Facebook has just announced some updates to the Open API Stream. Among these are simpler JavaScript methods for publishing, Facebook Pages support, and attribution. A spokesperson for Facebook tells Murdok:
Working Toward Activity Stream Standards
In San Francisco last night, Six Apart (who recently launched data portability initiative Motion) hosted a roundtable to discuss the future of activity stream standards. In attendance were people from Google, Yahoo, MySpace, Facebook, Nokia, Plaxo, Comcast, and others.
YouTube To Stream Full-Length Feature Films
The most popular video site on the web, YouTube has long been in negotiations with movie studios to stream full-length feature films. And while there are still a lot of details to be hammered out, sources say that the deal could be complete in thirty to ninety days, according to CNET reports today.
NFL To Stream Sunday Night Games Live
The National Football League said today that it will stream entire games live on the Internet.The NFL has partnered with NBC to stream Sunday Night Football Extra on NBCSports.com and NFL.com. It is the first time that the NFL has made entire games available online.Fans will be able to select different camera angles for the live streaming games, have access to game highlights, statistics and updates from NBC.
Xbox 360 To Stream Netflix Movies
Microsoft and Netflix Unveil Partnership to Instantly Stream Movies and TV Episodes to the TV via Xbox LIVE: Exclusive agreement creates game-changing home entertainment experience; more than 10,000 movies and TV episodes will be available to watch instantly at no additional cost to paying subscribers.
Google Tests In-Stream Video Ads
When Google purchased YouTube for $1.65 billion, conventional reasoning suggested that the search giant had grand plans to monetize the video content with advertising. As we sit upon the precipice of 2007, Google has begun testing in-stream advertising methods geared at just such a practice.
Write Info Directly to the HTTP Output Stream
This article is an excerpt from the book: Murach’s ASP.NET 2.0 Web Programming with C# 2005.
Yahoo Stream Millions For Howard Stern
Yahoo released the metrics for the Howard Stern celebration and the number came to over 4.4 million streams of live video on December 16th. Additionally, more than 214,000 watched the activities after his final day on terrestrial radio. This is the largest live entertainment webcast.
Combine streams in one .NET Framework Stream object
Abstract
This article represents a simple Stream class whose data is based on the number of another .NET Framework streams.