CBS Radio's DLAB

http://dlab.cbsradio.com

That’s what DLAB is all about – the most important resource for local interactive advertising where businesses can learn, interact, find great ideas, be inspired, and ask questions about effective on-line strategy. Additionally, we’ll link to great articles, case studies, bloggers and useful information that will hopefully be helpful as you think about your advertising needs and trends. Ultimately, we want an open dialogue with you as we both explore new ways to grow our audience and business.

Canadians and Streaming Radio

Statistics Canada : 22% of canadian home internet users between 45 and 64 years old listen to the radio over the Internet.
Internet activities performed at home in the last 12 months by Internet users, by age group, 2007
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-008-x/2009002/t/10910/tbl001-eng.htm

YouTube Video tag

I know, this is old stuff. But it is still interesting.
http://youtube.com/html5
You need a browser that supports HTML5 Video tag and can decode and playback H.264 encoded video.

RTMP specifications published

http://adobe.com/devnet/rtmp/

http://blogs.adobe.com/ktowes/2009/06/rtmp_specification_now_availab.html

VLC 0.9.9

VLC just got better:
http://videolan.org/vlc

Interesting excerpt from VLC FAQ:
Is libdvdcss legal?
http://www.videolan.org/doc/faq/en/#id374183

My favorite /. comment about the VLC vs MPlayer debate:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1187129&cid=27447043

Last.fm to start charging end users for service

Looks like ads don’t pay the bills.

EUR 3/month
http://last.fm/about/subscriptionradio

ShoutCAST TTSL

impressive!

TTSL (Total Time Spent Listening in hours per month)
http://yp.shoutcast.com/ttsl.html

so called iTunes podcast format

There is no such thing as “iTunes podcast format”. Apple developped a module to the RSS standard.

RSS Modules : extend the basic XML schema established for more robust syndication of content.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS#Modules

Apple iTunes Module
http://apple.com/itunes/whatson/podcasts/specs.html#rss

See my previous post on Media RSS.

in car streaming

This is getting very interesting.

Blaupunkt Presents World’s First in-car Web radio
http://blaupunkt.com/press/download.aspx/2610/BP_iRadio_en.pdf

miRoamer Partners with Blaupunkt to Introduce the World’s First Internet Car Radio
http://corporate.miroamer.com/press-release.html#p1

Cadillac rolls out in-car Internet access
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-10199833-48.html

FFmpeg 0.5

FFmpeg 0.5 is released!
http://ffmpeg.org
caught this one on /.