Interface Development

The Bungenäs Project

2011-07-01T14:03:00.001+02:00

A really cool architectrual project on the peninsula of Bungenäs on the island of Gotland. Check out the project page or download Gestaltningsprogram and Detaljplaneförslag

Skälsö Arkitekter, Architects on Gotland

2011-04-21T00:53:00.002+02:00

Check out the Responsive site for Skälsö Arkitekter (Gotland Sweden). Don't miss their fantastic projekt on the peninsula of Bungenäs. The peninsula east of Fårösund is surrounded by sea on three sides, from northeast to southwest. Now Skälsö Arkitekter has a unique detailed plan for a new Bungenäs: 152 lots with discrete buildings, carefully tailored to both nature and culture. The peninsula will remain a pedestrian area, open for all to discover on foot or by bicycle.

Sites by figur8

2010-09-20T00:33:00.000+02:00

A list of older sites made by figur8

Magnus Palmborg new Content Licensing partner at Music Super Circus

2010-09-18T20:34:00.002+02:00

Music licensing is the licensed use of copyrighted music. Music licensing is intended to ensure that the creators of musical works get paid for their work. A purchaser of recorded music owns the media on which the music is stored, not the music itself. A purchaser has limited rights to use and reproduce the recorded work.

DEFENITIONS

The following words and phrases appear in discussion of music licensing:

license
the right, granted by the copyright holder, for a given person or entity to broadcast, recreate, perform, or listen to a recorded copy of a copyrighted work

licensor
the owner of the licensed work

licensee
the person or entity to whom the work is licensed

performance
for the purposes of this article, the live performance of a musical piece, regardless of whether it's performed by the original artist or in the manner it is best known

broadcast
the replaying of pre-recorded works to multiple listeners through various media or in a 'semi-live' setting such as a bar or bookstore, and including radio, TV, webcasting, podcasting, etc. (Note: Using this definition and the previous one, you find the information that leads to phrases like 'live broadcast performance'.)

performing rights organization
large companies, the best-known of whom are ASCAP, BMI, and to a lesser extent SESAC (there are others as well) whose fundamental job it is to keep track of every single performance or broadcast of all works protected under copyright. A more in-depth analysis of how these organizations work will be threaded throughout the body of this article

pre-cleared music
music that has been pre-negotiated for price, distribution and legal use, generally through licensing for film, video, television (commercials and programs), Internet, events, video games and multimedia productions.

copyright
literally, 'the right to copy.' Prior to 1886, no effective international law of copyright existed. The first major international copyright law conventions were the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works created in 1886. It is not within the scope of this document to examine the various changes, additions, and ancillary agreements to the Berne Convention.

synchronization licensing
the licensing of musical works to be synchronized with moving pictures as background in a motion picture, television program, video, DVD, etc.
master use licensing
the licensing of the recording of a musical work to be performed as a soundtrack, bumper, lead-in or background to a motion picture.

publisher
for the purposes of copyright, a publisher is the owner of the copyrighted work. It is now standard practice for songwriters of even the slightest prominence to form a 'publishing company' who actually owns the rights to their work; the reasons for this are matters of legal finery and largely not of value to the scope of this article. This phrasing is reflective of the state of media at the time of the Berne Convention, when all music distribution was done on paper as sheet music (or player piano rolls).

NEED HELP WITH LICENSING?

Contact: Magnus Palmborg of Music Supervision company music super circus

Fredrik Davidssons portfolio sajt

2010-05-17T11:31:00.001+02:00

Check out Director Fredrik Davidssons new site

Bloggar om Andra Avenyn

2009-06-22T16:23:00.000+02:00

Och Hamza är tillbaka
Den 13 januari är serien tillbaka igen, då med ett 45 minutersavsnitt i veckan - tisdagar kl 21.00 i SVT1 och tisdag morgon i SVT Play. Då fortsätter intrigerna på Riverside där Dennis (Göran Parkrud) har dåligt samvete för att han börjat åtrå Lotta (Gunilla Johansson) som ju är en gift kvinna. Tony (Stefan Gödicke) skrivs ut från sjukhuset men börjar oroa sig allt mer för Kitty (Johanna Lazcano) som inte hört av sig. Ulla söker upp Greger (Rasmus Troedsson) i vredesmod och skämmer ut sig. Rasmus (Bill Hugg) hittar henne berusad och utslagen hemma hos Sigrid (Sara Nygren) och börjar tröttna på hennes beteende. Och Roxana (Fortesa Hoti) beslutar sig för att hitta Silvias biologiska far.

UG avslöjar något som faktiskt är viktigt

2009-06-22T15:27:00.002+02:00

http://svt.se/2.111085/1.1561437/berusad_polis_deltog_vid_insats_dar_over_30_skott_avlossades Uppdrag Granskning hoppar inte bara på hundorganistationer och AP fonder! Ibland skriver de om något viktigt också!

Polisen avlossade över 30 skott rakt in i ett villaområde i Luleå förra året.
Nu kan Uppdrag granskning avslöja att en av polismännen som deltog vid insatsen varken var i tjänst - eller nykter.

Ica ica ica

2009-06-22T15:05:00.001+02:00

Men det här är ju en aktiv handling, inte ett misstag?
- Ja. Vi kan ha gjort fel, det beklagar jag i såna fall. Det är inget jag känner till, säger Mikael Andersson i Haninge. Men en timme efter intervju ringer han upp och berättar hur han nu hittat "den person" i personalen som brutit mot regelverket och märkt om köttfärsen. Han berättar också att "felet" är åtgärdat och att man skall sluta mala köttfärs i butiken.

- Det där känner jag inte igen, det är inte min butik. Era filmer bevisar inget säger Jonas Berg i Södertälje. Han är den enda av de fyra handlarna som vidhåller att de inte begått något fel.

Läs mer på deva om köttfusket

The face of Pirate Party voters

2009-06-15T17:31:00.000+02:00

Pirate party voters: http://svt.se/2.22620/1.1586499/fildeling_viktigast_for_pp_s_valjare

BANANAS!* to world premiere at 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival

2009-05-15T09:53:00.002+02:00

BANANAS!*, filmmaker Fredrik Gertten’s suspenseful, layer-peeling, non-fiction chronicle on the global politics of food and First vs. Third world dynamics, will make its World Premiere in Documentary Competition at the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival.
Directed by Gertten, one of Sweden’s preeminent documentarians and investigative journalists, BANANAS!* focuses on a slippery fact trail and a landmark legal case pitting a dozen Nicaraguan plantation workers against Dole Food Corporation and its alleged usage of a deadly banned pesticide and its probable link to generations of sterilized workers.
Central to both the film and case is Juan “Accidentes” Dominguez, a Los Angeles-based personal injury attorney who, although iconic within the Latino community for his ubiquitous billboard ads, is unquestionably facing the biggest case and challenge in his career.

As the legal representation on the first Nicaraguan sterility case to be tried in US courts, Dominguez and his colleague, Duane C. Miller, are breaking new ground. Theirs is a bellwether case: The first of thousands of cases awaiting trial in Nicaragua and the first legal case where foreign farm workers were allowed to testify against an American multinational corporation before a full jury on U.S. soil. At stake are the futures of generations of workers, their families as well as the culture of global, multinational business.

Check out the Bananas* movie site

Music Super Circus Show Reel

2008-12-01T13:57:00.001+01:00

Check out Music Super Circus Music Supervision and Music Production showreel

Vill du bli min nya kollega?

2008-07-04T11:53:00.001+02:00

SVT interaktiv rekryterar webbutvecklare

SVT:s vision är att göra Fri television i världsklass och att vara den främsta arenan för kvalificerade och kreativa medarbetare här i Sverige. Vill du vara med och bidra till det? SVTi ska öka tempot och söker nu skickliga webbutvecklare till Innehållsutvecklingen.

Vi erbjuder

Nu finns en möjlighet för dig att få vara med och vidareutveckla public serviceutbudet på webben! På SVTi arbetar vi med konceptutveckling av innehåll och det senaste inom modern medieteknik - målet är att ha det vassaste webberbjudandet. I vår tjänstefamilj ingår bland annat svt.se – en av Sveriges största mediesajter och SVT Play – fri television på webben där publiken själv får välja när och var de vill ta del av SVT:s breda utbud, gratis och helt reklamfritt! Under våren har vi också utvecklat Play Rapport, en nichkanal för webbnyheter. Vi är stolta över det vi gjort hittills men det finns fortfarande många roliga saker kvar att designa och bygga.

Hos oss är frihet under ansvar viktiga ledord liksom att ha kvalité i det vi gör lika väl som att bidra till helheten genom personlig utveckling och att ha kul!

Vem är du?

Vi söker dig som brinner för webbutveckling och har förmågan att omvandla idéer till konkreta lösningar. Att du är en erfaren webbutvecklare utgår vi från, men vi vill också att du tar aktiv del i innehållsutvecklingen. Vi tror att du, förutom ditt intresse för webbutveckling, också är en ”omvärldsbevakare”, självklart främst när det gäller trender inom vårt område, är ständigt mottaglig för nya intryck och kan bidra med idéer.

Du är kreativ, idérik, drivande, positiv och flexibel. Dessutom trivs du både med att arbeta självständigt såväl som i grupp, är självklart kvalitetsmedveten och tar stort personligt ansvar.

Du har...

dokumenterad och aktuell erfarenhet av webbutveckling (bifoga adresser till dina senaste projekt)
erfarenhet av HTML, XHTML, XML, JavaScript/Ajax, CSS, Flash (Actionscript 2, erfarenhet även av 3 är meriterande!) och Photoshop
mycket god formkänsla och kan även själv göra webbdesign av olika grafiska sidelement
god förståelse för de krav som ställs på funktioner som byggs för stora sajter med många samtidiga besökare.
erfarenhet av utveckling av mallar för CM-system, är ett plus men absolut inget krav

För ytterligare information ring Kristina Halling 08-784 35 53. Fackliga frågor besvaras av Gun Karlsson, SIF, tel 08-784 48 06, Pia Weisberg, SJF, 08-784 31 03, och Erik Lundbeck, SACO, tel 08-784 65 06.

Din ansökan ska vara oss tillhanda senast 080801.

SVTi är en av tre divisioner på SVT. Vi utvecklar innehåll och innehållsstödjande tjänster inom nya publiceringsformer. Divisionen har övergripande ansvar för utvecklingen av svt.se, SVT Play och mobila tjänster. Vi är för närvarande drygt 40 anställda som arbetar inom grupperna Redaktion, Drift, Innehållsutveckling och Teknikutveckling.

The Venice Project

2007-01-05T22:45:00.000+01:00

I have been testing The Venice Project for two days now. De distribution seems to be working very well. I sit in Nicaragua on a 256 cable modem...

But, they have on of the worst Interaction Designs I have ever seen in the application. It's very, very hard to find any good content.

I posted this to their suggestion forum:

I Love the project but you clearly have a whole lot of work to put in in terms of Interaction Design for Channel/Program browsing and search. It's already very hard to find content I'm interested in viewing, this will only get worse as more content is added.

Right now everything is based on browsing by channels... Channels that I don't know or care about. I want to find good content. I don't care what channel is providing it!

An EPG complemented by some user defined taxonomy and trend patterns might do the trick... Previews and/or multiple stillframes are also needed.

Maybe you already have some really good (and revolutionary) ideas in the pipe. Lets hope so, because when we move out from the scheduled Broadcast TV world on fixed channels the key to success will be content availability.

Also. Different types of content will need to be found in different ways... Latest news and sports will have to be browsed differently than Dramas and miniseries.

Quick response:

From what I have heard from the TVP team these features are coming when they get thier Back Office components working fully ,at the moment they are testing how all their systems scale .

Will wait and see.

Prototype.js crashes IE6 on some computers

2006-11-24T14:47:00.000+01:00

On a very big site I'm working with some users started contacting us about crashes when they were just entering the page! The Error message said:

AppName: iexplore.exe AppVer: 6.0.2900.2180 ModName: kernel32.dll 
ModVer: 5.1.2600.2945 Offset: 00012a5b

The KERNEL32.DLL file is a 32-bit dynamic link library file that is found in Windows. The KERNEL32.DLL file handles memory management, input/output operations, and interrupts.

I was unable to recreate the error on any test machine but with som help from visitors I managed to narrow it down to the prototype.js library. We directed them to some others sites using the library and shure enough, those sites were chrashing as well!

I really need to keep prototype or else I have to refactor massive ammounts of code! But it's really hard trying to find what part of prototype causes these crashes when I cant recreate it myself! And I cant find any information about this problem when googling for it!

Note: The site have had more than 2 million unique visitors sense we implemented the Prototype JavaScript Framework and only 6 visitors have reprted problems!

If someone has heard of this before. Please leave a comment!!!

My lead right now: [Rails-spinoffs] Re: IE 6 SP1 crashes on pages with Scriptaculous - SOLVED

OK. It is a Browser Helper Object BHO found in some Dictionary software that triggers the crash! Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary and the Oxford Advanced Genie have this plugin (that translates words on the page) made by the Danish company textWare (that don't seem to exist anymore). Removing the BHO or simply disabling third-party browser extenstions does the trick.

But I'm not satisfied with this, I really don't want to build sites on top of a framework that can crash the entire browser, even though that only happens with some perhaps very badly written BHOs. I still have a hard time reproducing the error myself, hopefully I can contact some visitor that experieced it again and find out exactly at what line i prototype it occurs!

Amazon Web Services

2006-11-23T09:13:00.000+01:00

"Amazon is starting to rent out just about everything it uses to run its own business, from rack space in its 10 million square feet of warehouses worldwide to spare computing capacity on its thousands of servers, data storage on its disk drives, and even some of the millions of lines of software code it has written to coordinate all that." - Business Week: Jeff Bezos' Risky Bet

Actually Quite fantastic services to use for small projects and companies that need reliable solutions that can scale to the infinite! I only have used Amazon Simple Storage Service (s3) so far. And tested one of the Alexa Web Services so far... works well!

Adobe Kuler

2006-11-22T13:57:00.000+01:00

New from Adobe Labs! A color blender / swatch generator in Flash! It's pretty good but it Lacks an Undo function... it's pretty easy to fuck everything up having to start over... I still prefer colorblender.com. The Ajax interfax actually feels more solid than the Flash one on Kuler.

Also check out The color palette generator - That takes an uploaded image and creates a palette from it!
Color Jack is pretty nice too!

I like like.com

2006-11-21T16:41:00.000+01:00

Alpha released Like.com offers visual fashion search. It seems to work quite well! The company behind the Site, Riya, had a search product for face recognition... not quite as profitable as this shopping search tool has the potential to be!

The real interesting bit is when you can search for products that look LIKE products worn by celebrities! On the site right now there's just a few examples but the word is that in the future you will be able to upload your own pictures.
Celebrities will get even more sponsored clothes and jewellry in the future!!!

Who will buy the company?
Yahoo really ought to! They need an edge over Google and they already own flickr! So why not connect Like.com search to Flickr.com? That would be really sweet!!!

Unobtrusive Table Sort Script (revisited)

2006-09-22T11:55:00.000+02:00

Very impressive work

At a glance
Plays nicely with the JavaScript global namespace (the script creates and reuses only one JavaScript object)
The new script sorts (on average – based on my very non-scientific calculations), 5 times faster than its predecessor
The script’s plug-in architecture makes writing custom sort functions a breeze
The script can now highlight both alternate rows and full columns on a table by table basis.
Like its predecessor, the script is fully keyboard accessible
The script can correctly determine a columns datatype should a datatype not be explicitly defined
The script is smart enough not to sort columns containing identical data
Sort routines can now be initiated using JavaScript
Tables can be automatically sorted on a column of your choice
Before-sort and after-sort callback functions can now be defined

Check it out

Extracting good stills from video

2006-09-20T10:51:00.000+02:00

I need to extract stillframes from video automatically when I compress and autopublish some .flv and .mp4 videos. It's pretty easy to configure FFMPEG to do this at a pre decided frame but I need to be shure that I don't get a blurred out image!

I think the best way would be to define an area lets say 1/3 into the clip an scan it for 50 frames or so to decide wich frame has the least movement. Does anyone know of an easy way to do this?

So much to do and so little time!!!

2005-11-28T20:08:00.000+01:00

Soon I'll try to be back in buisness, updating this blog... Too many large projects going on. But lets link to the really good services I've been using lately: Drupal CMS, FeedBurner and OurMedia.org

Is this OK, or am I a XHTML-Terrorist

2005-07-05T13:44:00.000+02:00

Working on converting a large content managment driven site to Valid XHTML and is trying to keep all Editorial functions as they are.

I'm parsing text from a textarea. I start by defining a paragraph and parse two or more newlines to end it and create a new paragraph. The Editors are allowed to put a picture with caption, a quote block, a fact box etc. wherever they want in the body text (and have been doing so in tens of thousands of articles that I have to keep).

Nesting a <div> inside a <p> ... </p> is not valid and I cant't force the image, qoute, factbox... to be placed outside the paragraph. The only easy solution I want to use is to put the elemts inside a inline-element such as a span, making it valid, but redefine the span to display: block;


<style type="text/css">
.float {
  display: block;
  float: right;
}
</style>

<p>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing 
elit. Etiam vitae sapien. Quisque dictum. Nunc orci 
<span class="float"><img src="lorem.jpg" width="100" height="150" border="0" alt="alttext" />
<br />Caption
</span>
lacus, rutrum eu, elementum quis, rhoncus iaculis, risus. 
Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus 
et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas.
</p>

Is fooling the validator like this OK? Or am I terrorising the quest for a valid marked-up internet! I think it's for a good cause. The Image in this example is inline, inside a pargraph where it actually belongs if that's where the Editor put it. The blockifying done with CSS is just for layout purposes!

Useful apps

2005-06-11T03:39:00.000+02:00

Creativyst: JavaScript Compressor, CSV to XML Converter, CSV to JavaScript, JavaScript Sandbox, Outlook to DCEvents.js

mafriedman: Web-based Javascript IDE

JSMin: The JavaScript Minifier

Ajax Toolkits

2005-06-09T11:44:00.000+02:00

Interesting Open Source projects to make AJAX and XMLHttpRequest easy:
Dojo Toolkit
DWR - Direct Web Remoting
JSON-RPC-Java
Haven't had time to evalute and compare these projects. Does someone have an opinion?

Back at the office. Reading about Ajax

2005-03-21T14:40:00.000+01:00

The vacation is over for this time. Why do I have a job that makes me sit in front of the computer all day? No one should really! Just going through the inbox might take a few days but atleast i found something interesting:

"jesse james garnett dissects googles latest services (mail, suggest, maps)

he defines a new web application model that he dubs "ajax"

heavy use of javascript XML and XMLHttpRequest makes for more "fluid" web applications akin in some parts to fat clients

very relevant, ver interesting read: http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php"

Just relaxing

2005-03-02T06:23:00.000+01:00

My vacation in Australia is really marvelous. My mind is totally free of internet stuff... Better stop surfing the net now then and hit the sea for the real thing. If you by any chance know swedish you can follow our journey on "De Surfande Wännerna - figur8.blogspot.com. Cheers Mate

Going down under

2005-02-16T21:57:00.000+01:00

Leaving for Australia tomorrow to surf for a month (in the ocean). So I won’t be thinking of any of this Interface Development stuff and probably won’t write anything on this Tech Blog of mine either for a while...

Is *{ the new Black?

2005-02-11T15:29:00.000+01:00

Maybe you knew about this little trick before but today my life got a lot easier to live due to a little CSS trick!

*{
     padding:0;
     margin:0;
}

Removing all paddings and margins defaulted by the Browsers! It might even be the new Black of CSS for me (atleast this week)!!!

Mindprint. Everything you need Gadget for your sound studio

2005-02-11T12:24:00.000+01:00

I really need to get one of these: Mindprint

1Kb Flash Game

2005-02-11T09:40:00.000+01:00

A simple yet addictive flash game that only weighs 1kb gskinner.com: gBlog: Tiny addictive Flash game

Google Maps

2005-02-09T10:28:00.000+01:00

Joel Webber have posted a good dissection and analysis of GMap on his blog and Sylvain Wallez is not impressed feature-wise but say Google Maps reveals an impressive architectur. A post on Yahoo Groups talks about GMaps use of VML
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Google Labs releases another beta. The Google Maps. Like always the Google approach to things look a little bit cleaner than the competitors, a little bit faster too perhaps. Better? I don't know! I have no chance to try it for real since I don't live in the U.S. For Europe mainly use www.mappy.com. But it's nice to see many new projects in the pipe... by the way, I tried Yahoo YQ Contextual Search yesterday and it does ROCK!

But I really have to stop blogging search engine stuff. I'm supposed to write about the now and future of web and mobile Interface Development!!!

Information-carrying JavaScript triggers

2005-02-08T14:48:00.000+01:00

It often feels impossible to separate XHTML, CSS and JavaScript completely. Mainly because you need to trigger JavaScript events from inside the markup to pass information to your functions. Here is a good article trying to solve this problem: JavaScript Triggers: A List Apart

More search engine war...

2005-02-08T07:41:00.000+01:00

Look Out MSN Search, Here Comes Gbrowser, Yahoo YQ Contextual Search Rocks... Any improvement by any actor is very welcome.

Some more Google news...

2005-02-08T07:04:00.000+01:00

Google Allegra Update, Google announced two new updates to Google Image Search, Google Dramatically Increases Word Limit, Google Raises Word Limit to 32

jdb cyberspace: Google Mail cranking up the invites

2005-02-07T13:18:00.000+01:00

Google Mail cranking up the invites : jdb cyberspace. On Gmail invite a friend moved down to the right column and now you can invite 50 users... Post a comment with your email here if you want an account from me.

Google vs A9 Image search

2005-02-07T08:32:00.000+01:00

The Google weblog reports that: "...if you search for certain terms, it displays some images and a link to the equivalent Google Images search". Some example words are listed but when I try them I don't see any images or references to the image search. Maybe it's regional, I get the .se domain.

It would be nice though to be able to do simultaneous searches for Web, Images, Groups, News and Froggle on Google like on A9. On A9 you can also search simultaneously in the Yellow Pages and what's really cool are the Street level photos... Google’s biggest advantage has always been it's simplicity but now I'm turning more and more to A9. I even traded my Google bar for the A9 bar in Firefox. It's a time saver to use it. History and Simultaneous searches... but unfortunately no Groups... I would rather see Google implement features like these though. First of all because they would probably make it even better and second of all A9 is owned by Amazon and put up A9 to sell more on their online store (and Google is a Time-Warner company now I heard)...

User specified Google AdSense Ads. Is it useful?

2005-02-04T10:58:00.000+01:00

I love Google, we all love Google. We love Google Labs, Gmail and the AdSense program (cuz - In theory - we make money on our Blogs) but I have some thoughts (not doubts) about some issues.

Google is currently Beta Testing a new AdSense function that allows the user to specify a subject of interest See it here on the left is a "skyscraper" block with the feature. Ok that's really Cool. I can choose to see ads about other related subjects... after the first click I can even specify whatever subject I want to see ads about. And that's when I start questioning it! Some discussions about this I've seen have emphasized on the control needed by the webmaster from their AdSense admin area. See Google Testing True User-Specified Ads.

Many others have been more positive:

"This is a just unbelievable idea. Google is truly pushing the idea that its ads are more than just ads, they're useful, and I commend it."

My biggest question and concern is if it's useful. Unless the personalization goes further this feature is cool but useless! Just like the Google Suggest! Because if I'm to interested in "Personal injury claims" and "Claims Court" and want to now more about lets say "Auto Insurance" I would probably Google for it ... not navigate in a little ad Space...

But both "choose youre ad" and Google suggest could be very useful if they where merged with the Google Labs Personalized Search project and perhaps also with some logging of people’s history of searches... Like A9 Search. But now we are in deep, dark waters when it comes to internet privacy. But let’s not think about that for a minute. Google suggest was only a cool feature testing the XmlHTPPRequest object. But combined with personalization it can be a wonderful feature, just like Gmail's auto completion of addresses. I think this is even truer for the Choose Your Ad feature. If the Ads (and suggested other topics) were chosen by a mix of the page content and my personalized preferences and history they would potentially be dynamite effective...

The good people at Google have probably already thought about this and they can’t close their eyes for the privacy problems, third party cookies and Microsoft’s wish to block them out.

External Related Links:
User specified ads in action!
Google Labs Personalized Search
A9 Search - Remember what you’ve seen—and when!
Microsoft Aims to Block AdSense
Google's innovations are popular and effective. So why does the company find it so hard to pronounce them finished?
Google Testing True User-Specified Ads

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The Google AdWords API beta program

"The AdWords API beta program is an open invitation to developers to explore new concepts (and then write great software) for managing Google AdWords advertising campaigns. Large advertisers can use it for their complex ad management needs, like tying product margins to optimized keyword bids. Third parties can use the API to build new interfaces to manage their client accounts. Best of all, an API enables the creation of all sorts of unanticipated ideas. In our experience, it's better to wear "Not Invented Here" as a badge of honor than as a chip on your shoulder. Come sign up for a developer token and show us what we've been missing."

AdWords API developer blog!
The Google AdWords API beta program

Google Suggest Dissected Follow-up...

2005-02-03T11:23:00.000+01:00

Chris Justus - Server Side Guy: Google Suggest Dissected Follow-up...

And my friend Alex claims he has made the most beautiful way to create a cross browser xmlHTTPRequest object

FLV to other... Revisited

2005-02-03T05:19:00.000+01:00

A comment states that the flw2swf app has the same problem with nellymoser.
Another lead worth checking might be AVISynth that is a scriptable frameserver.
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The German site http://www.flv2swf.de/german.htm Translated version offered a broken link to download a cgi or command line flw to swf converter. On http://www.swftools.com/files/ I found what I suppose most be the same file flv2swf.exe. I don't have the time to try this now. Will get back when I have tested it.

Documentation
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meowmeow has a suggested solution: one way to do conversion is use Action Script Viewer

Brian commented/added this Rewire solution

Was able to get the sound by using doing the following:

1) download audacity from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

2) Select Wave Out Mix (middle of the screen just under skip forward).

3) Press Record (red round button).

4) Play the flash video.

5) Press Stop (beige round button) in audacity.

6) In audacity edit the clip and export (need to download lame extra).

As far as automating the process might be possible on linux if you can pass flv file to a process that can play up the flash video and then read from the sound card (directly from /proc probably). Should be possible to automate with a little/lot of work.

As for rivavx this is defintely a way to expand their product by taking the sound indirectly from the flv and merging it with video format that you want. Support for this type of merging is availible in ffmpeg so it's really a matter of waiting to see if they can make a product of it.

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It seems like the war is lost. Had I seen this forum-discussion earlier it would have saved me two days of work and research! Didn't search for audio-codec when i A9'nd it before.

Some saples from the discussion

quote: Brandon Purcell @ Macromedia

> After some research I found no solution to your specific problem.
> Flash/FCS/Flash Player use a number of different audio codecs, but
> the two primary formats that audio in which audio is stored in a FLV
> are Nelly Moser format and MP3 format. However, there is currently
> no way to extract or convert FLV files into any other audio format.
>
> Thanks
> Brandon

quote: meowmeow70

We decide fold our solution based on macromedia FCS due to above reason. Stay away from FLV as much as we can.

quote: dlorenso

We contacted Sorenson regarding the NellyMoser codec to see if they'd sell us the decoder. Response was something along the lines of several thousand dollars plus restrictions that required profit sharing and/or more thousands. In addition, we would be unable to share the technology we build or make available as a service online...
...Perhaps we can ditch the FCS server soon too...
...Wouldn't it be great if macromedia could adopt formats like MPEG and MP3 into the FCS product? I'd pay for that. Meanwhile ... FLV ... come on Macromedia, open it up, gimme the tools, or it's useless.

It's like I was told from start. It's not a bug it's a feature... But we spent alot on the Flash Com Server and we have an flash webcam app that works very well. So we will try one more thing! My colleague Frank will create a drop folder on our MacOSX server and use Apple script to open the FLV in Flash MX and then export a SWF that I can convert to other formats...

The Video Kiosk on svt.se/faktum (in swedish).

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There were some questions about why I wanted to decode FLV files to other formats. On JD on MX. The thing is we use Flash Communication Server to produce flash video from web cams. A lot of times we would like to present this content on other platforms, like on TV, even though the quality is low...

I could of course import it into Flash MX and Export a SWF and the convert it in any of the million of programs that can convert from SWF (I can actually import that file directly in Avid or AE) … But there’s no time for this and I want the Editor to be able to do it himself.

Then Tinic Uro told me about FFmpeg: A command line tool to convert one video file format to another. It’s an open source project and I couldn’t find any binaries for Windows or Mac OSX. I’m not really that deep into "hardcore programming" so I had some help compiling it and running it on Solaris. It felt like there were thousands of Options to mess with and we just couldn’t get them right... conversion failed.

Then I found Riva FLV Encoder that is like a GUI for FFmpeg and LAME (LGPL MP3 encoder). If I rename the file extension to an Extension of my choice, like AVI I’m able to convert the file from FLV to AVI… But only if I have unchecked Enable Audio! With Audio I get:
The encoding of your video file has failed. This can be caused by a not supported combination of parameters or by a not supported video codec.
I have tried different settings but can’t convert the file with sound.

But wait, lets try converting an AVI to FLV and back again... maybe it’s just something wrong or strange with the sound codec in the file created by Flash Com Server. Yes it worked! But oh, it had no sound. Lets try a MPEG with sound... created the FLV fine... coming back... No...

Must and will take time to read some documentation about the format and about FFmpeg. unless someone else can solve my problem...

A file produced by the Flash Com Server can be found here: http://svt.se/content/1/c6/32/35/48/birgitta_intro.flv

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onedotzero in stockholm

2005-02-02T15:36:00.000+01:00

onedotzero is arranging a festival in Stockholm, sweden 11-13 februari at Moderna Museet (in swedish)

"onedotzero returns to stockholm for a full, three day festival partnering with the prestigious moderna museet and the acclaimed music focused festival popcorn.

the festival presents a series of current onedotzero screenings including a special swedish - focused programme featuring the best in swedish motion graphics, music videos and short films. special events include a live performanace event from u.k a-v pioneers, the light surgeons, vj pranks from stockholm's own stylewar and other very special guest djs.

special guest speakers include music video director adam smith [uk], architects / designers neutral [uk] and directorial collective lynn fox [uk]."

www.onedotzero.com

New MSN-Search, hardly a Google killer!

2005-02-02T13:30:00.000+01:00

search.msn.com The interface is clean, although a little broken in Firefox, and the search results seem ok, except for the Image search that is much better elsewhere. Google is a Verb and this Search Engine has no special features and no apparent benefits! But still... it’s Microsoft so most normal users will probably end up using this one anyway... The only truly innovative new Search Engine I know about is A9.com that comes with history, simultaneous searches on different content etc.

And I eagerly await Google Video Beta to graduate from their Lab. The Result pages say: ”Video is currently not available”. I really hope that means it will be available online... meanwhile my favorite "media search tool" is search.singingfish.com (and www.soccerstreams.com for football/soccer webcasts).

Flash Engineering Blog

2005-02-02T13:09:00.000+01:00

Tinic Uros - Pricipal Engineer at Macromedia - blog about Flash graphics, video and audio. Very interessting and useful!

FLV to other video formats

2005-02-01T13:18:00.000+01:00

» .flv to other continued on new post
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I’ve been looking around for a couple of days now, trying to find something that can convert Flash Video (.FLV) to other Video formats. There’s a lot of products that can convert .SWF to any video format and a lot of info about creating .FLV files... For the project I’m working on I don’t have time to import the .FLV’s to flash and export it as .SWF and then convert it.

When asking on Macromedias General Flash forum a guy called urami_ replied:

"There is no any other really because FLV is not any video standard, it's macromedia standard only.
It is to force you continue getting their products for stuff like online streaming , like the COM
SERVER because no other well know technology will support it. Afraid you have no choice."

Discussion: .flv to avi or .mov or .mpeg or ...

Then I thought I hit the jackpot this morning when a colleague of mine emailed me about Canopus Procoder 2.0. The Technical spec said in there Source Formats: Macromedia® Flash™ video to be one of the supported input formats. Yihaa, finally found it I thought and were about to buy it when my Colleague called me up. He had bought it and discovered that it – as usual – only supported .SWF and not .FLV

Doesn’t .FLV to Video converters exist. Doesn’t anyone but me – and my colleague – need this? Is there legal rights etc? that usually never stops developers in the internet community.

Chris Justus - Server Side Guy: Google Suggest Dissected...

2005-02-01T10:54:00.000+01:00

Study this! Javascript has a future! Chris Justus - Server Side Guy: Google Suggest Dissected...

Take a look at Dynamic HTML and XML: The XMLHttpRequest Object.

Much more about this later on... XMLHttpRequest is the new Black! ...or is Site Mesh?