Scott Berry

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    • Thu Oct 9th 10:33 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Akamai: Why Charge More for Streaming Video Delivery vs. HTTP Delivery?
      Everyone is missing the obvious, here. Akamai's Marketing department has clearly failed in their messaging.

      Akamai is not selling streaming delivery for *more*, they are offering a *discount on HTTP*. That would make the question "why is Akamai the only CDN that discounts downloads?" :-)
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    • Tue Sep 9th 09:19 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Real Networks New DVD Ripper: Are You for Real?
      Excuse me, "rocket surgery"? :-)

      Otherwise a nice piece, Mathew. I agree totally, this is one of the most lame-grained schemes I've ever seen. Yet another reason my computers have all remained "unReal" for years.
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    • Mon Sep 8th 09:11 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      DivX Breaks Ground in Supporting Flash Video
      Yes, this is correct. The Connected box is functionally not much more than a DivX codec paired with a WiFi card.

      The server software on the PC converts everything (including photos and music, plus your stored video) into a DivX encoded stream which is sent to the client box. Because the PC does the heavy lifting, it's infinitely flexible and evolvable.

      Brilliant idea, really, especially if they're successful in getting Connected embedded directly into TVs and DVRs.
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    • Thu Sep 4th 14:56 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Comcast Limits User Downloads: Wrong Solution
      @Julio -- That's true in the abstract, though most offer mainly consumer and business (the latter little more than bribery to run a server).

      What I'd like to see is much more granularity, and in particular some incentives to "trade up". If I have a base 2 Mb/s service, where's the sales pitch to go to 5 or 10 or 20 or 50 Mb/s? If they're truly in the access business that's the model I'd expect.
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    • Thu Sep 4th 11:57 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Does Apple's iPhone Increase Browsing?
      Actually, the title is what set me off: "Does the iPhone Increase Browsing?" That sure implies causality to me.

      After re-reading, I agree that the article itself is neutral. Mea culpa for being too quick on the trigger.

      @jimmx, no, that's not what I meant. I believe that people who already did a lot of browsing (on any platform) were more likely to be early adopter types, which is the same type who would naturally be attracted to the iPhone in the first place.

      I believe this is likely to be a much stronger contributor to increased browsing than people who bought an iPhone, all of a sudden "discovered" they could surf the internet better, and then decided to do it more.
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    • Thu Sep 4th 10:41 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Fiber To the Home: Will They Ever Learn?
      When our local telecableco cabal is ready to offer the services that require that kinds of bandwidth, they'll be more than happy to provide the bandwidth. They want to sell us the pipe and every bit that goes over it as well.

      If they give us the bandwidth first, they're afraid we'll find a way to use it that cuts them out of any additional revenue stream. And they're right.

      Monopolies suck.
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    • Thu Sep 4th 10:33 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Comcast Limits User Downloads: Wrong Solution
      Careful. QoS is nothing more than a way to control what content you can receive, masquerading as "improved performance".

      Higher bandwidth/speed is cheaper to provide (I'm talking infrastructure, here) than QoS. Always has been.
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    • Thu Sep 4th 09:18 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      7 Reasons I Switched to Google's Chrome
      You should have spent as much time researching Firefox as you did Chrome, since basically all of the functionality (and way more) has been available via extensions for some time.

      And I echo others about the browser vs. OS. When Chrome can manage all my peripherals and print jobs, then we'll talk.
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    • Thu Sep 4th 09:13 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Does Apple's iPhone Increase Browsing?
      This post, like so many others, suffers from the 3 C's: Confusing Correlation with Causality. It is equally possible (and a simpler explanation) that people who browse the internet a lot are drawn to the iPhone, not that the iPhone causes additional browsing.

      In fact, given the sales ramp of the iPhone, it would be amazing NOT to see a rapid rise in mobile internet browsing. For a fuller explanation, see scottjberry.com/2008/0.../ .
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    • Thu Sep 4th 09:07 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Happy Customers Don't Change Their Web Browsers
      I agree with you, and violently disagree with Maney. People *do* customize and personalize their browsers. My Firefox contains login and password info in the cache for dozens of sites, and I also have a favorite theme/skin and 10-12 extentions that I refuse to live without--many of which perform functions only now being touted in Chrome or IE8. Changing would be a big hassle and would thus require a compelling reason. Chrome doesn't qualify.
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    • Thu Aug 28th 08:42 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Kindle + College Textbooks = A Huge Opportunity for Amazon
      @five, read my comment again. Are you saying kids will pay $35 more per book (net) using a Kindle, but that's OK because they'll make it up on volume?
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    • Wed Aug 27th 12:10 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Advice for Amazon on How to Get Serious About the Kindle
      Bzzzt! Wrong answer, Michael.

      Kindle's problem isn't the business model, it's the product concept, which just isn't compelling enough. Once it begins to fundamentally change the reading experience (instead of simply replacing paper), it'll catch on.

      In any case, you're assuming Amazon's making its money on the ebooks. If that business is so good, then they could simply give away the Kindles.

      Can you imagine how unprofitable Apple would be if it made no margin on iPods but counted on iTunes sales to make money?

      Back to square one.
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    • Tue Aug 26th 10:49 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      'Buy, But Sell' - What Are Analysts Thinking?
      Pretty clear to me. Stock has come down, so it has long-term appreciation potential. But short term it's more likely to fall some more than rise, so don't pull the trigger yet.

      Note also the way fund managers think: Having money in a stock you think will be flat for some period of time is the same as losing money, when there are other opportunities out there for upside.
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    • Tue Aug 26th 10:43 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      NBC's Olympics Web Strategy Came Out a Loser
      My biggest complaint was that the website had extremely poor usability. It wasn't just the lack of video. It often took me multiple searches down blind alleys and nearly random clicking just to figure out a clip wasn't there in the first place. Not to mention how noisy the page impressions were. Yecch.

      I will say that Silverlight worked very well for me (once I gave up on trying to bypass it and just gave in). The picture was crystal clear with no stuttering.
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    • Tue Aug 26th 10:18 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Kindle + College Textbooks = A Huge Opportunity for Amazon
      The logic seems a bit flawed here.

      Student buys a $150 book, sells used for maybe $75. Net $75 (with some risk they can't sell it, admittedly). Or student buys a discounted ebook (let's say $110, to be charitable). Net $110. That doesn't include the cost of the Kindle device. Where's the incentive for the student?

      So e-textbooks would have to be much more sharply discounted for this to work. But the price of textbooks isn't driven by production/distributio... it's driven by information value and "lock in". Where's the incentive for the publisher? What are typical discounts currently on electronic versions of textbooks?

      Curing the backache factor will certainly help, though I can't recall lugging my engineering texts around that much. (BTW, do students still highlight textbooks?).

      I certainly see some daylight for the Kindle here, but the case has to be a bit better. We'll see.
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