.tv site Ustream announced this past week that it’s adding Pay-per-view. Ryan Lawler at NewTeeVee says “Aimed at artists, entertainers and brands, the pay-per-view offering will be available to premium customers looking to make a little extra cash by opening up their live broadcasts to the global Internet audience.” Kudo’s to another .tv site for … [Read more]
Finally video is now an integral part of the web platform
Geek alert: The guest blogger today is Karthik Shyamsunder, a Principal here in VeriSign’s Naming Engineering group. When he’s not designing systems to make sure the Internet addressing system stays up and running safely and reliably, he also teaches graduate courses on Distributed and Enterprise Computing at Johns Hopkins University. We recently got into a … [Read more]
The Three Rs
No, I don’t mean Reading, ‘Riting and ‘Rithmatic. I mean Registry, Registrar, and Registrant. As I blogged about earlier, I’m fairly new to the VeriSign Naming business, if not the Internet. When I first got here, those three Rs could sometimes be confusing. Based on some of the conversations I’ve had the pleasure of having … [Read more]
Helping Haiti
The videos are now coming in showing the devastation to Haiti. Viewing those videos around the web demonstrates the medium’s power to not just inform, but to truly move you. They show the results of the worst earthquake to hit the area in over 200 years — and to a country that was the poorest … [Read more]
Interview with Bill Mushkin, Name.com
This video features Bill Mushkin, CEO and founder of Name.com. Not only does Bill have expertise in domains as head of a registrar company that has a million names under registration; he actually speaks with authority having a background as a video producer. Bill honed his eye as a Photography Institute Fellow at NYU and … [Read more]