Peer-to-Peer Internet Television: Cybersky-TV May 17, 2006
The medium that in itself has probably had the major impact on cultural life in the past 50 years, television, is about to be deeply transformed.
From a medium that has been driven from its inception by mass production and distribution economics, we are witnessing a transformation into something altogether different from what we have been trained to expect.
Not only television as we know it is being decoupled from time and time-based schedules and programming.
It is also being turned upside down and inside out by opening itself to the contribution and influence of programming being produced outside of traditional large production …
Email This PostMicrosoft moves on Google ads May 4, 2006
And their new Microsoft adCenter self-serve Net advertising business has a big edge, they believe, says eWEEK.
It, “claims that no other search advertising program steers ads to customers based on day of the week and time of day, a specific geographic location.”
Would-be users leave a credit card number and Microsoft then charges a non-refundable $5, says the story and, “From there, adCenter is very similar to Google’s AdSense.
“Each lets someone bid against other in order to have their advertisement accompany search results for a particular search term. Each time someone clicks on the ad, Google, Microsoft et al …
Get ready for corporate P2P apps
Most corporate networkers believe P2P, with its ability to “hog” bandwidth and its myriad security issues, is a consumer phenomenon. This is a misconception that in the future may be the undoing of the corporate network. P2P network applications such as KaZaA or Napster may not have a place in the corporate environment, but the same cannot be said for BitTorrent’s File Sharing technology, currently being used for Linux software distribution, and Groove Networks’ Virtual Office application, designed for shared workspace/online collaboration.
The use of BitTorrent and Groove software currently does not impose a significant bandwidth demand on corporate networks. But …
