The Digital Life Show

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IPTV – or TV over the Web…

- A look at the explosion of online TV broadcasting, everything from news and travel to tech and culinary arts (we’ll have to do another episode on the rise of the online cooking shows !) And some professionally produced programming formatted for the Web.

Driven by technology that allows pretty much anyone with a reasonable camera and Internet connection to broadcast over the Web…and the ideas are flowing…

New Business models
BlipTV – self proclaimed ‘next generation’ television network. (interesting 50/50 split revenues model)

Well established standards
- RocketBoom
- BoingBoingTV

Live Streaming apps

- 12Seconds.tv
- UStream for mobiles
- qik.com - (liked it better than ustream, especially no ads! alas, ustream outperformed… )
- LiveStream’s LivePack- mobile broadcast unit in a backpack

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TV on the Web

Dumping cable for online video

Both not available in Canada
Hulu
Netfilx

A bit of tech talk about Geo Blocking

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Other News

Canadian TV Goes Digital – CRTC news release

Facebook reached 500 million ‘friends’
more about that…

The Microsoft Tablet coming soon…

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MUSIC

Maria | Ricky Martin | Ricky Martin
Unza Unza Time | The Best of Emirkus Turica & the No Smoking Orchestra | EmirKus Turica & the No Smoking Orchestra

The Digital Life Show Theme: Glacier | Chris Zippel | Genuine Horizon