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Boxeeâs Open Attempt to Crack the Closed World of Content
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| Boxee, the popular open-source media center
| platform, will signal its long-term
| strategy this Monday with the launch of a
| new consumer electronics device on which
| the platform will run â the Boxee Box. In
| the meantime, NewTeeVee reported today that
| Boxee is also adding the Clicker app, which
| provides slick program guide and search
| features, to its software. And the company
| continues to strike new deals with content
| providers.
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http://gigaom.com/2009/12/03/boxees-open-attempt-to-crack-the-closed-world-of-content/
What Journalists Can Learn From the FOSS Community
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| Clearly Linux and open source software is
| catching on at both the enterprise and
| consumer level. Now its up to or community
| to make sure the journalists that are not
| covering the tech beat have the information
| they need to cover future stories well.
| What's the best way to achieve this? What
| can projects and individual members of the
| open source community do to help sensibly
| and tactfully educate mainstream media? Let
| me know in the comments.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/what-journalists-can-learn-from-the-foss-community
Mudra Optimizes Use of Under-utilized Studios
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| Once Joseph addressed these challenges, the
| project went live in February 2009. The
| completely Open Source solution brought
| many benefits to Mudra. It led to efficient
| job allocation and re-assigning of jobs
| based on workloads. Now each stakeholder
| can ascertain the status of a job through a
| dashboard and studio managers can see job
| queue, operator-wise workloads, etcetera.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/120309-mudra-optimizes-use-of-under-utilized.html
Recent:
IETF working towards royalty-free audio codec
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| Nearly one dozen developers want to
| standardise a royalty-free and non-patented
| audio codec for internet applications with
| the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
| Among them is the chief developer of the Ogg
| Speex and Ogg CELT open source audio
| formats, Jean-Marc Valin. The formation of a
| new working group was agreed at a meeting of
| the internet standards organisation in
| Hiroshima. The new working group is to
| evaluate various proposals by Valin and
| other developers and combine them into a
| standards document.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/IETF-working-towards-royalty-free-audio-codec-859394.html
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