Nstein Technologies to Roll Out Imprezzeo Visual Search Tool

Image-Based Search Software Will Help Nstein’s Digital Publishing Networks Clients Achieve Faster, More Accurate Image Searches LONDON – Imprezzeo, an image search software company, today announced a partnership with Nstein Technologies, Inc., a leading supplier of digital publishing solutions, including Text Mining, Web Content Management, and Digital Asset Management. Nstein will integrate Imprezzeo’s image-based search […]

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Unified content management

As the number and type of distribution outlets and digital video services increase, creating a unified process for managing and distributing digital video content becomes more complex. A primary challenge for service providers is the ability to transform and package one video archive across multiple viewing platforms. Few organizations efficiently do this, while most stay […]

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Open Educational Resources Issue

Open Educational Resources are good for the economy (or at least, economizing). They are also good for students, teachers, and the environment. And they currently theme the most recent issue ofOpen Learning, The Journal of Open and Distance Learning(Volume 24, Issue 1). ccLearn’s own Executive Director, Ahrash Bissell, submitted a paper last fall entitled, “Permission […]

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The Great Open Dilemma

NowCloud Computing vendors are increasingly embracing “openness” in their products and platforms. The adoption is a result of demand for openness among the users and any vendor who try to lock-in users’ data inside a proprietary enclosure faces the real danger of losing out in the competitive marketplace. Openness has moved from being a moral […]

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The Quicktime Conundrum

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There’s nothing like waking up in the morning and realizing that your chief marketing tool is probably driving away more clients than it’s attracting. I both love, and hate, Quicktime. Flash is the universally accepted method of viewing video on the web but it doesn’t seem to be an easy or cost-effective tool for those […]

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Fun clips for the end of a long agency edit day

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As we sat for a long while at the end of the edit day recently waiting for either an approval or changes to come down from on-high we killed some time listening to / watching the usual smattering of You Tube videos and Internet clips that are parodies of many of the things editors face […]

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Innovative Virtual Communication – HyperMirror System Uses HaiVision’s Low-Latency MAKO-HD™ Code

MONTREAL – March 9, 2009 – HaiVision Network Video, the world’s leading vendor of high definition (HD) H.264 TelePresence codecs, today announced that its hai1020™ network video system and acclaimed MAKO-HD™ H.264 codec are being implemented in HyperMirror*, an innovative integrated solution that brings distance-learning participants into a single virtual room. Developed at Japan’s Osaka […]

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Mike’s Buyer’s Guide – Inside the new iMacs for editors

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Apple introduced new iMacs the other week with bumped up specs. There are now four models to choose from on the online store, and all can be customized – but not all the same – you can upgrade some 24″ models differently than some of the others, and the 20″ is its own creature. So, […]

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1000 Words is Worth More Than Most Pictures

This fun animation by Alex Gopher where objects are replaced with words that represent them is what Marc Canter would refer to as an “again” experience: It is worth viewing more than once in order to catch all of the clever references. Please feel free to share links to other examples of clever type animation […]

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