• NAB Show Coming Next Week - Lots of Interesting Pre-Show Announcements

    My inbox and voicemail has been overflowing this week in advance of next week's NAB Show. I haven't tallied up this week's pre-show news/product announcements related to online and mobile video, but it's certainly greater than I've ever seen. Next week I'll wrap it all up, but for now, among the more interesting things hitting my radar include Silverlight's availability in set-top boxes/Blu-ray players/connected devices, Juniper's acquisition of Ankeena Networks (a rich media infrastructure provider), Elemental's new GPU-based live streaming encoding system and the Conviva-Adobe strategic alliance.

    This will be my 3rd year partnering with NAB and at next week's show I've organized 5 sessions in the new "Destination Broadband" theater on Monday afternoon. Executives from Trinity Ventures, ScanScout, Akamai, Panvidea, 5Min, TubeMogul and AlphaBird will be joining me in these sequential sessions that are certain to offer valuable insights. I hope to see you there!