Lazy Sunday here on Polyvore, luckily had my first 2009 sleep of more than 4 or 5 hours, been averaging less, gonna need it for next week, Australia Day long weekend not included, caught latest Demons S1E4 - watch ere + Numb3rs S5E13; Guilty pleasure watching that is. I think I’m watching more UK TV at moment than Aussie/US! Interesting BTW how CNN used torrents for Obama inauguration via Torrent Freak :
“Offering a decent quality stream can quickly cost tens of thousands of dollars a month for medium sized sites, and millions of dollars for bandwidth hogs such as YouTube. So, why not share this burden and throw in some P2P? That’s probably what CNN thought too, as they offered a P2P supported live feed of Obama’s inauguration. With 25 million viewers on CNN.com, this was probably the largest P2P live stream ever, although CNN did not reveal how many people used the P2P plugin.” Now I have to pop over to Rye, wishing it was in a burnt orange/black Cayman Club Sport if not one of those Vintage Ferraris F330 P4 pictured wow beautifully captured by GSWetsky on Flickr.
I wouldn’t mind having a weekend read of the MySpace book via Michael Arrington : “Dewolfe is portrayed as a charismatic big picture executive who focused on growth and keeping MySpace in the Hollywood limelight. He made a crucial mistake in 2003 to start MySpace as an internal project for the company he worked for, Intermix. But he was able to create significant independence for MySpace and the team within Intermix, including having separate offices in Santa Monica and a separate board of directors. He is portrayed as fiercely independent and unmanageable, mowing through four bosses since launching MySpace. Greenspan, Rosenblatt and Ross Levinsohn were all eventually fired.. A key part of the story is how little DeWolfe and Anderson made from that sale. The story tracks back to 2003 when they (along with other execs like Josh Berman) were owed a few hundred thousand dollars from parent company eUniverse for an earnout in connection with the earlier acquisition of ResponseBase. In the hope of getting those dollars, the team didn’t leave to start MySpace as a new startup. Instead, they launched it within a company they owned very little of. That decision would cost them tens of millions of dollars in 2005. One of the most interesting stories, however, is a report that MySpace could have acquired Facebook for just $75 million in early 2004, but passed on the deal as too expensive.”
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