What is Joost?
What is
Joost? Formerly known as the "Venice Project," Joost is an
IPTV service based on
peer-to-peer (P2P) technology from the creators of
Skype and
Kazaa.
When you listen to this podcast from WhatIs.com, you'll learn the answers to the following questions:
- Who created these P2P apps?
- How is Joost different from YouTube, Current.tv, Revver or other online video?
- What platforms does Joost work on?
What is a media-aware network?
A media-aware network uses a combination of software and hardware within routers to bring more intelligence to the edges of a network, enhancing the experience of VoIP, videoconferencing or other communications users. To learn more about media-aware networks, WhatIs.com's Alex Howard interviewed Cathal Phelan and Keith Morris, the CEO and VP of marketing, respectively, at Ubicom, a manufacturer of specialized processors and router equipment.
What is crowdsourcing?
Crowdsourcing is the act of taking a function traditionally performed by an employee and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people using the Internet. Crowdsourcing relies on a combination of distributed networks, inexpensive digital tools of production and people who create content, rate other people's work or solve problems in their spare time. To learn more about this buzzword, WhatIs.com's Alex Howard went right to the source and interviewed Jeff Howe, the writer who coined the term (in concert with editor Mark Robinson) and
published this article exploring the crowdsourcing phenomenon in Wired Magazine.
When you listen to the podcast, you'll learn the answers to the following questions:
- Where does the term "crowdsourcing" come from?
- How does crowdsourcing work?
- What are some real-life case studies of the phenomenon? How is Amazon's Mechanical Turk is an excellent example.of crowdsourcing?
- What are the five new rules for this new labor pool?
- How is crowdsourcing affecting the stock photo industry, corporate R&D, newspapers and advertising?
- How is Second Life a pure example of crowdsourcing?
- Where doesn't crowdsourcing work? Are fair labor concerns and protection of intellectual property at issue?
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