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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

MSN and Time Warner Winning Web Video Ads
Microsoft Corp.’s MSN has a strong position in Web video ads, ahead of Google and Time Warner’s AOL and behind only Yahoo, in contrast to its almost non-existent market share in the pay-per-click and banner ad market. MSN spent heavily in recent years to acquire Internet rights to programming from

WallStrip - What CNBC is Watching
The popular daily Vlog WallStrip.com is on a tear lately with this man on the street style interview with some guy - aka CNBC's Anchor Dylan Ratigan - (staged?). The upstart project, with some decent funding now, also got a nice little write-up in the NYT on friday. Wallstrip is more

Fierce 15 IPTV Innovators 2007
This year's Fierce 15 IPTV Innovators are small telcos, the majority with 30,000 lines or fewer, that have deployed IPTV via fiber-to-the-home or hybrid copper/fiber systems. Many of the innovators have been among the first to employ MPEG-4 or its Microsoft counterpart in order to deliver high-definition channels to cutting-edge

Online Video Guide - Extreme Channel Choice
OVGuide has quickly grown to become what some consider one of the best online video guide on the Internet. In fact, it was selected by Time Magazine as one of the Top 10 Websites of the Year for 2006. "There really is no secret to our success...we just listen very closely

Origami Revealed - Video Interview
Otto Berkes is the architect behind the Ultra-Mobile PC team, code-named Origami. MSDN’s Channel 9 posted this 37 minute video interview with him about the project. Michael Gartenberg from Jupiter Research also filed his thoughts including; “Origami is going to appeal mostly to the enthusiasts who can use this

Tuning in for Microsoft’s LiveStation Sneaky Plan
Video: Matteo Berlucchi Microsoft is getting renewed attention this week for LiveStation, an Internet video site co-developed by its research arm and Skinkers, a British start-up. LiveStation uses peer-to-peer technology to allow live video to be more effectively broadcast over the Internet. In this video, Skinkers CEO Matteo Berlucchi says that

Best Practices for Windows Media Encoding
Ben Waggoner is program manger for video encoding at Microsoft and has posted a detailed article to help you get the best out the companies latest encoder tools. Windows Media Video has been a leading web video format for many years, but good hands-on information for how to get the

Attempted Viral Video Ad Campaign Implodes
A certain dot com agency went (way) out on a limb and is taking a beating for what might prove to be one of the most lame, and comment thrashed, attempts at creating a ‘viral’ web video to-date. The real proof of any concept is in the pudding and this

Aprico.tv Demonstration at IBC
Aprico.tv makes it simple for a TV viewer to enjoy the wealth of content available on TV, video-on-demand services and Internet. The application automatically learns the preferences and favorite TV programs of the viewer, makes recommendations and uses that to add new, relevant content to personal channels. It only shows

Time Warp

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