This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3
OK, it’s official! I’m now the permanent host for TWiVC (until such time as they kick me off). Thank you to anybody who sent Jason a note on Twitter on my behalf. We discuss a lot of details not in my post below so if you’re interested in catching the show you can find it here. [...]
Dyyno Ramps Up Their P2P Based Video Streaming Platform
Image via CrunchBase Dyyno, the Palo Alto based company backed by Artiman Ventures and Startup Capital Ventures, offers a SaaS based video distribution platform that allows anyone from individuals to SMBs to enterprises share video and other media at a very low cost. The ease with which it can be done takes the IT out [...]
Sadly the Pirate Bay Shuts Down
It is with a real sense of loss that the Pirate Bay closed down today, and while the news is all over the place from Torrent Freak to more mainstream sites like Gizmodo and Life hacker, this is a real loss to anyone who was interested in what was being downloaded. Companies like Big Champagne [...]
Not Surprising: Bittorrent Sharing Down, Rapidshare Way Up
One of the plausible guesses of what would happen when the Pirate Bay was sued was that file sharers were not only to go on doing what they wanted to do, but that other systems were going to be used rather than the all too traceable Bittorrent and P2P systems that are currently used. 10 [...]
Rethinking The Cloud: From Client/Server To P2P
We are still at the early days of Cloud Computing and the technologies underlying this concept are maturing fast. However, the services offered by different vendors are facing downtimes. In fact, such downtimes were part of even the traditional infrastructure approaches like On-Premise hosting and Managed hosting too. Since, Cloud Computing is a new technology, [...]
New Skype Beta Due Tomorrow
Here on CloudAve we're pretty heavy Skype users – it really helps running an internationally dispersed team and for evangelists like us it helps that it lives in the ether! Skype has announced that tomorrow the Beta 2 release of Skype 4.0 will be available. Some specific changes from the Beta 1 release include; user [...]
