YouTube is like Flickr with video… tag, blog, and link to your multimedia.
Which raises the question: why isn’t YouTube Flickr? That is, what is it about multimedia that Flickr didn’t get and so missed this market? Did becoming a Yahoo! company remove the creative urge?
Todd Cochrane’s Jan 17th Geek News Central Podcast pointed me to Gizmondo which pointed me to Seagate’s application of perpendicular recording technology that yields 10x the recording capacity of those lazy horizontal bits.
Now, I was recently reading up on direct to edit systems used for recording DV to hard disk rather than tape (to shorten post-production times). As it turns out these systems are expensive as well as conveniently small.
Anyway, I followed these pointers to see what the future has in store for my future video and audio recording devices expecting the usual grey engineering specs… but instead found a very fun “explanation” of the underlying technology (thanks to a comment from ‘Rick’).
The point of this post is not to point you to the engineering, but to show you that even magnetic bits can have talent! Turn up your speakers to this little dance number from Hitachi and “Inspire the Next“!.
During one of his 2005 BBC Reith Lectures Lord Broers was asked what he thought the most important development would be during the first half of the 21st. century. He replied that electronic displays that have the characteristics of a sheet of paper would have a huge impact. Here’s the clip from the lecture’s question period [streamed mp3].
The spin offs from this will extend far beyond wrapping a display around a cell phone. The decendents of the iPod may well have large displays that unfold, but the implications for the electronic display of digital information go beyond that.
Watch this space.
-pmh
ECM infrastructure architecture… and unrelated matters.
