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24 November 2009
yellowBird Video Platform Puts You In the Middle, But Can It Tell a Story? - Jawbone.tv - The Evolution of Story.
by sbrothier
Interactive video has a long way to go, but Netherlands based yellowBird and their 360 degree offering might help move it along.
We, as a species, watch a lot of vids. Buckets full, really. And for the most part, we're comfortable pressing play and being spoon-fed the story. This, at least in part, explains the lukewarm reception - commercially speaking - of interactive films. Most of the 'interactivity' centers on controlling the story.
Piren - Live HTPC platform | Piren Is Real ENtertainment
by cascamorto
Lightweight HTPC live platform that can boot from CD, HDD, USB sticks, or a small size flash memory.
Freevo Media Centre | Home Theatre Platform HTPC & PVR
by cascamorto
& 8 others
magine a world where the tv guide is liquid, where the time slots are organised to suit your schedule. Imagine a place you can store all of your music, movies and photos for you and your family to enjoy. Imagine having access to all your games, podcasts, upto the minute weather and news reports. Imagine doing all of this for free. What a wonderful world that would be...
Freevo is an open source HTPC media centre software integrating PVR / DVR funtionality along with music, video, gaming, home automation and more. It is written in python and uses existing popular software such as mplayer, xine and vlc. Primarily aimed at the Linux platform it is also possible to run on OSX and for the determined on Windows. It is the main mythtv alternative.
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23 November 2009
Un scandale luxembourgeois
by marco
Vous venez dans une fiduciaire au Luxembourg. Vous créez une société où votre nom n’apparaît pas, les parts sont aux porteurs. Cette société facture votre société française, ce qui vous absorbe les bénéfices sans que vous apparaissiez aux yeux du fisc français. Ensuite, pour ne pas payer trop d’impôts au Luxembourg, vous épongez les bénéfices de votre société luxembourgeoise par un offshore au Panama où votre nom n’apparaît nulle part. Au final, vous récupérez votre argent avec une simple carte bleue, partout dans le monde… Sauf qu’au passage, il faut bien que le fisc luxembourgeois ferme un peu les yeux. C’est ça les 'ruling'
Apple is not evil. iPhone developers are stupid.
by marco
Most X developers (for any non-Web value of X) live in mortal fear of the browser as a development platform.
Songbird | Open Source Music Player
by garret
& 4 others
Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that's under active development.
We're working on creating a non-proprietary, cross platform, extensible tool that will help enable new ways to playback, manage, and discover music.
22 November 2009
StackExchange™—The Stack Overflow Knowledge Exchange Platform
by karlcow
Designed by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, Stack Overflow has rapidly become the best place for programmers to get answers to technical questions. Now there's a way to get the same kind of site for your audience.
19 November 2009
12 November 2009
Use a Single Data Store When Dual Booting - Dual Boot - Lifehacker
by ghis
Dual booting Windows and Linux doesn't mean you have to maintain two separate sets of applications, preferences, and documents. With cross-platform, open-source applications like Firefox, Thunderbird and Pidgin, you can use the same apps with the same configuration automatically no matter what OS you've booted.
Geek to Live: Mirror files across systems with rsync - Backup utilities - Lifehacker
by ghis
You use more computers and operating systems to get your work done today than ever before. But how do you keep your files synchronized between them? Plenty of OS-specific tools can mirror folders, but you need something cross-platform and highly customizable. You need the 10-year-old command line file mirroring utility called rsync.
Piggy Bank - web-scrapin -Firefox extension SIMILE
by decembre
& 2 others
Piggy Bank is a Firefox extension that turns your browser into a mashup platform, by allowing you to extract data from different web sites and mix them together. Piggy Bank also allows you to store this extracted information locally for you to search later and to exchange at need the collected information with others.
11 November 2009
calibre
by rmaltete
& 2 others
calibre is a one stop solution to all your e-book needs. It is free, open source and cross-platform in design and works well on Linux, OS X and Windows. calibre is meant to be a complete e-library solution and thus includes library management, format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversion, as well as e-book reader sync features and an integrated e-book viewer.
09 November 2009
Où sont cachés les secrets de la finance ?
by marco
Le Tax Justice Network vient de publier une nouvelle étude passionnante qui propose un classement des centres financiers offshore en fonction de leur offre d’opacité.
05 November 2009
03 November 2009
The Art Collider - InOut
by karlcow
TheArtCollider is a platform for connected creation of time based art aiming towards a collaborative approach of media art creation through a system of Peer-to-Peer or Artist-to-Artist production.
01 November 2009
Image and Narrative
by karlcow
& 3 others
Image [&] Narrative is a peer-reviewed e-journal on visual narratology in the broadest sense of the term. Beside tackling theoretical issues, it is a platform for reviews of real life examples.
30 October 2009
Raindrop Design Development Page
by Spone
Raindrop is an open design process in building a better, more personal and useful way of participating in your existing communications. Built on a web messaging platform designed to push the limits of browser based applications—we are a Mozilla Labs project.
29 October 2009
Wildflower - CakePHP CMS
by Xavier Lacot
A Content Management System and application platform built on CakePHP framework and jQuery Javascript library.
PixelWindow
by Xavier Lacot
PixelWindow is a simple, light-weight, cross-platform application for measuring things on your screen. It creates a transparent window that acts like a pixel ruler with its width and height reported in the center. Usefull when fixing a page layout.
26 October 2009
datagovuk provided by the Talis Platform
by CharlesNepote
Formulaire d'entrée pour requêter les données publiques du Royaume Uni au format SPARQL.
22 October 2009
Announcing Managing News: A Pluggable News Data Aggregator | Development Seed
by karlcow
Managing News is both a product and a platform. Out of the box it can help your communications team manage a brand reputation, allow geographically dispersed clusters of NGOs stay on the same page, or act as a simple thematic news planet to share feeds with the world. It can also serve as a platform to build highly custom data aggregators that suck in everything from CSV to RDF to custom XML formats and that need unique workflows and visualizations. Managing News is built on Drupal and uses Features, which makes it highly extensible.
19 October 2009
Wolfram|Alpha Webservice API
by parmentierf
(via)
The Wolfram|Alpha API gives you access to the Wolfram|Alpha platform at all levels—from individual results to complete Wolfram|Alpha output pages. The API operates as a high-performance REST-style webservice, with convenient bindings for all popular languages and platforms.
17 October 2009
SourceMap - Visualizing Supply Chains
by karlcow
Simply put: We believe that people have the right to know where things come from and what they are made of.
Sourcemap is a platform for researching, optimizing and sharing the supply chains behind a number of everyday products (more info).
