Video in the Cloud

On Monday (Sep 28, 2009) comScore announced that Google had surpassed 10 billion video views in the month of August [1].  With a market wide average viewing duration of 3.7 minutes, consumption of Google video alone has exceeded 1% of the estimated total monthly U.S. television consumption of 3 trillion minutes [2]. Read “Everything on [...]

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Today’s WSJ updates the long developing convergence of TV and the Internet. This is not breaking news, but steady progress toward an eventuality.

One point that is missing in the article is: Once TVs become web enabled, they will also become web video enabled. 90 million web video enabled TVs will drive more viewing time of web video, and will require significant infrastructure for video in the cloud.

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