Digital Daily » BBC http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com by John Paczkowski Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:37:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 The "I'm a PC Variations" http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20081106/the-im-a-pc-variations/ http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20081106/the-im-a-pc-variations/#comments Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:00:10 +0000 John Paczkowski http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/?p=8003
[ See post to watch video ] ]]> http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20081106/the-im-a-pc-variations/feed/ 0 And We Couldn't Have Done It Without Jessica Yellin and the CNN Holodeck … http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20081105/and-we-couldnt-have-done-it-without-jessica-yellin-and-the-cnn-holodeck/ http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20081105/and-we-couldnt-have-done-it-without-jessica-yellin-and-the-cnn-holodeck/#comments Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:52:23 +0000 John Paczkowski http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/?p=7909 Tuesday’s presidential election was a historic one for more than just the obvious reasons. Monomaniacal interest in its outcome drove Internet usage to a new record. According to Akamai Technologies, which operates a content delivery network that includes the likes of CNN, NBC, and the BBC, traffic to its member news sites reached 8.57 million visitors-per-minute at 11 p.m. EST, right around the time Barack Obama delivered his victory speech.

Breaking things down a bit further, Beet.TV reports that MSNBC.com received over 20 million unique visitors, nearly 250 million page views, and served up some nine million video streams yesterday. Meanwhile, CNN.com counted 27 million unique visitors during election day and 4.9 million live video streams–the most in its history.

Must have been that new holodeck that gave CNN the edge, eh?

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“The Internet was not set up with a view to distributing video. We have been improving our capacity, but the bandwidth we have is not infinite,” said Mary Turner, chief executive of Tiscali UK. “If the iPlayer really takes off, consumers accessing the Internet will get very slow service and will call their ISPs to complain.” And why shouldn’t they? After all, Tiscali claims to offer “unlimited” broadband–a service that’s “ideal for high-bandwidth tasks such as music, video streaming and downloading large files.”

Apparently “unlimited” flat-rate broadband access is only worthwhile when there isn’t a lot to do with it. The ISPs’ “arguments sound hollow,” writes Om Malik. “On one hand they urge subscribers to sign up for faster download plans, and pay premium prices. And yet, they complain when subscribers finally find an application that puts their Web speed to work.”

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