Major League Baseball has been on the cutting-edge of iPhone applications since it debuted the At Bat application at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in June 2008. At Bat delivers audio and video highlights, but not real-time games.
Wednesday, MLB.com is releasing a new product--live video streaming of certain baseball games for the iPhone and iPod Touch, with an eye toward providing the full slate of MLB games (some free, some presumably for an additional charge) over the next several months as the season progresses. The new offering is based on the upgrades coming in the iPhone 3.0 software that is being rolled out Wednesday.
There will initially be two games each day, chosen by MLB.com. (The games are subject to local blackout restrictions with Thursday's 2:20 p.m. game between the Chicago Cubs and White Sox the first to be streamed live.)
According to The New York Times, "the video will play regardless of whether an iPhone is connected to a Wi-Fi network or a 3G network. MLB.com says its servers will detect the strength of the phone's connection and adapt the quality of the video accordingly. (It should be interesting to see the quality of the video over AT&T's sometime spotty network.) The application also has DVR features, so users can pause and rewind live games from their device."
... Read moreTwo new sets of Lego are now available for those of you who like the world of physical architecture instead of the vapid realm of systems architecture that we techies constantly blather on about.
The Lego Guggenheim and Falling Water house are available now as part of the Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward exhibit.
I don't know what's next in the Lego Architecture series but I'd like to see the Bilbao Guggenheim.
You can order the sets online from Brickstructures.
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Dzone just released a new Scalability & High Availability developer reference card as part of their cheat-sheet library. This latest guide was written by my pal Eugene Ciurana, a legitimate large-scale systems expert.
You can browse the guide below or download the free PDF to fully geek out.
Refcard #43: Scalability & High Availability
You should also check out the author's new book, Developing with Google App Engine.
As a side note, this is my first time embedding a Scribd doc in a blog post. So far, I think it's pretty cool. Any feedback is welcome.
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