Tuesday, August 21

Three blogs

A short summary of some post that caught my eye over the last week(end);

On Netflix and their improved community features and the Netflix prize; "The current leader in the contest has achieved an improvement of 7.80% over Netflix's engine".

Musings on Codeplex and open source both with in MS and for Windows in general; "Vista Battery Saver - A small program that can help you save up to 70% of your battery life"

NewTeeVee adds some thoughts on the Flash use of H.264 as a new codec; "an interest in better quality video on its AppleTV, Apple recently persuaded YouTube to reencode its Flash videos in H.264"

Still a lot going on in the digital world of moving images - be they distributed by the postal service or to assorted white devices. Still no one single solution to make everybody focus on content rather than tech - but are we getting close enough in terms of easy cross-distribution and encoding to satisfy the goal?