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We’ve just released a major update to Miro, version 1.2. Grab it now: Download Miro This version adds lots of tweaks and bug fixes that make Miro smoother and slicker. It also lays the groundwork for some big improvements that are coming soon. Version 1.2 is the best Miro yet. Some of What’s New in [...]

This is really exciting. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) will be posting the next episode of “Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister” with BitTorrent (here’s the announcement). That in itself is cool, but there’s more: they say that the inspiration for the project came from reading Cory Doctorow’s (a Miro board member) post about [...]

Some of my favorite internet videos ever are now one of the best demonstrations of what’s wrong with having a single big corporation control internet video. YouTube has yanked the StSanders videos of bad guitar playing overdubbed on famous guitar players in concert. It’s impossible to explain with words what makes these videos [...]

Last week we started the release candidate testing for Miro 1.2. We got some good feedback with the regression testing , made some more important fixes and posted rc1 last night. We are hoping that rc1 will be the last testing build before release and we could really use your help. If you take [...]

Norwegian Public Broadcaster, NRK, recently made waves with the success of their pilot project where they put one of their full series online, in HD, without restrictive DRM, over bittorrent. The initiative has been a huge success on every front — ... [More] viewers love the super high-resolution picture and most people have reported incredibly short download [...] [Less]

I’ll be in London next week meeting with people about Miro. Here’s the lineup: First, on Wednesday March 12 I’ll be presenting at the Greater London Linux Users Group meeting at the University of Westminster (thanks John!). Then on Thursday March 13th there will be a Geek Dinner (thanks Ian). Finally, on Saturday March [...]

I’m happy with how our work on Miro is going. It’s continually becoming a more powerful application, and we have a strong voice in the fight for an open and democratic internet. We’re facing a tough problem though: we need more programmers to make Miro into the game changing application it has the potential to [...]

We have just launched two new versions of Miro: Food Edition and Christian Edition! Each of the downloadable players comes pre-loaded with a handful of channels that relate to the respective community. With over 3,500 free channels in the Miro ... [More] Guide, we think now is the perfect time to introduce a content-centered approach to internet TV. [...] [Less]

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Effortless Good is a unique way to fight global warming, reduce poverty, help children, and advance open media. Like I Heart Miro, it’s a simple Firefox extension that inserts an affiliate code when you shop at Amazon (US, UK, Japan, France, Germany, or Canada). The income from that affiliate code is collected by [...]