Paul Trotter of PC Advisor writes here in the UK about the imminent launch of izimi. His view: YouTube killer uses P2P.
Ok, so I have to correct him and point out that its not P2P, but peer to browser, but its great that he sees the significance of what we’re doing.
Paul, we should meet up in the UK sometime.
This is great news for technology like izimi…
Higher-speed DSL in trials
A potential future technology is very high bit-rate DSL (VDSL and VDSL2) deployment, which can provide downstream speeds of up to 50Mbit/s (although VDSL2 is theoretically capable of as much as 250Mbit/s), and upstream speeds in the region of 25Mbit/s. Ntl carried out a VDSL2 trial in Kent in early 2006, achieving typical downstream speeds of around 50Mbit/s.
Also, its important to realise the speed with which the bandwidth market has changed, we sometimes forget…
A key characteristic of the broadband market in 2005 was the increasing take-up of higher speed broadband, with promises of greater speed to come. At the beginning of 2005, offers above 1Mbit/s were rare, expensive (around twice the price of a 512k offer) and aimed primarily at the high-end residential and small-business markets. By early 2006, speeds of 2Mbit/s and above had become standard; ntl, Telewest and BT all upgraded their customers during 2005 to 1Mbit/s and then 2Mbit/s as standard, without increasing prices.
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Well, I’d love to say it went FANTASTICALY. I love to say that…
After 11 hours travel we bowled into the Nikko Hotel on Mason just off Union Square. A-list blogger Robert Scoble (of Scoble Show and Scobleizer fame) kindly picked us up from the airport and the three of us breezed through reception and up to the lounge on the 23rd floor.
Its always good to check out your internet connectivity when you’re demoing an internet product. Luckily we knew the Nikko had wireless from our last visit a few weeks ago. UNluckily it was so flakey this afternoon that we barely held a signal for more than about 30 seconds.
So, result, not a stunning demo of izimi first time out I’m sad to say. Even more so, since now we got a better connection we’re sitting here blowing ourselves away with how good izimi actually is. I’m just looking at some stunning pics of a boat manufacturer called “Wally” - I never knew they made boats like THAT!!!
Tomorrow AM we’re meeting Chris Nuttal of the FT, and with connectivity problems now sorted we’ll surely do it more justice tomorrow.
Thanks Robert for taking the time out of a very busy schedule to meet us. We’ll see you again VERY soon and really show you the money!!!
Dave & Marc
PS: Check out the izimi blog here, and the website here
We set up a tell me email if you want to be one of the first to get izimi - we’ll tell you when its publically available - expect it on March 5th. If you cant click the link email us at launch@izimi.com.
This is a demo of an izimi-published video embedded into a blog. This vid is serving direct from my humble little laptop PC. Izimi allows you to serve any files, photos, music, videos - in fact any content - straight from your PC to anyone with a web browser. You have total control of your media, no need to upload it to anyone else’s servers, no technical knowledge needed, and no hosting arrangements. with izimi its all yours.
If you see this image, its coming from my izimi, served direct from my own PC.
click it for the full size version (again, its served direct from my izimi PC).
Well, actually an open source widget that lets you build your own social network.
Explode lets you aggregate your friends from different social networks together. Explode finds your friends across several platforms and it lets you add and include them in your own widget.
Explode was created by Curverider, a UK open-source social network provider.
The Wall Street Journal (in this story) reports on a recent deal between Viacom and Joost, announced just weeks after Viacom ordered YouTube to pull all its content under threat of legal action.
A lot of news agencies and bloggers are getting a bit confused between Joost and YouTube thinking they are essentially the same sort of thing. Far from it, see my previous post here.
Even the WSJ article seems to be written from the viewpoint that YouTube and Joost are comparable services. They are not.
I keep reading blogs and news items that lump Joost and YouTube in the same bucket. They’re not even close and perhaps this underlines that most people (who are not in the business - i.e. most journos and bloggers) don’t know the difference. Here it is:
Joost
Content: full length, high quality, commercial content from formally cut deals with content producers, no user-generated content (yet in the plan)
Technology: peer to peer (i.e. you need a Joost client to watch stuff)
Revenue model: Ads against content (probaly ‘big’ ads not like adsense), maybe some money from commercial deals
YouTube
Content: (mostly) short clips, low quality, small screen, user generated (or at least thats teh intention), ‘long-tail’ content (millions of niches)
Revenue model: Ads, adsense
Kevin Rose, CEO of Digg announced at the Future of Web Apps conference in UK yesterday that Digg would support OpenID. “before microsoft” he added. Adoption is not expected to begin until “later this year” he said.
OpenID is a single signon solution. Wikipedia, Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL are among others who have announced they will adopt it.
Pete Cashmore at Mashable has this article relating to a recent case where a parent tried to Sue MySpace for $30m for neglecting to protect their daughter online.
I quote here from Mashable:
Be thankful that when it comes to blaming the web for offline crimes, one judge has it figured out. The Texan parents who tried to sue MySpace for $30 million when their daughter was sexually assaulted by another MySpace user have had their case dismissed. What’s more, the judge said that the parents were negligent, not MySpace.
…and here…
As it turns out, the judge in the Texan case agrees. Judge Sam Sparks was fairly blunt with his comments, saying “If anyone had a duty to protect Julie Doe, it was her parents, not MySpace.” It’s also worth noting that the girl lied about her age, and that a lot of the correspondence seems to have happened via email and phone calls. The phone company, incidentally, isn’t being sued (maybe they didn’t have $30 million lying around). A child safety expert in the LAtimes was even more damning: “A lot of people are angry about what kids are doing and what’s happening on the Internet. That’s fine. But it is not MySpace’s role to raise your child.”
Mashable rightly notes that this may form a precedent in future cases where people try to sue online services for the actions of their users.
I say common sense at last, we all knew it had to swing back this way at some point.
