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As would be expected, other primary share metrics—monthly impressions, clicks, orders, items, etc— show the same pattern. All those graphs show three relatively flat lines, stacked BLUE / RED /GREEN, indicating Google in first place by a large margin.
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Microsoft announces that it has built a world-class video ad serving solution for the Associated Press Online Video Network using MSN Video and Atlas AdManager. AP media-member and customer Web sites will now have the capabilities to sell and deliver loca
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Seit seiner Veröffentlichung, ist Silverlight in aller Munde. Ist die Konkurrenz aus dem Hause Microsoft wirklich eine Gefahr für Adobe Flash? Welche Technologie ist eigentlich besser? Im zweiten Teil der Reihe Silverlight vs. Flash – ein Vergleich ge
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Microsoft is adding an ad-supported Internet TV service to its Windows Media Center platform for home-based media viewing and management. The beta feature will initially bring approximately 100 hours of full-screen and on-demand MSN Video content to Media
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Tafiti, which means "do research" in Swahili, is an experimental search front-end from Microsoft, designed to help people use the Web for research projects that span multiple search queries and sessions by helping visualize, store, and share research resu
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Gute Nachrichten zum Wochenende: RC1 bedeutet Release Candidate 1, d.h. wir stehen ganz, ganz knapp vor der Veröffentlichung des offiziellen Silverlight 1.0-Plug-Ins für Mac und Windows. Seit der letzten Beta wurden ca. 2000 (!) Bugs behoben und wichtig
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Joost doesn't really redefine the long-standing equilibrium between content and distribution. And, in fact, that's the mistake which leads to an error cascade for Joost - it's entire existence, strategy, approach to value creation, etc is premised on the
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More than 30 million live and on-demand video streams of the concerts More than 15 million streams during the live coverage (so 24 hour period) by a total of 8 million people Peak simultaneous viewership of 237,000 people during the concerts
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There may not be another company as well-positioned to take advantage of the growth in IPTV as Microsoft. Despite being primarily a software company, Microsoft has long had a passion for television. The company launched the 24-hour cable news channel MSNB
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Live broadcasting over the Internet Your audience is fragmenting and can now watch TV on a multitude of screens; TVs at home, cell phones, TV screens in public places and of course PCs at home, at the office and even on the move. Uninterrupted interactiv
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-- Microsoft is opening its platform to allow service providers and third-party developers “to create compelling, revenue-generating TV-based applications that run on the platform.” -- “Enhanced MultiView”: PIP gets a major-league enhancement al
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Audible Magic has bagged most every high profile deal in video filtering: MySpace, Dailymotion, Break.com, and GoFish/Bolt. The Audible Magic representative insinuated the company’s technology was deployed in fuller form on MySpace — which recently l
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MSN’s Soapbox is set to reopen to the public today, after being closed to new users back in March in order to implement and test out proactive filtering, utilizing Audible Magic for digital fingerprinting.
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The broadcaster announced partnerships with a variety of online properties and video-sharing sites, including Brightcove, Joost, Veoh Networks, Sling Media, AOL, Microsoft and CNET Networks (publisher of News.com). There will be a rotating list of CBS sh
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The tools shown on the adlabs website are not yet in production; they are demos or prototypes of tools that we might include as production adCenter tools in the future. Additionally, the tools do not provide or display conclusive results; rather, they are
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In a controversial article about Microsoft's IPTV initiative, we noted that the Xbox 360 could only be used as an IPTV client when Microsoft's own IPTV service was deployed, and when the service provider enabled the feature. Here is the status of Micros
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Each Windows Media 9 Series Premier Certified Hosting Provider has committed to full implementation of Windows Media Services 9 Series on Windows Server 2003 and subjected itself to rigorous third-party testing above and beyond the requirements for Certif
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Each Windows Media 9 Series Certified Hosting Provider has committed to full implementation of Windows Media Services 9 Series on Windows Server 2003 and subjected itself to third-party testing required for the basic Certif
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“WPF/E” is the Microsoft solution for delivering rich, cross-platform, interactive experiences including animation, graphics, audio, and video for the Web and beyond. Utilizing a subset of XAML (eXtensible Application Markup Language)-based Windows Pr
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Enhance your browser to render rich content“WPF/E” (codename) is a browser enhancement module that enables browsers to render rich content in addition to HTML. The Feb 2007 CTP will expire on June 6, 2007.
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Vongo offers unlimited movie downloads to your PC for $9.99 a month (USA only) and you can then easily stream these movies from your PC to your Xbox 360. Vongo make it sound pretty easy: "The Xbox 360 will automatically check to see which Windows XP or
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The other day I talked about how Bill Gates was bigging up the future of TV using internet technology. Microsoft is already well placed in the IPTV arena and its IPTV platform is being used by a large number of TV providers including big names like AT&
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In order to watch TV on the console, though, customers need to have an ISP that plans to offer the service across their network. Phone companies are the ones deploying IPTV as a way of competing with cable, so it's no coincidence that the five partners Mi
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Starz has partnered with Microsoft in a deal that will bring its Internet movie service Vongo to both PCs with the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system and the Xbox 360 game console, the companies announced Monday at CES.
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So Microsoft, having failed in the past to gain much traction in the set-top box business, is using the Xbox to try again. But instead of trying to sell it to the entrenched cable companies, it will pitch the Xbox set-top box to new entrants into the TV
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Xbox and IPTV: The most surprising Xbox announcement—and yet it’s natural enough to be expected—is the marriage of Xbox and IPTV. Bach ticked off the known ways users can access HDTV through Microsoft: HD DVD, Media Center, Xbox Live Video. He added
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The relative success of video downloads on Microsoft's Xbox Live and disappointment of Amazon.com's Unbox point to two factors that differentiate Xbox from Amazon and its many other competitors -- consumers who download a movie want a simple way to watch
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HD-DVD is spectacular I was unable to find a single artifact in the copy of 'V' the same was true for Tokyo Drift which is rather hard content to encode. Marketplace videos on most TV's in most home theatres, also spectacular. You being the Video en
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If you check out a video clip on one of AP’s nearly 1,500 OVN affiliates, you’ll find a revamped player that looks suspiciously like MSN Video (see below). It should, as MSN is driving the technology and the advertising behind AP’s OVN. The new play
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Microsoft is hoping to come to the rescue by establishing an "advertisement data store," from which an "advertisement manager" detects when an ad is supposed to be shown and fills that spot with a current, up-to-date spot so you witness fresh plugs during
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Will VC-1 take over? I think most hardware and software manufacturers agree that we are now in a multi-codec world and indeed many hardware manufacturers are adopting the pragmatic approach of supporting both H.264 and VC-1. I think that those creating mo
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When managers start to suck, returns don't scale anymore (ie, the positively sloped section of the U shaped graph). And the same is true of markets, networks, and communities...but more on that later. Managerial diseconomies are one of numerous sources of
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It is impossible to fully protect digital TV content from being copied - although many have tried. DRM is best effort by it's very nature and the defence side of an ongoing arms raise between the rights holders and the pirates.Most people who infringe cop
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As you know, we have been experiencing technical difficulties associated with the extremely high number of downloads from the Video Marketplace service over the past 24 hours. We understand these technical issues have resulted in a very unpleasant experie
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Shows like CSI, South Park and Studio 60 are now available for download via Xbox Live’s marketplace, as previously announced. Also, some download-to-rent movies are available in high definition. Full details and content list follows…
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, Google Sites captured 45.4 percent of the U.S. search market, gaining 0.3 share points from the previous month. Yahoo! Sites maintained its second place ranking with 28.2 percent of U.S. searches, followed by Microsoft Sites (11.7 percent), Ask Network
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MSNBC.com’s new player will sniff your system’s settings and play either a Windows Media or Flash file, which means it now works in Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari. Thank you, Microsoft (and NBC). Press release…
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This time there will be no pretense of complementarity: Internet TV will eat directly into TV, cable and operator-run VOD. Net neutrality will be even hotter than today.
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Jetzt wirds interessant: "Microsoft said tonight that it would offer movies and episodes of television shows for download through its Xbox Live online service in the United States, beginning Nov. 22." Die letzen Meter zu TV sind kein Problem für MS!
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Ahh, so that’s what Google is getting with its $1.6 billion. It is building a moat around its advertising sales force and saying “you can’t get your hands on our advertisers.”
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Blinkx.tv will announce a partnership with Microsoft to power the video search on their sites, including MSN and Live.com.
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Dear techies, that's why they launched it as MSN Soapbox instead of Windows Live Soapbox, because a nation of soccer mom's have MSN.com as their start page in Explorer and they recognize the brand.
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Microsofts YouTube imitat.
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but it doesn't help users make money from their content like Revver does; it doesn't have granular privacy controls like Vox; it won't post directly into blogs for you like VideoEgg; and it won't show videos from other networks like Yahoo Video
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Apple and Google are, strategically speaking, highly complementary. There is little overlap between the core competencies of the two innovators, and thus the strategic opportunities for cooperation/alliances are vast.
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As mentioned previously, MSN Soapbox is a late entrant into the video sharing space, and adopts the MSN brand, rather than being part of Windows Live. The feature set is fairly similar to YouTube, and Microsoft will need to integrate it heavily with their
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UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB (BSY.L) has temporarily shut down its fledgling broadband film service after software provided by Microsoft (MSFT.O) was cracked, enabling the digital protection to be stripped.
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It seems likely that Microsoft will stick to their own format, and that won’t go down well with users - Grouper and Metacafe both dropped Windows Media in favor of Flash
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