Live and Leaner Video is following VOIP

The first voice call over IP was made some where in the mid of 1995, even after 16 years it is not possible to call from one VoIP domain to an other VoIP domain. A lot of standardization effort was done but we still require PSTN or other gateway functions to connect different VoIP domains. If some one have an account on Skype there is no way to call AOL, MSN, Yahoo, Google messenger or to cooperate VoIP domain. {I am not sure if I can blame Telco for this, as no one had stopped Skype, MSN, Yahoo, Google, AOL to get together}

Same like VoIP Leaner and Live TV is following the same destiny. There are people in technical community think that ABR can solve their issues for transporting Live/Leaner TV over the Internet. In my opinion ABR is not going to scale for Live events, only network based replication (multicast) can serve 111 million supper bowl (2011) viewers.

Martin Jacques: Understanding the rise of China | Video on TED.com

Martin Jacques: Understanding the rise of China | Video on TED.com

Apple, Google, NewsCorp and the Future of Content

Apple, Google, NewsCorp and the Future of Content - John Mauldin's Outside the Box - InvestorsInsight.com | Financial Intelligence, Advice & Research / Investment Strategies & Planning for Individual Investors.

Future of Content

Also, in the "fusion" model I outlined before - news will be delivered in a completely new way. It no longer needs to be "presented" by a credible looking news figure. Instead, news will be raw and the "commentary" will be generated by the audience themselves. Imagine the kind of stuff that people write as comments on video clips on YouTube or Facebook now but taken to the 10th power. The audience of the near future doesn't want to be walked through their news. Here's the new context for the new news: 1st person point of view as personal experience. Maybe you could say the news as "video game"? (laughs) Not quite… The NYTs has had a successful career as a shaper of stories - I think that is less important now and will go away quickly. Honestly, I think anyone in the newspaper business should be on Craig's List looking for a new gig.

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http://www.investorsinsight.com/blogs/john_mauldins_outside_the_box/archive/2010/12/13/the-future-of-content.aspx

New media right standard (DECE) UltraViolet

A Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) alliance that includes Warner Brothers, Microsoft, NBC Universal, Sony, and Fox is working to break down walls between gadgets and services to catalyze demand for films.

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The DECE alliance has set up an UltraViolet platform for film lovers to create free accounts in the Internet "cloud" where versions of movies they buy in DVD or digital formats are stored in online “lockers.”
"If you buy a movie, it comes with a copy in the cloud," Warner Brothers Digital Distribution president Thomas Gewecke said during a DECE panel discussion at the Consumer Electronics Show that ends Sunday in Las Vegas.

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http://www.uvvu.com/
Akamai Preps for UltraViolet

The disposable academic

One thing many PhD students have in common is dissatisfaction. Some describe their work as “slave labour”. Seven-day weeks, ten-hour days, low pay and uncertain prospects are widespread. You know you are a graduate student, goes one quip, when your office is better decorated than your home and you have a favourite flavour of instant noodle. “It isn’t graduate school itself that is discouraging,” says one student, who confesses to rather enjoying the hunt for free pizza. “What’s discouraging is realising the end point has been yanked out of reach.”

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http://www.economist.com/node/17723223?story_id=17723223

Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action | Video on TED.com

Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action | Video on TED.com

a great talk.\\

Future of IP (Intellectual property) and patent in Open Source World

Patent system created around a century before is already outdated. In today's world of Social communities and collaborative working it is very difficult to define the origin of an "Idea". It is true that intellectual property had created a capital investment revolution but at the same time it also create Grid Lock Economy. Michael Heller had identified this in his book very nicely. The IP system is mainly based on western and capital culture. The only main beneficiary for this system is capital not the individuals contributing to it. As new cultures will start taking strong position like Chinees and Indian, it will be difficult to hold this status quo for long time.

The benefits for the humanity will be huge if it is possible to deprecate IP system.

Nobel Prize honors super-strong, super-thin carbon

NEW YORK, (AP) --

It is the thinnest and strongest material known to mankind — no thicker than a single atom and 100 times tougher than steel. Could graphene be the next plastic? Maybe so, says one of two scientists who won a Nobel Prize on Tuesday for isolating and studying it.

Faster computers, lighter airplanes, transparent touch screens — the list of potential uses runs on. Some scientists say we can't even imagine what kinds of products might be possible with the substance, which hides in ordinary pencil lead and first was extracted using a piece of Scotch tape.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/10/05/international/i025338D19.DTL#ixzz11em8am7S

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene

Facebook identity management service

There are a lot of different consumer websites now offering login via facebook identity. Could be a good idea to have a single login but at the same time lose your personal data to facebook.