There aren't many places in the world where I can bump into the woman who saved my mother's life in the car park.
Starting the day with Excel means it's going to be a bad one; starting it with Photoshop means it's going to be great. #digitalsuperstition
How entrepreneurship is reshaping the legal industry: http://www.forbes.com/sites/carisommer/2013/07/24/how-entrepreneurship-is-reshaping-the-legal-indust...
There aren't many places in the world where I can bump into the woman who saved my mother's life in the car park.
Good morning San Francisco! I see you're looking inspiring again this morning.
Alright, I think it's about time to invest in a hot water bottle.
The UK "porn" (read: "everything we don't like") filters seem to be another part of David Cameron's plan to make the UK into the least desirable place to live in Europe. Seems to be working so far. Good job!
I don't always run out of coffee, but when I do, I make Tremors 2 references. "That's never happened to me before."
Pronunciation Book looks like it's actually an ARG. The amount of work that went into this is incredible. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57595608-1/pronunciation-youtube-channel-turns-into-a-spooky-mys...
@barnabywalters That's really cool. Do you know what it means? What was it?
@mhutchings Yep, it was the Ferry Centre's membership card.
I literally only ever watch TV with my mother anymore. Tonight: two more episodes of The Newsroom.
"Every Entrepreneur Should Try Magic Mushrooms." Never tried, but it's not the first time I've heard this: http://evanreas.postagon.com/7b5qu6xuc
"Just after I've cleaned the kitchen" is not the perfect time to microwave soy chorizo. Also, there is no perfect time to microwave soy chorizo.
Walked out of a Kimya Dawson gig last night because it was too twee for me. I'm not the same person I was when I moved here.
Much empathy, tears for <a href="http://twitter.com/nprscottsimon">@nprscottsimon</a> this morning. Caring for a parent is one of the hardest things you can do.
Absolutely loving that WordPress is getting press coverage for their 3.6 release. Good news for consumer open source projects everywhere.
Wouldn't it be interesting if TV networks broadcast the raw video that they use, and allowed us to create our own layers of data around them?
Doing some extreme spring cleaning (late). Weird finding remnants of what feels like another life. I guess I'd better keep at least two of these.
Weird finding remnants of what feels like another life. I guess I'd better keep at least two of these.
I love this: ArtAround is a crowdsourced map of art in the communities around us. http://theartaround.us/
Long day, which started badly but ended well. Excited to see Hamell on Trial and Kimya Dawson.
I don't think it's saying too much to talk about how we're building latakoo into a cloud media database. Customers from all over the world - a large number of which are television journalists - are using us to send footage, archive it in a searchable way, and synchronize it with their own enterprise infrastructure. Broadcasting and Cable recently discussed one of the things we're doing with NBC News, which leverages our API to distribute archive footage to paying clients. But every day, we're adding more hooks and functionality to allow people to build sophisticated media workflows with latakoo as the back-end.
Here's one example of how it works.
A journalist out in the field shoots some footage, and pulls it straight off the camera into the latakoo desktop app. (For example, we'll take footage from a Panasonic P2 card.) They choose one or more destinations, and hit "start". The app then intelligently compresses the footage, taking note of metadata like timecode, and stitches segmented video files into a single long piece of footage if the user wants it to. It's then rapidly sent over a standard Internet connection (some folks use 4G cards, others go to Starbucks or use sat phones) to our servers. There's an iOS app too, of course, and Android is on the cards. We're also releasing new versions of the desktop app later in the summer, which includes much faster uploads for high-bandwidth environments.
Once the media hits our servers, it might be transcoded into a format of the recipient's choice, and sent to their infrastructure. That's important, because media operations don't want to have to worry about format incompatibilities: they just need to receive the footage quickly, in a predictable, fast way. There's full individual and role-based permissions, so only the people of the recipient's choice can see it on latakoo.com, and of course they have full control over their infrastructure.
They can embed the video on the web, of course, but they can also add extras like automatic transcriptions, or push to a custom-branded video portal. They can also use our API to search, retrieve and manipulate their content (which is designed to make integration simple, unlike the SOAP-based messes a lot of professional media platforms are saddled with).
Internally, our platform has the ability to hook any custom metadata at all off the footage, and we're in the process of releasing that to our customers too. There are also tags, notes, comments, and everything you'd expect from a social platform for business.
We're a very small team, but I'm proud of everything we've put together. We punch above our weight, consistently, and although enterprise software might not be as sexy as the next Snapchat or Instagram, we get to be the delivery backbone for some very high-quality news operations around the US. They depend on us, and we're proud to serve them.
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