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Video on the Web: Who is Who?

Searching for statistics on video usage on the internet I found rather interesting stats for web based video usage at comscore. In their latest press release focusing on video stats they state that in the U.S. 28.3 % of watched videos in September 2007 are delivered by Google sites (mainly YouTube).

Some other facts from the press release: In September 2007 9 billions of videos were watched by internet users in the U.S. 3 of 4 U.S. internet users watched at least 1 online video and they watched 181 minutes in average.

While this is surely interesting I’d like to see some figures from other areas and countries too.

Multimedia Book Coming Feb. 2008

Behind the curtains of the Multimedia Metadata Community we prepared a book consisting of 12 contributions in context of multimedia metadata and semantics. It’s already mentioned online. It’s available in Feb. 2008.

Title: Multimedia Semantics – The Role of Metadata
Editors: M. Granitzer, M. Lux & M. Spaniol
Pages: ~260
ISBN: 978-3-540-77472-3

The web page at Springer is here. I’ll blog more about the book as soon as it is published.

Google Talk, AIM and ICQ

Google announced lately that their messenger built into the GMail web interface supports AIM. No words of ICQ there, but be assured it works fine As AIM is somewhat related to ICQ (I’ll spare you the details) you can just use your ICQ # and password and it works fine. Meebo won’t like this as half of its functions are now integrated in GMail. Have fun chatting!

Update:  How to use the new feature? Use Settings -> Chat “Sign into a different AIM account” or the “Options” combo box in the chat window (see also screenshot, the AIM icon denotes an AIM contact).

NetBeans 6.0 is finally here!

Sun has released NetBeans 6.0 – the final version. Get it here. For all who missed my praise in previous post: Use it! Why use NetBeans?

• It has a really cool GUI Editor.
• The editor doesn’t suck any more (some refactoring, code completion and templates, …).
• It supports many common tools (Ant, SVN, JUnit, ..).
• It’s the alternative to Eclipse.

Call for Papers: Workshop on Multimedia Metadata Management & Retrieval

In times of ubiquitous access to the internet multimedia systems utilizing networks gain more and more importance. Multimedia systems support features beyond the download and display of videos and images: Adaptation of data and metadata, caching and distribution of multimedia content and metadata over different types of networks and integration of the user as critical factor. Focus of the special session is put on multimedia metadata. Aspects include but are not limited to means of delivery, adaptation, storage, creation, production and consumption.

Topics in the context of multimedia metadata management & retrieval include:

• Distributed multimedia metadata management
• Metadata based multimedia retrieval
• Metadata crosswalking & interoperability
• Metadata in multimedia authoring & publishing
• Mobile multimedia metadata
• Multimedia annotation
• Multimedia metadata models & ontologies
• Multimedia metadata services
• Multimedia metadata storage and indexing
• Multimedia metadata streaming & adaptation
• Multimedia personalization
• Social software and social computing for multimedia metadata

Organization:

The Multimedia Metadata Community has already organized a series of 7 successful workshops in the past taking place in Aachen, Berlin, Graz and Klagenfurt. The Multimedia Metadata Community welcomes and encourages submissions from outside the core community to broaden aspects and extend the active and successful community and network with new members. The event is organized as special session of the 9th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services.

The WIAMIS workshop is organized by the Institute for Information Technology (ITEC) of the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt. The M3R 08 chair is Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University, Austria. Email: mlux <at> itec.uni-klu.ac.at.

Deadline for submission is 2007-12-14. Further details here.