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How is Netflix’s new Watch Now service? So far so good. I really wish those critics that have written about it actually tried it out a little instead of projecting what they thing about it before even trying it. What is the point? The only experts here are those that have actually tried it out. [...]

Netflix just rolled out Instant Watching (Watch Now). I got a chance yesterday to try it out, thanks to this tip from Hacking Netflix.

Quality isn’t too bad…. I have a 6mpbs connection, although Time Warner sucks so badly that it really tops out at around 2-3mbps most of the time (read: almost always). Too much [...]

A lot has been written about Mobile 2.0. Obviously it has a lot to do with the direction that many web 2.0 sites are taking; going from being true portals (one stop shops), to true portability sites. Have content, will travel. Making your service available on any device, anywhere seems to be a growing trend. [...]

no way.
YouTube (and other internet video watching) is not going to replace TV watching. Last I checked bandwidth is too slow and not available like cable and satellite. Plenty of people are ponying up for HDTV for xmas this year. It is the year of HD, finally. And people are telling us now that YouTube [...]

The online video space is heating up. Companies are scrambling to stay one step ahead of each other. New video networks — some copying YouTube, others pioneering new ways to combine revenue sharing and advertising — are popping up all over the place. The blogosphere is buzzing over Google’s purchase of YouTube and subsequent “make-nice” [...]

So if YouTube has 65,000 videos uploaded everyday and now is starting to get serious heat to pull copyrighted ones down (see 30,000 Japanese Videos taken down), does that mean that quite soon they will actually have a net increase of zero new videos added everyday?
How many non-copyrighted videos do they actually have in their [...]

Much has been written about the recent Google acquisition of video powerhouse, YouTube.

The copyright stuff that Cuban and others have been mockingly using to call YouTube a walking lawsuit ready to happen is blown out of proportion. Sure, the site is chock full of infringing stuff, but so is the rest of the internet. Google [...]

I’d like to take credit for the reason behind the creation of Netflix Prize, but obviously it has been a known issue for quite some time.
Netflix’ recommendation engine just doesn’t work. I’ve written about it before.
The answer is to create the Movie Genome Project (sure its a direct rip-off of Pandora’s Music Genome Project , [...]

The Digg boys are at it again.
NYT is saying they have almost $1 million in backing:

Revision3 has close to $1 million in financing from a group of investors that includes Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape, and Greylock Partners, a venture capital firm that has backed the start-ups Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as Digg.

Banking [...]