Comments on: Splashcast Aims to Offer A Frictionless Web Media Player

By: rob

rob — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:10:23 +0000

damn. wanted to check it, but i’m losing focus on the register fields. can’t enter text.

By: Marshall Kirkpatrick Joins SplashCast

Marshall Kirkpatrick Joins SplashCast — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:39:18 +0000

[...] Kirkpatrick reviewed the service in November. He will now be responsible for SplashCast’s overall media strategy. [...]

By: BillyWarhol

BillyWarhol — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:44:20 +0000

Now this is really interesting!

I’ve always felt the Flickr Flash Badge for Photos is thee coolest most visually exciting thing i’ve seen on the Internet!

Video still seems slow & clunky on the Web - in fact i’m amazed YouTube is as successful as it’s been but hey what do i know!! ;))

Yer definitely right about 1 thing & thass Widgets!!

Being able to add a Widget all the way out the Long Tail of all Blogs & MySpace is mind boggling! & letting the Enduser tailor the content will be a huge success*

Congrats Marshall on yer new job with SplashCast!!

Cheers! Billy ;))

By: Web Strategy by Jeremiah » Marshall Kirkpatrick joins SplashCast

Web Strategy by Jeremiah » Marshall Kirkpatrick joins SplashCast — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:18:39 +0000

[...] Great deal for SplashCast who earned former TechCrunch writer Marshall Kirkpatrick. SplashCast has a Channel type media player, so content can easily be syndicated to embedded players on webpages. I’m thinking it’s like a media player ‘Include’. Marshall wrote this previous analysis of SplashCast a few weeks ago. More discussions on Techmeme. It will be interesting to see how this plays out, I’m sure that blog aggregators will continue to embed audio and video playback capability. With Marshall providing some editorial support, he could provide a unique overlay to the streaming content. [...]

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Marshall Kirkpatrick Joins SplashCast

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Marshall Kirkpatrick Joins SplashCast — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:13:03 +0000

[...] Kirkpatrick reviewed the service in November. He will now be responsible for SplashCast’s overall media strategy. [...]

By: Marshall Kirkpatrick Joins SplashCast at Swiss Podcast Directory and Blog

Marshall Kirkpatrick Joins SplashCast at Swiss Podcast Directory and Blog — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 08:16:06 +0000

[...] Kirkpatrick reviewed the service in November. He will now be responsible for SplashCastâs overall media strategy. [...]

By: Harry

Harry — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:29:08 +0000

Marshall, I think you need to take a closer look into this space and try to map it in a way that will be more helpful. I just feel you sometimes put side by side things that do not try to do the same thing.
There are tools to let you create flash widgets for your MySpace page - then there are tools that address publishers needing more capabilities.
TagLoops does not want to be a widget within a web page - it wants to replace the web page with a more immersive format (when and where this makes sense). It is important to see details like this reflected in tools’ features and workflow.
It all started with video. Now everything seems to want to break out of the page format and live in a timeline. That is why flash has become so relevant.
May I suggest a thorough analysis and what all these options can do for content owners, publishers/remixers, affiliates and advertisers ?

By: T.J. Crowder

T.J. Crowder — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 07:41:48 +0000

“Your computer uses proprietary chips, and proprietary busses, and usually runs a proprietary operating system, and yet people build open things atop this infrastructure.”

The chips and busses are standards — this is what’s made the PC architecture so phenomenally successful compared with more closed options, even though in some cases the closed options were more advanced (early Macintosh). I can choose motherboards, video cards, hard drives, RAM, keyboards, mice, etc. from a plethora of vendors who compete for my business; the Adope Flash Player is only really available from Adobe. That’s vendor lock-in. Vendor lock-in limits consumer choice. JP writes about it much more eloquently than I could hope to, well worth giving him a read: confusedofcalcutta.com.

You’re right that I’m writing this post using a proprietary OS, although increasingly that was a gamble as desktop Linux is catching on. Windows is a great example of the negative aspects of vendor lock-in. Given the hyper-restrictive new Vista license, more and more people are going to be learning just how unpleasant being locked into a vendor can be.

I’m not saying all closed technology and software is a bad thing. I am saying that when you’re building something for the web, forcing people to use software from a specific vendor isn’t a good thing, even when that software is available free-of-charge.

– T.J.

By: dailywireless.org » Widgets Live

dailywireless.org » Widgets Live — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 02:56:04 +0000

[...] Portland startup Splashcast Blog is a clean, simple system for publishing channels of video, photos, audio and text via RSS feeds to a totally resizable, skinless Flash player, says Mike (the new Moss). [...]

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Splashcastが提供する、摩擦のないウェブメディアプレイヤー

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Splashcastが提供する、摩擦のないウェブメディアプレイヤー — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 02:07:01 +0000

[...] [原文へ] Splashcast [...]

By: John Dowdell

John Dowdell — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:30:57 +0000

“It still requires Flash.”

Actually, it requires the Adobe Flash Player — the full name helps avoid confusion.

Your computer uses proprietary chips, and proprietary busses, and usually runs a proprietary operating system, and yet people build open things atop this infrastructure. Just as Adobe PostScript established standard capability between wordprocessors and printers, so do Adobe Flash establish standard capability on Other Peoples Machines. It’s a big sandbox where your audience invites you to play.

(Thanks for the article, Marshall… that “skinless” aspect seems to be an emerging theme these days.)

jd/adobe

By: T.J. Crowder

T.J. Crowder — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 22:14:01 +0000

Great.

But.

It still requires Flash. A non-standard, closed, proprietary technology of Macromedia (now Adobe).

Theora, anyone? (http://www.theora.org)

By: Marshall Kirkpatrick

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:37:09 +0000

Fidel, that’s one way of describing what’s going on here.

By: Fidel Guajardo

Fidel Guajardo — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:33:27 +0000

It sounds to me like we will be having multimedia feed readers some time soon. I’m getting tired of having only text-based feeds to add to my blog. I want feeds that come in text with pictures or videos. Let me choose from available multimedia feeds, give me the javascript code to add to my blog, and maybe give me a few pennies when someone clicks on one of those feed items that appear on my blog.

By: Splashcast « Technically Speaking

Splashcast « Technically Speaking — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 17:09:50 +0000

[...] Splashcast sounds like the new ticket if Marshall is right! The product, which is still several months away from launch, is a clean, simple system for publishing channels of video, photos, audio and text via RSS feeds to a totally resizable, skinless Flash player. [...]

By: Amit Chowdhry

Amit Chowdhry — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 17:07:54 +0000

Whoa, long article. Nice!!

The most immediately remarkable thing you’ll notice when you start seeing Splashcast players around the web is that they are beautiful.

Sounds James Blunttish

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 17:06:55 +0000

“Chanel publishers interested in promoting their bands, brands or causes will have to create content that’s compelling to small web publishers like bloggers if they hope that bloggers ”

Hope you find this media content compelling…….

http://www.convos.com/home/vid.....ekawa.html