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My Kaltura experience

Guyz, for the past 3 years, I have been indulging myself in media distribution and delivery platforms. Currently, working with one such customer who has 7 products under his belt and is on aquiring spree.. I would like to discuss the open source option for video delivery, that is Kaltura. KalturaCE is available for free and is an open source option for video distribution. Predominantly built over LAMP stack and has flex/flash components for the consumption layer. What I found after installing on my Ubuntu is that this platform offers basic media management features like publisher management, content uploading, transcoding, managing encoding profiles, playlist management, player embedding, playlist embedding and so forth. There is no extensive, i would actually say, a good mechanism to create and categorize content the way many want it to be. Kaltura provides client library APIs in java, C#, PHP to enable existing solutions to go media distribution enabled. The platform comes with

List of MIME types for different file extensions

Here is the list of MIME types for different file extensions. mime-mapping extension='.html' mime-type='text/html' mime-mapping extension='.aif' mime-type='audio/x-aiff' mime-mapping extension='.aiff' mime-type='audio/x-aiff' mime-mapping extension='.aifc' mime-type='audio/x-aiff' mime-mapping extension='.ai' mime-type='application/postscript' mime-mapping extension='.au' mime-type='audio/basic' mime-mapping extension='.asc' mime-type='text/plain' mime-mapping extension='.asf' mime-type='video/x-ms-asf' mime-mapping extension='.asx' mime-type='video/x-ms-asf' mime-mapping extension='.avi' mime-type='video/x-msvideo' mime-mapping extension='.bin' mime-type='application/octet-stream' mime-mapping extension='.bcpio' mime-type='application/x-bcpio' mime-mapping

Definitive trend in office automation - Records management

I am talking nothing new... This is the trend that is seen in eGovernance area, especially in Indian scenario. Opportunity up for grab, at the same time, however, be prepared to make loss as you still need to work with babus. Records management deals with maintaining records of orgnaization from the time of creation till the time of disposal. This includes classifying, storing, securing, destruction, and preservation of records. Records are not for everyday use, but need to be kept for references on special occasions. Records management will have following features, in persuance of legal obligations or transactions of business 1. Systematic and efficient control of the creation 2. Receipt 3. Maintenance and disposition 4. Processes to capture and maintain evidence of information Record shall comprise content, context, and structure sufficient enough to provide evidence of activity. The key is 'evidence' A record can be either physical or digital. Example: Medical r