Archive | August, 2008

Institutions vs Collaboration or why open source projects will be successful

I just watched this TED talk by Clay Shirky that was recorded in July 2005 but only recently posted to the TED website. Given that the talk is 3 years old, he gives a meaningful insights of our society and how Institutional thinking is working. Especially the example of Steve Ballmer not understanding Linux still holds up today (even thought Microsoft tries so hard to enter the open source game).

I suggest you spend 20 minutes watching this and reflect what has happened in the last 3 years.

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Razuna Subversion Repository now open

I know that some of you have waited for this, thus we are pleased to say that the Razuna Subversion repository is now open! Now, Razuna is a truly open source project as we are opening up the code base within our source code repository for all to see. Thus making Razuna one of the first open source digital asset management systems on the market.

Subversion Access is meant for the advanced users and developers and provides access to the latest development release. Please read our Subversion Access Guide on the Razuna Wiki to gain a complete overview of the Razuna Subversion Repository.

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Razuna 1.1.1 now available

Following on the heels of the Razuna 1.1 release 5 days ago, we are pleased to announce that we are providing Razuna 1.1.1 now. Version 1.1.1 is a bug fix release and should be applied by everyone using Razuna 1.1 as it fixes some bugs we encountered after releasing Razuna 1.1.

Here is a short list of the topics we fixed and added;

Bug Fixes

  • Adding collection freezes
  • Converting files
  • AVI and MPEG movies are not downloaded correctly
  • Converting video to 3GP (Windows users need to apply the new application)
  • Adding New Scheduled Upload fails
  • FTP import of Assets
  • Updating a host did not recreate all folders

Improvements

  • Check if there is a connection to the net if not do not load blog (will fix delay that some have when there is no connection)
  • Update to embedded database (1.0.77)

New Feature

  • Update Notification

Razuna 1.1.1 is now available and can be downloaded from the Razuna Website.

Razuna is a professional digital asset management/media asset management with an integrated web content management that delivers and makes management of your digital assets a simple task. Razuna is licensed under a dual-license (AGPL and commercial) and can be downloaded at http://www.razuna.com. The Wiki is available at http://wiki.sixsigns.com and the public Issues Tracker at http://issues.sixsigns.com.

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Photosynth is now available

Live Labs released their Photosynth application today. We have featured Photosynth before on this blog in Mai 2007 and were already very impressed with what we saw. Photosynth takes a collection of regular photographs and reconstructs the scene or object in a 3-D environment.

Now today you can experience Photosynth yourself (unfortunately only on Windows while Mac support should be coming soon).

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