KOMO 1000 News uses QuickTime to stream live online:
http://www.komonews.com/news/4531461.html?t=a&video=pop
It was pretty choppy on the computer that I viewed it on, and the page itself was not much to look at. However, I like that radio can be streamed. It is useful for lines of work that require people to be attuned to what the [...]
Archive for July, 2008
QuickTime, streaming media
Posted in Streaming Media on July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Media Economics Reflection
Posted in Net-centric Economics, Reflection on July 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
While reading chapters 7, 10, 11, and 13 of Media Economics, I found many similarities to other readings. Chapter 10 touches on pricing structures that are resonant of Anderson’s “Free! Why $0.00 is the Future of Business” discussions of the subscription model, and the concept of free and cross-subsidy methods used by Gillette. Chapter 11 [...]
UW & Whilstler Blackcomb sites stream media
Posted in Streaming Media on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While looking for a Web site that integrates streaming media directly into its page, I recalled the University of Washington site that shows live footage from a Web cam pointed at Suzzallo Library. It is automatically updated every 5 minutes. I recall viewing the Web cam footage while in undergrad and the one draw back [...]
Web Services Reflection
Posted in Net-centric Economics, Reflection on July 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Guest speaker Mike Culver, Web Services Evangelist at Amazon, brought up some interesting discussion topics including outsourcing methods that have been introduced with the emergence of the Internet. Mechanical Turk allows anonymous people to do work for one another. The tasks are typically things that people can do, but computers cannot (like distinguish a chair [...]
Streaming Media alternatives
Posted in Streaming Media on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The San Jose Business Journal posted on Monday, July 14, 2008, that Netflix Inc. and Microsoft Corp. “unveiled a partnership to stream movies and television episodes using the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system.”
“The companies said a growing library of more than 10,000 movies and TV episodes will be available from Netflix when it [...]
Reflection on T.A. McCann
Posted in Net-centric Economics, Reflection on July 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
T.A. McCann was an informative speaker – particularly regarding the online content he covered. I was able to usurp some of his attention during the Q &A session and learn about his start-ups, competition factors, and protocol for businesses “stealing” ideas. It was all very interesting. It is clear that he is a salesman, and proficient [...]
The Long Tail questions
Posted in Net-centric Economics, Questions on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Three discussion questions regarding Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail:
Page 186 addresses the decline of newspapers and the prevalence of blogs. Compared to newspapers, blogs have “more checks and balances,” “specialize in particular topics,” and have “virtually no costs.” There is no mention of ethics in this section at all. What role to ethics play these days? [...]
The Long Tail book review
Posted in Net-centric Economics, Review on July 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Long Tail. Chris Anderson. Hyperion, 2006. 238 pp.
The digital age has thrown a curve ball at traditional economic theory. Disrupting the institutionalized notion that economics is about choice under scarcity, the Internet has introduced economists to a world of abundance.
Chris Anderson’s book The Long Tail examines the non-traditional markets that emerge when people [...]
Reflection on Markets
Posted in Net-centric Economics, Reflection on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Two market structures were evaluated in our most recent discussions: classic free markets vs. “natural” markets which come at costs to society. We also evaluated Externalities and Networks. An interesting point is that Networks are clearly valuable for their great ability to connect people and ease transactions; however it should not be overlooked that they can also [...]
Outline for Interoperability Discussion
Posted in Net-centric Economics on July 6, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Discussion Outline
The Long Tail & “A Bite Out of Apple? iTunes, Interoperability and France’s Dadvsi Law”
· They relate to one another in their acknowledgement of the need for regulation in the digital world:
o Sobel notes a “struggle to define the proper scope of government regulation” and thinks governments “would do well to define specifically what [...]
