Google vs. Net Neutrality?
Wired: Why Google became a carrier-humping, net neutrality surrender monkey; http://j.mp/9shFsJ (via @Siegfried.Hirsch)
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Gerrit Eicker
Living in the Cloud
Wortham: How close are we to moving our lives entirely into the cloud? http://j.mp/cbgbmU
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Hulu: #3 in Web Video
ComScore: Hulu is now the #3 U.S. web video site, soon to be #2 – 5.5 hours video consumption/month; http://tr.im/jZDR
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Joost Gives Up P2P
http://Joost.com is moving to a flash-based website-only model, giving up P2P altogether; http://is.gd/ciey
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Facebook Connect Adds Hulu, Digg
Facebook Connect, making Facebook’s data and friend connections accessible, adds Hulu and Digg; http://is.gd/9H02
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pC: “Facebook, which has 120 million members worldwide, will not be monetizing Connect in any direct way yet, reports NYT, mindful of the Beacon disaster last year, but down the line could help serve more personalized ads on partner sites. Connect on other sites will drive traffic back to Facebook, thus increasing possibilities. For now, the service on third party sites is available by approval only, but in the next few weeks it plans to allow sites to register themselves for Connect, without having to seek approval. – Interesting to watch out for the next phase of the battle in social networking sites, and who wins out in making their identity systems more pervasive…“
Arrington: “Joost doesn’t offer anything particularly unique or compelling to users over competing sites with proprietary content (Hulu with Fox and NBC, TV.com with CBS). – Joost raised a big $45 million round of financing way back in 2006. It’s not clear how much of that is left. If they want to succeed they’re going to have to do something pretty radical.”
pC: “With broadband penetration growing, allowing for wider viewing of streaming videos and relying on P2P networks is seen by Joost as irrelevant, especially with the rise of Hulu for primetime content. As we said back in September, when Joost announced it was shutting down its desktop version, which still used the P2P networks, it had planned to release a small plugin that would embed itself in the browser and allow users to grab files.”