Marco will forgive me if I copy (and link of course!) some of his text.
First of all, it must be noticed that yesterday there was our demo for the Vidivideo project, as Marco reports:
Today was the demo day in ACM Multimedia 2009, here in Beijing. Thomas Alisi and I have demoed for about two (very busy) hours the semantic video search engine, the web-based video annotation tool and a new interface for video browsing. All the systems are web applications developed at MICC within the VidiVideo project.
The presentation was extremely successful, and luckily we had two machines to run the demos, otherwise it would have been difficult to show our work to all the people that came to visit us.
And another awful fact must be reported: there is a quite hard censorship in China, our posts and tweets appear to go in the vacuum since we are totally unable to see the effects of our posts. Friendfeed, Twitter, Facebook are all blocked. Even the Friendfeed feed I usually read on my Google reader makes the browser give a connection error. Quoting Marco again:
The ACM Multimedia 2009 website reports that there’s a Twitter hashtag (#acmmm09) to follow what’s going on here at ACM Multimedia 2009, in Beijing.
The problem is that Twitter seems to be considered perilous by the Chinese government, probably inspired by what has happened in Iran, so, like Facebook, it can’t be accessed.
The tweet related to he demos made by MICC yesterday have been tweeted from a guy in Europe.
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