NBA Playoffs Online Video; Ripping on Barkley

NBA.com offers a good amount of free online video through their partnership with Turner Broadcasting for digital content. While you will need to watch the Playoffs on TNT, pre and post-game coverage is available live online and the additional content is pretty entertaining.

Embedded video from NBA Video

Online Video Captures Citi’s First Streaker

Youtube provides this guy with a lifetime of infamy instead of just the usual 15 minutes of fame. Unless Youtube takes it down. But hell, since its a first, and its online video, we may as well call it news and write about it.

Congrats to Craig C, Citi Field’s first streaker. Certainly not the [...]

SME: Paul Sagan Keynote

In the opening keynote at Streaming Media East today Akamai CEO Paul Sagan provided a brief history of video on the web over the past decade and pointed to the ability to scale adaptive streaming technology as the tipping point that will enable online video to reach a TV size audiences. According to Sagan [...]

NY Video Meetup, Streaming Media East Edition

Can’t make it to tonight’s meetup? Here it is:

Sorenson Gets into Content Delivery Biz

Video encoding software maker Sorenson today launched Sorenson 360, a video delivery and player solution aimed at the middle of the market.

The networks allows Sorenson to leverage its expertise in compression technology and extend its reach to the online video realm – offering simplified end-to-end encoding, player technology and on-demand flash streaming.

While the service [...]