Comments on: Live Streaming Bill Gates Keynote At Advance08

By: perde

perde — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:09:25 +0000

your site is very very beautiful

By: Qik Expands to Windows Mobile Platform

Qik Expands to Windows Mobile Platform — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:44:54 +0000

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By: The Empire Strikes Back: Our Analysis Of Microsoft Live Search Cashback

The Empire Strikes Back: Our Analysis Of Microsoft Live Search Cashback — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:30:37 +0000

[...] and gives a lot of the revenue back to users. Most are negative. Some excessively so. After hearing Bill Gates give the pitch and trying the service myself to make a couple of purchases, here’s what I think: It’s [...]

By: Wolke Snow

Wolke Snow — Thu, 22 May 2008 07:09:41 +0000

Mike: we’re so glad you didn’t have to go to the bathroom in spite of your food poisioning.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 22 May 2008 06:21:11 +0000

What’s with that iTunes commercial going on in the background?

By: zowoco

zowoco — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:36:55 +0000

surely the quality of what you have to say has the edge in importance over the quality of your video picture?

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:09:41 +0000

Peter – a better camera is great. But how do you propose I live stream it? The problem with the streaming wasn’t Qik, it was the fact that the wifi and cell networks were clogged. Not sure I can get around that. Oh wait, I am sure. I can’t.

Imagine this: there’s Option A, where this post never happened. Option B is the low quality video and lag time. There is no Option C, unless everyone was willing to wait hours for me to get somewhere where there was good bandwidth and upload higher quality video then. As it was, even with the lag, the full video was up 20 minutes after the end of the talk.

What you guys should be criticizing me for is sleeping until the last possible second, so I had a terrible seat in the back. If I’d been there early the video quality would have been perfectly acceptable. Nothing I could do about the lag though.

By: Gubatron

Gubatron — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:42:50 +0000

Hmm, I didn’t see this live, doesn’t even need to be live, just a little more decent quality.

By: Peter Urban

Peter Urban — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:03:32 +0000

As I’ve mentioned above I appreciate the effort and I don’t suggest a polished TV type broadcast. Where I was heading was that if you already make the effort to be there and bring your camera (ahem phone…) why not wow everybody with an acceptable quality broadcast. Based on the size and impact of your TC network, the relatively small investment in a bit of extra tech might make sense to make everyone go over to TC to watch a stream that one can actually understand (not to mention the extra traffic that would come with that reputation). And imagine the surprise on Microsoft’s side…

And Michael, I don’t care about your makeup

Peter
do you follow me @ http://twitter.com/peterurban

By: Brian Mingus

Brian Mingus — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:24:37 +0000

@ Michael Arrington (31), if you can’t figure out a way to do it I’m going to have to revoke your geek card. Its not a hard problem, and your audio stream excuse is lame. The whole stream was choppy and impossible to follow, as hilariously pointed out by Dan in post 15. There are multiple technologies available that aren’t expensive and don’t require your own news van. Picking on the most technologically advanced suggestions given by your users and calling them absurd doesn’t mean that you don’t have a serious problem. You do.

By: Avinash

Avinash — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:16:36 +0000

This is so cool. Good work TC.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:13:13 +0000

“I agree with Peter. How much can it cost to get us high quality, no latency live streams? News media have been doing this for years.”

I also like the guy that wants us to have a “TC RV parked outside any event and provide a superb service to your readers.”

Perhaps I should have a makeup and hair person with me at all times, too, for those impromptu satellite tv spots?

This is a blog, people. And I believe I was the only person livestreaming even audio from the event – Microsoft was having tech difficulties and couldn’t show it live.

By: William Hook

William Hook — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:12:09 +0000

Michael, PLEASE consider Dan’s eloquent, plaintive video @15.

You and your superbly competent staff have made TC “Required Daily Reading” for me and for multiple thousands more around the globe.

There are doubtless dozens of “extenuating circumstances” with which you can legitimately justify the recent “Sarah” and “Bill” video debacles.

But Mike, YOU GUYS ARE TECH CRUNCH! PLEASE FIX THIS. Thanks.

By: Gubatron

Gubatron — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:02:33 +0000

Suggestion {seesmic_video:{”url_thumbnail”:{”value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/iuPYkhUBfq_th1.jpg”}”title”:{”value”:”Suggestion ”}”videoUri”:{”value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/MawhhKdBkZ”}}}

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:57:43 +0000

2025, Year of the MS search….

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:57:06 +0000

hmmmm, that’s interesting

“2008 is the year, he says, that people will look back and say that search got competitive.”

I’m sure what Bill meant to say is that 2008 is the year of. The year of. The year of the Linux desktop.

Kiss Jay Leno on the big screen goodbye Bill buddy.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:56:20 +0000

“2008 is the year, he says, that people will look back and say that search got competitive.”

I’m sure what Bill meant to say is that 2008 is the year of. The year of. The year of the Linux desktop.

Kiss Jay Leno on the big screen goodbye Bill buddy.

By: Adi

Adi — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:42:58 +0000

Affiliate marketing from MS..? sounds incredibly cheap…MS should focus on whatever they do best (OS, Office)..they shoud not waste their enery into Search or June or some other hardware stuff (keyboard, mice etc)

Microsoft is a great company. They are forgetting that Google runs on Microsoft (most people access Google from Windows OS !!).

By: vincent tobiaz

vincent tobiaz — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:35:44 +0000

This is not miracle technology. I can’t believe they are using such a corrupt service such as PayPal. Another way for paypal to make money on interest off of other people’s money. Great!

I bet they shut half of these accounts down on “accident”

By: Antoinette

Antoinette — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:29:59 +0000

What do y’all think of the Live Search Cash Back idea? I think it sounds kind of complicating (i.e., waiting 60 days for rebate) to really take off in a big way.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:08:12 +0000

Wow, Bill was just lucky there were no eggs!

By: Prashant Sharma

Prashant Sharma — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:54:51 +0000

Live search engine sux…MS needs to take some urgent action to survive with Yahoo and Google services

By: Neill

Neill — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:25:10 +0000

What was Bill Gates trying to explain? I didn’t understand it.

By: Michael Arrogant

Michael Arrogant — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:21:22 +0000

Ease up you guys… can’t you recognize the miracle of technology when you see it?

By: Tyler Wright

Tyler Wright — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:11:12 +0000

Who’s filming??

I feel like I’m watching The Blair Witch Project