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The technique of chroma key , ie the replacement of a certain color to another (or a different source), has exploded once again in the last decade with great arrogance, thanks to the increasingly widespread technology in the film and the processing of digital images.

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I draw inspiration from an article published on corriere.it which lists the 10 worst video ever made ​​technological history .

WASHINGTON "The famous webzine CNet Technology once again, ironically, a roundup of the worst advertising technology , sometimes bad others simply foolish. Maybe because most of the videos on portraying the atmosphere typically trashy eighties, which will be related to a time when technology was all that quickly became obsolete, in all cases to review these spots often draws a smile and some criticism.

Here are some really fun if you do not "ridiculous"

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Two researchers at Adobe , Dr. Ariel Shamir, Shai Avidan and Dr., have developed a unique algorithm for intelligent resizing of images. Particularly impressive (see video below) is the ability to obscure and completely change an image, thanks to a "resize" extremely sophisticated and selective. In other words, this technique allows you to resize an image in a non-linear. Some areas of the image, then, are kept in scale provides effective really curious.

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Adobe continues to surprise by announcing a parallel version of the familiar photo-editing program Adobe Photoshop. The already announced it will release CS3 accompaganata from one version to Extended 3D features that promises to incorporate into the application.

Photoshop CS3	Photoshop CS3 Extended

Prices, availability and other features of this interesting news will be announced by Adobe durente the spring of 2007. However, for those who trembles and is interested, you can subscribe to a special request so as to be informed promptly.

The two versions, then, are in fact identical, at least by the same scheme proposed by Adobe. The Extended version contains all the features of CS3 with the addition of: 3D support for video / motion design and duplication of multiple video frames, and more ...
Extended version of the target is identified in: Film, video, and multimedia professional graphic designers using 3D and EWEB animations; Medical Research and Scientific Research; Architects and engineers (AEC professionals), ... in short, a remarkable event to watch !

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It happened to turn the TV Net TV, as had happened to become a Radio Net Radio, not to mention the music! Now, as mentioned in other posts, it's official for the Software to transform short-term Net Software!

Adobe , which we know has recently acquired Macromedia, formalizes the Web Application - Web 2.0 - in real RIA (Rich Internet Applications) with the announcement of wanting to take on the popular Web editing software Photoshop. It is the latest ' agreement between Adobe   and Photobucket   to make available online a technology for editing and video remix. Thanks to new technology developed for Flash 9 with ActionScript 3.0 , Adobe aims high, anticipating that within six months will be available online version of Photoshop based precisely on Flash technology.

Indeed, the new possibilities of ActionScript 3.0 (involving projects such as Flex and Apollo - see also Web2.0: Adobe is trying to Apollo and Ajax Rich Internet Application ) makes it the perfect candidate for the implementation of true on the Web Ajax RIA , on the other hand, we see ousted from his throne in this new scenario. Despite the countless Ajax Framework, some excellent, produced during the last few years, Flash provides an environment most advanced and easy to manipulate. Also we talk about one of the world's most popular plugins: Flash has it behind a few years older than Ajax and derivatives.

Furthermore, it is obvious that the Adobe Flash chooses, he being the producer now. However there are technical issues that may be considered - to date - only to be resolved in a harmonious application of technologies such as Flash. Taking a look at the new ActionScript 3.0 we immediately realize the tremendous possibilities of development offered by this new platform. The ECMA standard language and new items made ​​available by the framework allow you to reach a level of detail possible with previous versions of Flash: one of all, for example, the ability to access data from an uploaded image Bitmap hard!

The attack by Adobe seems to take place on two fronts so distinct that they have in common the Flash technology (which remember has always been the ability to actively interact with the browser and then with Javascript Client side and server-side scripting).

The first attack takes place outside, on the browser side, where the technology Apollo is really proposed as an alternative to the usual kernel of the different platforms, available today (Windows, Mac OS, Linux, etc. ...); use Adobe Apollo , then, instead browser for best performance and applications (RIAs real) unthinkable, thus bypassing the incompatibility between Internet Explorer, FireFox and companionship. In addition, Apollo provides a single development platform, JavaScript-like Ajax, but without compatibility issues. This last point is a significant setback to technologies like Ajax, which still suffer greatly with issues of browser compatibility, do not forget, moreover, made the whole issue (rendering) graphical CSS!

The other attack is from inside, hitting Ajax Framework with Flash card. The winning element in this strategy lies in the use of Flash, the Flash technology, which is applicable both in Flex , both in Apollo , both as a standalone version already are accustomed to seeing (simple SWF file for instance)! There is no doubt that this scenario is extremely attractive to developers, and Web. What becomes immediately realizable Flash reusable in various ways, without forcing me to change a single line of code and, moreover, without worrying about compatibility!

This, in my opinion, is an important step forward, a change of considerable proportions, which also involves the world of games and Marketing. We'll talk again soon, make no mistake!

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As shown by recent data on purchases of the console, the spectacular graphics generated by powerful microprocessors, BluRay players, strabiglianti computing power, not always prove effective in selling (and marketing) of a console. Nintendo has passed all, all aiming the extraordinary controllers (free hand controller or Wiimote) wireless reacts to the position and orientation of the player!

This year we have seen the introduction of multi-touch, see Apple's iPhone for example. The Wii with your Wiimote is perhaps an indication of some major change. For years now we hold the mouse between your hands to work on the PC and the joypad or controller to distract us with the Playstation. Is it time to focus not only on powerful microprocessors and artificial intelligence algorithms, some of the simplest innovation, looking with more attention to how you interact with a PC or console and not with what we interact.

Here, then, that play tennis or go online to Stumble Wii becomes a new and very refreshing, unconventional, but today more than ever. We hope that this is only the beginning of a new era, where the interaction will prevent the action!

For more information see:

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii

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The Net TV - at least for now - is not an alternative to traditional television. At this time, and at this stage, is something that travels parallel to the TV home. Some of the reasons why I say, for example, the ability to see the Net TV in your living room. To date, the PC remains the tool of choice for viewing and interacting with Net TV. This does not mean at all that they always will, indeed, in all probability (see the Multimedia stations) we are getting closer and closer to the day when your PC, or its successor, will be located just below the TV (or monitor?) In our salon.
However for now we must be satisfied to solve the logistical problems in their own way.

Linear or nonlinear

One of the fundamental (if not essential) the Net TV is its ability to provide video on demand. Rather than talking about on-demand non-linearity, the characteristics that virtually all Web browsers experience every time you move on the network. Just because a daughter of the Net TV network does not differ at all from today's dynamic navigation; I click on what interests me and I see it now! It needs a good discharge (download) locally!
Some argue that this characteristic of the Net TV makes a comparison wrong with television today. In future, therefore, we always think of two approaches: a classical, linear, with a continuous video stream and a divesra, nonlinear, embedded in Net TV.
I think the continuous video stream, the linearity, has really very important in certain situations and contensti. The characteristic of certain non-linearity should not be underestimated. But a tool like Net TV, in need, also implement flow characteristics or live broadcast (streaming real-time). Nothing prevents a site to offer a video window with a live format, just as happens today on regular television.
It seems so obvious, if not self-evident, that as a Net TV station will be under my TV will be very difficult, at least for me, come back to see today's TV, as long as the format and offer Net TV is at least comparable to that - forced - we see today.

Despite Net TV is very different, therefore, from an average television conitnuano some dynamics to affect the community and discuss these issues on the agenda, distribution, rights, advertising, marketing, net-working, user- generated-content, are just some of the topics that revolve around the "new" television, or television of the future.
However, we can reflect on how it might change our approach by adopting the Net TV instead of today's television. What accadreebbe? What would change?

1. The TV Guide

That's the first thing that comes to mind that will make more sense in the new vision of the television network. "What are they doing tonight?". Half as useless question on the Internet: it will be the same provider - the provider of the channel - to inform us of his schedule, among other non-linear! We will then enter the channel and see what you can get on the air! We may be informed by RSS Feed, Newsletter or a nice (if anything on the phone) will keep us informed about our favorite shows. So questions like "When do what?" Become meaningless anyone.

2. The death of WAP: average cross-platform

"What is it?" Someone will say ...? The explosion of the media most important of all - the video - the network is relatively recent. Even with the new Apple iPod Video had to appreciate the approach of a new era. With the iPhone - and the immediate release of competition (see " The iPhone Nokia seconds ") - the Internet in its entirety (mail, voice, mp3, video, etc. ...) has entered the mobile as never before. Today already have FireFox, Opera or Mozilla on the phone is a standard, then it follows, that the site xyz will be navigable in the same way from home (via PC) and by "street", for example via iPhone. One site, two different media: Convergent Media! Moral: Net TV has all it takes to explode as never could have done only a couple of years ago.

3. Tips for shopping

<> Hot Topic, very hot indeed. Advertising is a crucial issue for Net TV? How, when, where, how users digest it, are just some of the questions that the whole community of marketing is paying. Probably advertising as we understand it is now dead. Surely you can not attack the Net TV, as was done with the television home for a variety of reasons, almost obvious.
Place ads, banners and advertisements before or after the video has failed from the start, there will always be someone who can quickly delete, remember that we are on the Internet and anyone can contribute.
The only alternative - otherwise the whole system collapse, sooner or later - is a change of direction, a new business strategy, a new marketing is able to evolve quickly as the same network community.

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I want to pick an interesting Post by Thomas Tessarolo titled " If YouTube is gone , "an argument that is very curious and disturbing in some respects. Not long ago, during an episode of Quark Piero Angela, has discussed the consistency of digital information in relation to the neo-digital photography. In recent years digital photography has clearly eclipsed traditional photography with the introduction of cameras in mobile phones and digital cameras to lower costs of good quality. There was, therefore, a radical change in the management of the photographs that are on CD, DVD - or the PC itself - their ideal of conservation, preservation and display. The main question that arose from the transmission was: Will our children or grandchildren to see the "old" CD with our pictures?

I still have faded Polaroid of the seventies, as I happened to recall photographs - really old - taken between 1940 and 1960! While these photos have lost momentum and the time has left its mark, no doubt remains that were preserved more or less discreetly over more than half a century. Also I had no problem for "display", being proposed on a substrate analog! If we consider that I can not read disks written 3 inches and a quarter in 1995, the issue could begin to be worrying.

ALEXANDRIA DOT NET

What happened to the library of Alexandria , a fire that destroyed an important heritage that no one is now able to quantify, it is perhaps a repeatable event? What would happen if an electromagnetic wave befell enough power on earth could reset all the digital information stored today? Sure, there would be many other problems, see bank accounts, stall (or collapse) of the western economy, etc. ... etc. ... a real massacre. However, this - remote - possibility is accumonata the same way as an environmental disaster caused by the fall of an asteroid! Is it true?

The circle is closed

What could be accessed in a certain sense, quite curious. Among the services offered online on the Internet, blogs are the most popular. Imagine what would happen if the server of our blog shut or suffer an injury - including backups! Blogs (The Post) are usually written directly online, there is no local copy, at least I, for example, do not possess it (I will provide ...).
We should start thinking to print on all issued post so he can one day rebuild the blog compared to a total destruction of digital material. The digital, therefore, is no longer safe or analog?

A printed photograph is subject to wear and tear, dust, light, etc. ... However, even a CD or DVD is damaged, despite maintaining the data in a way - apparently - more stable (not sure) of any other analog media.
It seems the only solution is to use the digital, even for archival purposes, but at the same time continue to use the classic mode of storage.

Analog -> Digital -> Analog

The books, for example, have a duration long enough if we consider that even today you can read texts dating before Christ! In addition, some information is not lost with time. In a photograph, for example, information is the predominant light, the tones, the photo itself. This, on a substrate analog, is therefore subject to greater wear. In a book, however, information is more stable and lasting. A text with pages worn at the edges or yellowed by time and continues to lie completely still its main information: the text.

However, this solution a return to analog can be applied with a certain simplicity in very specific contexts, such as pictures or text precisely. The music and other digital information typically require alternative approaches to implementation is not simple. A piece of music, for example, can be stored in the form of the score, as a set of sheets of paper, but it is not a copy of the original. Videos are too complex to be stored in other forms.

In my opinion this is a very important topic in a digital age such as ours. The fact that there are no precedents in this regard allertino that there is not a sufficient excuse to not think about it carefully. If ever a disaster were to occur Digital important proportions, here are springing up like mushrooms and company initiatives to the preservation of digital data.
Why wait for the inevitable and not think of a solution right now?

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In the era of mass distribution of information (video, audio, text, etc ...) there are those who attack without thinking, without realizing what is really happening. The Italian association Vivi Down , rightly resentful - like all civilized people - the "broadcast" the movie shot in a Turin school where some students bully and humiliate a fellow down, Google Video termination for failing a necessary and due control function.

Today it is impossible to check all video content freely forwarded in the network, due to its characteristics of "real time" and "whole". It is rather strange, and the attack of the Association of Italian PM against Goggle, a degradation that last piece of the Internet has nothing to do.
The boys of Turin school did what they did not the fault of Google. Indeed! Thanks to Google, at least, know who they are, how they work and we were able to recognize them and punish them. The boys, the teacher is absent and the other pupils, only shame and must be pursued with all the resources made available by the company, by the school and justice. Google in all this has nothing to do really anything. The video, shot with a phone (denuciamio so even the phone company?! ...) Could be spread in many other ways.

We do not have to spend time and energy towards a guilty "invented." The truth is that the real fault lies in education that society, through the school and the family, no longer able to give our children. The real obscenity is the video Turin professor who runs his eyes and goes, that's the crux of the problem! If the "controller" evades his duty is obvious that we will all lose cascade. If the professor had done his duty, would not have known anything.

How many acts of bullying are perpetuated to the detriment of the weaker all the time?

It is certainly not a novelty! They are the organs of local control to do the job more important and fundamental. This is true in general, where the supervisory teachers and principals are in school, parents in the family, the police in the city! And so on ...

They have to get our attention and our ear when things are not progressing in the right way. We should therefore try to figure out what went wrong in the control mechanism of the Turin school instead of attacking Google Video.

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