production files and the movie are free for the public and can be viewed, studied and reused.
The film is about 10 mins long and very cool to watch with super nice sound effects! I do strongly recommend watching it!
This shows that “the public” is now able to produce professional film 3D rendered movies without the big pocket full of money! Let us see more!! Spread the word.
You enjoyed it, too?!
Do you still think that big equipment is needed to make a live radio interview? And let’s further add the fact that you are traveling on a plane from Europe to the U.S.?
Than have a look: 
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Wolf Siegert is claiming to be the first (again) this time doing a radio interview via VoIP while traveling on an air plane. You can read more of it on his page (in German) at DayByDay. Including the radio interviews.
If you still wander what the radio interviews are about: Wolf Siegert is on his way to the NAB Show 2006 in Las Vegas and talking about the change of technology (Availability of IP/Internet while traveling in trains and (now) planes) and his expectations of the show.
The connection is working this way:
Lufthansa has installed WiFi (W-Lan) on their planes. So the connection from the Laptop is established using WiFi available for everyone on the plane. The signal is than transmitted via satellite to the ground being “normal” Internet communication than…
Let me know what stunts you have done while up in the air and what you think this can enable!