March 29, 2008
Opening Day
I'm sitting in the office on saturday night as we're wrapping up testing and re-testing of everything media related and product related for our launch tomorrow/monday and couldn't help but reminisce a bit. This marks my eighth opening day at mlb.com, and its been a sometimes bizarre, but always challenging and inspiring road getting here.
Bob and i gave a talk last year at Microsoft's MIX conference to introduce our partnership on all things Silverlight, and in his introduction, we put together a few quick slides highlighting how MLB.TV has changed over the years. You can watch the video here. The slides are at ~2:50 in. It reminded me of how much we accomplished during the season last year, and over the course of the off-season thats now wrapped up. Between real time highlights, nexdef live streaming, the latest mosaic, video search, and the updated silverlight player, not to mention social media based tools as well, I'm still not sure how it all got done in the limited amount of time we have while baseball isnt going on. From my perspective, the first pitch thrown out to open a new season never gets old, and its an honor to be a part of the team that continues to strive to innovate in how we present the game to our fans.
Posted by justin at 11:29 PM | Comments (3)
March 01, 2008
tumblr
Tumblr seems to be all the rage these days, so i thought i'd give it a go. random thoughts and short form commentary will be at http://stream.muchonieve.com.
enjoy.
Posted by justin at 12:53 PM
December 09, 2006
More fun sailing photos
I've been out sailing whenever my work schedule will permit through the amazing "indian summer" we've been having here in new york (though as of this past week, it seems to be over.. brrrr). Following racing on Avra through the fall, I had the opportunity to get back into dinghies via the group up at AYC. Here are a few shots from the day after thanksgiving.
Posted by justin at 01:22 PM
October 06, 2006
AVRA in Vineyard Race 2006
This is us just after the start of the Vineyard Race. Unfortunately we didn't finish, but were the second to last boat in our class to turn back. This is before the breeze built, with it blowing 30 knots or so. We saw gusts to 45 or so, which is good fun and games, but unfortunately had a crewmember end up in borderline hypothermic state, whom we couldnt get warmed up underway. Only three boats ended up finishing: Blue Yankee, Snow Lion, and Lora Ann. Its a bit unfortunate that more didnt stick with it, but people have to be comfortable with their crew and ability levels, and it was starting to get interesting. There were reports of 60+ knots the next day. Richard Du Moulin (Commodore of the Storm Trysail Club) has a great writeup here.There's always next year i suppose, but its been quite a summer for weather on long island sound, between this and the ALIR.
Posted by justin at 04:33 PM
October 04, 2006
Enhanced Gameday
With the opening of the 2006 Postseason, the team here was quite pleased to debut some enhancements to our gameday product that we've been working on for quite some time. We've put camera systems into some of the ballparks to essentially take high speed photography of each pitch and convert it into telemetry data in real time. This allows us to show baseball fans and gameday users very accurate pitch trajectory and speed in sync with the text based play by play feed that they usually watch when not watching MLB.TV. It's been an exciting project for us, as its involved working with every level of the various organizations in and around the league. Enhanced Gameday has its own blog, which you can check out here: http://gameday.mlblogs.com
The product itself is accessible just as you would access normal gameday. You'll be given a choice when you start up the app as to which version you'd like to watch.
Posted by justin at 01:01 PM
