Heard about The Venice Project? It's a funky little peer-to-peer IPTV venture, or, as they themselves describe it:"We are in the process of launching a secure P2P streaming technology that allows content owners to bring TV-quality video and ease of use to a TV-sized audience mixed with all the wonders of the Internet. All content…Read more One more IPTV-venture for the road…
There’s money to be made online!
This year, the download industry (the LEGAL part of the download industry) with regards to TV shows, movies etc, is worth close to 300 million US dollars. Now, a report from Strategy Analytics, a research firm, predicts that the business will be worth 1,5 billion dollars next year, and continue to grow to 5,9 billion…Read more There’s money to be made online!
Yeah, it’s that time again..
...time for CHRISTMAS PARTIES, as it happens. Our first is tonight at work, which I do not envisage will cause much of a crisis or even any minor scandals. Our second is next week, and then just about anything can happen.However, if you are of the female gender, reading this, and is wondering how to…Read more Yeah, it’s that time again..
Sex really really sells
A word of advice to anyone going into the media business, especially the new forms of media like interactive television or mobile television - if you want quick cash and a rocket ride to fame and fortune, go for sex. Don't try to do anything noble or challenging like making interactive edutainment formats for kids…Read more Sex really really sells
What next in the content website-business?
Reports today say that content giants NBC and CBS are in talks about creating a content website to rival YouTube, as an ad-funded effort. At the same time, YouTube are preparing to cough up a lot of money to be able to offer Fox's content on YouTube. Not to mention the countless other, smaller video…Read more What next in the content website-business?
Liverpool and the lure of the Orient
...or Middle East, to be more precise. I've been an ardent Liverpool fan since their heydays in the early and mid-80s, when just about anything was possible and giants (well, nearly at least) like John Barnes, Ian Rush and Peter Beardsley roamed the pitch at Anfield.Since then, my happiest moment football-wise has by far been…Read more Liverpool and the lure of the Orient
Viva La France!
In their neverending struggle for world supremacy (a battle they'd never admit they lost about 100 years ago), the French have rolled into the media world as well. Enter France 24, a multi-million euro effort on the part of the French government to take the fight to CNN, BBC, Al-Jazeera and just about anything that…Read more Viva La France!
Oh ye of little faith
...myself included, of course.Medical science. Is there such a thing? Sometimes it feels more like medical best-guess. Or medical ok-we've-tried-this-and-it-didn't-work-so-let's-try-this-and-see-what-happens.Case 1 - my foot has been bothering me for some time. Floorball (sähly in Finnish) was the thing that did my ankle in. Doctors called it a fracture, a pull, an infection, just about everything,…Read more Oh ye of little faith
And the lion shalt sleep with the lamb
Going legitimate is the latest fad amongst people and companies in the P2P-business. Just look at the news in today, about the (slightly infamous) BitTorrent - having readily made themselves synonymous with the downloading and P2P-sharing of hundreds of terabytes of copyrighted material, they've now started their U-turn towards working with the industry full time.From…Read more And the lion shalt sleep with the lamb
Just have to add this
Let me introduce George Galloway, MP in the UK, master of rhetorics and all round entertaining guy. He also happens to be spot on in many of his comments - look at him tear apart a host on Rupert Murdoch-owned Sky News. Good man!He was also accused of benefitting illegally from the oil-for-food-programme in Iraq…Read more Just have to add this
Simon Staffans // Evolving Media 