Media RSS

Media RSS is an RSS 2.0 module proposed by Yahoo!
Adopted by Adobe Media Player and YouTube among others.

infrastructure

Interesting (geek) read
http://facebook.com/note.php?note_id=39391378919
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers

How iPlayer will become our player for your friends

Interesting article from Guardian about the BBC's iPlayer.

http://guardian.co.uk/media/2008/dec/11/interview-anthony-rose-iplayer

[...] But rich content means heavy demands on bandwidth: along with other BBC Flash content, the BBC iPlayer now accounts for almost 10% of UK internet bandwidth at peak time, says Rose. That figure is likely to increase, as the BBC adds better device support and more features. "We're going to add HD [video], we're going to add podcasts, we're going to add a delivery notification system. You'll see a system tray pop-up: Top Gear, next episode now out."
And who will pay for all that data transfer? You will. Rose has little patience with ISPs that complain the BBC is consuming too much bandwidth. "It's a profit centre. There is a huge opportunity for ISPs to sell people the packages they really want to get a great iPlayer experience." [...]

And if you want to learn more about the iPlayer:
http://guardian.co.uk/media/iplayer

Streaming Media Monitoring Services

Are there other ones out there I should be looking at besides Gomez and Keynote?

http://gomez.com/products/streaming.php

http://keynote.com/products/voip_and_streaming/streaming_performance/streaming_perspective.html

Gomez Launches New Streaming Media Monitoring Service
Monday, September 22, 2008
http://blog.streamingmedia.com/the_business_of_online_vi/2008/09/gomez-launches.html

How Is CDNs Network Performance For Streaming Measured?
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
http://blog.streamingmedia.com/the_business_of_online_vi/2007/08/cdns-network-pe.html

IBM : Resource library

So much to read. So little free time.
IBM : Industries : Media and entertainment : Resource library
http://www-03.ibm.com/industries/media/us/list/resource/all/

iPhones, FStream and the Death of Satellite Radio

Interesting read.
Mostly a criticism on satellite radio but they talk about streaming radio as well,
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/entertainment/08/11/30/1458232.shtml