I’ve been to a lot of technical conferences and this was one of the best. My first trip out of town in my new, used but new to me, car with iPod Pandora wired into an MP3 auxiliary port into the cars speakers (the first car I’ve had with this feature) was a great start and finish. Everything in between was top notch.

I recently had the fortune to peek under the hood at service offerings from Limelight Networks and Oovoo. These companies well represent the continued evolution of digital, networked media and in particular video. Apart from 3D environments, video represents one of the most challenging types of digital, networked media.

I was composing a Facebook post about a storymercial concept and decided it wasn't ready yet. When I came back to Facebook a post including a link I was going to use and an ad were automagically ready for me to post.

Exploding storage requirements are a fact of life. As Moore's law enables higher quality digital multimedia, we need to store more for longer. Keeping multiple systems updated with enough disk storage with RAID redundancy and backup eats up resources. The idea of a SAN (storage area network) is to provide a large pool of storage for many different needs. Economies of scale can be obtained by centralizing fast, redundant storage that can be flexibly parceled out to various systems over the network. Disk storage becomes a cloud resource over the network.