Vid-Biz: Oprah, Amnesty, MySpace
Code Error, Not Popularity, Crashed Oprah’s Webcast; 800,000 people were watching online when a logical error in the caching servers caused the system to go down, bandwidth was not the issue. (Shelly Palmer Report)
Amnesty International Launches Channel on Friction.tv; human rights organization raises awareness of domestic violence through the online video debate site. (release)
MySpace to Webcast Concert from Kuwait; Adobe, Kulabyte and Akamai say they’ll deliver HD video of “Operation MySpace” at less than 1.5MB per second. (release)
Shred or Die Officially Launches; extreme sports sibling of Funny or Die features skateboarding legend Tony Hawk’s own interview series Dissent TV. (release)
You’re the “Thriller;” insert yourself into Michael Jackson’s classic zombie video by uploading photos of yourself. Yee-hee! (MichaelJackson.com)
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