Thursday, December 19, 2002

PocketPCHow2 Log -> If you use Audible and are interested in ways in w .... If you use Audible and are interested in ways in which Audible titles can be circulated like libraries deal with books, check out this information. 7:07:51 AM  comment []       RatcliffeBlog: Business, Technology & Investing -> "P2P" streaming The End System Multicast (ESM) system developed at Carnegie Mellon University sounds like a promising approach to delivering streaming video from the network's edge. Each client takes on multicast processing rather than forcing the process back into the network, specifically routers. In principle, this should allow packets to flow between clients -- peer-to-peer -- rather than through any bottleneck on the Net (like a router). The problem will be in network performance overall, because traffic can build up. The ESM team writes: "End System Multicast introduces duplicate packets on physical links, and incurs larger end-to-end delay than IP Multicast." This is definitely something to watch, because a pure edge-multicasting system can enable self-organizing networks of "broadcasters." Will major content providers adopt it? Not likely, to put it mildly. However, for the rest of us, it may open new channels for access to all sorts of information in audio and video form -- speeches, demonstrations, porn.... 6:45:10 AM  comment []       RatcliffeBlog: Business, Technology & Investing -> Creative Commons in cartoons See and hear the story of how the Creative Commons will let artists "skip the intermediaries." Cool animated explanation of how the CC licenses will work. 6:44:00 AM  comment []     allNetDevices Wireless News -> Sonicblue DVD Player To Put PC Content on TVs. Sonicblue on Monday announced a DVD player that can stream audio and video files from a computer to a television through a wireles network. 6:31:58 AM  comment []

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