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By: Aggregating Google Calendars at bavatuesdays

Aggregating Google Calendars at bavatuesdays — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:29:49 +0000

[...] for a larger vision, a recent post by Cole Camplese about Wall Streams and Jon’s Internet Feeds to TV experiments has me thinking about ways to visualize calendar events, alongside what people on campus are [...]

By: Dale Pike

Dale Pike — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:31:49 +0000

I have a digital sign setup at the university where I work that uses Quartz Composer-based screen savers to animate an RSS feed based on posts made by campus community members to a weblog. We use Mac minis and (relatively) inexpensive LCD screens. I’d be happy to share any and all of the files I’ve developed if it would be helpful.

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Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:19:15 +0000

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By: Puzzlepieces – Turning Internet feeds into TV feeds « Jon Udell (July 14, 2008)

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:08:13 +0000

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By: Joe Moraca

Joe Moraca — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:10:03 +0000

Jon,

Keep thinking and working on projects like this it is an inspiration for the rest of us to help you.

By: More ways to turn Internet feeds into TV feeds « Jon Udell

More ways to turn Internet feeds into TV feeds « Jon Udell — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:11:48 +0000

[...] Posted by Jon Udell under Uncategorized Last week I started looking into ways to Internet feeds into TV feeds. Although I did come up with a way to turn a data feed into a video file, that wound up being [...]

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:07:31 +0000

Forgot to mention – http://www.scala.com.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:50:28 +0000

This is great stuff. Please consider writing a Scala EX module for this application. (Scala is a digital signage product that is widely adopted by access channels. EX stands for Extender Module.) The program could take care of all of the display characteristics which it does very well. There’s just no obvious way to use the app to pull RSS feeds.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:52:46 +0000

We’re in the final stages of testing ScreenScape http://screenscape.net

We’re making it simple for venues to operate their own screen display and easily share content.

Our displays are Internet-based but in theory they could used as a source for TV.

By: From PowerPoint to IronPython/XAML « Jon Udell

From PowerPoint to IronPython/XAML « Jon Udell — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:30:29 +0000

[...] From PowerPoint to IronPython/XAML Posted by Jon Udell under Uncategorized As per the comments on yesterday’s item about creating a video crawl for local TV, it turns out there’s no [...]

By: Jon Udell

Jon Udell — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:06:12 +0000

> is PowerPoint an option

Yes, as it turns out. PowerPoint 2007, even. So now I get to do a nice case study in translating data into PowerPoint XML. The station has a box that can run that show in a loop, and be switched to at intervals during the day.

All this tech stuff is, of course, just a sideshow. The real game remains educating the public about why and how to produce data feeds, and — as the aggregation of those feeds becomes more visible — respecting community standards by agreeing which feeds to trust. That’ll be really interesting!

Anyway, an alliance with the local TV station will be hugely helpful in moving all that forward.

By: Jon Udell

Jon Udell — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:33:25 +0000

> tools_for_public_access_tv

Excellent!

By: tom

tom — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:51:10 +0000

Jon, a quick suggestion: Instead of redrawing each frame from scratch, you could render the entire content to a really tall 720px wide image and then “save” progressive 480px high slices. That may let you generate more complex content and still permit smooth scrolling.

And something like mplayer should let you turn the frames into a movie without the quicktime license fee.

By: paul moss

paul moss — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:19:49 +0000

Hi Jon,
We’re actually approaching the same idea from another direction – as a broadcast TV group.

Using our broadcast graphics overlay system we create a list of commonly used RSS feeds, turn those into a playlist, and push it onto TV.

We’re selling the ‘content-association’ aspect of external feeds(licensed), and ability for clients to broadcast their own feeds.
Turn around time is thus down to a couple of minutes. Clients are liking that!

So far only have 2 design templates: both are scroller overlays, but there are picture based templates and even a squeeze-screen option coming soon.

Do contact me if we can be of assistance.

rgds,
Paul Moss
GM, Platforms&Technology
Media Prima
paulmoss@8tv.com.my