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Catalyst Podcast and Catalyst Conference

Posted by Ken on October 2, 2006
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Mark Batterson is the pastor of National Community Church (disclaimer: NCC was a past client of Silas Partners). I read his blog - Evotional.com - often because he really sees the power of the web as a communication tool to his congregation and beyond.

Pastor Mark just wrote about the launch of a new podcast by Catalyst - the same folks who do the Catalyst Conference - called CatalystSpace . You need to register to get access but with other podcasts including interviews with Andy Stanley and Louie Giglio, you’ll definitely want to sign-up.

On a side note, a couple of Silas Partner folks will be down at the Catalyst Conference, so let us know if you want to connect with us.

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Online Video Without the Fuss

Delivering Media with Content Delivery Networks
Posted by Joe on October 2, 2006
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Founded in February 2005, YouTube is an online video-sharing website, and is now one of the most popular online destinations with over 20 million unique visitors each month. According to Alexa, it even surpasses the big Internet heavyweights such as The New York Times and CNN in terms of sheer amount of traffic. YouTube also recently announced that they are delivering well over 100 million video downloads per day, which translates into some hundreds of terabytes of bandwidth each day. Very impressive numbers for a company that’s less than 2-years-old.

What’s interesting about this is that while online video is nothing new and has been around for a long time, it is only recently that online videos have seen a huge surge in popularity, largely because of video sharing sites such as YouTube. What YouTube did right was make it dead simple for people to upload, share, and view videos. Gone were the different screens asking people to install and/or configure a media player plug-in, correctly set their bandwidth settings, or update a number of different obscure Internet options such as proxies or port settings. With YouTube, videos just simply worked without fuss and that was that.

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