Archive for January, 2012
Adaptive Live Video Streaming: Everything You Need To Know [Video]
From the article: ” In a 45-minute session at the recent Streaming Media West conference in Los Angeles, MTV Jan Ozer taught a roomful of attendees the basics and complexities of adaptive streaming. “There’s two basic types of adaptive streaming technologies: one is a server-based technology, and the primary server-based technology now is RTMP Flash. With a server-based technology, the server is in charge of delivering a different stream to the player,”… “With an HTTP-based system, which is HTTP Flash, HTTP Live Streaming — or HLS, which is the Apple system — the player monitors the same characteristics, but it’s in charge of going to get a different stream when the circumstances dictate a stream change, … ” If you are looking to learn more about?adaptive streaming and its encoding needs, as well as related concepts, such as keyframes, chunking, and manifest files you need to check this video out:? http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid897709167001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAAADEURYw~,kpjcfLGBbVfV_nqUUCkA1vYpmRTGak7R&bctid=1352506026001 ? Full article: http://www.onlinevideo.net/2012/01/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-adaptive-streaming%e2%80%a6/ ? (Curated by Robin Good) See it on Scoop.it , via Online Video Publishing
Create Simple and Engaging One-Question Polls Embeddable Anywhere: Quipol
Robin Good : Quipol is a new free service which makes it extremely easy for anyone to create a one-question poll to be rapidly published online. Once you have filled out your question text, some context and provided an image to go with your poll, you are set to go. The poll gets immediately published on its own unique URL, like this one: http://quipol.com/j5QCmQY0 ? while you get also a snippet of JavaScript code that you can use to embed the poll on any site or blog. Readers can vote up or down and comment as well. Created polls can still be edited with Quipol even after having been published, and can be deleted at any time. Check this Mashable review:? http://mashable.com/2012/01/30/quipol/ ? Other interesting tools in this space: Toluna , Micropoll , PollDaddy . The service is free. Find out more: http://quipol.com/ ?? See it on Scoop.it , via Web Publishing Tools
Transform Your Blog Into a Flipboard-Looking Magazine for the iPad: Onswipe
Robin Good : OnSwipe is a great service that allows anyone to easily generate an iPad-compatible version of their blog, that is beautifully designed and extremely easy to access and navigate.? OnSwipe provides a free online dashboard in which, after you have registere yourself, you can set up any number of content sections based on RSS feeds or other content channels you have access to.? OnSwipe does all the rest. What you need to do on your end is to place a tiny JavaScript snippet into your web site home page HTML code and from that moment on, iPad-based visitors will be served your web site “special” version, organized around the sections and feeds you have previously provided. To get an idea of the final results looks like check also this other video clip: http://youtu.be/BpBg9BM2FKU ? ? Try it out now on any site. I have tested it and it does work flawlessly. ? Impressive. 9/10 Try it out here: http://onswipe.com ? See it on Scoop.it , via Web Publishing Tools
The Perfect Assistant for Transcribing The Audio Track of Your Interviews: Transcribe
Robin Good : If you have ever transcribed a video interview, you know how frustrating is to pause, restart and rewind the video a million times to be able to get the full audio track to be transcribed properly. Transcribe comes to the rescue with a free online service that facilitates the transcription of any video. Transcribe provides a set of dedicated options to step through the audio track to be transcribed easily.? You can pause, stop, slow down, speed up and rewind and forward of a few seconds the track at any moment by using a few keys on your computer keyboard. To use it you only need to upload your .wav or .mp3 audio track and you are ready to go- Very useful. 9/10 The service is free to use:? http://transcribe.wreally.com/ ? (Unearthed by Ana Cristina Pratas – Reviewed by Robin Good)? See it on Scoop.it , via Online Video Publishing
SEO: 6 Key Things To Do To Leverage The Merging of Google+ Data into the SERPs
Here six key things you should keep in mind if you want to do SEO optimization that leverages to the max the recent merging of Google+ results into the SERPs:? 1) It will be more important than ever to be positively connected to people and influencers within the industries you represent. 2) Treat your Google profile like your own site. Assume that your actions always influence your GPA. 3) Treat +1s like links. Meaning, don’t +1 things that are spammy, because it may adversely affect your GPA. 4) When other sites publish your guest posts, make sure they not only link to your site, but also link to your G+ profile using rel=”author”. 5) Try to have your own content +1′d and shared by as many people as possible. 6) Strive to get links on a profile with an assumed high GPA.? ? Read more:? http://raventools.com/blog/what-the-merging-of-google-and-google-search-means-to-seo/ See it on Scoop.it , via Internet Marketing Strategy 2.0