Viodi View – The Bridge Between the Heartland and Silicon Valley

Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor

  • Viodi View – 06/23/10

    A goal of the Viodi View is to be a proxy for independent telephone companies at conferences by reporting on those events. For various reasons, it is difficult to provide a detailed report when I am participating in the conference, as I was yesterday at the Georgia Telephone Association’s Annual Convention. So, a few high-level…

  • Online Content Producers’ Bill of Rights

    Finally, after 3 years in draft mode, I decided to publish the following post.  The recently drafted "Social Network Users' Bill of Rights" reminded me of my post written so long ago, except that it is obviously more well thought out than what I scratched out one morning.  Of course, having a bunch of bright…

  • IEEE ComSocSCV Workshop on Mobile Apps, 6/24/10

    June 24 Workshop on Mobile Apps,  Microsoft Campus in Mt View, CA IEEE ComSocSCV and TiE-SV Wireless SIG  have recruited many top notch speakers, moderators and panelists for this very timely workshop:   "New Platforms and Infrastructure for Mobile Apps" to be held on June 24, 2010 from 3:30- 9:00 p.m. at the Microsoft Campus in Mountain…

  • Viodi View – 06/10/10

    Roger and I are covering the Parks Associates Connections Conference this week in Santa Clara, We will be posting videos from this event over the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, here are some high-level bullets from the event so far: Consumers are still somewhat cautious and, according to Tricia Parks, “No company can…

  • Viodi View – 05/26/10

    Looking back to look forward; I have been searching through old Viodi and Viodi View archives over the past couple of days. As I re-read them, I kept thinking about the saying that suggests technology adoption always takes longer than generally anticipated and when it does finally hit critical mass, what was new feels like…

  • The Future of Broadband Video

    Mark Ellison of Patton Boggs LLP asks a very interesting question as to whether the future of broadband video is at stake in a post on the Law360 blog.  He asks this question in the context of the Comcast-NBC merger and he points out that securing content for its broadband properties is, in the opinion…