I’ll be speaking at the Seattle AWS User’s Group this evening on our experiences at Melodeo with cloud computing on AWS. Primarily I’ll be talking about scalable transcoding in the cloud. If you want to do mobile streaming right, you end up supporting a lot of formats, as both devices and networks conspire to make life difficult. Lots of formats means lots of transcoding…. hope to see you there.
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If you want to see just how differentiated you can be by doing your heavy lifting very efficiently, check out these videos showing inside Google’s data centers. This is what you are competing with if you run your own servers…
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Went to CES this year. Saw some interesting stuff, but sometimes the most fun thing is to see what was cutting edge from years ago…
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Ok, so after the unexpected Beatles link…. here’s something more like what you would expect from me:
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Youtube has some very interesting playlist creation tools just announced…. in only a few minutes I was able to create a Beatles radio station and embed into my blog. Very cool.
Same idea as “artist channels” on Pandora, but you pick the exact content you want, you get single song play, etc.
Not that I’m a huge Beatles fan (heresy, I know), but Beatles music licensing has historically been a huge problem… and yet here it is. I’ll post a playlist with “more appropriate” 
content soon….
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