Protecting Video Streams from Piracy
Posted on April 14, 2008
If you would like to know how to protect video streams from piracy, this interview is for you.
Subject: Our guest today is Barrett Lyon who is a Co-Founder of BitGravity which is a video-centric Content Delivery Network (CDN). His company characterizes itself as a CDN for today’s Internet, as opposed to the older ones designed to deliver the static web pages of an increasingly bygone era.
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Will the iPhone SDK Live Up to Expectations?
Posted on March 30, 2008
Summary: If you are curious to know whether the new Software Developers Kit for the Apple iPhone is a genuinely significant industry development, this interview is for you.
Subject: Our guest today is Steve Lang who operates the MadMaxMedia.com blog. Steve believes that the new SDK is a truly important and will live up to the general media hype. He feels that in the future there will be a multitude of 3rd party applications that will make the iPhone a portable “teleputer” upon which voice conversations shall be merely one of a great many applications. Read more…
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Outsource (Most) Any White Collar Work
Posted on March 27, 2008
If you would like to learn how to hire remote part-time white collar workers and manage them effectively over the Internet, this interview is for you.
Subject: Our guest today is Gary Swart who is the CEO of O-Desk. His company enables buyers to contract with a skilled guild of remote workers, ranging from computer programmers to ghost writers, and manage them over the Internet. The business is much like Rent-a-Coder that we interviewed a couple of months ago, except that O-Desk engagements tend to be longer-term
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How One Podcaster Earned Success
Posted on March 18, 2008
If you are would like to learn about a podcaster whose success with a single show about the TV program “Lost” launched a self-sustaining business, this interview is for you.
Subject: Our guest today is Cliff Ravenscraft who is the founder of BitCastMedia and the Generally Speaking Podcast Network (GSPN.tv). At BitCastMedia, Cliff produces podcasts for others and consults with clients who want to start podcasting. At GSPN.tv, he runs a network of 17 different podcasts. Read more…
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Why Blu-ray Beat HD-DVD
Posted on March 4, 2008
Summary: If you are curious to know why Blu-Ray won the standards battle against HD-DVD for High Definition DVDs, this interview is for you.
Subject: Our guest today is Steve Lang who operates the MadMaxMedia.com blog. Steve believes that the decision by Sony to include a Blu-Ray player in the Play Station 3 gave Blu-Ray the edge. While Microsoft’s X-Box could double as an HD-DVD movie player, the consumer was required to purchase an added external drive.
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Made-For-Web Video Sitcom Get’s Bought By CBS
Posted on February 16, 2008
If you would like to learn about a scripted video sitcom that originated on the Web but has recently been purchased by CBS for a television pilot, this interview is for you.
Our guests today are Angel Acevedo, Steven Tsapelas, and Brian Amyot who are the producers of a made-for-the-Web scripted video sitcom called We Need Girlfriends at weneedgirlfriends.tv. The series achieved such wide popularity on the Net that CBS purchased it as a new pilot.
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MPAA Overestimates On-Campus Digital Piracy
Posted on February 12, 2008
Summary: If you would like to learn how the Motion Picture Association of America overestimated digital piracy on our nation’s college campuses, this interview is for you.
Our guest today is Jim Burger who is an intellectual property attorney and Partner at Dow, Lohnes, in Washington, D.C. Jim has been a repeated contributor to Inside Digital Media on matters relating to copyrights, media protection, and piracy. Read more…
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Sony - (1) Ultra-Thin OLED TV & (2) Internet TV Appliance
Posted on February 5, 2008
Summary: If you would like to learn about Sony’s new thin OLED television as well as the company’s strategy for connecting TVs to the Internet, this interview is for you.
Our guest today is Rick Clancy who is the Senior Vice President of Communications for Sony Electronics, USA. We discuss the new ultra-thin television introduced into the States last month. It uses Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) as the light source. The screen thickness is only that of 3 credit cards stacked together. We also discuss Sony’s new Bravia Internet Video Link that brings a walled-garden (prison?) of Internet content to the television.
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