Thinking about our project

I think its useful for everyone to do some munching and ruminating on the changes in society that the technology we are using brings. A good place to start is here:

Clay Shirky's Writings About the Internet - Economics and Culture, Media and Community, Open Source

The Link to the sight is here

And a link to an artical to start you going http://shirky.com/writings/broadcast_and_community.html

Food for thought.

Visionontv on your TV

This is one of the first products that should work with the video format we use (H264) to play what we broadcast direct to your TV vier our standered media player app. The will be many more of these over the next few months as the H264 chip prices decrease.

social networks?

A good short look at how social networks work here



We are looking at ning as a social networking back end?

update

Our list of NEW subscribers are here – they are going up slow:
http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/myfeeds

Good artical on the money side of IPTV
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/03/01/8401044/index.htm

Miro – were is it going:
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2007/10/nonprofit_software

How much video is the on the web and were:
http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1529
http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=11909

The scalability of torrents:
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-serving-over-4-million-torrents-a-day/

A good link about the opportunely to re-define advertising here

Solar backpack

I have a new soler system which is much less complex than the old one - works well using a mypowerALL battery. to make it work you need to take care to balance the components and get some custom adapters/cables.

You can see the old system here