Keir Clarke, creator of the popular Virtual Tourism video map has created yet another video maps mashup. His Newsmap mashup sees 29 live tv news streams plotted on to a world Google Map for you to browse and watch. 14 English news feeds are available including ABC, NBC, BBC and CBC while 15 other feeds play in other languages. Each of the video feeds opens up in a window above the map pin and plays in Windows Media Player (which you will need to have installed). Newsmap makes for an interesting and interactive way to browse video news by map!
Find more News Maps Mashups in the Current Events category (along the right side of this blog)
5 comments:
firefox crashed after close the media player windows
Hi There
This is the third time my Firefox Browser quit his job.
Break-Up of my Crash-History:
1er: Useit_com
2nd: Soapbox_com
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David Urech
Its great stuff and generally the future for most TV channels offering TV on demand. I found the it a bit slow through my connection though on 4mb broadband. It may have been my connection, we will see.
Dialaphone | Green Flag
Thanks Redar and David for the heads-up on this bug. I've added a warning for Firefox users and I am attempting to fix it.
Having now down some research on this it seems there is a known issue in closing Windows Media Player within Firefox that causes the crash.
Sorrow for the problems, I hope to fix this tonight.
I have found a rather inelegant temporary solution to the Firefox bug. I am now loading the media player outside of the map.
This ruins the aesthetic a little but Firefox should no longer crash.
I apologise again to Firefox users who had problems with my site
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