John Cleese
“I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.”
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Verisign embraces P2P - after getting rid of it
The British Times features a pro-P2P piece that’s a little sketchy on the details, but the main message is clear: We’ll need P2P to distribute all those video bits flowing through the networks. That may be true, but the Times seems to have some timing issues in finding the right experts. The paper reports that a big push for P2P comes from Verisign, whose CTO told the Times:
“There may be a bad stigma attached to peer-to-peer but it may be necessary in order to distribute the traffic.”
So what does a company like Verisign do if it believes in the future of P2P media distribution? Apparently it embraces the trend by kicking out its own in-house P2P developers. Verisign sold its P2P video distribution platform Kontiki back in May, a fact that the Times somehow forgot to mention.
Brightcove Announces New Service for High-Quality, Long-form Video Delivery
Earlier today, Brightcove, the big video distribution platform for publishers, announced a major development. It is providing a number of enhancements including a high quality Flash stream for long form videos and a means to generate metadata around…
Hulu is kicking Youtube’s Ass
It is coming up on 2 years post my declaration that only a moron would buy Youtube and that Google was crazy for actually going through with it.
In that period of time, while Youtube traffic has skyrocketed, they have been steadfast in their admission that they haven’t been able to monetize Youtube’s traffic in a [...]
Aldous Huxley
“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”
MeMobile, You Kaput
As widely predicted, Steve Jobs this week introduced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference the iPhone 3G that was first reported in this column late last year. The $199 price was a welcome surprise but shouldn’t have been given Apple’s confident predictions that it would sell 10 million iPhones by the end of the year. [...]