Friday, March 23, 2007

gettin' the flow on for the weekend...

Microsoft has closed off "Soapbox" (their YouTube knock-off) to new users for at least 2 months (or more) They say the rise of illicit content on the service is the reason, but they are also the new home & platform for this NBC/FOX answer to YouTube.

The Brilliance of Joost
I give mad props to Bit Torrent and it's founder, Mr. Brahm Cohen, but I think he's missing the point somewhat in comments that he made in the Valley about Joost being out-dated in it's "TV Channel" approach. It's a lean-back experience over the PC, with many lean-forward features. Ideally Joost could be streamed over a home network to TV as well.

Speaking of Joost, Disney is hinting at bringing their programming to the platform. At the Future of Film conference, an exec told the audience Joost had a quality delivery system and good management team.

I'm noticing national weather patterns, not through any forecast... but through twitter posts by friends all over country ;-) It sounds like its raining all over today.

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