August 2008
5 posts
Justin.tv More Pervasive, Methods Questionable
Last night Sarah and I were in the middle of a long walk and happened upon this FILA sports store on Madison Ave at 43rd street: In the window there was a TV broadcast of a live tennis match between Ivanovic and Dushevina at the US Open: At closer look, we noticed the video was playing in an Internet Explorer browser window that was streaming through justin.tv: Pretty nifty! But...
Rocketboom Hires Group of Writers
On a typical night at 2am I am up writing news scripts for Rocketboom. It’s a time of major stress and fear. The script must be completed by 7 or 8am and a lot of people are going to see it so the expectations are pretty high.
It’s a lot like what I used to imagine the life of a daily newspaper cartoonist was like by being doomed to come up with something really clever, interesting...
2008 Political Season Opens
Today I’ve been looking through some old posts and articles about Rocketboom’s relationship to John Edwards. This follows an active discussion on Dave Winer’s friendfeed. This was a regular talking point to the press and we have also disclosed this before on Rocketboom. Once again the famous question arises: Is Rocketboom journalism?
Nicco Mele from an earlier Dembot post on...
SONY PICTURES ACQUIRES EXCLUSIVE WORLDWIDE CROSS...
THE AUDIENCE
When Rocketboom first got started at the end of 2004, and especially during the years of 2005 and 2006, every-time we put a video up online, people were amazed just by the act. “Hey! Come check this out!”, a 9-to-5er would shout out across the office and soon several people were huddling around a monitor saying things like “Wow, check out those kids...
Video FIle Format Evolution on Rocketboom
Jamie was doing some site upgrades and sent over this list to reminisce: MPEG4 Quicktime in Oct 2004
WMV in Nov 2004
3gp in May 2005
MPEG2 for TiVo in Dec 2005
MP4 for PSP in Feb 2006
WMV-hi res in Feb 2006
iHD in July 2007
Flash in Sept 2007
3gp small Feb 2008
Interesting how late the Flash intergaration was. When RB started in 2004, flash was being used by the MSM sites but...