Last week a link was quietly dropped on the TechSmith website which includes the ActionScript 2 source code and graphical assets for Camtasia Studio’s ExpressShow Flash playback wrapper. This package allows Flash developers to the customize look / feel and behavior of the playback controls, hotspots, quizzing and captioning for Camtasia Studio 5.x ExpressShow screencasts. [...]
Tom King makes some excellent points in response to my last post which means its time for me to get serious and add some real meat to the discussion rather than just dumping gas on the burning carcass of elearning and dancing gleefully. ;-)
Here are a few things to consider when analyzing the depth of [...]
Steve Yegge makes me feel stupid. There I’ve said it. I’ve come clean and can move on and admit there’s a whole lot I don’t know about development. Actually, I’m going to have to go one step further and admit I know very little about development which is depressing. This biz is a time sink; [...]
I’m just curious if flv / h.264 cuePoints / timed-text tracks, captions and other metadata will actually be picked up by the search engines now?
I’m guessing based on “the dance” here that we can’t expect any actual deep linking to automagically appear.
Right now we’re being spoon fed information. What I’m hoping to hear soon are [...]
Ryan and the Adobe team just let the world know that SEO is no longer the elephant in the room when it comes to Flash goodness.
I’m obviously not in the loop and can’t add much, but it was curious that Adobe, by the looks of the announcement, is not collaborating with Microsoft. Google and [...]
Mark Cuban sees no-model and a bleak future for video on the web, but I’m inclined to agree with one commenter at least.
Call it old media, or old software, but one thing is clear — neither seems to really know who the hell their audience / customers are. You see this reflected back in passive [...]
What happens when you lower transaction costs to the point that making “interface” changes becomes an unremarkable effort? You get more change and less discipline. In some cases the results are positive and in others, not so much as Danah Boyd points out.
In the software industry we often pride ourselves on iteration and view the [...]
The realization that targeted branding is actually very close to user interface design was hammered home as I read through an old Danah Boyd post.
Danah Boyd on personalization within the context of tailored branding:
Bret Victor on context-sensitive information graphics:
One of the reasons Flash has been so important to the brand conscious on the web, is [...]
If you are looking for something similar to flvtool2 or flvmdi, or you are a command line junky then I strongly encourage you to check out MP4Box. MP4Box has a ton of capabilities, but I’m just going to highlight 4 fundamentals:
Read file info (basic metadata).
Split or cut files.
Merge two or more files.
Convert to iPod.
Read basic [...]
I spent about 15 minutes in the Google Code twilight zone this morning. For some reason when hitting the SWFObject 2 Google Code repos (via a Google search) I wasn’t finding anything on the wiki, downloads page or any source in the repository.
An empty wiki page.
Downloads MIA.
I tried to hit the SWFFix dev blog to [...]