Rocketboom Research & Development

Multi-Camera Live Video Streaming (for a Fraction of the...

gleuch — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:48:00 -0400

Multi-Camera Live Video Streaming (for a Fraction of the Cost)

Rocketboom has a proud history of pioneering video on the web, so when asked to develop live programming for YouTube’s live streaming alpha launch, we wanted to create shows that captured the same passion, ambition and innovation of Rocketboom’s flagship series when it launched in 2004.

We believe that live streaming is the next frontier for content studios like ourselves and wanted to show that live web programming can have the same complexity and energy of live broadcast TV, for a fraction of the cost.

Check out dev.rocketboom.com/projects/live-streaming-studio to go behind the scenes of Rocketboom Live and Know Your Meme: DO IT LIVE! and learn how we created a live streaming studio, right in our NYC offices.

rocketboom: Join Rocketboom for our first-ever live...

gleuch — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:45:12 -0400

rocketboom:

Join Rocketboom for our first-ever live broadcasts!

Rocketboom is excited to announce that we’ll be broadcasting live from our NYC studio, as part of the YouTube live streaming alpha. Tune in today and tomorrow for the Rocketboom Live variety show and Know Your Meme: DO IT LIVE! Anything can happen.

Schedule:

Rocketboom Live
Monday 9/13, 11am EST/8am PST
Watch it at http://youtube.com/rocketboom

Monday’s Rocketboom Live variety show is hosted by Molly of Rocketboom Daily and features the hosts of Rocketboom NYC, RocketboomTech, and Know Your Meme. Plus: special guests the Universal Record Database (who will be setting records on air) and New York Times technology writer Nick Bilton (talking about his new book, I Live in the Future & Here’s How It Works). Follow the conversation on Twitter with the #rblive hashtag.

Know Your Meme: DO IT LIVE!
Monday 9/13, 9pm EST/6pm PST
Watch it at http://youtube.com/knowyourmeme

Tour the Institute for Internet Studies, home of Know Your Meme. Your hosts, Internet scientists Yatta, Elspeth Jane, Mike & Patrick, will give a lesson in Memes 101 and conduct experiments that answer important questions like, “How much auto-tune is too much auto-tune?” Plus: a very exciting announcement about the show! Follow the conversation on Twitter with the #kymlive hashtag.

Rocketboom Live
Tuesday 9/14, 10pm EST/7pm PST
Watch it at http://youtube.com/rocketboom

Tuesday’s Rocketboom Live, hosted by Molly, features Internet experts facing off in the Know Your Meme game show, plus the world’s most useless gadgets with Seth Porges of Popular Mechanics and live performances from juggling mogul Brian Dubé and a surprise musical act. Follow the conversation on Twitter with the #rblive hashtag.

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All of the live broadcasts will be recorded & available on our YouTube channels & Rocketboom.com at a later date.

We’ll be posting behind-the-scenes photos and details on our production later today at dev.rocketboom.com.

We’re nearing 1,500 downloads on the Tumblr Video Thumbnails add-on. Thanks everyone for the...

gleuch — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:27:00 -0400

We’re nearing 1,500 downloads on the Tumblr Video Thumbnails add-on. Thanks everyone for the awesome support. Don’t forget to tell your friends/Tumblr followers!

In today’s age, we don’t judge books by their...

gleuch — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:22:59 -0400

In today’s age, we don’t judge books by their covers. We judge them by their thumbnails. We also judge videos, e-books, software, and people the same way. Engaging an audience demands engaging them visually, no matter the medium. Some of our peers in the online video community recently noted that Tumblr allows the display of thumbnails for YouTube embeds on their dashboard, but other popular video sites, such as Vimeo and Blip.tv, are currently left out from showcasing their user videos with a thumbnail image.

Rocketboom R&D, the development unit of the Rocketboom network, has created a simple solution: a browser add-on that allows Tumblr users to see any video’s known thumbnail in their Tumblr dashboard. There’s no platform favoritism; this enables nearly every other common video platform the ability for thumbnail display. The add-on was created using Mag.ma, our own video aggregation service, to do thumbnail lookups for numerous video platforms with our simple API methods. The results? Uniformity for Tumblr users and creative support for content creators.

Get your browser add-on for Firefox, Chrome, or Safari, and visit the Tumblr Video Thumbnails add-on page for information, installation help, and more. Special thanks to our friends at Vimeo, Blip.tv, and Wreck & Salvage for their testing and support.

About R&D

gleuch — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:37:54 -0400

Rocketboom R&D is comprised of an awesome crew of designers, developers, and engineers making impressive things for your enjoyment. They’ve helped build incredible products, including Know Your Meme, Magma, the Rocketboom network, and many other cool, top secret projects.

You can follow Rocketboom R&D on Twitter (@RocketboomDev) and check out out Github account for our open-source projects.