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Akamai Technologies has announced The HDWeb, a ‘proof-of-concept’ portal designed to showcase the experience consumers can have with high definition content online. The Website, available at http://www.thehdweb.com, showcases content from a variety of industries including music, movies, professional sports, games and news.
Akamai customers are now delivering a consistent, high-definition video experience on Akamai’s uniquely distributed [...]
Television shows will soon be released at the same time across the world, the boss of new online video site Hulu has predicted.
Jason Kilar, chief executive of the joint NBC Universal and News Corporation venture, said television companies would have to distribute simultaneously across the world because of internet video services.
He noted film studios [...]
Cambridge UK and San Francisco, USA (October 30, 2007) – CacheLogic, provider of the world’s leading Digital Asset Delivery Network, today announced that the next generation global Internet TV network Babelgum is using its Velocix network to deliver progressive video streaming of on-demand TV content.
The Velocix Network is designed to enable content owners, movie studios, and broadcasters to deliver video and other large digital assets over the web, with unprecedented performance, breakthrough economics and an asset delivery lifecycle management system that provides content owners the control, analytics and reporting they need to manage their asset libraries through the digital distribution chain.
Continue reading Babelgum Turns to CacheLogic for Web TV Streaming
The long-awaited and much-derided NBC (GE) and News Corp (NWS) joint venture Hulu will make a somewhat public debut this week, opening up a private beta tonight of its web video service and initiating distribution of its movies, TV shows, and mashups on AOL (TWX), Comcast (CMCSA), MSN (MSFT), MySpace, and Yahoo (YHOO).
The company also cut [...]
Skinkers, the UK company that is building a P2P live TV platform with Microsoft, has taken $16 million Series B in a round led by Acacia Capital Partners that included original investors Spark Ventures and the Skinkers Management team.
Skinkers will use the funding to further develop and enhance their Live Notification Platform technology and bring to [...]
OK, I confess, I am not an AJAX expert… but one thing I know is that Leopard broke some web sites AJAX upload features.
For example, using Apple Leopard, Vimeo upload and Flickr upload are broken. I have not done a huge search for other sites suffering from the same thing but I am sure there [...]
The 1st useful Joost widget just got released. It is called JoostBook and is from Irvin Owens Jr.
JoostBook allow you to:
Tell your friends on Facebook about the cool things you are watching.
Be able to see if you have any new notifications without leaving Joost.
Publishes your video feed from Joost to Facebook.
Go back and [...]
This blog post does not contain any verified facts. Joost does not want to discuss any topics related to browser based clients. Take anything written here as fiction. It is highly likelly that 90% of this post will turn out to be wrong… but I had fun writing it… so…
OK, now that you [...]
New research from Vividas today reveals that issues including complicated set up, slow to download files and crashing content are costing broadcasters up to £50,000 a year.
These technical issues are cited as a major barrier to consumer take-up of watching video online.
The research also shows that poor picture quality and incomplete downloads cost a quarter of [...]
Mike Volpi, CEO of Joost
Mike Volpi joined Joost, the online video service, in June after 13 years at Cisco, where he was chief strategy officer. For his final six years he ran the company’s $11bn service provider business which included the routing business, cable and wireless products and the Scientific Atlanta [...]
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