As we mentioned last week, lost in the shuffle of the Yahoo! / Microsoft negotiating was Yahoo’s offer for Maven Networks. Today, Yahoo released confirmation that they had, indeed, purchased Maven Networks for $160 million.
The acquisition continues Yahoo’s infrastructure support for delivering and monetizing video. Last week they launched their Lifestream beta, their entry into the personal streaming game.
» Read the rest of this entry ...CDN BitGravity today launched its BG LiveBroadcast technology and will stream the DEMO 08 conference live Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.
BitGravity, which uses advanced technology to deliver on-demand content for more than 50 companies including Vimeo and Revision 3 promises their flash based live streaming technology will make live video on the net ubiquitous through a simplified and more efficient means of live content delivery.
DEMO 08 will showcase more than 70 products/technologies. Watch it here.
» Read the rest of this entry ...If you have some extra time this holiday season, there are some worth watching videos on the TV Mainstream website, in particular check out the CDN panel from Streaming Media West. Interesting to see how these guys are improving delivery of rich media on the net.
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Will Richmond has a post on the need (or not) for Net Neutrality regulation that I tend to agree with. He recommends a wait-and-see approach to regulation, as “there is no substantive evidence of broadband ISP bias today.”
Net Neutrality has developed into a really touchy subject, but it shouldn’t be. The companies that spent billions to put internet backbone in place own the networks.
While they are out to make a profit, it is in their best interest to make the internet work best for all stakeholders. Until they act unfairly why…
» Read the rest of this entry ...London based The JD Project recently launched WeDigTV, an online video portal aimed at forging what they call TV2, a “whole new genre in visual entertainment.” And near-HD interactive video is nothing to sneeze at.
The JD Project started as an agency called Jaildog, which won a BIMA award for its Who Wants to Be a Millionaire site for AOL back in 2004.
Above: WeDigTV Program Guide
Since rebranding, the company has focused its efforts on becoming a new kind of entertainment company, partnering with content producers including Freemantle and Endemol to create…
» Read the rest of this entry ...Vimeo is getting a ton of press, including a mention in the New York Post for offering online video content in HD quality. The Post loves it, so do content producers, but do most end-users have the patience to view a bitrate 4x the “industry standard?“
UPDATE: See Jakob’s comment below, the Post column was incorrect to begin with. That said, HD video generally requires more than 4x Vimeo’s standard bitrate of 400k. Vimeo’s HD FAQ recommends a bitrate of 3,000k-5,000k.
On my wireless connection at home the video does look great, but…
» Read the rest of this entry ...PE Hub reports that Move Networks has raised $34m, and Liz Gannes at NTV quotes a Move spokesperson who claims the company will soon be “the undisputed big money raiser in 2007 in online video space.”
UPDATED 10/2: A Move PR consultant contacted us saying “there are no hints of things to come…Move hasn’t to me, or to anyone else, made that claim.”
With so much money going into companies that change the way content is delivered, how long until these companies start moving back down the line and investing more heavily in network…
» Read the rest of this entry ...Earlier this week BitGravity came out of stealth and officially entered the CDN market. During the past year and a half operating under the radar the company has built a solid a client list of 50 companies with some very large partners still undisclosed.
In a business full of providers founder, founder Perry Wu said in a phone interview that BitGravity is taking content delivery to the “next level,” creating a platform to enable the next generation of internet applications.
Wu, a Harvard MBA and former VC who started his career as a software…
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