Last week, I was invited to the WebDocumentário Conference in Covilhã for a Keynote Talk and a 3-day FrameTrail Workshop. After arriving in Lisbon on Tuesday, it was time for a 3,5 hour train ride to Covilhã on what must … Continued
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The Ikeaisation of the Web
Several months ago, I read an interview with Facebook’s director of product design, Jon Lax (published in May 2016), which contained so many utterly wrong statements that it made me feel angry. Put in a nutshell: websites are a dying … Continued
FrameTrail Release
Today, we are finally releasing “FrameTrail“, a fully open source hypervideo environment, which enables you to experience, manage and edit interactive, hyperlinked video directly in your web browser: After re-starting several times from scratch, we finally managed to put together … Continued
Impressions from 2nd Workshop on Interactive Content Consumption @ ACMTVX
In the last months we prepared what was going to be the second edition of the successful international „Workshop on Interactive Content Consumption“ (WSICC) held last year at EuroITV in Como (Italy). This year’s WSICC was part of the ACM … Continued
Project SuperGlue – Towards a truly user-driven do-it-yourself web
After some inspiring days in Rotterdam and two SuperGlue alpha-testing workshops at Off the press Conference and DEAF Biennale, I feel the need to store some thoughts and ideas in words. The dominance of services Web 2.0 promised that everyone … Continued
How to create non-linear videos in HTML5
Have you ever wanted to dig into non-linear video on the web, but didn’t know how and where to start from scratch? This article will guide you through the very basics on the way to your first interactive video experiment. … Continued
Generating Video Mood Bars
Video on the web currently develops towards an open playground, where the video data itself can be freely accessed, analyzed, controlled and remixed. In this environment, a video file is completely seperated from its visual representation in the browser and … Continued
Open Hypervideo Course @ Merz Akademie
Last week, I held an “Open Hypervideo”-Course at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart. The whole week was all about experimenting with open standards & technologies like HTML5 Video, PopcornJS and Popcorn Maker. On the basis of a theoretical introduction concerning hypervideo … Continued