Search result visualisation tools

Originally for Satama Research Blog

Visualisation of data and search has been for long one of my favourite topics. Speedwise, nothing beats the traditional Google-styled listing. Yet, they are definately not the most learning stimulating method of showing of what is relevant and what is not. My all time favourite in the visualisation has been Kartoo - Flash-based online meta-search engine. Kartoo enable refines the search image by pressing the “minus”-button on the screen. Furthermore, it enables saving favourite searches and sharing these with one’s peers.

Become a broadcaster via P2P networks

Originally for Satama Research Blog

New way of hacking digital televison – Re-broadcast it to other viewers by P2P networks.
Very interesting. Multiple software seems to pop-put to support this activity. See e.g.

Cybersky-TV is a free software application for sharing live television feeds on the Internet. Cybersky-TV allows users with a broadband connection to share, within due legal boundaries, any television signal they are able to receive or route through their net-connected personal computer. With this software “TV channels can be shared irrespective of the means of reception, be it by cable, terrestrial, satellite, and whether the signal is in analog or digital format

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My guess for this: conditional access (CA) will become obsolote. Think about, somebody gets the legal card (e.g to football/ice hockey matches) and starts to transmit the signal to friends via P2P networks, even behind a login. Who on earth can ever control this kind of bit-based activities on the Internet? And especially in the era IPTV, who will no longer pay for the content access… Furthermore, combine this with BitTorrents, RSS audio/videofeeds and PVR. What do you have? I’d say – and integrated video content viewing experience… What do you think?