Video

An example of the exploding world of inexpensive, high quality media apps – Camtasia.

This blog is dedicated (most of the time) to advanced web, semantic web, Web 2.0/3.0, and web media technology.

Last time.

In the last posting we took a look at the wide spectrum of media and communications technology that more and more of us are expected to...

Fast is a matter of perspective

From boxes of IBM cards to animation on websites.

It's easy, if you're my age, to be very excited about the speed of the new generation of multi-core processors and about ever-increasing Internet bandwidth.  Hey, I started out writing programs on punch machines that spat...

The challenge of learning – and teaching – modern media management, Part 3

This blog is dedicated to emerging technology for Web 2.3/3.0, the Semantic Web, and multimedia management.  Two postings...

The challenge of learning – and teaching – modern media management

Media applications, a key technology for today's professionals.

We've looked at modern media applications in previous postings of this blog.  They represent...

The Challenge of Complex Media in a Relational World, Part 1

Relational databases: the dominant technology. Relational database management systems, such as MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2, and Postgresql, support the relational model. A database is broken up into tables, and each table consists of rows. Each row is a series of values. ...

The Parallel Worlds of Media Databases and Media Metadata

Searching traditional business data: straight-forward. Managing advanced forms of media, such as images, sound, video, natural language text, and animated models have...

The imposing heterogeneity of media applications

This blog is dedicated to the discussion of emerging web technologies. Today, we look at a the rapidly growing world of media applications, and their impact on the Semantic Web. The...