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		<title>How Joost lost its way</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joost yesterday confirmed it was pulling out of consumer-facing services. Where did it fail where Hulu succeeds? Lesson number one: when breaking a new product category, be modest, even if you were the founders of Skype and Kazaa. Lesson number two: if you&#8217;re dealing with a media and entertainment industry sh*t scared about its future, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1306234&amp;post=421&amp;subd=beyondnessofthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Has BBC iPlayer traffic peaked?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 17:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian reports on BT-owned U.K. ISP PlusNet&#8217;s claims that BBC iPlayer traffic may finally have levelled off. Launched last Christmas, the service has been the bête noire of U.K. ISPs, particularly those such as Tiscali which pay higher fees to access BT&#8217;s U.K. IP backbone at peak times. The same report includes a rebuttal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1306234&amp;post=420&amp;subd=beyondnessofthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sky Anytime rebrands as Sky Player</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 16:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Proving that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, U.K. satcaster BSkyB has rebranded its online video service Sky Player, in a nod to the success of the Beeb&#8217;s iPlayer. New features include live streaming of its six own-brand TV channels, as well as progressive downloads allowing immediate playback of downloaded content. The re-vamped service, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1306234&amp;post=419&amp;subd=beyondnessofthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BBC iPlayer bags a BAFTA</title>
		<link>http://beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/bbc-iplayer-bags-a-bafta/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 06:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC&#8217;s iPlayer catch-up service picked up its first gong last night, beating co-nominees Bebo, Kate Modern and the production team behind U.K. Channel 4&#8242;s Big Art Mob to the British Academy of Film &#38; Television Arts Craft Award for best Interactive Innovation &#8211; Service / Platform. Congratulations to all involved.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1306234&amp;post=418&amp;subd=beyondnessofthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alvin &amp; Heidi Toffler on the future of media</title>
		<link>http://beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/alvin-heidi-toffler-on-the-future-of-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 06:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The seminal futurologists Alvin &#38; Heidi Toffler on &#8220;de-massification&#8221; and other concepts mass media has been slow to embrace&#8230;  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1306234&amp;post=416&amp;subd=beyondnessofthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TV &#8211; the end is nigh (well, not quite)</title>
		<link>http://beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/tv-the-end-is-night-redux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some interesting stats on more advertiser money moving into online (no brainer), but exaggerations of linear TV&#8217;s demise are again exaggerated&#8230; Britain is the most developed online advertising market in the world and spend looks set to overtake that for TV by the end of next year, according to yesterday&#8217;s report by the Internet Advertising [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1306234&amp;post=414&amp;subd=beyondnessofthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teenagers &#8211; those great respecters of copyright</title>
		<link>http://beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/teenagers-those-great-respecters-of-copyright/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It wouldn&#8217;t be a Monday without another digital media scare story from the U.K.&#8217;s Guardian newspaper: aside from its sister newspaper&#8217;s report that video-rich services such as YouTube and the BBC&#8217;s iPlayer are melting the internet, today&#8217;s shock horror &#8216;revelation &#8216; is that 95% of U.K. teenagers are illegally copying music. Well fancy that. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1306234&amp;post=413&amp;subd=beyondnessofthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joost &#8211; what went wrong?</title>
		<link>http://beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/joost-what-went-wrong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was heralded as re-inventing the TV paradigm or the end of TV as we know it, yet barely a year after its public launch, online video service Joost appears to be lurching from one crisis into another. The service is planning a major retrenchment, reports the UK&#8217;s Sunday Times newspaper, &#8220;after failing to attract [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1306234&amp;post=412&amp;subd=beyondnessofthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Indies embracing the web and new platforms</title>
		<link>http://beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com/2008/02/03/indies-embracing-the-web-and-new-platforms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The growth of new distribution opportunities via the internet has prompted some independent production companies to find additional options for exploiting their content, while others are producing content specifically for the web. Here&#8217;s a round-up of some of the key players so far: Miles Beckett and Luke Hyams, the co-creators of LonelyGirl15, are rightly dubbed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1306234&amp;post=410&amp;subd=beyondnessofthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The U.K. VOD market &#8211; nascent but growing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Policy wonks, quango officials and broadcast executives met in central London last Thursday to debate the state of the U.K. VOD industry: offering perspectives on incumbent services, those soon to launch, rights management and pending regulatory changes. Unsurprisingly, the first half dealing with audiences, programming and business models packed them in, while 90 minutes on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1306234&amp;post=409&amp;subd=beyondnessofthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Really Simple gets really enterprising</title>
		<link>http://beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/really-simple-gets-really-enterprising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Open Television Network (OTN) launched Wednesday, democratising distribution for content owners seeking a broader audience and more choice for end users who find pre-eminent aggregators too driven by the Pareto principle. The service is based on RSS feeds: an end user subscribes to a feed based on a subject, topic or provider of interest. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1306234&amp;post=408&amp;subd=beyondnessofthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The state of digital media in 2008</title>
		<link>http://beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com/2007/12/30/the-state-of-digital-media-in-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While mainstream media devotes most of its column inches to wrap-ups of the year that was, it falls to Kara Swisher to provide perhaps the most insightful piece, in this interview with former NewsCorp. new media deal-marker Ross Levinsohn, the man credited with getting Murdoch to buy MySpace.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1306234&amp;post=407&amp;subd=beyondnessofthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Politics: the great online video turn-off</title>
		<link>http://beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com/2007/12/28/politics-the-great-online-video-turn-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Market researchers Harris Interactive reveal the less-than-earth-shattering news that only a third of online video users favour political content.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1306234&amp;post=406&amp;subd=beyondnessofthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Online video P&amp;L watch</title>
		<link>http://beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/online-video-profit-watch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[beyondnessofthings will update this post as figures emerge. Meanwhile some companion reading at Silicon Valley Insider: Economics of Online Video 1: One Tough Business Economics of Online Video 2: Unit Cost Structure Estimating Financial Impact of iTunes/NBC: Small, For Now, But We Still Expect Reconciliation NBC Universal / iTunes: NBCU may have pulled its shows off [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1306234&amp;post=405&amp;subd=beyondnessofthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BBC iPlayer to launch Christmas Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC is to fully launch its iPlayer TV downloads service on 25 December, according to this report. Not mentioned by Broadband TV News, but covered in an earlier BBC announcement, the iPlayer will also offer streaming video before the end of the year, promising access to 400 hours of TV shows from the last seven [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1306234&amp;post=404&amp;subd=beyondnessofthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gimme more online video, just don&#8217;t make me pay</title>
		<link>http://beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/gimme-more-online-video-just-dont-make-me-pay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.K. law firm Olswang has published its annual Convergence Report, tracking British consumer attitudes to online and on-demand services. This year&#8217;s study reveals that almost a third of broadband users are regular consumers of online TV or movies &#8211; but they don&#8217;t want to have to pay for the content. When the &#8216;Kangaroo&#8217; JV between the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1306234&amp;post=400&amp;subd=beyondnessofthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Knocka TV: yet another online video identity crisis</title>
		<link>http://beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com/2007/12/04/knocka-tv-yet-another-online-video-identity-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roi Carthy reveals that user-generated video portal Knocka TV [might need a rebrand for U.K. users ] is to launch later today, following four months in beta. The Israeli start-up is backed by the founders of instant messaging service ICQ, sold to AOL in 1998 for US $408 million. Testing the limits of contradictory language, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1306234&amp;post=398&amp;subd=beyondnessofthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Netflix v. Blockbuster: round 1 to Netflix</title>
		<link>http://beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com/2007/12/04/netflix-v-blockbuster-round-1-to-netflix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ryan Carrigg, posting on Compete.com, demonstrates how the divergent online strategies being used by Netflix and Blockbuster are paying dividends for the former. Sometimes a picture can tell the story more powerfully than any words can:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1306234&amp;post=396&amp;subd=beyondnessofthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2008: the big online video shakeout</title>
		<link>http://beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/2008-the-big-online-video-shakeout/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Against a predicted backdrop of wider market turmoil as we enter 2008, Reuters ran a great piece last week on the likely impact of broader market declines on a sector which remains a major buzz with industry and consumers alike [even though, privately, I suspect alot of ramping from investors when it comes to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1306234&amp;post=395&amp;subd=beyondnessofthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The U.K.: greenhouse for new media ideas?</title>
		<link>http://beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/the-uk-greenhouse-for-new-media-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a badly kept industry secret that Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s BSkyB satellite TV platform saw the introduction of both interactivity and its Sky+ DVR in the U.K. as a test-bed for rolling the services out in other key territories. Now it looks as if others are learning from both the Murdoch approach to digital product innovation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondnessofthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1306234&amp;post=394&amp;subd=beyondnessofthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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