Webcast

-- MaryBucy - 30 Jan 2007 Webcast is to use Internet to broadcast live or delayed audio and/or video transmissions, much like traditional television and radio broadcasts. For example, a university may offer on-line courses in which the instructor Webcasts a pre-recorded or live lecture, or an enterprise may Webcast a press conference in lieu of or in addition to a conference call. Users typically must have the appropriate multimedia application in order to view a Webcast OR To use push technology, to send Web-based information to an Internet user. The data transmission that results from one of the above methods. Netcast is another name for Webcast.

The generally accepted use of the term webcast is the "transmission of linear audio or video content over the Internet" http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/Webcast.html

The largest "webcasters" include existing radio and TV stations who "simulcast" their output, as well as a multitude of Internet only "stations". The term webcasting is usually reserved for referring to non-interactive linear streams or live events. Rights and licensing bodies offer specific "Webcasting licenses" to those wishing to carry out Internet broadcasting using copyright material. Webcasting is also used extensively in the commercial sector for investor relations presentations (such as Annual General Meetings), in E-learning (to transmit seminars), and for related communications activities. However, webcasting does not bear much, if any, relationship to the idea of Web conferencing which is designed for many-to-many interaction.

The ability to webcast using cheap/accessible technology has allowed independent media to flourish. There are many notable independent shows that broadcast regularly online. Often produced by average citizens in their homes they cover many interests and topics; from the mundane to the bizarre. Webcasts relating to computers, technology, and news are particularly popular and many new shows are added regularly. "Webcasting" was first publicly described and presented by Brian Raila of GTE Laboratories at InterTainment^? '89, 1989, held in New York City, USA. Raila recognized that a viewer/listener need not download the entirety of a program to view/listen to a portion thereof, so long as the receiving device ("client computer") could, over time, receive and present data more rapidly than the user could digest same. Raila used the term "buffered media" to describe this concept. http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcast Raila was joined by James Paschetto of GTE Laboratories to further demonstrate the concept. Paschetto was singularly responsible for the first workable prototype of streaming media, which Raila presented and demonstrated at the Voice Mail Association of Europe 1995 Fall Meeting of October, 1995, in Montreux, Switzerland. The term webcasting was coined (in the early/mid 1990s) when webcast/streaming pioneers Mark Cuban (Audionet), Howard Gordon (Xing Technologies), William Mutual (ITV.net) and Peggy Miles (InterVox^? Communications) got together with a community of webcasters to pick a term to describe the technology of sending audio and video on the Net...that might make sense to people. The term netcasting was a consideration, but one of the early webcast community members owned a company called NetCast^?, so that term was not used, seeking a name that would not be branded to one company. Discussions were also conducted about the term with the National Association of Broadcasters for their books - Internet Age Broadcaster I and II, written by Peggy Miles and Dean Sakai. The actual word "webcast" was coined by Daniel Keys Moran in his 1988 novel "The Armageddon Blues." "... DataWeb^? News had done an in-depth on it not two weeks ago, and tourists had been trekking up into the New York hills ever since the webcast." -- Page 191 of the Bantam paperback. Virtually all the major broadcasters have a webcast of their output, from the BBC to CNN to Al Jazeera to UNTV Webcast in television to Radio China, Vatican Radio, United Nations Radio and the World Service in radio. A notable webcast took place in September 1999 to launch NetAid^?, a project to promote Internet use in the world's poorest countries. Three high profile concerts were to be broadcast simultaneously on the BBC, MTV and over the Internet; a London concert at Wembley Stadium featuring the likes of Robbie Williams, George Michael; a New York concert featuring Bono of U2 and Wyclef Jean; a Geneva concert More recently, Live8 (AOL) claimed around 170,000 concurrent viewers (up to 400 Kbit/s) and the BBC received about the same (10 Gbit/s) on the day of the 7 July 2005 bombings in London. The growth of webcast traffic has roughly doubled, year on year, since 1995 and is directly linked to broadband penetratioBill Gates Webcast Bill Gates and Craig Mundie Keynote at RSA Conference 2007: Advancing Trust in Today’s Connected World February 6, 2007 Webcast live from San Francisco, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Chief Research & Strategy Officer Craig Mundie keynoted the premier conference for information-technology security professionals. The two Microsoft leaders engaged in an onstage dialogue about the challenges created for the security industry by pervasive Internet connectivity, and what Microsoft and the rest of the industry must do to protect customers and help them use technology to its fullest potential. http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0702/29377/RSA_mbr.asx http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/exec/billg/speeches/2007/02-06RSA.mspx Bill Gates Celebrates Worldwide General Availability of Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System January 29, 2007 From Times Square in New York City, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates hosted the worldwide launch of Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System. The celebration paid tribute to the millions of Microsoft customers, partners and product testers around the world who provided input and feedback on these products -- helping Microsoft transform the way people communicate, create and share content, and access information and entertainment in the new digital age. http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0701/29339/GA_Launch_MBR.asx

WEbcast Get ready for anemergency Who can forget last year'shurricanes? Having anaction plan for emergencies is a very sound idea.The Society offers a twopart webcast, "Emergency and Disaster Preparedness for People with Chronic,Illness and Disabilities," to help get you started.

Wedding webcasts engage more interest Faraway friends and family are plopping down at home to watch couples walk down aisles -- and across bandwidth. Like the wedding Web page before it, the wedding webcast has become the latest tech tool for brides and grooms looking to share their big day with as many people as possible. "Everybody doing weddings now has a videographer, and most (venues) have Internet access, so we thought it was a great marriage, if you will," says Ariel Andres, whose Dallas-based Webcastmywedding.net started offering virtual vow-swaps last year. "It's like creating a whole community for your wedding," the webcast's popularity rise the past couple of years and predicts continued growth, along with tech trends like enclosing a highlights DVD with thank-you notes http://web.ebscohost.com.oasis.oregonstate.edu/ehost/detail?vid=13&hid=117&sid=78c5b301-ec5b-41ca-ab41-b73bfea4f088%40sessionmgr109

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