Just saw this this morning. http://joemaller.com/2008/01/12/itransmogrify/
Bookmarklet for Safari on the iphone. Automatically makes flash videos playable on the iphone. I assume it's using server side transcoding. Converts the video in realtime. vixy.org, mux.am, the technology has been out for awhile. Just the most interesting implimentation of it. I wonder how well it will scale. So is this the future of how videos will be playable on any device? Why not? "Information just wants to be free", that's the statement that comes to mind. Oh how true it is. Communication finds a way, build a better mouse trap and world will beat a path to your door they say. But it's not a mouse trap... it's a *super cute* video of a panda on youtube, and millions of others like it. The network effect is taking over. The world is not just beating a path to your door... your door like so many others is in flash... so the world is beating a path to all flash doors. The network effect doesn't get any simpler than that, not "information wants to be free", nor "everything is a service". All I want to know is how ubiquitous will server side transcoding come, how will it integrate with services over time, and how will it sustain itself. Peace, -Mike mmeiser.com/blog evilvlog.com no longer with mefeedia.com
