Toluu : The Business Of Online Video

YouTube's Live Event As Overhyped As The CompanyNovember 24: I hate to add yet another post in the blogsphere about YouTube's live event from this past weekend, but I really have to ask, does anyone really care about it? It's not a big deal. Over the past ten years...
Mobile Carriers and Content Owners Won't Give Out Usage Data On Mobile VideoNovember 20: For all the talk by the major mobile carriers and content owners of how "successful" their mobile video offerings are, none of them that I speak to are willing to give out any usage data that we can use to...
Akamai Cuts 7% Of Workforce, 110 Layoffs Across All Divisions Of The CompanyNovember 19: Akamai said late today that it would cut 7% of their workforce, or about 110 employees, and will take a $4 million quarterly charge as a result. (8-K) Not good news for the CDN industry and this could be the...
MLB.com's Switch To Flash Video Leaves More Questions Than AnswersNovember 19: Adobe got a big customer win this week when they announced that MLB.com would move from the Silverlight platform back to Flash for all their live and on-demand video. The two-year deal, which kicks off in 2009, will also see...
Netflix Gives Details On Their HD Quality Video SpecsNovember 19: As soon as Netflix started offering video content to the PC, Roku, TiVo and XBOX 360, I have been hounding them to give me details on what settings are being used for the encoding. At the risk of annoying them...