Needed: Infrastructure to Make the Web Personal

Needed: Infrastructure to Make the Web Personal – GigaOM. The web is becoming more dynamic, context-aware and personalized by the day, and the amount of information consumed by each person is increasing exponentially. But while hardware performance is improving, except when it comes to the simplest of parallel programming tasks, software infrastructure is not keeping […]

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Extractiv: Content Provisioning

Extractiv: Content Provisioning : Beyond Search. A happy quack to the reader who alerted me to Extractiv. The company is in the “content provisioning business”, and I did not know what this phrase meant. I know about “telecommunications provisioning”, but the “content” part threw me. I followed the links my reader sent me and located […]

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Video Ubiquity as a Transformational Impact

How Falling Prices Have Created Video Ubiquity – GigaOM. Transformational Impact The impact of more video devices in more places is the consumption of more bandwidth than ever before, which will transform networking. And more processing and storage will be required than ever before, which will transform IT, including cloud computing. Today’s HDTV streams need […]

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Deeper Modes of Expression, Part 2: Interpolation Methods

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As we noted last month, we’re serializing the Deeper Modes of Expression bonus chapter from our book Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects into a set of 12 posts here on PVC. As February is the shortest month, perhaps it’s appropriate that this us the shortest installment – but we also consider this to be […]

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Review: Digital Anarchy’s Beauty Box

Review: Digital Anarchy’s Beauty Box. Digital Anarchy has produced some truly fine plug-ins over the years. I still think their Psunami plug in for After Effects rocks and rolls and have used it often over the years. Not too long ago they sold most of their video software to Red Giant and focused on the […]

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Ideas for the Apple iPad in post-production

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With Apple’s announcement of the iPad there’s been tons of articles, tweets and blog posts about this upcoming piece of hardware. There’s also been tons of ink spilled about just how this little device could be useful in the filmmaking process as well, some right here on this site. I had decided not to write […]

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