Silverlight Streaming Video for 2008 Olympics
How would you like to be handed this IT project: create a website that will present 2,200 hours of live, interactive video, plus integrated broadcast coverage. The site will have huge spikes of traffic, and operate under worldwide scrutiny, so it has to be designed for performance. It has to be done in the next 150 days; no schedule extensions are possible. And it must deliver a brilliant user experience.
It’s the job in front of developers for the NBC Summer Olympics website, which also will offer expert commentary and sports biographies and permit users to share links to favorite event videos.
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Ozzie Leading Us Towards the SilverLight
Microsoft has outlined its vision for the web at its Mix 07 event in Las Vegas. In his keynote speech, the corporation's chief software architect Ray Ozzie summarised his vision for the future of the Microsoft-powered internet. He gave further details on Microsoft Silverlight, the corporation's answer to the well-established
NBCOlympics.com Streaming the Games
NBC is significantly expanding its Olympics video offerings for the internet and mobile phones, a sure sign of its increased comfort with technologies that erect geographic boundaries online, however the video access will be limited to internet users in the United States.
The network’s official Olympics site, NBCOlympics.com, will show for
Video Reports from the Special Olympic Games
Farmers’ Almanac TV (who knew?!?) will offer friends and families of athletes competing in the first-ever Special Olympics USA National Games the opportunity to view daily reports on the games via the Internet. The Special Olympics USA National Games will be held from July 2 through July 7, on the
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Mogulus TV Studio Presented at NAB 2008
The Mogulus web video platform gives producers everything they need to launch their own LIVE 24/7 television station. The free, ad-supported service, launched in November 2007, has already helped more than 50,000 producers launch their own Internet television stations, streaming more than 100 million unique viewer minutes every month.
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Fox to Offer Video Streaming Soccer Channel
Vividas announced the launch of the new Fox Soccer Channel, which will offer on-demand soccer matches from England's Barclays Premier League, as well as other international competitions to millions of viewers throughout the United States. The new service allows full-screen video and the e-commerce back end also offers consumers easy,
Mark Cuban Laughs at HD Web Video Streaming
Mark Cuban, founder of HD.net, said that the Internet's "ancient technology" of copper wires and coaxial cable means that reliable streaming of high def. content is a non-starter. Internet video is only as good as its weakest link, he said, and that's "pretty weak".
The concept of web-delivered video replacing traditional
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Kewego Helps Peugeot Launch Web TV Channel
During the 78th Intl. Motor Show in Geneva, Peugeot unveiled it's new video streaming website based on the white-label solutions offered by Kewego. In addition to the French version, Peugeot Web TV is also available in English, Spanish, and German. Beyond advertising films, visitors will find automotive tests, crash tests,
Classic Short Films Streaming from NFB
The Canadian National Film Board has a section dedicated to streaming their classic animation short features — EH! — such as The Cat Came Back and The Big Snit. Nods of approval to all the people involved over there to make this happen.. def. good enough for defacto government work.