iShred (ipad in a snowboard)

The guys from signalsnowboards.com crafted this amazing snowboard! See it for yourself! Enjoy.

Google Music

Google has turned on the music at its new online store, aiming to compete with iTunes and Amazon.com.
Note, Google Music is currently only available in the United States! :-(

Google Music

More info: http://music.google.com/about/

PyTrainer and Garmin 305

I ran 11km (Kapellen - Heide - Kapellen) and was wearing my Garmin 305 Forerunner GPS Heartrate Monitor.
The collected data was uploaded to PyTrainer. This is an amazing free tool to log all your sport excursion coming from GPS devices (with a focus on ForeRunnner 205, 305 and 405).

The 2011 Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards Winners

The 2011 Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards Winners
Announced earlier today at Streaming Media West, here are the winners in our annual Readers' Choice Awards—the only awards program in the online video industry where the end users vote for the products, services, and companies that they feel are the market leaders

Here is the list:

Best Streaming Innovation

Adobe Systems, Inc. HTTP Dynamic Streaming

Best Online Video Technology Company

Sorenson Media

Best App for Watching Video

Netflix

Cloud Encoding/Transcoding Service

Sorenson Media Squeeze Cloud

Encoding Software (Under $1,000)

Sorenson Media Sorenson Squeeze

Encoding Software (Over $1,000)

Haivision Kulabyte

Hardware Encoder (SD)

Cisco Systems Media Processor AS-8100

Hardware Encoder (HD)

Cisco Systems Media Processor AS-8100

Content Delivery Network

Akamai

Live Video Streaming Service

Livestream

Mobile Video Platform

Ustream

Online Video Platform

Brightcove

Over-the-Top (OTT) Video Solution

Digital Rapids StreamZ Live ABR Encoder

Portable Live Streaming Appliance

Sonic Foundry Mediasite ML Recorder

Reporting and Analytics Solution

Conviva Insights

Search and Indexing Platform

YouTube

Server Hardware/Software

Adobe Flash Media Server 4.5

Video Advertising Network

LongTail Video Open Video Ads

Video Advertising Management Platform

TubeMogul PlayTime DSP

Webcasting/Presentation Solution

Telestream Wirecast

Source: http://tinyurl.com/bnc7knx

My top 5 apps

• VLC VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.
• Mixxx is free, open source DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes.
• FFMpeg FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data.
• Gstreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components.
• Handbrake, is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows