Todd posted earlier about Time Warner experimenting with bandwidth caps and charges for overuse. This type of plan was standard in Australia when broadband was introduced and there is no such thing as an unlimited plan here. After a number of years of experimenting the options settled down to a single method of bandwidth limiting that seems to work without excess charges to consumers. It is too much to hope for that T-W will do some research and go with a system that is known to work, so I will give you a rundown of the sequence here that you will probably face in the US.
I want you to pay very close attention to the graph. The increase in Zune listeners in the first 2 weeks of 2008 tells me several things that people need to be aware of that are publishing podcasts at this time.
The announcement by Time Warner that they are going to screw some customers down in Texas in a test where they will be watching bandwidth usage of each of their customers and if they go over their limit sock them with a huge overage charge.
Feels great to be back in the swing of things lots of comments and voicemail feedback at the end of the show glad you enjoyed teh CES back channel regular videos to be pushed online soon. Sponsors: Special Promotion code 20% off on 1 Year Shared Hosting Plans use Godaddy Code Todd20 [Save 10% off on any order at GoDaddy.com!]
I understand the desire for an ultra-light laptop, but there has always seemed to be a limit to which people will sacrifice functionality for weight. In the case of the MacBook Air announced at MacWorld that missing functionality will be the non-replaceable battery. The prime target for an ultraportable laptop is the traveller, and if you travel you want to
When I was witting my book on podcasting back in 2005 I setup a dreamhost account. That shared hosting account I outgrew but because of the initial subscription time I still have it.
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Sony could not help but hear the commentary on its decision to release DRM free music in the worst way possible, just about every media outlet and blog panned them severely. Less than a week later they have announced they will be also releasing DRM free tracks on Amazon.com. If I was Best Buy, Target and other retailers I would be a bit annoyed (to say the least). It is a better move by Sony though.
Over the next couple of weeks I will be editing and posting all the Interviews we did at CES 2008. I will post them here and on most of our distribution channels. I will also be working on creating a dedicated back channel area. Many of you found the back channel content to be as compelling and we received a
Andy McCaskey and I just spent a week in Vegas working CES. We busted our butts did not get much sleep in fact from Monday to Thursday it was a whole 14 hours for me.