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The Mystery Behind Live Streaming Delay 3 months ago

One side effect of living in the year 2012 is that major events, such as the World Cup and the Superbowl, are consumable over the Internet, and provide a new level of flexibility and experience. But occasionally there are still technical challenges. Just recently the Superbowl XLVI, first time …

Updated and Even More Impressive Now – The 54th Grammy’s … 3 months ago

The 54th Grammy’s Stage3D powered site “We Are Music” was covered before, and certainly the rich level of expressiveness sets a standard for next generation visual web experiences. Music is a part of us. It pens our love letters. It delivers our motivational speeches. It shares …

Video Ads on The Rise – Record Online Video CPM for Super … 3 months ago

MediaPost reports that the online Super Bowl streaming event will have a CPM of $55, compared to $35 for TV. The NFL is asking for sky-high advertising dollars for the streaming videocast of the Super Bowl to be aired on NFL and NBC sites. The price tag comes to a whopping $55 cost per thousand …

Apache Flex – And It Begins With a New Logo 3 months ago

The recent months have been very eventful for Flex developers, and initial concerns turned quickly into excitement to get behind the new opportunity. Flex made significant recent steps to become a full open-source project, starting with a brand new logo. Adobe’s Holly Schinsky provides a …

Best Practices & Guidelines for In Stream Video Ads 3 months ago

In Stream Video ads are some of the most popular type of ads for advertisers, agencies and publishers. They are played before, during or after video content on a site and can run with a wide range of content, from USG (user generated content/video), publishers’ clips and syndicated media to …

5 Mistakes That Will Disqualify You As an Encoding Expert 3 months ago

Are you ready to become the new encoding expert for your company? Make sure you don’t make any of the assumptions below. 1) Your source is best compressed Nope, the key to best encoding is the source, meaning without a good source you will not be successful. If you can’t get an …

Rhizopods – Stage3D Creativity Unleashed 3 months ago

Rhizopods is a great example how creativity in combination with next generation web technology can enable new experiences and concepts that were impossible just a couple of months ago. Rhizopods is not a website, but rather a tool. Take an image and see it instantly transformed into an …

Mobile Video with PhoneGap, HTML5 and Strobe Media Playback 3 months ago

PhoneGap is a powerful HTML5 based cross platform application platform, but how well does it work with video? The answer is it depends on the browser capabilities. On a platform like iOS, where the browser provides access to the underlying QuickTime video engine via the HTML5 video tag, …

4 Power Tips to Increase Adobe AIR Mobile Performance 3 months ago

The featured image shows Machinarium, a blockbuster Adobe AIR iPad game currently in the iOS App Store. Even though I personally didn’t have insight in their performance optimization, here are some generic quick tips to improve Adobe AIR performance. 1) Set StageQuality to low It initially …

Traffic Slam 2 – Stage3D Game Powered By Away3D 3 months ago

Thanks to Flash Daily’s always current gaming news, here is an another great example of an action-packed Stage3D game. It’s based on the new Flash Player 11 Stage3D GPU acceleration feature, and uses the open-source Away3D engine, including car physics and a well rendered virtual …