Though HTML5 is a hot topic with lots of buzz, those in the know realize the ecosystem to support it is pretty early and sparse. That was a hot topic at Streaming Media East that we reported on recently. But serial entrepreneur Scott Rafer just announced his answer to that need with Handroll.tv. In ReadRightWeb … [Read more]
Streaming Media East Musing and Thoughts
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]
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]
The Past Future of Television
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” From Requiem for a Nun by William Faulkner Though it’s just beginning, I suspect this blog will be more about the future than it will be about the past. However, when I saw this posting on my friend’s Facebook page (thanks Mike). I thought there were … [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]