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A close colleague, part of a team of us who are long in the industry, has a saying: “I’d rather be rich than right”.
Nothing more encapsulates the TV industry better at present. Tivo’s deal with Virgin Media, and other OEM deals were a genius move, but the company is in freefall.
Tivo was a great idea, and may yet make more money as a patent troll than a viable, operating corporation. It should be a salutary lesson to Boxee.
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Tivo Troubles
Downloads is nearly as big a market for content delivery networks as video streaming: they handle the download management for upgrades and online purchases and patches.
But it’s unfortunate to find that Akamai’s software provision on the download side of their business is as barking as the software found on the video delivery side of the business (I spent several months trying to integrate VidZapper with Akamai, but failed [considering that I've built a CDN business, this was really worrying] ).
Today I’ve tried to buy some Adobe software online and I’ve been sent round some circular hell of popups and download managers, as well as system crashes. Akamai’s download manager is a disgrace and Adobe’s website is built on the pisspoor Cold Fusion platform (former prop: one J Allaire, more recently of Brightcove), which really doesn’t help either. It’s sloooow.
Talk about cobbler’s kids. It’s astounding how bad these companies are at content delivery and software. Funny how efficient the taking money from me process was in comparison.
To add insult to injury, after I’d finally got it to work, I’m getting barely 300Kbps on my 40Mbps connection. I would have been quicker waiting for a shiny disk delivered by the postman.
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Adobe + Akamai = Disaster Delivery
I committed Facebook suicide over a year ago, but it was in vain, through necessity and persistent friends it seemed that my old login never went away (despite individually deleting 400 ‘friends’ and going through the hell of getting an account closed down back then), and is now live again with a forgotten ragbag of exes from life .
The Japanese apparently make a distinction between seppuku and hara kiri, the former being honourable suicide and the latter being dishonourable suicide (or will my Japanese readers correct me?).
So, anyone considering joining the Facebook Suicide day next week needs to understand the difference.
As it stands, Facebook is probably the most powerful company on earth. Google is fast fading as Facebook becomes the de facto network intertwined in people’s lives. Technologies like SMS, IM and emails are disappearing as Facebook becomes the de facto communication medium.
I’ve seen it drive extraordinary traffic to internet TV sites, and it is now one of the biggest video hosting sites.
Content was king, technology was king, now discovery is king, and Facebook is Richard the Lionheart in our new TV world. Sod, Google TV, what’s Facebook TV going to look like ?
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Originally posted here:
Why Facebook Controls TV (Without Knowing It)
A new beta of the BBC’s iPlayer has been released today. (It’s very beta – I broke it after a few seconds), with a new interface which seems to require fewer clicks than the old interface. There are also more ’social’ features such as ratings and comments, but the latter requires a login (which seems to be a new login, not the one I use for other BBC forums, for example).
Meanwhile, the BBC has revealed that a device or service will need to have 500,000 users before the iPlayer will be customised for the platform (although they are willing to make ‘minor modifications’ for services with more than 100,000 users. I wonder if Canvas will ever make these figures ?
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iPlayer Developments
