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convergence.

Posted by John Adams on November 20th, 2009

Engadget recently featured an article describing YouTube’s blocking of 1080p content from select sites which allowed users to display the content on televisions instead of their computer monitors, or sites which utilized the YouTube API. Like the Hulu block last year, blocking the PS3 from watching shows, it marked another moment when television content producers [...]

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Two great talks for Wednesday

Posted by John Adams on July 8th, 2009

Two great presentations I’ve recently read and want to share with you:
Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle’s “Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On“.
Read that, perhaps while watching/listening toKevin Kelly’s riveting talk (from the TED EG conference) on the next 5000 days of the web (that’s right, we’re only 5000 days old) and the future of [...]

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Traktor to Snarkatron!

Posted by John Adams on July 28th, 2008

Awhile back I gave a talk about The Snarkatron at Ignite SF. It’s a digital sign, installed facing the crowd at the DNA Lounge here in San Francisco. I DJ a number of nights there, and my recent transition from CD and Vinyl to Laptop/MP3 with M-Audio’s Xponent has given me many more chances to [...]

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blog upgrade…

Posted by John Adams on July 24th, 2008

I just upgraded to Wordpress 2.6 and replaced the wordpress theme, because the older one was impossible to read and hey, I hated the ugly green banner.
Let me know if it breaks at all.

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Congrats, TechcrunchIT

Posted by John Adams on June 29th, 2008

Congrates to Nik and Steve at TechCrunchIT for their first week online, and thanks for the additional mention in the recent TechCrunch post. I feel oh so web-2.0 now.
Lots of work being done this week on researching message queues, software, writing presentations for eLine, and slowly working my way out of the last [...]

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Thanks, twitter followers.

Posted by John Adams on June 24th, 2008

Oh man, can you believe this?
So many followers, so quickly. Thanks for the love!

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Welcome!

Posted by John Adams on December 26th, 2007

Hi, I’m John Adams, an Internet developer, network engineer, and Systems Administrator (I don’t sleep much.)
Here I’ll discuss emerging technologies for web development (Ruby/Rails, Python, and other web frameworks), streaming media (audio and video), Syndication of content, and scaling issues related to media in general.
I currently work for a medium-sized streaming media company, serving massive [...]

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