Stephen Colbert appeared on the O’Reilly Factor (via Reddit->Feedbite). It is hilarious. I don’t know why but I felt unnatural at times. However, it is definitely worth a look. One of the funny parts:
O’Reilly: Every left wing critic love you. …
Colbert: …
O’Reilly: You must be doing something.
Colbert: I am doing you Bill.
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Today, Netflix announced that they are going to start offering customers the option of instantly watching movies on their PCs. I am calling it a flirt because this cannot be a serious relationship.
The blogosphere went crazy over the news as expected and created a lot of buzz about Netflix. Here is the most recent capture of Techmeme about the news.
I guess the only group of people to be excited about this announcement would be the ones who would like having an alternative method of getting their movies and who do not really care about the limitations of offerings.
The most recent player in the field of delivering online video was Amazon and they did not get very positive reviews about the initiative. The case is similar with Netflix because they are not bringing anything new to the table.
First off all, it is not a download service, it is a streaming service. There is no way to download the content to ones computer for watching later, say during a trip. On top of that, you have to be online to get one of the available 1000 (1% of Netflix’s inventory) movies.
I neglected to mention in the previous post that I have 2 invitations available for being a beta tester for Joost, aka The Venice Project.
Drop me a line in the comments if you are enthusiastic about Internet TV and want an invite.
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You must have heard the long time stealth Internet TV project called The Venice Project.
The buzz about the new product of the creators of popular file sharing program KaZaA and Skype is very loud.
Today it was announced that The Venice Project will be called Joost from now on. Janus Friis points out that while this name means nothing at the moment, “it will come to mean great quality Internet TV the way it should be”. We will see if this will be the case in the future.
I had the chance to play with the new initiative as an early beta tester. It is based on peer-to-peer technology and I must say the viewing experience was satisfactory for considering the project in its beta phase.
The WSJ article explains how music industry is starting to embrace podcasting by licensing songs to promotional podcasting group. Can we really say they are embracing podcasting? Is podcasting better of without the music industry embracing it? I always thought podcasting is better when it is indie.
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