The copyright of broadcasting the Olympics games

    From the last week, 2008 Beijing Olympics has been having a lot of attention around the world and I was looking forward to see the fantastic opening ceremony which should deserve live coverage. However, when I knew that NBC, which owns the exclusive rights to broadcast the Olympics in the United States, decided to delay [...]

compare Brightcove with others

    Today, I am going to analyze the star of streaming media- Brightcove, and comparing its business model with other similar streaming media- Revver , Kyte and VideoJug.
    First of all, you may ask what Brightcove is? Brightcove is a video sharing and distribution site where every publisher who creates a Brightcove account is assigned [...]

nice Quicktime..if I wouldn’t hit the buffer

    From reading the Quicktime chapter, I personally think that the author likes Quicktime more than other streaming media software because he seems to take Quicktime as a standard to compare with others. Therefore, I thought this week assignment would be easy to find a website utilizing Quicktime and I could easily find a special [...]

W3- streaming media of Up the Yangtze

    In terms of this week’s assignment, the first idea come to my mind is the website of the documentary I recently saw and felt impressed- Up the Yangtze. Once you click the link, you’ll see a video screen using Quicktime takes the most part of its homepage. I admire this design because it did communicate [...]

Listen to Podcasts on the flight!

    From the Travis’s presentation of last class, it reminds me of the Podcasting experience in the last quarter. During the podcasting in business class, I have been following and listening to many famous Podcasts like Ninja that Travis mentioned and Boing Boing TV is one of my favorite Podcasts.
    Boing Boing TV is [...]

Streaming the media- Tudou

    When I started to find a website utilizing streaming media, the first one come to my mind is Tudou. Tudou is one of the largest video sharing websites in China, where users can upload/download, view, and share video clips. It served over 55 million videos and 2,000 new videos each day. Sounds like another [...]