- Humax to Export $2 Mil. Set-Top Boxes to Russia
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Humax to Export $2 Mil. Set-Top Boxes to
Russia
Humax to Export $2 Mil. Set-Top Boxes to
Russia
04/19/2004 04:20 AMHankooki Apr 19 2004 8:50AM GMT
Boxes and boxes of iPod socks! [Flickr]
Boxes and boxes of iPod socks! [Flickr]
12/17/2004 06:42 PMHumax, TiVo team on 300-hour recorder
Humax, TiVo team on 300-hour recorder
07/13/2004 04:59 PMNew DVR has the potential to be the enlightened consumer's "home
server," one executive says.
Cheney is now saying Russia deserved the
Beslan massacre ... because Russia
didn't join the latest Iraq War:
Cheney is now saying Russia deserved the
Beslan massacre ... because Russia
didn't join the latest Iraq War:
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Little Boxes
Little Boxes
05/09/2004 11:30 AMfor those still bellyaching about CSS positioning
The conspiracy against our in-boxes
The conspiracy against our in-boxes
10/31/2003 10:35 AMOpinion Why trusted bulk email is an oxymoron
CSS Shadow Boxes
CSS Shadow Boxes
01/24/2004 10:36 PMShadow Boxing:
Well-done, simple technique for shadowed boxes with CSS.
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Cable boxes bulking up
Cable boxes bulking up
04/04/2005 03:09 PMUSA Today Apr 4 2005 6:37PM GMT
The Curious Incident of the Boxes
The Curious Incident of the Boxes
05/18/2004 10:46 PMAn auction of Arthur Conan Doyle's artifacts has provoked a fight and
a mystery almost worthy of Sherlock Holmes himself.
New virus hitting in-boxes
New virus hitting in-boxes
01/26/2004 06:31 PMAntivirus firms warn PC users of a new mass-mailing computer virus
that has lodged itself into a large number of PCs by masquerading as
an e-mail error.
Social Software for Set-Top boxes...
Social Software for Set-Top boxes...
03/23/2005 07:59 PMYou can download the core part of the material that follows as a
PDF presentation entitled Social Software for Set-Top Boxes (4Mb).
A buddy-list for television:
Imagine a buddy-list on your television that you could bring onto your
screen with the merest tap of a 'friends' key on your remote control.
The buddy list would be the first stage of an interface that would let
you add and remove friends, and see what your friends are watching in
real-time - whether they be watching live television or something
stored on their PVRs. Adding friends would be simple - you could enter
letters on screen using your remote, or browse your existing friends'
contact lists.
Being able to see what your friends were watching on television
would remind you of programmes that you also wanted to see, it would
help you spot programmes that your social circle thought were
interesting and it could start to give you a shared social context for
conversations about the media that you and your friends had both
enjoyed.
Obviously there might be some programmes that you might wish
to view with a significant other, but wouldn't necessarily want to
advertise to the rest of the world that you were watching. For this
reason your personalised settings would have to have all kinds of
options to help you control how you were being represented to the
wider world that were as simple to use and unobtrusive as possible.
Primary among the tools at your disposal would be your ability to tell
your set-top box not to advertise that you were watching any shows
marked as for adults only and to mark certain channels as similarly
private. These settings would obviously be on by default.
Presence alerts:
One of the core functions of a socially enabled set-top box would be
to create the impression of watching television alongside your
peer group and friends - even if you were geographically distant from
one another. One key way to do this would be to create a sensation of
simultaneity - to remind you that there are other people in your
social circle doing things at the same time as you. This would allow
you to create a mental impression of what your friends were doing.
Here are two versions of an alert that could fade up gently onto
the screen when someone on your buddy list changes channel. These
alerts would work in two ways - if the person was changing channel and
landed on a station as a programme was just about to begin or within
the first three or four minutes of a programme, then the alert would
be immediate. This would give you the opportunity to change over to
that channel as well without missing too much of the show. If -
however - they were changing over to a channel in the middle of a show
or they changed the channel again within ten seconds, then the alert
would not be sent. They would have to have been watching the new
channel for a few minutes before an alert would be sent. There would
be nothing more intrusive and irritating than watching someone
compulsively flick between channels at a distance (except perhaps
being in the room with them as they did so).
The most important part of all these alerts is that they provide
you with the option to join the person concerned in whichever
programme they happen to now be watching...
Watch with your friends:
Now we have the concept of joining a friend to watch a show, we have
to ask what should that experience be like? How should your parallel
engagement manifest itself. Traditionally, net-mediated social spaces
have tended towards text as a communicative medium. But this would
seem like an enormously clumsy way to interact during a television
programme.
Television is an audio-visual medium and there's no reason why your
engagement with your friends shouldn't also be audio-visual. For this
reason a simple high quality webcam above the television would help
you see how your friends were responding to what was on screen - it
would help you feel an experience of shared engagement without there
being a need for overt discussion. By default your conversations with
your friends would be muted, and you could - of course - minimise
their images if they started to get annoying, but if you wanted to
shout and scream alongside your friends, then you'd simply turn the
sound back on. This would be the perfect form of engagement around
certain sporting events, or for making a well-known television
programme or film just the backgrounded context for a shared
conversation.
In the mock-up below, you can see the cameras of three of your
friends on the right. One person has wandered away from their
TV...
Chatting and planning:
If your friends were in the room with you during an ad break, you
might chat about the programme you've just been watching or bitch
about the adverts in front of you. You might turn the sound down low
for a few seconds and talk about something else completely. There are
lots of contexts where the programme on television might not be
the main focus of activity around the television. These might
be times when it's still important to have a sense of what's happening
on the screen, but where the social activity has been dragged to the
foreground.
Set-top box social software would have to support such engagements.
So how about a second view when you're in one of these social
situations? From having the programme in the foreground, one simple
switch of the button could drag your friends into the limelight. The
programme could be fully or partially muted, and your friends
automatically unmuted. Then you could chat to each other about the
programme you'd just watched, or wait for the adverts to end together.
You could even use these opportunities to plan what to watch next. If
this was handled in a similar way to group formation and parties in
online gaming structures like Halo 2, then perhaps one person could
even set up the next programme and stream it to everyone else, or cue
forward to show their friends the best part of a particular dance
sequence or the key quote from a political interview.
Choosing channels and playing games:
Having this technology in place under your television could create a
tremendous platform for all kinds of other applications or games to be
layered on top of your television experience. And these could be
equally usable with people in the same room as yourself. If you gave
everyone a personalised remote control (or installed universal remote
control software in something like a mobile phone) then people could
propose changing channels but be over-ruled by other people in the
room. The wonderful browsing experience of flicking through music
video channels could be turned into a game, with each song being rated
on the fly by everyone present or telepresent and records kept of
channels and songs that people tended to enjoy. The same controls
could be hooked up to other forms of interactive television or to
net-enabled functionality on the boxes themselves...
Sharing a social library:
And finally, to return to the idea of media discovery and regenerating
a social context around television programming, how about if the shows
that many of your friends had decided in advance to record were
automatically recorded by your device too. How would it be if you
never missed the show that everyone was talking about? And if you had
- your box could ask its peers for some kind of swarmed download if
anyone still had a copy and it could appear in your local library
overnight.
All this of course, is just the very beginning of the kinds of
things that you could create with a socially-enabled TV set-top box.
It's all basically just extensions of stuff that we're already doing
in other media. There are still technological barriers of course -
bandwidth and synchronisation being core problems. But we're gradually
on the way to solving them.
To repeat - If you'd like to download this piece as a simple to
read and print PDF presentation then you can do so here: Social Software for Set-Top Boxes (4Mb).
Addendum:
Here are a few related links that people have
brought to my attention since posting this stuff up or since I
finished work on the presentation and illustrations. I'm a little
cross with myself for not posting this stuff up before, but hey...
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How to Add Fluid Borders to Your Boxes
with CSS
How to Add Fluid Borders to Your Boxes
with CSS
06/05/2005 11:48 PMIn the last tutorial you learned how to style a definition list. This
week, you'll delve deeper into this process and learn how to add
different fluid borders to your boxes using just CSS. By Stu Nicholls.
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Black Boxes for Spacecrafts
Black Boxes for Spacecrafts
04/17/2005 02:54 PMboxes and arrows turns 2
boxes and arrows turns 2
04/16/2004 01:06 AMi can't believe i've been reading the site that long already. it's
still a great MT site.
Microsoft launches set-top boxes
Microsoft launches set-top boxes
09/15/2004 09:55 AMDigital Television Group Sep 15 2004 1:45PM GMT
Dueling Music Boxes
Dueling Music Boxes
08/13/2004 09:15 PMThis week I've been playing with three new products designed to bring
your digital music library into your home stereo system. By Jason
Snell, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)
Subtraction: New Boxes, Same Arrows
Subtraction: New Boxes, Same Arrows
08/22/2004 09:23 AMNew Boxes, Same Arrows - classy proposed redesign for Boxes and Arrows
.. Khoi Vinh's outstanding redesign contest mockups .. Excellent
redesign
concept
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Update DTC list boxes
Update DTC list boxes
08/23/2002 08:00 AMCNET Aug 22 2002 10:24PM ET
Before we get on the subject of safe
deposit boxes
Before we get on the subject of safe
deposit boxes
05/12/2004 04:13 AMThe response to last week's newsletter proposing a "safe deposit box"
metaphor for identity federation and storage has been tremendous. I'm
still reading through the messages, following the links and
downloading the papers. It'll take another week or two before I'll be
ready to present your thoughts, so bear with me.
Insurance Cos. Try Out Auto Black Boxes
Insurance Cos. Try Out Auto Black Boxes
09/02/2004 03:45 PMAP via Newsday Sep 2 2004 7:51PM GMT
Microsoft's newest dialog boxes?
Microsoft's newest dialog boxes?
03/06/2004 02:01 AMPC World: Gates Previews Security Projects, which I wrote this morning
at the RSA conference. The trouble with spot news is it's difficult to
get good instant reaction, but reaction to this morning's demo was
quick in coming. Security expert...
HP to pump IDF full of Opteron boxes
HP to pump IDF full of Opteron boxes
02/18/2004 05:34 PMIDF No Yamhill love
System Guide: Gaming Boxes
System Guide: Gaming Boxes
08/31/2004 12:44 AMDucking in just before the end of the month, the August Ars System
Guide update features a new specialized guide: gaming systems. Spec
out both the Ultimate and Performance Gaming System.
PHP Magazine: Login Boxes Shouldn't Hurt
PHP Magazine: Login Boxes Shouldn't Hurt
08/27/2004 01:35 PM
Close on the heels of the SimpleTest 1.0RC1 release, is a new article
titled "Coding a Login Box Shouldn't Hurt". Web sites can be
fiddly to test, especially when it includes functionality like cookie
handling and form filling. While manual testing is error prone and
tedious, using a Web testing tool can automate the process, making
development fast, accurate, and even fun. In this new article , Marcus
Baker, helps you solve this tricky problem of authenticating users, by
using test driven development.
Sun bets future on US IV and Opteron
boxes
Sun bets future on US IV and Opteron
boxes
02/10/2004 03:57 PMHere at last - almost
Sex spam clogs summer in-boxes
Sex spam clogs summer in-boxes
08/18/2004 06:39 AMSummer is traditionally associated with romance and spammers are
trying to cash in by bombarding inboxes with porn.
Thoughtful pill boxes cut stress
Thoughtful pill boxes cut stress
06/03/2004 03:32 AMPsychologists and designers have come up with innovative designs to
make drugs packaging child's play for adults.
The Beast That Feeds on Boxes:
Bureaucracy
The Beast That Feeds on Boxes:
Bureaucracy
04/09/2005 06:23 PMIn the history of American intelligence failure, one chronic culprit
is that "giant power wielded by pygmies," as Balzac put it:
bureaucracy.
Mobiles kill off more phone boxes
Mobiles kill off more phone boxes
09/03/2004 07:41 PM
Thousands of loss-making phone boxes face the axe as mobile phone use
soars in the UK, says BT.
FCC Requires Firewire on All Cable Boxes
FCC Requires Firewire on All Cable Boxes
04/29/2004 07:55 AMAs of April 1st, cable companies are required to provide a
Firewire-enabled cable box to anyone that asks, as per an FCC
interpretation of Section 304 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
What this means to you is that easy ripping and recording of HDTV
streams is just a phone...
Samsung supplies set top boxes worth of
$130 mln
Samsung supplies set top boxes worth of
$130 mln
05/31/2004 08:22 AMMaekyung Internet May 31 2004 12:45PM GMT
Comcast to roll DVR functionality into
set-top boxes
Comcast to roll DVR functionality into
set-top boxes
12/04/2003 01:08 PMComcast plans to compete with TiVo by offering set-top cable boxes
with built-in DVRs
AMD Targets 64-bit Desktop, Game Boxes
AMD Targets 64-bit Desktop, Game Boxes
06/01/2004 02:00 PMInternet News Jun 1 2004 5:50PM GMT
ASCII Code in Dialog Boxes
ASCII Code in Dialog Boxes
09/21/2004 12:43 AMUsing Control Names in dialog boxes
Using Control Names in dialog boxes
05/03/2004 09:29 AMNew "Gray Boxes" FeedDemon Style
New "Gray Boxes" FeedDemon Style
04/28/2004 05:31 PMJust finished a newspaper style named "Gray Boxes" which I plan to
include in the upcoming FeedDemon 1.10. Unlike most styles, this one
sorts news items by title. IMO, this makes "Group Newspapers" more
readable since items aren't grouped by channel.
To download and apply this new style, simply view this page in
FeedDemon and click this link.
Export Artwork 3.5
Export Artwork 3.5
01/09/2004 09:58 PMExport Artwork is a shareware AppleScript Studio application for use
with iTunes on Mac OS X. It's main function is to extract the Artwork
from the selected track's ID3 tag and copy it to an image file in a
chosen location. It is also a fully fledged Artwork manager as it can
fetch album covers over the Internet andembed Artwork to the ID3 tag,
making it a great tool to update your cover collection as your music
library grows.
Net-Delicious-Export-1.1
Net-Delicious-Export-1.1
02/12/2004 10:09 AMWMV-9 Export Component 1.0
WMV-9 Export Component 1.0
03/19/2005 03:11 AMProduce Windows Media 9 content faster, easier and cheaper on your
Mac.
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