Didier Brun will present demo based voice recognition and pitch detection in “You Talkin’ to Me?” at FITC San Francisco. He will introduce the new VoiceGesture API and explain how to create a sound model, a voice group, and how to catch voice events. Pretty awesome stuff! Here’s a great video of Didier sharing his knowledge [...]

Apple news followers will recall a report last week that Apple has recently purchased Poly9, a Quebec based company that makes a Google Earth-like app. If you missed this you can get updated quickly with this AppleInsider post. Why would we here at FITC care about this acquisition, other than that it seems Apple is looking [...]

The awesome folks at litl are having a webinar later this week and we totally think you should go. They have a Flash-based SDK and will be offering a special live video session with code examples. “We’ll be walking through one of our sample web-apps, or ‘channels’, and answering questions about the litl SDK’s custom [...]

A question that has been deep on my mind for the past seven months (ever since apple sparked this whole anti-flash thing) is what is the truth behind the best technology to use for video and when. Those of us who have been a little more seasoned in the industry generally know that its [...]

We’re super excited to see the Director of FITC, Shawn Pucknell, in an interview on TAXI! In it he discusses how FITC and his love of flash and interactivity got started, shares his thoughts about the iphone, and gives some predictions on the future of interactivity. The article also explains why we think that Flash isn’t [...]

FITC San Francisco Schedule is up! We’re super excited about the 3 day lineup. It’s also the only event in the world to see Colin Moock, Yugo Nakamura, Jared Ficklin (Frog Design), Erik Natzke, Kyle Cooper, Jeremy Clark (Wired Magazine), Kevin Lynch, Ben Fry (Processing), and so many others, all at one event. Check out [...]

Flash vs HTML 5. Does your head hurt? So does Lee Brimelows. So he wants to talk about it at FITC San Francisco. Lee will be presenting My Head Hurts, it will be a frank and open look at both technologies, whats good, whats bad, and how we can focus on using each to their [...]

We have begun planning for FITC Mobile 2010 and we want you to be a part of it! Dates are set for Sept 17-18 in Toronto at the MTCC again and we are currently looking for speaking proposals from anyone who is interested in sharing their passion and talents with this dynamic audience. There isn’t [...]

North by Northeast Interactive is only 3 weeks away and we think you should be there! With this many genius-packed interactive panels descending on Toronto from June 14th to the 16th, we’ll just be heartbroken if you don’t make it. We can’t stand heart break, so starting today, Monday May 24th, 2010, we’ll be running [...]