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Moblyng Gets $5.7M to Bring Flash to Phones

Wed, 21 May 2008 05:19:38 -0700

Moblyng, which was formerly known as Fliptrack, just raised $5.7 million to translate Flash content from the Web into videos or stills that can be viewed on most cell phones. As a transcoding junkie, I thought this was cool — until I realized that the company will use its translation prowess to allow you to scrape your “photo bling” from MySpace, Friendster and Facebook (only via the Moblyng Mobile slide show Facebook app) and render it fit for viewing on a WAP page on a cell phone.

This seemed silly to me. And then I realized I am old and hopelessly outdated.

As CEO Stewart Putney said, this way someone can post a video or photos and share them with everyone at the same time. This fits with my ever-present wish to upload content once and share with everyone. I just don’t see many of my recipients being so jazzed about my photos that they need to flip open their mobile to see them RIGHT NOW. But if they are, using Moblyng they can.

Putney also said that after the beta Moblyng might expand the technology beyond social sites, and possibly to devices such as televisions. That fits with another of my technological dreams — seamless content transfer across all three screens. I suppose shopping on Etsy via my mobile will just have to wait.

BSDCan 2008: Stream Control Transmission Protocol

Sat, 17 May 2008 04:05:43 -0700

Randall Stewart of Cisco Systems gave a talk titled SCTP, what it is and how to use it, discussing the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). A paper that was displayed on the overhead projecter before the talk began summarized:

"Integrated into FreeBSD 7.0 -- first standardized by the Internet Engineering Task force (IETF) in October of 2000, in RFC 2960 and later updated by RFC 4960. SCTP is a message oriented protocol providing reliable end to end communication between two peers in an IP network."

Randall explained that SCTP is an alternative protocol to TCP, UDP. To describe SCTP, he suggested you start with TCP features, including: reliable retransmission, congestion control, flow control, connection oriented, and selective acknowledgements. You then add to it more features, including: "association" 4-way handshake, framing and ordered service, multistreaming, multihoming, and reachability.

Getting Started Using NDB on MySQL University

Wed, 07 May 2008 20:11:44 -0700

We haven’t had a MySQL University session in a while (a semi-spring break?), but tomorrow’s session (May 8) should be real interesting. MySQL Cluster developer, Stewart Smith, will host a session titled Getting Started Using NDB. It will happen on May 8, at 13:00 UTC.

One of the most common queries I receive is from people wanting to install or get started with NDB usage (ok, strictly speaking, they want to “cluster” MySQL, and I’m happy Stewart is using the word “NDB” which refers to the storage engine). All in all, it should be a great session, so I encourage you to join in the festivities.

Lucky for me, 13:00 UTC equates to 06:00 PST, while I’m in San Francisco. So I should definitely attempt to be there.

Post-Atlanta Tire Love

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:51:04 -0700

My daughter was sick most of last week, and then I caught it from her. So that’s why I haven’t been posting lately. There’s a lot of great NASCAR news this week, especially the drivers’ opinions about the Goodyear tire used in Atlanta. Tony Stewart’s take on the Goodyear tire used in Atlanta: “That was the most [...]

Watch out for Toyota in 2008

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:49:25 -0800

Tony Stewart repelled a strong challenge from teammate Kyle Busch and Dale Earnhardt Jr. to win the Camping World 300 Nationwide Series race Saturday at Daytona International Speedway. (Source: NASCAR.COM) I know Toyota was making strides at the end of the 2007 season, but with Joe Gibbs Racing on-board, expect to see great things from Toyota [...]

Don Stewart

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 20:37:22 -0700

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Fri, 18 May 2007 15:09:06 -0700

Ryan Stewart joins Adobe as an RIA evangelist

Learn To Podcast, Video Blog, Add Audio and Video To A Wordpress Blog

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:32:47 -0800