Actually a quick follow-on to the CBS story about putting video into social networks as I've just been looking at a company called Livestation ...
Livestation is backed with some Microsoft tech injection and essentially positions itself as being at the forefront of streaming 'live' broadcast TV over the web ... ie. that if 30 million people simultaneously want to watch a live Madonna concert they cannot do this over conventional approaches as the infrastructure cannot stand up to the load and need their type of P2P approach. I'll let their web site explain the tech (and why this is really different given the success of the Olympic streaming from what I know) but if social networks started to become more of a channel interface and pushing live streaming content becomes a common theme (music is obviously big on Myspace et al) then P2P tech such as this might be more interesting to also watch ...
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