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Limelight Networks, Inc. (LLNW)
Q1 2008 Earnings Call
May 8, 2008 5:00 pm ET

Streaming Media East Session Videos Now Online
Thanks to ScribeMedia, we now have some of the Streaming Media East sessions edited and archived online. Thirteen sessions are now available for viewing with more being added each day at www.streamingmedia.com/videos
We welcome anyone to use the videos on their site or in their blog in anyway they like as long as it is non-commercial in nature.

Source: http://blog.streamingmedia.com/the_business_of_online_vi/2008/05/streaming-media.html

Special THANK YOU! to Dan Rayburn for allowing these video to be posted on other blogs!!! Very cool!

LOS ANGELES - Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN).com, the largest Internet retailer, will launch a streaming video service in the next few weeks to augment its digital offerings, the company’s chief executive said Wednesday.The Seattle-based company has been beefing up its digital media offerings in order to better compete with rivals such as Apple, which dominates the category with the popular iTunes music download service.

Source: http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/ebusiness/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208400741&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All

CDNs On The Ropes
If you work for a Content Delivery Network (CDN) you might want to shop your resume at Google. Current CDN bandwidth rates are running between $1.60 and $.85 per Gig. That makes for a very tidy margin when buying commodity bandwidth at $.06-08 per Gig. With the introduction of Google Apps Engine pricing of $.09-.11 per Gig the game has just changed. Google is starting a bidding war with Amazon for the Platform as a Service (PaaS) market and the collateral damage will be the CDNs.
Source: http://tmccune.blogspot.com/2008/05/cdns-on-ropes.html

Ajax Libraries API: Google is your CDN
The big news out of this week’s Google’s I/O gathering is yesterday’s release of Google’s AJAX Libraries API. With this move, Google becomes a content delivery network (CDN) for several popular JavaScript libraries.
Source: http://tiffanybbrown.com/2008/05/28/google-ajax-libraries-api/

IMHO, the sky is falling chicken little.

Since Limelight Networks Inc. (Nasdaq: LLNW) CEO Jeff Lunsford took over in November 2006, the company has faced patent litigation, increasing price pressure, and a plummeting stock price. In Part 1 of his interview with Contentinople, he talks about next steps in the Akamai Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM) infringement suit, Limelight’s growing enterprise business, and why he’s not concerned about dwindling average revenue per customer.

Source: http://www.contentinople.com/author.asp?section_id=450&doc_id=154721

This post is a very interesting read technically or you can skip right to the PDF and read about the nuts and the bolts.

Source: http://chrismiles.livejournal.com/23975.html

Adobe’s Kevin Towes explains some of the newborn features of Fp10 and said is not due to hit such effect on the CDN business but has a plethora of new features.

Source: http://www.beet.tv/2008/05/adobes-flash-pl.html

May 27, 2008 - Press Dispensary - FLVio.com (pronounced “Flavio”) is a new video service aimed at website operators who wish to enable user generated video content on their sites but don’t want the cost or hassle of setting up the technical infrastructure. Wanobe.com, a leading UK lifestyle social network and community for people aged over 35, has become the first client to sign up for the service, enhancing its offering to users by enabling them to share video clips with family, friends and other internet users.

Source: http://www.pressdispensary.co.uk/releases/c991766.php

UK company Velocix, formerly known as CacheLogic, aims to provide a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) for the Web 3.0 era. Velocix CEO Phill Robinson discusses how the company meets the challenges of delivering broadcast quality video and other digital content over the net.

Source: http://www.computerwire.com/industries/research/?pid=DC70A7C3%2DC323%2D4EA7%2DBD76%2D85151F3EBB1D