A source of mine just alerted me that Limelight Networks is suffering some kind of outage in Asia and Europe. Their US network is working just fine, and perhaps that is why I have not heard anything. It is hard to tell from here in San Francisco, and for now consider this unverified report. I have reached out to the company and waiting to hear back from them as well. If you are one of the sites (or service) that was impacted by this outage, get in touch or leave a comment. I will update the story as soon as I get more details.

If this outage is happening it is not good testimony for Limelight which recently touted that its global content delivery capacity has exceeded two terabits per second (Tbps). Or as the company colorfully put it, that is enough capacity to deliver broadcast-quality content to over two million simultaneous Internet users.

(Image: Limelight Networks Map, courtesy of the company.)

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp tapped on Thursday a former senior Yahoo Inc executive, Qi Lu, to head its online services group.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?a=bKczAXOf"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?a=X7IUVZq4"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?i=X7IUVZq4" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?a=AnHYNJ49"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?i=AnHYNJ49" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Reuters/InternetNews/~4/hXkvQDAaAwE" height="1" width="1"/

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Okay, so we fully understand that it would make life a lot easier on AT&T if every smartphone on its network used the same operating system, but we're not so sure we like the idea of losing the whole "ability to choose." Speaking at the Symbian Partner Event in San Francisco, AT&T's Roger Smith (director of next generation services, data product realization at AT&T) reportedly stated that he wanted to "standardize on a single operating system for AT&T-branded smartphones as part of a dramatic consolidation of its mobile platforms over the next few years." Given the location of the speech, it's no shock that Symbian was named "a very credible and likely candidate" to be that system, and for those questioning the iPhone, he was quick to point out that said mobile is simply a third-party device tapping into AT&T's technologies. Honestly, we're not sure how to take this seriously -- is he really saying he's willing to alienate RIM and / or Microsoft in order to only sell Symbian-based handsets? Doubtful.

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Un gars de San Francisco a mis une cam à la fenêtre de sa chambre. Un petit montage et le site qui, en plus dispose d'une boite de dialogue. mais où va le monde ?

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TECSoft is offering a Workflow Automation with AppleScript class in San Francisco, Jan. 7-9. No prior programming experience is required.

Comme Adobe qui revu les conditions de sa participation à la Macworld Expo de San Francisco en janvier (troquant son stand pour des conférences), AppleInsider observe l'absence de Belkin et de Seagate sur de récentes versions des plans du salon. Selon le site de rumeurs, Google aimerait...img width='1' height='1' src='http://feed.macgeneration.com/c/302/f/4259/s/2808bce/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2_fr.html?title=Nouveaux désistements pour Macworld Expolink=http://www.macgeneration.com/news/voir/132893/nouveaux-desistements-pour-macworld-expo" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/partagez.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark_fr.cfm?title=Nouveaux désistements pour Macworld Expolink=http://www.macgeneration.com/news/voir/132893/nouveaux-desistements-pour-macworld-expo" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/25853602042/u/89/f/4259/c/302/s/41978830/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/25853602042/u/89/f/4259/c/302/s/41978830/a2.img" border="0"//a

YouTube’s director of content partnerships, Jordan Hoffner, has been hard at work signing on premium content providers like CBS, HBO, Showtime, C-SPAN and MGM. According to reports of a speech he made this week, the company’s No. 1 priority in 2009 is to get that content in front of viewers.

“‘YouTube is a great place for premium content,” Multichannel News quoted Hoffner as saying. “But we need to do a better job of creating areas where the user can go and know what they are going to get.”

Hoffner was speaking to a nagging problem we’ve mentioned many times on NewTeeVee: YouTube’s interface is set up for video blogs and virals, not premium content. It’s flat-out impossible, for example, to find those full episodes from CBS. Recent moves such as widescreen players and tougher policies on “sexually suggestive” content are starting points, but the site needs to radically redesign how it exposes and promotes premium video — things competitor Hulu brags about obsessing over.

When Google bought YouTube, users worried that having a corporate owner would suck the soul out of the site. But two years later, YouTube continues to be a chaotic melange, only bigger and broader than ever before. The site had 344 million global unique visitors in October.

As the world’s largest user-generated content site, there’s no such thing as “the YouTube community” in any kind of monolithic sense. That was made especially clear at last month’s YouTube Live, an event ostensibly aimed at “giving back” to YouTube’s constituency. The company flew in hundreds of YouTube users to the San Francisco event to both perform on stage and film video from the audience. Tickets were free, and the whole thing was streamed live. It was a ton of fun — and also totally, utterly weird. The stage ended up being a confining and unfitting environment for many of the acts, and the mix of legit stars with indie faves felt random at best.

Nick Vitale was invited to YouTube Live by Google, part of its new effort to make YouTube accessible but still quirky for newcomers — he and former The 9 star Maria Sansone were co-hosts of Poptub, a Pepsi-sponsored variety video show highlighting YouTube content and content creators being distributed through Google’s new Google Content Network. Once he arrived in San Francisco for YouTube Live, however, Vitale was fired from the gig and told he wasn’t able to attend the event (fittingly, he made a video about the firing from just outside the premises). Meanwhile, Sansone and crew had exclusive insider access to film the entirety of the event (and her YouTube Live wrap-up video is the show’s most successful episode ever, with a nearly half a million views).

Vitale admitted in a phone interview with NewTeeVee that he gave Poptub reason to fire him. “There was definitely some times when I could have been more professional,” he said. But he contended that he was hired precisely because he wasn’t “professional” — he got into video hosting via sketch comedy, and announcing surfing contests and the Harlem Globetrotters tour. Vitale said he felt like Poptub was struggling to find its way — and changing its expectations of him in the process — partly due to corporate influence from Pepsi and Google.

But rather than get into the grumblings of a fired employee (who, it should be said, maintains he harbors no ill will and hopes the show is successful), I bring up Vitale because — much like the trouble finding CBS episodes and the awkward (but fun!) YouTube Live — the story of Poptub is emblematic of YouTube’s growing pains. Poptub is being given every resource it needs to succeed, but it’s having trouble combining high gloss and grassroots.

Which brings us back to YouTube’s to-do list: If premium content is next year’s top priority, what about this year’s stated goal?

YouTube’s highest priority for 2008, according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, was figuring out “the perfect solution of how to make money.”

Despite a flurry of recent ad product launches, we doubt the site can legitimately check that task off its list. But Schmidt may have been putting the cart ahead of the horse; before you can figure out how to make money, you need to figure out what you’re selling.

And Hoffner’s comment reveals another lapse in self-awareness: YouTube’s strength is not premium, nor should it be. Rather, YouTube has a tremendous (and surely monetizable) opportunity to show that premium and user-generated can coexist. All they need to do is figure out how.

This article also appeared on BusinessWeek.com.

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AppleInsider claims that following Adobe's withdrawl from exhibiting at Macworld San Francisco, both Belkin and Seagate will also not be exhibiting. Belkin historically has been one of Macworld's biggest exhibitors. Quote: The move is deemed especially surprising for Belkin, which has not only been one of Macworld Expo's largest exhibitors in the past but is believed to have already paid for its booth space this year, people aware of the situation say. Meanwhile, Google is said to be downsizing their booth size as well as well as a couple of other unnamed vendors.

While the worsening economy is cited as the likely reason, much of the cost for the spaces have reportedly already been collected. Regardless, as a result, they expect Macworld 2009 to be a smaller show than last year. MacRumors, of course, will be present to provide coverage of the show. Apple is expected to introduce new products at the event which kicks off on January 5th, 2009.

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