ginger's thoughts

The Rails authorization plugin is a really nice way of providing role management and restrict access to specific features.

Many companies are intending to undertake viral video marketing campaigns.

This is not my typical blog post, but if it helps achieve the goal, so be it.

It's great to read at ClickZ that the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is preparing new format guidelines for video advertising.

We're using Joomla on Vquence's corporate site and wanted to display RSS icons and provide proper feeds for the blogs and news posted there.

This lecture is impressive.

Yesterday, YouTube gave video metrics to their users.

If you're a student and keen to get more open media technology to the Web, apply for a Google summer of code project with Xiph.

At Vquence, until now we have used the Thumbstacks chart library for our graphs.

Late last year at Xiph we worked over our mime types and file extensions for Xiph content.

As mentioned earlier, Vquence took part in the Australian Startup Carnival and winners are now announced.

I have spent this weekend giving my Blog a work-over and extending the page set about myself - something I have been putting off for 5 years!

Today, for the millionth time I had to listen to a statement that goes along the following lines: "CMML technology is not ideal for media annotations, because the metadata is embedded with the object rather than separate".

The revolution is here and now!

Vquence was today presented on the "Australian Startup Carnival" site - go, check it out.

I have been so busy with my work as CEO of Vquence since the end of last year that I've neglected blogging about Vquence.

The report of the recent W3C Video on the Web workshop has come out and has some recommendations to form a Video Metadata Working Group, or even more generally a Web Video Working Group.

When I started organising the first FOMS (Foundations of open media software developers workshop) in 2007, I did it because I saw a need to have media hackers get together in a room and discuss stuff in person.

I am really excited about the huge progress we made at FOMS with metadata and Ogg.

Last night I took part in a panel that was organised by Rachel Slattery under the title of "IT's a mad men's world.".

I've been meaning to write about this for a while, but haven't found a good motivation yet.

Michael Dale: Metavid & Free Online Video (University Of California at Santa Cruz) Chris Double: Position Paper for the W3C Video On The Web Workshop (Mozilla Corporation) Håkon Wium Lie: Opera Software's position paper for Video on the Web (Opera Softwar…

Many people wonder what the future of video on the Web should be and want a more integrated and simpler video solution than what flash provides right now.

[I wrote this more than 8 months ago, but didn't want to publish it at the time because I want us to solve the issues around video in HTML5 and not fight each other.

This is an awesome post about what HTML5 may look like given the current specification - the middle section is on video.

We are in the middle of a big technological change for the dear old World Wide Web.

A few years ago when I was still at CSIRO, I was contacted by Linda Barwick from PARADISEC to research into the use of Annodex for linguists.

In the last few weeks, I've created an Internet-Draft (I-D - a draft specification of an IETF RFC) for the Ogg Skeleton meta track, and updated the CMML I-D to include a new element called "caption" (CMML DTD).

Tonight is Webjam night in Sydney and I have custom created a Vquence for this occasion on my favorite band right now: "My Chemical Romance".

Let's say: you run a Web2.0 site.

Or .. why does password-protection suck in Wordpress.

The organisers of LCA have found another slot for a miniconf and ours is it!

It is awesome to see FOMS - the Open Media Software developer workshop we ran for the first time this year - turning into a major audio and video developer event for Linux.

Today, I had to deal with some badly behaving Flash content.

The new vquence website, that lets you create vquences yourself, has been out for more than a week now.

Today, I heard about SlapVid.

Good news, everybody: We are repeating the successful open audio/video developer workshop in 2008 - the CFP for FOMS 2008 is now public!

Last week, YouTube brought out a new flash video player.

Last night we rolled out some new code onto the Vquence site.

For all those open media codec lovers out there: mark 16th June in your calenders - you'll be able to take a sneak preview at liboggplay!

Last week, we put a new front page on http://www.vqslices.com/, which shows off the concept of "vquences".

Today we nailed down a policy for Xiph on what file extensions and mime types we recommend using for Xiph technology.

Have you ever tried to come up with a good tagline for a new company?

I've been rather quiet about what we actually do at Vquence, but I have to say that the recent months of intense development are coming to fruition and we are secretly enjoying the play with the first version of our new product, while at the same time wor…

I've just come across this cool video site which aggregates the "best tech videos" - and what do you know - it has many of the LCA videos there, too!

I've come to really love working with Ruby on Rails - it forces a structured approach of Web development upon you which helps enough to get you organised, but doesn't get in the way of being productive.

As I was playing with Ogg Theora lots for LCA, I needed to script the extraction of keyframes from Ogg Theora files.

I'm excited to present the all new http://www.vquence.com/ website.

This week, we've been working hard towards getting the corporate website for my new company Vquence up.

With a court ruling of $1.5bn (see http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-6161760.html), the Alcatel-Lucent vs Microsoft case is rather amazing.