latakoo
Video technology is hard; latakoo is simple
Video technology is still underdeveloped on the web. Over at latakoo, we've just started a technology blog to talk about what we're doing: in nine minutes You can read the first post here.
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Web
Here's what Google+ could have been
Confession: I want to like Google+. I think competition is a great thing, and Google is in a unique position to do something fascinating with social platforms. It's also significant that a lot of really brilliant people from the decentralized web community - Chris Messina, Will Norris and
Data control
You need to be wearing Google goggles to think this is a good idea
Today, Google released this video of Google Glass, an augmented reality project: Beautiful, right? It's a virtual assistant that sticks with you wherever you go. Exciting features debuted in the video include: * Automatic geo-tracking of both you and your friends. * Seamless photo-taking and live video broadcasting from anywhere
latakoo
Check out our entry for the Knight News Challenge!
We're a part of the Knight News Challenge: Speed up, simplify, economical sending and sharing of large video files from anywhere to aid journalists and others. 2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? Slow or expensive methods of video delivery exist,
Elgg
Community ownership and social networks as markets
Johannes Ernst just put me to shame by writing this blog post while sitting next to me at Elgg Camp San Francisco: [...] But there’s a stronger undertone from speaker after speaker talking about their projects. It’s about how the community wants and needs to own and control their
latakoo
Back from SXSW. What an incredible week!
It's been an amazing week, both for me and for latakoo. I've only just flopped back into my apartment in Berkeley, but here are some links: On the official Box blog, Box and latakoo make video uploads faster than ever: What does scale is anything that
latakoo
Twitter Bootstrap is rocking my world
We're working on a new feature for latakoo, which will allow you to create your own niche video-sharing networks. Cool, right? What's even cooler is that the interface is based on Bootstrap 2, a UI framework for Twitter. We're using it as a bedrock
Elgg
ElggCamp San Francisco
A long time (almost three years) ago now, I worked on an open source project called Elgg, which I also co-founded. It was vastly more popular than we had anticipated - from a small start in education, the community pulled it in all kinds of amazing directions - but after
General
Let's meet at SXSW
It's that time of year again: I'll be at the SXSW Interactive festival next week. From March 12th through the 15th, latakoo will be on stand #308, talking about what we're doing - and for much of the time, so will I. Come say
Profiled
A geek's guide to writing
I've had this idea for a story for years. We live in a world where truth is curated for us, everything we do can be tracked and used to infer things about what we're going to do next, and identity is defined by what we broadcast.
Consultancy
10 rules for startups
1. The user isn't the product being sold. The user is the customer. 2. Startups become big by empowering their customers with great products and services that allow them to do things that were previously difficult or impossible. 3. A company is a group of people with a
latakoo
Using bandwidth effectively
I wrote a post over on the latakoo blog about using bandwidth resources judiciously: Too many apps and services treat bandwidth as an unconstrained, ubiquitous resource. We think that’s wrong, for a number of reasons. So early on in latakoo's development, we decided to compress video before