For those of us following this sector, everyone knows that publishing/conferencing/Internet voice hot-shot Jeff Pulver has already declared that the “V” in VON now also stands for “video,” not just voice. The rest of the world knows it today because Pulver gets B1 treatment from the Wall Street Journal in this piece penned by Amol Sharma.
Although the article uses as its starting point Pulver’s role in launching Vonage (he mostly got out before the IPO, however), the focus is on Jeff’s foray into the Internet video sector, which he thinks will be hotter than hot.
Mr. Pulver is creating his own Internet TV show, which he is modeling on Rocketboom, a popular Internet video-blog that broadcasts a three-minute news show daily. He is considering launching a broader Internet TV subsidiary and is weighing whether to invest in several emerging Internet video companies, though he won’t name them. Someday he wants to start an Internet reality TV show.
“The same DNA that disrupted the telecom industry is well on its way to totally revolutionizing the way the TV, film, and broadcast industry is going to be,” Mr. Pulver says, adding that he’s now looking for “the Vonage of Internet video.”
Meanwhile, on his blog (which the WSJ piece says is “widely read at the Federal Communications Commission and by some staffers on Capitol Hill”) Jeff rues last week when, first, the House passed the COPE bill with no meaningful net neutrality amendment and then, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the imposition of CALEA on VoIP providers. He writes
For the moment, suffice it to say that there is an emerging divide between those countries that get it and those that don’t, and, I hate to say it, but in just two short years, America has switched sides.
Cynthia Brumfield at 8:41 AM|Comments(0)
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