Just a little note to get this all in one place. This was prompted by my comment here: On-demand was a thing before, but it was mediated through slow, glitchy cable and satellite boxes. There was also a thriving scene of RSS-delivered web TV shows. * The technology (RSS)
How Streamplace Works: Syndication - How Streamplace Works
It's like everyone is their own little TV station!
How Streamplace Works: Syndication - How Streamplace Works
It's like everyone is their own little TV station!
How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds
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Decentralized Syndication — The Missing Internet Protocol
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The Rise and Demise of RSS (Old Version)
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RSS and syndication are the backbone of the web and have outlived many cycles of the tech industry. There's never been a better time to properly syndicate your content either, so Declan is here to give you a high level tour of your options.
Speeding Up RSS | TechCrunch
I'm sorry, but RSS feeds are way too slow. I know this first-hand. As part of my job here at TechCrunch, I monitor a lot of RSS feeds for breaking news. We also produce our own feed and I can see how quickly it propagates to various feed readers and feed-powered news aggregation services. The lag time between posting a story and seeing it pop up in the RSS feed is usually a few minutes, and then it can take another 10 to 15 minutes or so for it to appear in something like Google Reader. And the TechCrunch feed is probably checked more frequently for updates than most other feeds. In our business, every second counts and RSS just isn't cutting it. While there is an argument to be made that RSS is dying, being replaced by more instantaneous forms of content delivery such as Twitter and other real time streams, many people aren't quite yet ready to give up on it. Instead, they want to save it by speeding it up. Tomorrow, at our Real Time Stream CrunchUp, we will see three demos of projects that do just that in slightly different ways.
Watching an Owncast Stream on Televisions
The web isn't the only option for watching an Owncast stream.
The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
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My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet
Slowly but surely, huge swaths of the internet are vanishing. But the artefacts of the early web are still out there, and they have lessons for the future.
Owning media again - Kedara.eu
This year, one of my aspirations is to rely less on the big streaming services for my entertainment. Why? Well, for one thing, if we give too much power to large corporations by getting overly …
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Distribution vs. Innovation | Andreessen Horowitz
The battle between every startup and incumbent comes down to whether the startup gets distribution before the incumbent gets innovation. The TiVo Problem In 1999, ReplayTV and TiVo invented the Digital Video Recorder (DVR). It was an incredible innovation — allowing you to “pause” live television. But TiVo had no value without “content” to pause. That...
The Rise of Faceless YouTube Channels in 2025 — And How AI Is Powering the Revolution
In 2025, one of the fastest-growing trends on YouTube isn’t glamorous influencers, studio shoots, or high-budget productions. It’s faceless channels —
