by Jason Wilk on December 17, 2008
Microsoft takes the main-stage to battle Adobe and a slew of startup companies trying to be the leader in Web video and collaborative animation/web design tools. The WSJ outlines the major online destinations that have gone with each service this year. For example, Netflix, CBS, The Olynpics (via NBC.com) have all gone with Microsoft’s Silverlight player this year stealing further business from Adobe.
“Adobe’s Flash player is installed on about 98% of Internet-connected PCs, and Silverlight is only installed on about 25%, according to Adobe and Microsoft. Adobe executives said this gives the smaller company about a two-year head start. But Microsoft is “willing to invest” in order to win certain “trophy sites,” said [Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the Microsoft unit responsible for Silverlight].
Places like CBS are raving about Silverlight, saying it is saving costs greatly over Adobe’s flash player. This is bad news for Adobe who has been receiving their share of bad news this year. Another big loss came in the mobile department. They have spent two years now trying to deploy their ‘flash lite’ technology to mobile phones, only to see minimal adoption. Most importantly, Apple will have nothing to do with flash on the iPhone yet, which Adobe has been banking on for quite some time. All the bad news has caused Adobe to lay off over 600 employees as well as scale back on the MacWorld Expo in January. Some say they won’t even be having their Adobe Max conference next year. Will Adobe Flash be a thing of the past?
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by Jason Wilk on October 10, 2008
- Today Google announced they will be streaming full-length TV shows from CBS owned shows.
- The programs will include new editions of shows including “The Young and the Restless,” “Dexter” and “Californication,” according to YouTube director of content partnerships Jordan Hoffner.
- It will be identical to how Hulu profits from their streams, running advertisements before, throughout and after the show.
- This move comes under harsh criticism of Google in the financial crisis for not turning a profit on their $1.65B investment in the video giant.
- Google’s stock is undervalued and it is good for them to start testing out their ventures they think will be profitable for them. For now they have been organizing the world’s information and monetizing only certain areas. Now they need to turn on the revenue streams from all angles to fight off Joe Public.
Will this work or is this an embarrasing attempt to copy NBC/Universal?
MarketWatch, Mashable
by glu on October 2, 2008
- CBS Labs has rolled out Social Viewing Room which allows visitors to watch live shows and engage in chat with other users.
- Arrington is right in claiming that this is better suited for a synchronous/live online video experience but conversely there is something to be said for the draw of live chat centered around mass market television shows.
TC
by glu on September 19, 2008
- Last May, Facebook released Facebook Connect to developers and now CBS’s celeb gossip site TheInsider will trial the system, which allows users to sign in with their Facebook login and for their activity to report back into their fb news feed.
- Facebook Connect will supposedly/hopefully replace the much ballyhooed and unsecure Beacon advertising/facebook user tracking platform.
Are you looking forward to internet wide Facebook portability?
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