By: Geoff Hollingworth
13 April, 2012
Applications , Business , People , Society , Technology
apps,
connected devices,
Connectivity,
ICT,
mobile broadband,
Networked Society,
TV
My family watches movies from Netflix in the evening. For anyone who isn’t aware, Netflix is the biggest distributor in the film-rental business. It started by shipping DVDs to the home, via online ordering, to compete with the giant in the space – Blockbuster. And it won. Customers’ dislike of Blockbuster’s late-return fees, combined with the simple convenience of [...]
Yesterday, I posted about how WebRTC is a force that is democratizing the communications industry. From a technical point of view, there are many issues to consider. However, once resolved, WebRTC will hide all the complexity of real-time media behind a very simple JavaScript API that any of us can code.
Do you remember a time before web pages? To do anything in IT you had to be a boffin professional with special access. Then along came the web and everybody’s child could put up a website. If you see that as the democratization of the IT industry, WebRTC is the democratization of the communications industry.
During the last Volvo Ocean Race, I was lucky enough to travel the world while also leading the delivery of the race’s next generation of multimedia solutions. We made Facebook, Twitter and Google Earth part of the race experience for the first time, and also provided real-time access to video of the race via mobile [...]
