http://zingwiz.com/blog Internet, Video, Advertising, the lot of it. Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:44:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If I wore T-shirts with boxes of funny food on them.... http://zingwiz.com/blog/print/them-are-the-bestest/ Interesting video by, Adobe's Russel Brown, on faking HDR imaging when you only have a single RAW pic to work from http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/FauxHDR_SM.mov The photo itself is a bit over-tweaked for my taste, but the concept is great. http://zingwiz.com/blog/print/faking-high-dynamic-range-hdr-images-video/ (skip to THE ANSWER if you don't want to read the back story) Um, so, a short post here. I kept running into this problem where a site of mine was stuck on a white page whith the little "page loading" spinner going for minutes on end and nothing happening. That's easy, ... http://zingwiz.com/blog/web/page-not-loading-waiting-for-gg-google-com/ Well, if Al Gore invented the internet, Barack Obama broke it. I tried watching his inaugural address via live video feeds over the internet, and it was an unfortunate experience. Not only was I hanging on his every word, the video streaming seemed to hang on every other word. It's amazing ... http://zingwiz.com/blog/web/online-video/barack-obama-broke-the-internet/ [caption id="attachment_9" align="alignleft" width="220" caption="Helmut Krone. The Book."][/caption] If one requires a new best friend, one may purchase this book for me. For those who are curious, but don't know, Helmut Krone revolutionized advertising with his self-deprecating "Lemon" ad for the VW Beatle. He was also responsible for the equally brilliant "We Try ... http://zingwiz.com/blog/advertising/helmut-krone-the-book/ Ok, so Cuil.com has been live for about two weeks now. I like the idea of it, a search engine that is less about popularity, and more about relevancy and organized results. Sounds great. They claim to index around 121,617,892,992 pages (as of this posting). That's a pretty good amount. ... http://zingwiz.com/blog/web/cuil-getting-warmer/ My favorite Web-related open source software packages: Wordpress - easy to install, design, expand blogging platform. Everybody uses it...come on, give it a shot, you know you'll like it. Magento - A new eCommerce platfomr. A little confusing, but man, they're are building everything you need into this puppy, and it looks ... http://zingwiz.com/blog/web/5-best-open-source-web-tools-free/ I'm starting this blog with some big news from Adobe. They have announced a "team up" with search leader Google for improving the spidering of dynamic web content and RIAs (Rich Internet Applications), including Flash's .swf file format. Adobe Press Release Here. Yahoo has plans for furture support also. This is ... http://zingwiz.com/blog/web/google-searches-swfs-yahoo-to-follow/