Comments on: Why 100Mbps is not enough

By: Judd Exley

Judd Exley — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:29:42 +0000

Wow, that was something. I’ve got goosebumps thinking about the new applications, and that was before I even thought about how they’ll affect my sexual behaviour. Heh.

No, seriously, great thoughts.

By: Administrator

Administrator — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:47:05 +0000

Yep, I forgot embedding. A critical development.

By: skribe

skribe — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:05:22 +0000

Viral videos should have been seen because viral videos existed long before YT. I used to receive plenty in my inbox each day – usually the same handful resent over and over again =). The innovations regarding video conversations were the embedding and video responses – but the rest of the social stuff wasn’t. It’s really just blog commenting, which predates YT by about half-a-decade. YT just made it easier to do stuff we were already doing or wanting to do but couldn’t due to lack of bandwidth. The idea itself was pretty obvious, just technically difficult to achieve.

By: Administrator

Administrator — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:37:18 +0000

@Toast; you’re right, of course. Not suggesting the infrastructure will be redundant…
@Skribe; I think what was not foreseen about YouTube was the shift away from a broadcast model to a social software model – people responding to each others’ videos and creating video conversation networks. Viral use of video was not foreseen. We have a way of socialising new technology in unexpected ways and some of those applications only show up when bandwidth allows.

By: skribe

skribe — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:46:57 +0000

Good points. I would argue that YouTube was not only foreseen but inevitable. Even I was involved in discussions with the WA Department of Industry in 2003 and they had a strong interest in establishing a YouTube-like site. Unfortunately it came down to money.

By: Toast

Toast — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:33:09 +0000

I think you don’t understand that Fibre can be easily upgraded to already standardisted 1gbps and 10gbps. Just like Telstra pulled a software upgrade from their back pocket, increasing their network to 100mbps, so can Ruddnet.