Category: Web Services
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What Does Adobe Pass Do, And Why is it Critical to Live Sports Event Streaming?
Reading Time: 2 minutes In the aftermath of some gitches that happened when people were trying to tune in to WatchESPN to watch Team USA play Germany in WorldCup 2014, I talked to some people who have streaming infrastructure experience. A few of those people told me that in order to understand the issues with…
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Watching the World Cup Online If You Are Outside of the United States
Reading Time: 2 minutes Operation Gadget is a U.S. website, and a lot of what we talk about is focused on the products and services that are available in the United States. But some of our readers are outside the United States and Canada. Therefore we try to present information relevant to international readers whenever…
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Watching The World Cup On-Line Using WatchESPN or Univision Deportes
Reading Time: 2 minutes Earlier today, I talked about the hidden features of WatchESPN that benefit U.S. soccer fans who want to watch the 2014 World Cup. Since then, people have been asking me questions like “Yea, but who gets to see WatchESPN, and can I see it if I’m a cord cutter?” Some of…
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Operation Gadget Photo Archives Moving to Flickr
Reading Time: < 1 minute I’ve always loved Flickr, and I’ve finally found a way to move the Operation Gadget photo archives into Flickr so that more people can see them. Since we are coming up on the tenth anniversary of Operation Gadget, we’re beginning with the photos from this site’s early days: The 2004…
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The New Flickr UI Is Great, But News-Related Photo Search Isn’t
Reading Time: < 1 minute Yahoo announced a new user interface for Flickr today that is a huge improvement. Kudos to them. I am a bigger Flickr fan than most people know. What concerns me is that Flickr’s search hasn’t improved as much as the rest of the UI. What I was hoping was that…