O'Reilly -- What Is Screencasting. Screencasting A screencast is a digital movie in which the setting is partly or wholly a computer screen, and in which audio narration describes the on-screen action. It's not a new idea. The screencaster's tools—for video capture, editing, and production of compressed files—have long been used to market software products, and to train people in the use of those products. What's new is the emergence of a genre of documentary filmmaking that tells stories about software-based cultures like Wikipedia, del.icio.us, and content remixing. In This Article: Some screencasts are carefully produced works designed to educate, entertain, or influence an audience. Screencast Genres Here are some of the ways screencasts are used. Tutorial: A screencast that demonstrates how to use an application or service.
Short how-to: Examples include this 90-second short on Linky, a Mozilla/Firefox extension, and another shortie on Windows' hidden desktop search feature. O'Reilly Open Books. O'Reilly has published a number of Open Books--books with various forms of "open" copyright--over the years. The reasons for "opening" copyright, as well as the specific license agreements under which they are opened, are as varied as our authors. Perhaps a book was outdated enough to be put out of print, yet some people still needed the information it covered. Or the author or subject of a book felt strongly that it should be published under a particular open copyright.
Maybe the book was written collectively by a particular community, as in the case of our Community Press books. But there's more to making Open Books available online than simply adopting an open license or giving up rights granted under copyright law. The print books need to be converted to a digital format so that they're accessible via the web.
While the books listed here use various open licenses, since 2003 we've focused on using the licenses created by Creative Commons. The line between book and Internet will disappear - O'Reilly Radar. A few months ago I posted a tweet that said: The distinction between “the internet” & “books” is totally totally arbitrary, and will disappear in 5 years. Start adjusting now. The tweet got some negative reaction. But I’m certain this shift will happen, and should happen (I won’t take bets on the timeline though). It should happen because a book properly hooked into the Internet is a far more valuable collection of information than a book not properly hooked into the Internet. It will happen, because: what is a book, after all, but a collection of data (text + images), with a defined structure (chapters, headings, captions), meta data (title, author, ISBN), and prettied up with some presentation design?
An ebook is just a print book by another name Ebooks to date have mostly been approached as digital versions of a print books that readers can read on a variety of digital devices, with some thought to enhancing ebooks with a few bells and whistles, like video. An API for books For instance: The War For the Web - O'Reilly Radar. On Friday, my latest tweet was automatically posted to my Facebook news feed, as always.
But this time, Tom Scoville noticed a difference: the link in the posting was no longer active. It turns out that a lot of other people had noticed this too. Mashable wrote about the problem on Saturday morning: Facebook Unlinks Your Twitter Links. if you’re posting web links (Bit.ly, TinyURL) to your Twitter feed and using the Twitter Facebook app to share those updates on Facebook too, none of those links are hyperlinked. As it turns out, it wasn’t just links imported from Twitter. The problem was quickly fixed, with URLs in status updates automatically now linkified again. All of this is well-intentioned, I’m sure.
But this isn’t just about Facebook. The Apple iPhone is the hottest web access device around, and like Facebook, while it connects to the web, it plays by a different set of rules. A few weeks ago, Google offered free turn-by-turn directions for Android phones. P.S. O'Reilly Rough Cuts: Get behind the scenes to stay ahead of the curve. Qu’est ce que le web 2.0 : Modèles de conception et d’affaires pour la prochaine génération de logiciels. Nous avons souhaité publier la traduction produite par Jean-Baptiste Boisseau du texte fondateur de Tim O’Reilly « Qu’est-ce que le web 2.0 ? », qu’il avait publié sur son site le 30 septembre 2005. Bien que cette traduction soit déjà disponible sur la toile, il nous semblait important de la porter à votre connaissance, parce qu’elle dessine les limites et l’enjeu du web d’aujourd’hui. Malgré sa densité et sa longueur, nous sommes convaincus que ce texte contribuera à éclaircir ce concept clé et aidera les lecteurs à comprendre les transformations actuelles du web.Pour ceux qui ne le connaîtraient pas, Tim O’Reilly est le président d’O’Reilly Media, un maison d’édition américaine spécialisée dans les livres informatiques et très active dans le domaine des standards ouverts.
L’explosion de la bulle internet en 2001 a définitivement marqué un tournant dans l’histoire du web. Cet article est donc une tentative de clarification du sens du terme « web 2.0 ». Web 1.0 // Web 2.0 1. 2. 3. 4. 1. What is Web 2.0 par Tim O'Reilly (version française)