Viodi View – The Bridge Between the Heartland and Silicon Valley

Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor

  • Embed It – Video Embeds Made Easy

    Viodi is hooked on WordPress. WordPress has been an amazing tool for managing hundreds of posts on ViodiTV and Viodi View over the past 20+ months. As an open source system, it has given us an amazing amount of flexibility and saved a ton of money. Still, we are just touching upon the surface of…

  • Positive Signs and Positive Cashflow from One Telco

    Jeff Gardner, President and CEO of Windstream Communications, opened his keynote speech at U.S. Telecom’s Executive Business Forum with a note of appreciation to US Telecom for getting behind what he termed, “credit stabilization legislation.” These opening comments set the theme for his talk, which was primarily about the financial condition of his company. In…

  • What Is Good for Google is Good for Us!

    $  Donate to the Village School by entering the amount above and clicking the "Donate" button. It was once said, “What is good for General Motors is good for America.” Fast-forward fifty years and the engine of the economy is no longer nuts and bolts manufacturing, but the dissemination of information and entertainment at little…

  • IPTV Middleware – A New Player in Town

    The announcement of Ericsson as a middleware provider is interesting, as their solution supports Internet Multimedia Subsystem and is from a player that is big enough to make a difference in this space, especially as it relates to delivering video across multiple devices. This approach promises increased blurring between applications (e.g. caller ID on TV, control…

  • A Tru2Way Competitor? Yahoo!

    Could Yahoo! be giving the world an alternative to Cable Labs Tru2Way approach for providing interactive television? Their relationship with Intel to ensure that the Yahoo! Widgets are integrated into Intel’s System on a Chip set-top platform could give the cable approach a run for its money. Out the gate, they look to have the support…

  • AT&T-iPhone Voice Monopoly Bypassed

    By opening up the iPhone to 3rd party applications, Apple may have inadvertently created new competition for its infrastructure partner, AT&T. Frequent Viodi View sponsor, 8×8, Inc’s Packet8 MobileTalk application is now available for the iPhone.  Not yet available in the Apple App Store, the software to enable the service (it also works on other smart…