- From: Just SMIL News <SMILNews@WebPhD.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 10:55:05 -0800
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Just SMIL News for Nov 24, 1998 Links for these stories can be found at (http://www.justsmil.com/news/) G2 Ships! RealNetworks has released a shipping version of RealPlayer G2. RealPlayer Plus G2 now includes a search feature for audio and video clips (see following story). Macintosh users will be heartened to find out that the RealPlayer download page now states that a Mac beta will appear before the end of the year. With the G2 flavor of SMIL soon available on both platforms, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. RealNetworks Partnerships Two new RealNetworks partnerships aim to raise the general interest level in streaming multimedia. RealNetworks and Excite have teamed up to make streaming media searchable. Through an integrated Excite search feature, G2 users can now hunt the Web for audio, video, and multimedia even while viewing other content. In a partnership with Arbitron, a ratings service for streaming media will soon be available. Subscribers will be able to compare their viewers with those of other sites. Is there any strategic partnership that RealNetworks has not entered into the last few months? Eloquent Picks G2 Eloquent, a provider of Web-based learning systems for corporations, has picked RealPlayer G2 for integration into their Presenter! package. In a solution that is sure to make use of SMIL, Presenter! streams synchronized video, audio, presentation slides and full text transcript of presentations via the web. No word yet on whether or not they are looking for SMIL authors. CWI Posts Browsable SMIL DTD Lloyd Rutledge of CWI has posted a Web browsable SMIL Document Type Definition to help SMIL authors navigate the SMIL syntax. Bookmark this one as a handy reference. Mecklermedia Acquires Just SMIL Just SMIL is pleased to announce that we have been acquired by the Mecklermedia Corporation (the great folks at Internet.com). As we pack up and move our content to our new home, Just SMIL would like to thank you for your ongoing readership and support. We look forward to continuing to serve your need for the latest SMIL information. #### Just SMIL News is delivered weekly to those who have registered for the Just SMIL Discussion Forum (http://www.smilzone.com/) Have a tip about the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language? Let us know! Send and e-mail to SMILNews@WebPhD.com Get the latest on SMIL, visit: Just SMIL Your source for the latest information on the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language! (http://www.justsmil.com/)
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