Re: Second discussion topic for co-creation project: CREATIVE MEDIA EDITING & SHARING
 

While at Nokia World, I was talking with Jaffa about the idea of being able to allow "Advanced" configuration withing the Maemo substructure. Not low-level stuff, but, at least, the ability to enter some external service API stuff (URL, a few settings, etc.) This would allow super-users to be able to easily configure their device for almost any service that allows access to their API (not unlike what zerojay is currently doing with RTComm).

Seeing this sort of hand-on interaction with a device would be very exciting.

Tim

Re: Second discussion topic for co-creation project: CREATIVE MEDIA EDITING & SHARING
 

Hello Marieke,

From my personal perspective, I think that sharing has to go beyond the platform. I shouldn't need to have a specific device or to be subscribed to a specific service in order to share my media and to see media shared by others. And off course, I shouldn't need to use a different service for the type of media I want to share (Flicker for pictures, ?? for my audio, blogspot for my writing, etc).

When I was thinking on a system for media sharing, the first one I thought was a kind of Sharepoint on steroids.

However, since we want it to be very widely available, it should be web based. It should allow me to share any type of media, and to have the option to share it openly, without requiring subscription to a service. If I want to share a picture with a friend and he doesn't have an account, I should be able to send him a password protected link and that's it. And its default rules should be defined to protect my privacy, don't people get tired of getting their life exposed by a simple Google search?

Maybe Ovi can become something like that...?

Re: Second discussion topic for co-creation project: CREATIVE MEDIA EDITING & SHARING
 

Other than the transitions, that's basic SMIL. You also get text, audio, video, animation, etc.

Or you would, if SMIL support wasn't:

1. limited to very few applications
2. a different subset of the full specification + some proprietary extensions in each of those aforementioned applications

Re: Second discussion topic for co-creation project: CREATIVE MEDIA EDITING & SHARING
 

SMIL is great (especially when dealing with QuickTime and Flash FLVs), but wouldn't XML be better for something like this? I'm not saying that it's any more standardized than SMIL (because we all know how insanely varied and "personal" XML can be). But (imho), it's definitely more accessible.

Tim

Re: Second discussion topic for co-creation project: CREATIVE MEDIA EDITING & SHARING
 

See: Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) 1.0 Specification

Please understand that I'm not promoting SMIL above any and all theoretical alternatives. It's simply an existing, current standard that appears to fit the bill of being a "standardized slideshow definition file" to some degree. If someone goes on to define another, better XML standard for slideshow interchange, I'd just hope they'd look at SMIL first to learn from, and not recreate, what exists.

Side note: I clearly haven't been keeping up with SMIL development. SMIL does have transitions and has had them for some time.

Re: Second discussion topic for co-creation project: CREATIVE MEDIA EDITING & SHARING
 

Ah, yes. I guess I knew that SMIL was XML. Hrmf. :p

Tim

Re: Second discussion topic for co-creation project: CREATIVE MEDIA EDITING & SHARING
 

I was focusing on personal use at first but obviously business and academia uses make sense too, especially in our milieu. My summit presentation is being created in Microsoft Powerpoint but using that to present the slidshow at an open source conference violates the spirit. I don't expect Microsoft to provide such a tool, but here's where a third party translator would be handy that could refactor the PPT into an XML-based format for sharing/presenting to non or anti-Microsoft audiences. ;)

Re: Second discussion topic for co-creation project: CREATIVE MEDIA EDITING & SHARING
 

Present it with OpenOffice...? :)

Re: Second discussion topic for co-creation project: CREATIVE MEDIA EDITING & SHARING
 

I was just using that as an example for the slideshow discussion.

Re: Second discussion topic for co-creation project: CREATIVE MEDIA EDITING & SHARING
 

Re: Lightweight (non-presentation laden) slideshow format

Surely a format like this will be useful to share just a small stack of photos over email, or to load up on the gajillions of slide show devices out there (yes, i'm talking about those deskbound ones and those 'smartphones' in everyone's pocket)..