Awakened Voice

I received an email a couple of days ago informing me that the Awakened Voice Learning Center will soon be featured on the Miro Guide. The Miro Guide is a web-based video directory that is also built in to the Miro desktop based video player.
It’s always nice to be recognized. So thanks to the people [...]

One frequent query by people who are new to publishing audio or video is, “What’s a good Flash player to put on my website?” Adobe’s Flash is a universally recognized standard for embedding media within web pages so the question makes a lot of sense.
Direct media links to mp3 or Quicktime files for example make [...]

I met Vineet Gupta at the recent DrupalCampNYC event. Vineet is a technology evangelist and engineer for Daylife. Daylife is a social news site that is providing application developers with tools that allow them to include dynamic news in websites by leveraging the Daylife technology platform.
I’ve been keeping an eye on Daylife since their launch [...]

The Drupal platform has always lacked in one area that interests lots of people. The inclusion of rich media (video, audio, photos) into Drupal sites has historically been achieved by node focused solutions. Modules like Video and Audio attach media to specific nodes. These modules work well for certain implementations. But the issue of a [...]

I’ve been curious about the Amazon Simple Storage Service, also known as Amazon S3, for a while now. So this weekend I sat down and walked through the steps of getting started with the service with the help of an article called Scalable Media Hosting With Amazon S3. The process was easier than I thought [...]

Speaking of Drupal. I’ve just added a screencast overview of the new features in Drupal 6 to the Awakened Voice Learning Center. Drupal 6 has some nifty new features including OpenID support, an improved menu system, a streamlined install process and some groundbreaking localization features. There’s a lot more that’s new too.
One new feature set [...]

I may be late to the game on this one. Wouldn’t be the first time. But I noticed today that YouTube has finally added some features that allow for more customization of user channels on the site. Chief among these changes is the ability to upload a channel image. Previously you were only allowed [...]

I made some predictions at the end of 2006 in a post titled, The Free Video Meal Will End In 2007. Well did it? Sort of. Let’s take a look at each one.
Prediction #1: Some of the players mentioned above will not exist by the end of 2007. They will either go away as a [...]

I stopped by the Apple store today on 14th Street. This is a very new location. I ended up buying a Belkin Tune Base FM for my iPod Touch. I tried it on the way home and it worked real well in my Honda Civic. I’ll definitely be a lot safer when manipulating my iPod [...]

I recently got my hands on a Samsung XC-300 digital video recorder. I’m downsizing my video outfit and decided to give this a try.
First impressions are really good. This thing is small. In fact it’s smaller than I thought it would be. That’s good for me as portability equals convenience in my opinion.
This camera also [...]