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By: TechCrunch » Web 2.0 This Week (August 7-13)

TechCrunch » Web 2.0 This Week (August 7-13) — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 04:22:01 +0000

[...] See Om Malik’s and Jeff Nolan’s (”BitTorrent: VC’s Wanted - If podcasting is getting millions, BitTorrent deserves more”) thoughts on this (and bittorent) as well. Here’s Om: If those companies can snag millions, then Bit Torrent is definitely worth a lot more. Let me put it in the old world terms. The podcast start-ups of today are like Wine.com, while Bit Torrent is Cisco of the digital content revolution. It has actual technology that will help grow the open media. It has the technology that will help distribute the â€œvideo contentï¿½? next generation bloggers will create or whatever. It is infrastructure - and we know who makes all the money. That explains the cat who licked the cream smile on Navinâ€™s face. [...]

By: Om Malik : » The Torrent Dilemma

Om Malik : » The Torrent Dilemma — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:43:27 +0000

[...] Bit Torrent, one of the companies I am a big fan of made a joint announcement with the Motion Picture Association of America that it would no feature any illegal searches via its search engine, and will also work with the Hollywood doyens to distribute movies etc. [...]

By: Texas Venture Capital Blog » Blog Archive » BitTorrent = Disruptive Technology

Sat, 24 Sep 2005 03:26:03 +0000

[...] Dixon Doll lead an $8.75 million Series A investment in BitTorrent. Think of BitTorrent as the answer to the bandwidth problems thousands of telecom startups tried to resolve with more bandwidth in the 90s. Om Malik calls Bit Torrent the Cisco of the digital content revolution. This investment is a SURE THING! [...]

By: Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » Bit Torrent raises $8.75 million

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » Bit Torrent raises $8.75 million — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 20:59:42 +0000

[...] Finally there is confirmation of what I had earlier reported - BitTorrent , according to regulatory filing dated September 12, has raised $8.75 million in a Series A funding round led by DCM-Doll Capital Management. Money, I am sure will be used for offering legit services. more details here via Silicon Beat. In Broadband Life Posted Friday, September 23, 2005 at 12:10 PM PT [...]

By: SiliconBeat

SiliconBeat — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:09:26 +0000

Friday’s essentials from Silicon Valley

Lot of developments to report, so here’s a smorgasbord: –Socialtext wins SAP’s backing: SocialText, the Palo Alto wiki and social software company, has finally scored more backing, this time from software giant SAP — more on this later. Our first s…

By: Om Malik’s Broadband Blog »

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 05:55:58 +0000

[...] , Missouri, Bells Get Their IPTV Qualcomm’s Flarion, a WiMAX end game? BitTorrent, seeded, now waits for VC funds Sk(h)ype Light Sp [...]

By: John Furrier

John Furrier — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:01:03 +0000

Om,
Podcasting startups like Wine.com - give me a f*in break. PodTech.net vision is not even close to a wine.com model.. Bittorrent is great but it’s a different animal than some of the media apps being developed.

A better comparision might be podcasting (apps/operating environments) is Microsoft and Bittorrent (plumbing / transit) is Cisco…

Key about podcasting is to differentiate between a standalone podcasting shows verses emeging podcasting (media) platforms…

PodShow like my PodTech.NETwork is about building a platform for media developers.

By: » Blog Archive » BitTorrent and VC

» Blog Archive » BitTorrent and VC — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 08:14:07 +0000

[...] r Aspera BitTorrent and VC Interesting story on BitTorrent from Om Malik Broadband Blog. It is exciting news for people like me who would [...]

By: billgates.co.in » Blog Archive » BitTorrent, seeded, now waits for VC funds

Fri, 12 Aug 2005 06:48:43 +0000

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BitTorrent, seeded, now waits for VC funds

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By: Gary Lerhaupt

Gary Lerhaupt — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 05:15:38 +0000

The way to monetization is what Prodigem is already doing. Re: psych, it is all in the management system and making it easy to publish. See prodigem.com for our take on it.

By: Ashwin Navin

Ashwin Navin — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 00:07:46 +0000

And here I thought I was just getting a free mocha on Business 2.0.. thanks for the post Om.

By: Damian

Damian — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:24:39 +0000

Remember, also, that many people are trying to monetize this area - RedSwoosh comes to mind, and so does Kontiki. While I think both of them have had success (Kontiki powers the video download of Gamespot, for instance, and RedSwoosh powers some portion of iFilm downloads), I don’t think either of them have become giants. Then you’ve got companies like Akamai going for the same prize. The trick, of course, is that Bit Torrent needs to provide a higher quality network at a lower cost - something I think they’ll have a hard time doing. Even if they do, I don’t see them as a giant in any case.

And as for the podcasting stuff - Om, I couldn’t agree more….

By: Psych

Psych — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:17:07 +0000

oh and torrents can’t be used for streaming, so live video with minimal bandwidth isn’t going to happen.

By: Psych

Psych — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:15:37 +0000

re: chad
i don’t see how the bittorrent company can use advertising or subscribtion for it’s services. i agree that selling its content distribution system (and mangement of?) to companies that need to send out huge amounts of data to lare amouns of people in short time is the way to go. it’s bandwidth management at it’s finest. say goodbye to server’s cracking under th eload of some hot new trailer/game/program :)
however, bittorrent is open source, there’s no reason the company can’t use bittorrent to distribute nythng now, and not pay a penny. maybe advertisements would be included in the official client, well there are many advertising-free alternatives already., and people are on a advertising, popup, spyware weary stance at the moment anyway.
all this rambling, makes me think its the managememt system that could be worth the money. free for personal use, companies pay… a way to provide creation and mangement of torrents for your website, perhaps a web based client, secure tranmission, etc.

By: broadbandito

broadbandito — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 18:06:36 +0000

Om,

Mssrs Cohen & Navin were also looking for $100mm (not a typo) PRE-money valuation for their A round. Do you think anyone bought in at that price? sleuth away.

By: Chad Williams

Chad Williams — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:28:41 +0000

I’m pretty sure around 1999 or 2000 somebody was wondering how Google would ever make money. Well, they found AdSense and now they’re a juggernaut. The point is, anybody who becomes an important distribution channel for content that millions of people rely on on a daily or regular basis, can monetize that attention in tons of ways.

From a practical standpoint, they can do advertising, subscriptions, or both. What if they said ‘use us to publish your content. Low fees. How much do people like victoria’s secret pay right now to multi-cast video on the internet? OK there’s your business model.