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- How the world watched the Olympics online
- How the world watched the Olympics onlineI got sick of itI live in Germany, and the experience sucked big time. For those of you who don't know, in Germany you pay a TV and radio tax of about 26 dollar per month to subsidize public channels. The rule is: if...
- Tags: Taxes, Web site development, Free trade, Web technology, Corporate communications, Advertising & Promotion, Olympic Games, NBC, Microsoft Silverlight, CBC
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Google brings election mobile as reporters become irrelevant
- Worried you'll miss it the second John McCain announces his veep choice? After all, the GOP isn't offering a text-message alert the way Obama did. (Not that that worked so well.) Well, maybe young mothers won't be checking it at 2:38 a.m., but...
- Tags: NBC, Google Inc., Mobile, Reporter, Shafer, Farhi, Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, RSS, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Internet, Hardware, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- CISCO: Why the Olympics didn’t melt NBC
- CISCO: Why the Olympics didn’t melt NBCRE: CISCO: Why the Olympics didn’t melt NBCgreat technical achievement!I have to say though that the internet and NBC might not have broken down but the internet has certainly shown some slow down. web pages including ZDNET seem to load slightly slower. It is...
- Tags: INTERNET, Web site development, Channel management, NBC, Olympic Games, Cisco Systems Inc., NBCOlympics.com web site
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- CISCO: Why the Olympics didn't melt NBC
- Yesterday I posted about how Limelight Networks was used as the primary caching content provider for NBCOlympics.com and lifted a huge burden off on the public Internet by leveraging relationships with last mile ISPs. It's an amazing story about how technology can be used to solve immense problems. ...
- Tags: Olympic Games, NBC, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., Camera, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet
- I admit it, even I was skeptical. When I received the first demonstration of the Silverlight plugin and the NBCOlympics.com web site back in March of this year at the 2008 Microsoft Technology Summit, where a group of Open Source experts gathered from around the world were asked for feedback...
- Tags: Olympic Games, NBC, Network, Internet Service Provider, Video, Akamai Technologies Inc., Limelight Networks, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Corporate Communications, Data Centers, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Marketing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-17
- It's just a TPS Report: How to step away from your Desk Rage
- Much of the advice on handling desk rage might, at best, be hard to apply and at its worst, entirely misses the mark. Listen instead to the IT Grind's Three No-Nonsense Steps to Stepping Away From Your Desk Rage. by Deb Perelman
- Tags: NBC, Workplace, Worker, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- Olympic online gold
- Thanks to Microsoft's Silverlight streaming video software, more people than ever before are tuning in...err...logging on to watch the Olympics online. CNET's Kara Tsuboi reports on the popularity of the free service and the technology involved in transmitting that gold-medal relay race from Beijing to your home computer.
- Tags: Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Video, Desktops, Productivity, Personal Technology, Hardware, News, kara tsuboi, ina fried, olympics, nbc, internet, microsoft, silverlight
- Videos 2008-08-15
- Olympics Victor: NBC, Over YouTube
- Olympics Victor: NBC, Over YouTubeYouTube is global, NBCOlympics is US onlyKeep this in mind when comparing numbers between NBCOlympics and YouTube: no one outside the US is allowed to view NBCOlympics video.RE: Olympics Victor: NBC, Over YouTubeI think there is another facet to this that has not been well evaluated....
- Tags: Corporate communications, YouTube Inc., Olympics Victor, NBCOlympics, NBC
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Olympics Victor: NBC, Over YouTube
- So, NBC is "only" delivering 3.4 million or so streams of Olympic video from its Web site. That still beats YouTube's traffic, according to our source in the cloud. Since the Olympics began on Friday, 386 videos have appeared on YouTube's 10 channels of Beijing2008 coverage picking...
- Tags: NBC, YouTube Inc., Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Numbers on the NBC's Silverlight Olympic Coverage
- Numbers on the NBC's Silverlight Olympic CoverageWould have loved to watchbut the GARBAGE known as Silverlight won't run on my PowerPC Mac the last PPC Powerbook.I sent them an e-mail about this and that they should have picked Flash or generic MPRG4 for the transport so ALL could see the...
- Tags: INTERNET, Digital media, Live 8, NBC, Microsoft Silverlight, Silverlight Olympic, Silverlight Olympic Coverage
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Numbers on the NBC's Silverlight Olympic Coverage
- Tom Steinert-Threlkeld has a great rundown of the numbers behind this weekend's Olympic coverage. The highest day of coverage was on August 10th and it saw about 3.42 million video streams with 66.7 million page views and an average time spent on the site of 15 minutes. Pretty good numbers...
- Tags: NBC, Microsoft Silverlight, Coverage, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Watch the Olympics! Right after this series of hurdles
- Watch the Olympics! Right after this series of hurdlesWhy didn't they just use flash?It seems everytime I read a article about some service which was made in silverlight I have to go through the whole installation procedure as if I never had it installed. With the flash plugin you are...
- Tags: Olympics! Right, Olympic Games, NBC, plug-in
- Discussion threads 2008-08-08
- Watch the Olympics! Right after this series of hurdles
- The opening Olympic ceremony in Beijing is underway just don't expect to watch them live. That'll happen later on Friday so the Web doesn't cannibalize TV for NBC. It's one of many hurdles you must clear to watch a little Olympic video. But I can live with...
- Tags: olympic games, nbc, tv, tvs, tv & home theater, corporate communications, personal technology, home entertainment, marketing, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- Time Warner's Olympic boost, courtesy NBC
- Time Warner's Olympic boost, courtesy NBCThe Olympics are GreekI wonder if the Greeks agreed to having the Olympics in other countries?
- Tags: Olympic Boost, NBC, Time Warner Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- Will the Olympics melt the Internet?
- Okay, sky-is-falling fans and network neutrality proponents: We're about to find out whether the Internet can – or will – break down under the strain of mass consumption of streaming video. At least that's the opinion of Brick Eksten, the president and CEO...
- Tags: nbc, network, video, stream, internet, corporate communications, web site development, marketing, tom steinert-threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Time Warner's Olympic boost, courtesy NBC
- If you're Jeff Bewkes, the chief executive of Time Warner, you might get pleasantly surprised over the next couple weeks at the number of your Time Warner Cable subscribers who use their Internet connections to access streams of video of the 25 sports being sent live via www.nbcolympics.com. ...
- Tags: nbc, time warner inc., cablevision systems corp., corporate communications, business ethics, internet, digital video, marketing, leadership, management, personal technology, tom steinert-threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Microsoft as the gate keeper of video analytics
- Microsoft as the gate keeper of video analyticsNBC Olympics and TVTonic[b]Wavexpress to Provide Internet Video Download Service for NBC’s Coverage of the Beijing Olympic Games[/b]Free Service to Allow Media Center Users the Ability to Download Content During NBC’s Coverage of the Beijing Olympics, August 8-24, 2008http://www.tvtonic.com/news/?p=133NEW YORK - June 23,...
- Tags: Media Center PCs, Corporate communications, Microsoft Corp., analytics, video, NBC, Wavexpress, NBC Olympic
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- Microsoft as the gate keeper of video analytics
- There's a post over on TechCrunchIT about how NBC is going to use Silverlight and the Olympics to do some audience research around how people consume digital media. Basically NBC has a ton of content that will come from the Olympics and they're planning on providing it in a number...
- Tags: Olympic Games, NBC, Windows Media, Analytics, Video, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Microsoft Windows, Digital Media, Digital Music, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Top-visited US broadcast TV show websites in 2007
- Rank Network Website Average Market Share 1 FOX American Idol 14.01% 2 NBC Deal or No Deal 13.33% 3 ABC Dancing with the Stars 7.33% 4 CBS Survivor: Micronesia 4.78% 5 FOX America’s Most Wanted 3.86% 6 NBC...
- Tags: NBC, Web Site, Web Site Development, TVs, Web Technology, Tv & Home Theater, Microsoft Office, Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Office Suites, Software, NB
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Top programs for product placement on broadcast TV in Q1 2008
- Program Network Total # Occurrences The Biggest Loser NBC 3,977 American Idol FOX 3,291 The Apprentice NBC 1,646 Deal Or No Deal NBC 1,603 Extreme Makeover Home Edition ABC 1,011 Big Brother 9 CBS 1,011...
- Tags: NBC, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, NB
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
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