good summary of Web App Design Mistakes

I liked the summary of application design guidelines/mistakes

PRN, Walmart and HDTV

Press release from our cousins over at PRN regarding the HDTV support within the Walmart network which talks about a HDTV remote management system.



Economist makes some observations about why out of home media networks succeed and points to the PRN / Walmart partnership as an example of a winning combination.

@Media 2007, UK Media Conference slides & audio

A collection of the slides, audio podcasts and other media items from the UK based media conference @Media 2007

http://learningtheworld.eu/2007/atmedia-2007-slides/

Thanks to Martin for this collection of great free resources

Windows and Video Codecs

Used this to some extent recently and its always an annoying problem - which codecs do i need to play the media (specifically video) I have or recieve

This helps

http://www.jockersoft.com/english/codecinstaller_download.php

HTML v5.0

If your using a framework (abstracting HTML away from the dev) or hand coding it does seem that it pays to know your HTML and that HTML is not going away any time soon.

Since the arrival of the 'div' tag I have been advocating using them and not Tables - not everyone shared my opinion and it seems there is plenty of table work out there and for good reason in many cases.

HTML 5.0 - what does it do for us and how? I may not get to t all in one go but plan to break out some of the changes that might be of interest or have impact.

HTML v4.0 vs v5.0 Differences

MS Silverlight and learning

Have not had a chance to review these tutorials as yet but they looked polished - not sure if they have been building this content up for a while but there seems to be plenty there to get over the initial learning curve.

http://silverlight.net/Learn/learnvideos.aspx

Looking at Netflix online film last night and it looks like they rolled out the fullscreen version of the Silverlight player - whatever it was it played the video immed. and great quality too.

MIX07
we have been workign our way slowly through this content from the Mix07 sessions from a few weeks/months back now - also good intros to all the WPF releases in real business context.

Sessions at Mix07

Collections

I am always sending out emails about information links, events, code, tips and just noticed that over the last year it would have been useful put in one place.

The work of developing and delivering solutions within the Digital Signage or Out Of Home media industry.

I work for Convergent and division of Technicolor and although his is personal and related to general industry news that would be public knowledge I suspect I will need to get some approval - so we will wait and see.