First…who knew there were so many CDNs in the world (OK, OK, I guess I knew…but all in one place it seems more impressive). Second; trolling the booths, attending the panels, and talking to the participants last week I was struck by how much is going on with video and how diverse the community is. … [Read more]
Which Site Has The Most Hours Of Video Uploads Per Hour?
If you guessed YouTube.com, you’d be wrong according to recent statistics. Here at Watch.tv we’re proud to say that honor is reserved for the live streaming sites like Justin.tv and UStream.tv. YouTube has about 24 hours of video uploaded per minute. But, Justin.tv claims 30 hours and Ustream.tv claims over 53 hours per minute according … [Read more]
HTML5: Understanding the Video Standards Landscape
Our guest blogger today is a repeat visitor – Professor Karthik Shyamsunder. As HTML5 is in the news a bit lately, we thought we’d follow up with some more thoughts on the topic. In my previous blog post, I discussed the new tag, its usage, and how we are going to have native tags on … [Read more]
Web 2.0 Expo: Was the Next Big Thing just next door?
Have you ever gone to an event and it seems like all the cool stuff happened in the next room, or right before you walked in? That’s sort of the experience I had at Web 2.0 last week in San Francisco – but when you are choosing between 5-6 different simultaneous sessions, I suppose that’s … [Read more]
Video Vignettes Roundup: May 7
Google TV in the works? — The Wall Street Journal (and about everyone that guesses on these things) thinks so. They may (or may not) show it off at their I/O conference May 19 and 20 for developers in SF. It’s expected to be on Android and will leverage the wider development community for applications. … [Read more]