Posted in 4K, Adobe Premiere, Apple, Avid, Cineform, Crimson, Final Cut, Gluetools, Indie filmmaking, NLE, R3D, REDCINE, Red Alert, Red Camera, Red digital cinema, Ted Schilowitz, cinematography, film editing on Friday, 29 February 2008, 10:56 am | 1 Comment »
[UPDATE, 18 Mar 08, 19:00 Hong Kong time--Crimson is now available!]
[UPDATE, 8 Mar 08; 13:57--Mark Pederson announced on reduser.net that he'll be giving a sneak preview of his helper app (and maybe Crimson too?) at the RED LA User Group meeting, on Saturday, 15 March, from 9am-noon, in Los Angeles at Kappa Studios. Wish I [...]
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Posted in Enterprise 2.0, Google Sites, JotSpot, Web 2.0, enterprise collaboration, google, groupware, knowledge management, wikis on Friday, 29 February 2008, 10:21 am | No Comments »
Well, it’s finally here:
Why do I think this is important? From the “About” page of this blog, from early December of last year:
Web 2.0 is perhaps better called the “read/write web“. It takes web content creation out of the hands of “web masters” and puts it into the hands of web masses. We’ve gone from [...]
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Criterion has just released on DVD a new transfer of Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Emperor, which won 9 Academy Awards, in time for the Beijing Olympics. It’s a 4-disc director approved special edition set, with all sorts of goodies, as only Criterion can dish up. Looks great. I’m getting it! The centerpiece is the all-new, restored [...]
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Posted in Beijing, Off-topic, Olympics, photography on Tuesday, 26 February 2008, 11:54 pm | No Comments »
Just back last night from a very interesting trip to Beijing. The entire city is gearing up for the Olympics and there’s lots of construction and renovations going on all over the place (and I mean “all over the place” as Beijing is a massive city–big buildings, wide boulevards, big monuments, long distances). The Beijing [...]
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Posted in Adobe, Air, Flash, Web 2.0, online office apps on Monday, 25 February 2008, 11:15 pm | 2 Comments »
Good article on it in the International Herald Tribune. Air is the “tool” with or environment on which the excellent online word processor BuzzWord is built. I’ve found Buzzword to be the slickest online word processor, with great design and GUI. Very intuitive to use. The best way to describe Air in lay people’s terms [...]
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I kept coming across “social graphs” and didn’t really understand it, until I read this good post by Dion Hinchcliffe.
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Posted in 'bots, Indie filmmaking, Web 2.0, blogs, google, spam on Thursday, 21 February 2008, 12:04 pm | No Comments »
Ok, so I thought I’d stumbled, via Google Blog Search, on an interesting blog “Guerilla Cinema: Digital Filmmaking News and Technology“. But it’s not a real blog! Somebody set this up to make money (via Google AdSense), but it’s run by ‘bots (i.e. “web robots” 
not humans. And so the posts are either some sort [...]
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In order to accurately check color and motion, video and digital intermediate film editors have needed to keep a good old-fashioned CRT monitor (e.g., JVC DT-V1710CG)–until now, apparently. Panasonic is releasing in April ‘08 a new 17-inch LCD professional video monitor (at a rumored price of around US$5,000). From Panasonics press release:
The new monitor offers [...]
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Posted in Apple, China, Hong Kong, Web 2.0, iPhone on Tuesday, 19 February 2008, 11:52 am | No Comments »
The IHT has finally reported on what those of us living in China have known to be a fact for a long time: it’s easy to get an iPhone in Hong Kong or China, even though Apple’s only officially released the iPhone in the U.S. and Europe. It’s a dirty little secret: Apple’s sold 3.7 [...]
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Posted in Attensa, BPEL4People, BPM, Enterprise 2.0, Intalio, K2, Liferay, Web 2.0, groupware, open source, workflow on Monday, 18 February 2008, 11:18 am | 1 Comment »
Enterprise 2.0 means the application of Web 2.0 tools in larger businesses. While smaller businesses (SMEs) can use hosted ASP tools for business, a la Backpack, large enterprises need more robust, secure and customized tools with fuller feature sets and customizability. There’s a whole slew of tools in this rapidly expanding space, e.g.,
Sharepoint (predicted [...]
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