Despite a somewhat sluggish US economy, online mega-retailer Amazon.com continues to thrive, and is expanding their range of goods and services. Amazon’s latest venture is an online streaming video on-demand service that will directly compete with Netflix.
Amazon Introduces Video on Demand to Compete with Netflix
YouTube 2.0: Live Streaming Video?
There’s just no denying that YouTube has been a phenomenal success online. Although many members of the YouTube community feared that being bought out by Google back in 2006 would “ruin the YouTube experience,” by and large, Google has been good for YouTube, and the online video site has continued to flourish.
Will Rising Demand for Streaming Video Crash the Web?
There have been rumors about a looming Internet “crash” for well over a decade now. Back in 1995, a few IT professionals claimed that the increasing popularity of the net would crash the entire system by 1996. Meanwhile, 12 years later the Internet has proven (mostly) “uncrashable,” though there are concerns surfacing yet again that the Internet is heading for a fall. And this time, even the FCC is taking them seriously.
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