Adobe officially unveiled the P2P video streaming capabilities of Flash 10 to developers this week. The technology itself is still in its infancy, but the mere fact that Adobe decided to embrace P2P for Flash 10 made a lot of headlines earlier this year. Many people, including Om over at GigaOM, wondered whether Adobe was taking aim at the CDN market with this technology and whether we will soon all watch our YouTube videos in a P2P fashion.

The short answer is: We won’t — at least not with Adobe’s help. The current P2P implementation, which goes by the name Real-Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP), isn’t really suited for mass-scale video delivery. Instead, it focuses solely on scenarios in which one client exchanges live video or audio data with another client. Think video conferences, Flash-based VOIP or even multi-player games. Just not YouTube. Not anytime soon.

RTMFP is essentially based on the idea that real-time video or voice interaction between two users of Flash or Air applications shouldn’t have to deal with the latency and bandwidth burden of a server-based relay. It’s just faster and cheaper to let the kids talk amongst themselves. Adobe does use a central server to authenticate users and facilitate the exchange of the data, but the actual video streams flow directly between the users of the application in question.

Graphic from Adobe’s RTMFP FAQ.

So who is running that server? RTMFP will eventually be supported by future versions of Adobe’s Flash Media Server, but the company wants to first integrate it into its new Cocomo cloud services, which went into beta last month. For now, only a subset of all Cocomo servers run by Adobe support RTMFP, but Adobe developer Nigel Pegg assured me that his team hasn’t seen any capacity problems just yet.

Pegg first wrote about the new protocol earlier this week on Adobe’s Collaborative Methods blog, detailing how Flex developers can add RTMFP support to their applications with a few lines of extra code. He told me that one of the big advantages of this solution is that it switches effortlessly between centralized and P2P data delivery. “We tend to see performance degradations after a certain number of receiving participants is reached,” he said.

One example for such a problem would be if you use a Flash P2P video chat and your broadband connection simply can’t support to serve all participants. “What’s cool about how Cocomo approaches this is that, once that limit is reached, Cocomo’s foundation classes swap down automatically, in mid-stream (to server-based video delivery)”, Pegg explained.

Speaking of video delivery: Adobe goes to great lengths to dispel the myth that it plans to P2P-ify all web-based Flash video with this new protocol. “Flash player 10 will not enable swarming, multi-cast or broadcast quality live video,” the protocol’s FAQ (PDF) reads, and it goes on: “RTMFP will have no impact on the business of a CDN.” The company even tries to avoid the acronym P2P completely, instead talking about client-to-client streaming.

Of course, the fact that Adobe doesn’t support any YouTube — or even Ustream-like environments — with RTMFP doesn’t mean that the company won’t go down that road eventually. Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch told Om earlier this year that the company is “taking small steps” and “using P2P in a very basic form” to make sure it doesn’t break web video. Which could mean that this is a first step down a potentially very disrupting path.

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I had a great time leading the 24/7 Librarianship: Reaching Patrons with Digital Tutorials webinar for WebJunction. This was my first time teaching an online class with Wimba, which is really cool software. The best part of the webinar was interacting with library folk who wanted to join the presentation. I appreciate that people took time out their busy day to learn about digital tutorials.

So, what is a digital tutorial? A digital tutorial is a how-to guide for your library customers. It is anything that helps customers find and use information. Moving from the old “how to” VHS tapes to digital videos on the library website allows libraries to maintain contact with customers in a new way. During the “24/7 Librarianship” webinar, we discussed how libraries can use digital tutorials and spent time brainstorming what could work in participant’s libraries.

Some great ideas for digital tutorials included:

• how to ILL
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• showcase your story time
• a poetry contest/slam
• library tour
• how-to do something library specific like use the self-check out
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• previewing new compact shelving
• checking out e-books and resume writing

Digital tutorials are an opportunity to provide information to customers beyond the usual library hours. Learn and use the technology available at your library when creating a digital tutorial. Give yourself enough time and pay attention to the details. Find someone outside the project to review the tutorial and offer advice before it goes “live.” Finally, let library staff be innovative and have fun!

Militants du Npa de Marseille participant à un communiqué de presse sur Jean-Marc Rouillan prisonnier politique le 25 novembre 2008 à Marseille.

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La fédération internationale a enregistré la non-participation du Japonais Kenji Matsudaira à la Grande finale de Macao. Du coup, Adrien Mattenet, premier sur la liste des suppléants, intégre la liste des huit participants de l'épreuve des moins de 21ans.

Selon deux blogs consacrés à Microsoft, les participants aux conférences pour développeurs (Microsoft Developer Conference) du mois de janvier recevront un DVD de la bêta 1 de Windows 7.
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Vendée Globe : Les icebergs une menace pour les participants - Toulouse - La société CLS, spécialisée dans la localisation par satellite des icebergs, vient de mettre cette nouvelle technologie au service des skippeurs du Vendée Globe. Avec le réchauffement climatique et la fonte des glaces, la dérive des icebergs est une menace pour les participants. Les responsables de la course ont décidé de modifier le tracé aujourd'hui. (Pour obtenir les droits d’exploitation commerciale de cette vidéo, veuillez contacter contact@wizdeo.com)

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Shaking hands with yourself is an amusing out-of-body experience. The illusion of having your stomach slashed with a kitchen knife, not so much. Both sensations, however, felt real to most participants in a Swedish science project exploring how people can be tricked into the false perception of owning another body. In a study presented Tuesday, neuroscientists at Stockholm's renowned Karolinska Institute show how they got volunteers wearing virtual reality goggles to experience the illusion of swapping bodies with a mannequin and a real person.

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Here’s the latest installment of a weekly reader interactive segment on the blog, where I answer reader-submitted e-mails to bcronin@comicbookresources.com (and other e-mails that don’t require responses).

Enjoy!

Mailbag entries were a bit slim this week - it was almost as if people were spending the Thanksgiving holiday with their families rather than sending me mailbag entries - how dare they!!

Friendly publicist David got me hip to a cool new thing NBM is doing - a blog for all NBM’s comic creators! And since NBM has such awesome people as Rick Geary, Neil Kleid, Ted Rall and Lewis Trondheim, that’s a pretty sweet sounding blog!

Check it out here.
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Some new podcast called the Handsome Genius Club sent me a link to their podcast site. Here it is!
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ed!=Awesome! took issue with the #1 fight on the Top 25 Comic Book Battles, and sent me a link from his website where he explains why Batman could never defeat Superman. Here is the link. I think he seemed to believe that I picked the results myself - I did not - they were voted on by you, the readers!
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Our favorite young comic book hopeful, Chris Jones, wrote in to show some pages from the comic he is shopping around:

I talk a lot about the comic I’m working on, and I’d figure you might want to know what it WAS, and make sure that I wasn’t just pissing into the wind with flights of fancy.

Well, here are the first couple of scripts, and some art for the second issue, drawn by the wonderful Serena Guerra. If you think it’s worth showing off on the blog or in the letters section, you can do that, or don’t if you think it’s garbage, or simply choose to ignore the whole thing. Enjoy!

It’s not like I have a lot of other letters here, Chris, so sure, let’s show everyone your comic!

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Comic book blog Destructo Co. is doing a holiday scavenger hunt to benefit Hero Initiative!

Here’s what they’re doing:

Here’s how ComiXmas works: On Saturday, December 13, 2008 at 12:00 pm (CST) Destructo Co. will post our Xmas Wish List containing a combination of 12 Hidden Items and Trivia Questions online. You have 24 hours to collect as many of the hidden items and answer as many of the trivia questions as you can. One of the items participants must supply is proof of their donation to The Hero Initiative in the amount of at least $1. The first participant to submit the most correct items and answers to comixmas@destructoco.com (email must contain “ComiXmas List” in the subject line) before 12:00 pm (CST) on December 14, 2008 wins a grand prize of 12 FREE COMIC BOOK SUBSCRIPTIONS from Marvel, DC or a combination of both. All proceeds from the event will go to benefit The Hero Initiative. Contact Destructo Co. at ComiXmas@destructoco.com with any questions. See the Official Rules for complete details before participating.

That’s about it, but in case you were wondering, you don’t have to participate in the scavenger hunt to donate. Every little bit helps. Good luck and thanks for your support!

Happy Holidays! - The Destructo Co. Staff

Check out their site here for more details.
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Good ol’ Bright-Raven is having a holiday sale at his DeviantArt website! Some pretty darn cheap prices there! Check it out here.
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The nice publicist Margaret wrote in to remind folks about IDW’s big Customer Appreciation sale!

DECEMBER 6, 10 AM - 3 PM. The sale will be held in IDW’s parking lot, 5080 Santa Fe St, San Diego, CA 92109.
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Another nice publicist, Margot, showed me this neat Wanted game.

I used it to create the following…

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If you do, be sure to send me an e-mail to bcronin@comicbookresources.com with the subject heading “Mailbag” if you want to be included in next week’s mailbag!

Le 6 février prochain se tiendra la deuxième édition du concours Ethical Hacking de SCRT. Les Insomni’hack sont les bienvenues !

La société SCRT vient de nous informer qu’elle peaufine la deuxième édition de son concours de Ethical Hacking.

Un concours baptisé Insomni’hack.

Cette compétition informatique se déroulera le 6 février 2009. Le concours se tiendra dans les locaux de l’Ecole d’ingénieurs de Genève (HES-Ecole d’ingénieurs Rue de la Prairie 4 CH-1202 Genève)

Cette olympiade numérique consiste en une série d’épreuves de tous niveaux (faciles à difficiles) relatives à la sécurité informatique.

Le concours est ouvert à tous, du débutant à l’expert confirmé !

L’inscription est gratuite et divers prix sont à la clé. Il s’agira, au final, pour chaque participant d’utiliser ses compétences en matière de sécurité des systèmes d’information, ceci dans une ambiance conviviale.

Cette année de nombreuses activités seront également proposées aux visiteurs, notamment les solutions des épreuves seront présentées au fur et à mesure de la progression des candidats.

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En ce moment se déroule le Tom's Overdrive un concours d'overclocking mondial organisé par Tom's Hardware. Il y a quelques jours, les qualifications françaises se sont déroulées dans les locaux de THFR. L'occasion pour notre confrère de nous proposer un reportage, ou on retrouve les participants, le matériel, les bidouillages et l'azote liquide.

Societe : LOGICA - Lieu de travail : paris - Type de contrat : CDI - Salaire : A négocier - Detail : Vos missions : Vous participez aux développements de nouvelles d'applications et à leur mise en production, sur des projets en environnement Java/J2EE, Websphere, Dotnet, Content Management (Lotus, Noheto), OpenSource (Python, Zope, PHP) ou C/C++. Au fil des projets, grâce au soutien de votre manager, vous progressez dans la maîtrise des technologies, gagnez en autonomie et en responsabilités. En fonction de vos compétences, vous pourrez rapidement être amené à assurer l'encadrement technique d'une équipe de développement, et pourrez intervenir dès l'avant-vente en participant au prototypage et à la conception des solutions techniques. Profil recherché : Nous recrutons des candidats à fort potentiel, disposant d'une bonne capacité d'adaptation et ayant une sensibilité prononcée pour les NTIC. Diplômé d'une école d'ingénieurs (généraliste ou informatique) avec des compétences en environnements nouvelles techno, vous débutez ou avez déjà une 1ère expérience de nos métiers (stage ou 1er emploi). Votre aptitude à travailler en équipe, votre rigueur, votre sens de l'organisation et vos capacités d'adaptation vous permettront de réussir à ce poste et d'évoluer rapidement.

Bob Familiar, l'un des ambassadeurs de Microsoft, ce que les Américians appellent un évangéliste, a révélé que Windows 7 Beta 1 sera distribué aux participant des différentes MSDN Developers Conferences, entre le 9 décembre et le 19 février. Mais ceux qui participeront aux trois premiers rounds à Houston, Orlando et Atlanta ...