Broadcasting 2.0 » MMB http://www.broadcasting20.org Emerging technologies for one-to-many telecommunications Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:28:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 My eComm 2009 Talk Now Available on Video http://www.broadcasting20.org/2009/12/02/video-of-my-ecomm-2009-talk-now-available/ http://www.broadcasting20.org/2009/12/02/video-of-my-ecomm-2009-talk-now-available/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:44:29 +0000 Administrator http://www.broadcasting20.org/2009/12/02/video-of-my-ecomm-2009-talk-now-available/ I’m happy that my eComm talk finally got published online, 8 months after the conference. Events sponsors got published much earlier but hey, that’s fair for a professionally produced clip. I must admit that the AV infrastructure and the team at the event were excellent.

My talk was titled: “Mobile Digital Broadcasting: An Infrastructure for One-to-Many Converged Services”. We took this opportunity to officially release our Openmokast open source software framework. I was happy that my live demo worked as expected!



We had prepared a clip just in case the “demo effect” would hit on me on stage. Luckily this was not the case but the clip (which is more detailed than the live demo) can still be seen on our crcmmb Youtube Channel or here below:




And here are the slides I used for this presentation:

eComm Presentation

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eComm was also for me a great occasion to meet with David Burges who presented his OpenBTS project live using the USRP as well. His demo looked incredibly like mine except he demonstrated live cell phone communications going through his GSM open source base station. There are lots of commonalities between our projects but essentially, both are about democratizing communications technologies to catalyze innovation.

]]> http://www.broadcasting20.org/2009/12/02/video-of-my-ecomm-2009-talk-now-available/feed/ 0 Royalty-Free Public Domain – A path towards Ubiquity http://www.broadcasting20.org/2009/07/08/royalty-free-public-domain-a-path-towards-ubiquity/ http://www.broadcasting20.org/2009/07/08/royalty-free-public-domain-a-path-towards-ubiquity/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:04:01 +0000 Administrator http://www.broadcasting20.org/2009/07/08/royalty-free-public-domain-a-path-towards-ubiquity/ I read this excellent story some time ago in Vanity Fair titled “An oral history of the Internet“. I believe that one of the reasons why the Internet is what it is now comes from the fact that the Web is a royalty-free technology. And that does not happen by itself. To produce RF-tech these days, one has got to fight for it and give up potential revenue streams. That is what the CERN team did. Robert Cailliau says:

“At one point cern was toying with patenting the World Wide Web. I was talking about that with Tim one day, and he looked at me, and I could see that he wasn’t enthusiastic. He said, Robert, do you want to be rich? I thought, Well, it helps, no? He apparently didn’t care about that. What he cared about was to make sure that the thing would work, that it would just be there for everybody. He convinced me of that, and then I worked for about six months, very hard with the legal service, to make sure that cern put the whole thing in the public domain.”

The least we can say is that the strategy worked. The Web is now ubiquitous.

Is there a lesson here for creating the mobile broadcast system of tomorrow?

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