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November 2009
Using Livestream Procaster, users can stream live from their webcam, video camera or even broadcast their PC or Mac desktop. Livestream producers can start streaming live to the addressable iPhone and iPod Touch audience over 3G or Wi-Fi connections, with less than five minutes of setup.
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This was inevitable but it seems Boxee has partnered with a consumer electronics manufacturer (I have my guesses as to whom) to manufacture a set top box running Boxee. If you are unfamiliar with Boxee, it is a “media center” application designed to be a media consumption dashboard for the living room.
Currently you need a PC or Mac to run it. I’ve been using it in my living room to test alongside Windows Media Center – the current leader in “living room” software.
Details from their announcement….
I am very happy to announce we have signed our first partnership with a CE company. At this point we can not say more about the partner or the specs of the device, but we can tell you we are working closely with them to make sure we deliver a great Boxee experience on it.
Over the next few years there will be a great change in the way we consume entertainment on our TV. The Internet is finally coming to the TV and with it will come a whole new world of content, applications and innovations.We are building Boxee as a platform that would:make it easy for users to consume and find content – no matter what the sourcegive content owners, aggregators, and developers the tools to create unique experiences with a variety of business modelsenable CE companies to enhance their Connected devicesThis will be the first connected device running Boxee, but the idea is to provide consumers with a way to get Boxee in their living rooms, no matter whether it’s on a Connected TV, game console, set-top box, BluRay player, computer, etc.Our goal is to be on every Connected device in the living room.We are very excited about the partnership and looking forward to sharing more at the event.
via Boxee Blog.
Boxee Video Walkthrough
More coverage from NYTimes - Another Web Video Faceoff: Roku Vs Boxee
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This is a gadget I’ve been wanting for awhile – a big LCD that doubles as an HDTV. This is something I’d love to hook up to my workstation to have a third giant monitor (when I need it) as well has a TV for my office – something I was going to purchase anyway. At under $400 this is a great deal for a 27″ screen… Maybe I’ll pair it up with a 27″ iMac :-)
Samsung SyncMaster P2770HD Monitor Also Moonlights As HDTV.
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Today, Rupert Murdoch said he was going to remove his websites from Google’s index. This includes major publications like the Wall Street Journal – among others. This aligns with his latest strategy of charging for content maintaining a clear model on how news organizations will monetize – by charging people to consume their content.
Your first thought is “Why would he do that? That’s suicide for a website”. When you sit down and think about it – there are huge implications and a real strategy behind it. The strategy behind this move is obvious as content distribution has begun to flow through the social graph rather than via search. This change in content flow has remarkedly increased the relevancy of the burgeoning link economy – whereas content is ranked by inbound links that are defined through the social graph.
This means that if a news story is posted by 1,000 people on Facebook pointing to “Source A” and the same story is posted by 500 people on Facebook pointing to “Source B” – “Source A” wins out. This is the new link economy and another reason why local newspapers are failing.
In a world where links are currency and the social graph is our marketplace search inevitably becomes less important.
While I think the link economy is a huge step forward in how content is consumed, I still have my doubts. This is where my disconnect occurs with Murdoch’s strategy -> While the link economy model works in real time, you are still leaving out the long tail of news content – search.
Mark Cuban says this is a brilliant move for News Corp as Facebook and Twitter become the primary drivers for content distribution. This is correct in the real-time scenario we discussed above but still lacks a long tail strategy. If I want to find information and news articles about the Iowa Flood of 2008 I’ll generally rely on search rather than perusing through the disorganized mess that is Facebook and Twitter archives. Beyond that, you can’t even get to Twitter timelines more than 3 months back – so how does that help?
Strategy aside – what other implications does this have? When I heard the news I immediately had the same thought as Jason Calacanis (that’s good, right?). A couple weeks ago Doug and I had a conversation about net neutrality – how it would affect the net and small businesses who operate on it. I brought up a sickening thought of content silos and walled gardens where telco companies had control over how that content was to be consumed.
We talked about how this model threatened the state of the web as we know it. TimeWarner could easily shut off its content and only distribute it on its own networks to its own subscribers – say only people using Comcast. On the other hand they could block their competitors content. In my scenario Comcast would, for instance, block YouTube and only allow Hulu. They could also block Google because Microsoft had paid them to only let Bing search their content…
This is exactly where Calacanis is going with his post… Suppose Murdoch has his News Corp sites block all search spiders except for the highest bidder. In this hypothetical scenario Microsoft would pay $20 million a year for Bing to have exclusive rights to spider its content while blocking the Google search engine. This would fundamentally shift the web as we know it.
As Jason says in his email…
So, for a moment, imagine a world where Bing could say in their TV commercials:
“Want to search the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and
3,894 other newspapers and magazine?”
This is huge news. This could change the web – especially with the richest man in the world inducing the change.
What do you think? Do you like Murdoch’s strategy? What do you think about a world where search engines have exclusive rights because they are the highest bidder?
Let us know in the comments
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