Sunday, December 10, 2006

VeniceProject

I've recently discovered the VenicePrject. That's the most mistified project ever! :) I wasn't able to find a thing about what it is exactly. Only that the guys who started Skype are behind it. They say it's something like p2p video streaming, but I know there are plenty p2p solutions available today already..like http://octoshape.com ..Well when Skype was starting there were already some VoIP messengers, so who knows..

If anybody is interested, you can start searching an info about the project here.
http://www.theveniceproject.com/


If you find anything, please post a comment here! I am really curiouse about it.

New stuff

Few cool things from the Media market I liked recently.

First - YouTube launches it's new feature - QuickCapture. (http://youtube.com/my_videos_quick_capture). It really looks like a great feature and I've been thinking a lot about something like this. In fact I'm currently implementing something like this. The funniest thing is that that Quick Capture page crashes on my laptop. :) It just starts downloading and then bam! I see the error message saying there was an error in my camera driver. I think it's worth to say that I'm using my QTek 8310 Smartphone as a camera:) but still, looks like YouTube didn't expect someone this.


Then the second thing is WPF/E CTP version. It's been released for a week or so already, and had a huge attention on WMTalk group. I have to say I LOVED it, even though it's only a CTP version and it loaded my CPU 87% just when watching the movie. You can find some cool samples of WPF/E here:

http://www.thewpfblog.com/


Cool thing is that it's able to co-exist with Flash. Like here:
http://thewpfblog.com/examples/wpfe/microbe/Default.html


More info on WPF/E here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb190632.aspx
I've downloaded the WPF/E SDK, but for some reason didn't look at it yet. Well... I hope I will soon. The launch is expected in the first half of 2007 anyway;)

If you're posting you exist (neo Decart;)

Read that somewhere, so here I go. It's the start of my existence. Happy birthday to me!