Yesterday my bretheren at Digitas France have created a very cool Twitter mashup twittearth. The project that was done “just for fun” was featured on the coveted Techcrunch blog.
twittearth integrates Twitter.com with Paperversion’s for the 3D engine, Yahoo Local API for the geolocalisation service, tinyurl.com for the short url API and uses fasticon for those great free icons. Thanks to TarGz, _pil_, Thomas and Christophe from Digitas France SA.
Analysts expect nearly 200% growth of the $800 million content delivery network (CDN) market in 2008. The highly competitive companies trailing behind industry leader Akamai, includes Limelight, Mirror Image, Itiva and Grid Networks. Companies are looking for ways to differentiate themselves in the highly competite market.
Enter BitGravity with their game changing architecture designed specifically for the challenge of delivering more immersive bandwidth intensive applications. The BitGravity progressive download technology allows high-definition video video to play with hardly any download time and minimal choppiness. It also allows you to jump around the video with hardly any latency.
Blinkx is an advanced video search engine. Fed by automatic spiders that crawl the web for audio video content and content partnerships with over 200 leading content and media companies, blinkx uses visual analysis and speech recognition to better understand rich media content. Users can search for content, create personal TV channels that automatically splice relevant content together.
Video wall: A cool feature is that you can submit a search query and create a video wall that you can embed it on your blog or social networking site.
Search Term: Web 2.0.
A drawback here is that since the video wall is build in Flash you need to disable your pop-up blocker to launch a video.
An early pioneer in interactive media, Dean Whitney is a Web 2.0 and Social media technology evangelist. Start-up veteran, President of Garfield Group Interactive a Boston-based digital agency.
