Tonight at 8pm ET, NBC will once again kick off the start of the NFL season by streaming 17 games this year on NBCSports.com and the NFL.com website. The service which will be powered by Silverlight and Microsoft's Smooth Streaming technology will offer a total of five different camera feeds, 720p HD quality, picture-in-picture functionality […]
I've only been on Twitter a few months now, but I think it is by far the most over-hyped, over-rated Internet application I've seen in the past fifteen years. What a waste. While many Twitter users talk about how it allows for such "meaningful conversations", that's a complete crock. The service is down every few […]
Each year I write a featured story for Streaming Media magazine that takes a look at the future of the CDN market and what I expect to happen in the near-term. This article is from the Aug/Sept issue of Streaming Media magazine, which should be arriving in subscribers mailboxes this week. You can sign up […]
At midnight last night, Roku and MLB publicly announced that baseball fans who have a MLB.TV Premium account can now stream live and on-demand games to the Roku. For those in the Roku developer program, the MLB.TV app showed up a few weeks ago and we've all been eagerly awaiting to try it out. My […]
While the larger CDN vendors targeting the media and entertainment market are still having problems growing their business, over in the enterprise vertical, many vendors involved with the video ecosystem inside the firewall continue to grow. The latest is Ignite Technologies, who last week told me they have now been "profitable for the last few […]
Tomorrow at 2pm ET I’ll be moderating another StreamingMedia.com webinar, sponsored by Grab Networks, on the topic of Video SEO and how to get your videos discovered. Attendees will learn best practices for optimizing videos for search, including: Automating metadata extraction and analysis for SEO Creating search-worthy URLs, titles, tags, captions and MRSS feeds Exposing […]
It's been two and a half years now since I started this blog and in that time, amazingly the blog has done over 2M page views. Traffic to the blog continues to climb and is on track to do 1.5M page views this year alone. None of this would have been possible without the continued […]