Boston.com's Scott Kirsner recently posted this Podcast interview with myself; the interview is about 30 minutes and gives a very deep background on my early involvement with the Internet, the birth of Allaire and ColdFusion, the transformation via Macromedia, and the birth and core ideas behind Brightcove. A lot of original material in here,...
Peter Grant, who has covered Comcast and the cable industry for some time at the WSJ, has a nice overview of the changing competitive landscape around cable. On the occassion of CTAM, he notes how both the Telco TV flavor of IPTV and Internet TV present new challenges for cable.
Our own Jeremy Allaire was just named to industry pub Television Week's annual Hot List, joining a range of TV execs, agents and industry movers.
Wired this month has a great article by William Gibson (best known as author of Neuromancer) on remix culture.Gibson references William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, who were well known for practicing the "cut-up" method as early as the 50's.
Speaking of remix culture and the trend toward user-generated remixed content spanning all forms of media on the Internet, Penguin Books in the UK is currently sponsoring a contest where consumers are invited to download audio clips from 30 popular novels and works, and freely mix these snippets with samples, beats, and loops to create original aud...
Scott Kirsner takes a look at the "Prosumer," a booming category of digital media hobbyist taking advantage of professional-grade video, photo and music tools. He expects that services such as Brightcove will help create a new venue for such storytellers. We hope so too. Link: Are you a prosumer?
What do you get when you cross unlimited bandwidth, cheap wireless Broadband Internet access, and any TV signal in the world? Many people have been wondering what Google is up to in apparently seeking a mess of dark fiber. Some theorize they are putting financial safeguards into place to control costs of doing business in the future.