The amount of video online is skyrocketing, whether it's "Lost" episodes or movie trailer mash-ups. The phenomenon is putting new stress on ISP networks, which are seeing the demands on their bandwidth burgeon.
Now a new wave of companies--some newcomers, some with familiar faces--are stepping up to play the role of traffic cop, arguing that they have ways to manage this surge in video traffic and keep networks healthy.
more @ C|Net
still image of a flash mockup of a possible virtual controller full screen iPod from Deviantart
So Mac360 (and others) are reporting on the rumors of a full-screen video iPod with the controller part of a touch screen. Gizmodo has some stuff on recent patent apps from Apple. Hey, as long as I get 16:9 (native) on my vPod, I'll be happy. Now they just need to embed a camera in it and a version of iMovie that works via the virtual click wheel. Yeah, that's the ticket...
New patents from Apple, this time around a "tablet" device, and more importantly, a gesture-based UI. Tablets have been a miserable failure imho except for niche uses (e.g. we had a project with surgical slides that could be annotated for training purposes). But with the right applications and UI, things get much more interesting. Hrmpf.com has a nice write-up.
Veoh Networks claims to have 20K independently produced, user-published videos available to be pushed to Sony's PSP portable videogame console and Apple's iPod. Veoh claims to be "the first internet television peercasting network".