Hummingbird Mentality

Seems like Technolotics has been nominated (not by me, I’d have picked a better episode!) for a Vidcast Award at this years Irish blog awards. If you liked the show, you can vote for it here. We were nominated for two episodes, clearly in a sly attempt to split the hordes of eager voters, so just select Episode #44 - Flying Naked if you don’t have a preference.

While you’re at it, if you’re short on recommendations you could do worse than throw in a vote for..

Two Irish Geeks for best podcaster.

Sinead Gleeson for Best Art and Culture, and Best Music Blog.

Tuppenceworth for Best Politics Blog.

TCAL or Tuppenceworth for Best Group Blog.

Bernie Goldbach, or Simon McGarr for Best Contribution to the Irish Bloggersphere.

Tom Rafferty, James Corbett or Bernie Goldbach for Best Technology Blogger.

The Venice project, a mysterious beta application from Kazaa and Skype creators Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, has being variously hailed as the future of television, and the application which may finally bring to its knees the aging last mile bandwidth of the internet itself.

Retitled in mid January to ‘Joost’, TVP is an IPTV application. That is, a program designed to carry high resolution video direct to consumers via the internet, rather than through satellite, cable or terrestrial broadcasts.

On the technical end, Joost uses both the UDP (to stream video direct to viewers) and TCP/IP (to share shows between users) protocols to create a hybrid Peer-to-Peer and Streaming, MPEG 4 H.264, (currently) free, on-demand TV network.

While Joost does live up to its promise to deliver full screen, uninterrupted streaming video at a watchable quality, a variety of potentially insurmountable challenges stand between the company and its goal of subverting broadcast television.

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