Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services
An interesting conference on the
Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services is being held in Ireland thsi week. This is part of the IEEE
2nd International Week on Management of Networks and Services Autonomic Component and System Management or Manweek for short (thanks organisers for that abbreviation!), October 23-27, Dublin, Ireland.
Many of these papers are little low down in the stack to be of interest to wireless application developers. Nevertheless the session of
Short Technical Papers is of particular interest as it deals with topics such as:
VidShare: A Management platform for Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Asset Distribution across Heterogeneous Access Networks with Intellectual Property Management from the
TSSG grup at wWaterford Institute of Technology.
Youtube as a method to demo mobile apps and content
A start up (sic) called Youtube in the press lately for obvious reason that have been well covered in other blogs. One thing I find particularly interesting about
youtube is that mobile application developers and content providers are beginning to use UGC sites such as youtube and
flickr as an effective marketing tool. Consider the following two examples.
The first example
youtube videois a sample mobile application created using Tricastmedia's TWUIK (codenamed OMEGA), a rich J2ME GUI framework for creating midlets with FLASH-LIKE animation and user interface effects. J2ME has certainly come of age! However claims that it is device independent would need to be investigated thoroughly.
The second video is an example of
pure video content and is not so much concerned about the technology, but more an illustration of the fact as to how mainstream cameraphone video content is becoming. The videos are cool cameraphone video magic tricks by an allegedly famous magician in the US. Cool thing is that in later videos he shows viewers how to do the tricks:-)
Wireless Location Data from Horse racing
I have been watching with interest developments at
SportingLOT over the last year or so. Their innovative GUI for exchange based sports trading deploying their Liberated Object Technology added real value to the basic interface as available from sports exchanges such as
Betdaq and of course
Betfair.
However it is only in the last few weeks that they have embraced wireless technology and the results are major leap forward. SportingLOT are now taking real time location based data from certain racetracks in the UK and displaying the data on screen. This itself is not a new concept and they are utilising data from
Turftrax. The system is called IRIS: In-running Racing Information Service.
Sports trading will never be the same again!
The system uses patented technology whereby sensors on the racetrack relay 2D location information from a device located on the saddle of the horse. This all sounded very familiar to me as I remember around 2001 meeting a UK company called Racetrace out of Cambridge in the UK who had a very similar system. It seems Racetrace was
liquidated in 2004. However further investigation seems to indicate that Turftrax are indeed deploying the same technology and may be licensing it from Racetrace original owners
Generics Group.
The real added value here is combining the location data with SportingLOT's unique superfast realtime sports trading system. As the figure below shows this enables the user to go long or short on the horse by just clicking the actual icon in the race animation.
