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.
@erinjo Cheers! Just, y'know, releasing some steam while I walk to get some brain-awakening bubble tea.
Oh, man. Who thought it was a good idea to get an office above a pizza pub?
Is it possible to trigger Chromecast streaming using Javascript? (i.e., can you create your own interface to send content to Chromecast?)
Knightmare's coming back for one week only. I badly wanted to be a contestant as a kid; I wonder if David Rowe is back to do the backdrops ..? http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/24/knightmare-revived-youtube-geek-week
When life gives you lemons, at least you're probably not going to get scurvy.
Manning shouldn't go down on an "aiding the enemy" charge. He would have done so inadvertently; the implication (as I see it) is that anyone who takes an action that is not in the political interests of the United States might be liable under that charge. I'm not a lawyer, but it sounds like a very bad precedent.
Americans don't swear nearly as much as British people. I'm good at watching my language now, but you should hear me when I stub my toe.
@adammathes Agree completely. A lot of work needs to be done there. There's something in a turnkey server that manages like an iPad.
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.
Absolutely loving that WordPress is getting press coverage for their 3.6 release. Good news for consumer open source projects everywhere.
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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The thing about treadmills is that, while they're great exercise, at some point you've got to get off.
@barnabywalters Honestly, kudos for getting to that point. A lot of developers never do.
The wifi password in this cafe is legitimately 0123456789. That's easy to remember, because I've got the same combination on my luggage.
It was an authentic German beer hall! Now the "prototype iPhone left in bar" story all makes sense.
I'm not sure I'm too keen on ads like this showing up inside my work email - even though, I have to admit, now I really want to see the movie. Cumberbatch as Assange is an inspired choice.
@voraciousbrain If you get any kind of rash, run, don't walk to the doctor and get tested + treated for Lyme Disease.
@stef That's actually a genius idea. I'm getting some loud and clear responses from Twitter, but I may try this.
@rubyegau It's up for me, but they might have different clusters for different geographic regions.
@brckngh I just don't buy that this is the intention behind the policy. The effect is to monitor everybody's Internet usage.
Cool! <a href="http://demisflanagan.com/">@demisflanagan</a> has a plugin for <a href="http://idno.co">@teamidno</a> that changes the homepage to show your profile info: https://github.com/demisflanagan/Homepro
Designing for serendipity is incredibly hard, but Futureful seems to be doing it really well: http://www.fastcoexist.com/1682515/a-stumbleupon-for-design-geeks
Proof of alien life, and that they are romantically inclined. #heart #oakland #hills #labyrinth
Proof of alien life, and that they are romantically inclined. #heart #oakland #hills #labyrinth
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