Whatever happened to SMIL? :) On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 4:06 PM, elbowsofdeath <st...@dvmachine.com> wrote:
> Just trying to extract the interesting topic of multimedia from the video > format discussion. > > I dont really know whee to start, Ive always been interested in it, > although as mentioned previously I get a bit lost when I actually try to > flesh out some vague ideas into something more solid and useful. > > We've seen some, albeit fairly limited, attempts from the big video > services to add stuff to video, in terms of being able to insert links or > annotation to certain objects shown within a video. But even discounting the > tech limitations, Im left not quite sure how useful this stuff usually is, > is it worth the effort? Sometimes it really feels like its getting in the > way, maybe a lot of the time I really just want to consume video in linear > fashion and keep interactivity and communication for another part of the > site. > > Looking ahead I wonder how much video might get mixed in with online gaming > & 3D. I know that some years ago some people experimented with video in > Second Life but it seemed a bit like that stuff ended up as a bit of a fad? > > Are all the various ways that people can share different media on the web > providing a good foundation and all we need is a nicer way of presenting and > interacting with this stuff? I still daydream about better ways to mix > microblogging, photos, video & music & conversations together on the web, > but actual concrete ideas about how to do this seem to evade me. > > Cheers > > Steve > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com Secretary - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org --------------------------------------------------------------- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
