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Streaming Media West 2001 - Thank you!
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Dear Valued Readers,
On behalf of the Streaming Media Events, Interactive, Magazine and Research divisions, I would like to thank all our sponsors, exhibitors, speakers, and attendees for your support of Streaming Media West last week.
Over 10,000 executives traveled to Long Beach for "The World's Largest Internet Audio & Video Event." In spite of the weak economy, the atmosphere was very upbeat and entirely business-centric at the West Coast digital media marketplace. Memorable highlights included:
- Dick Glover's uncanny comparison of the streaming market to the nascent cable industry in the early 1980s
- Rob Glaser's first demonstration of MusicNet and unveiling of the RealSystem Media Commerce Suite
- Apple's vision for MPEG-4 as the industry standard for digital media delivery
- The release of various Enterprise Streaming reports and David Peterschmidt's keynote - all demonstrating distinct quantifiable ROI for early adopters
- The compelling WWF strategy for managing DRM and driving pay-per-view revenues
- The non-stop buzz at the DMZ and Martini Lounge
Thank you for your continued enthusiastic participation!
Onwards & upwards - Sincerely,
Richard Bowsher
President, Streaming Media, Inc.
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iBEAM Glows in Light of Financing
By Jose Alvear
June 25, 2001
Company gets $30 Million from Williams Communications.
On Monday, iBEAM (www.ibeam.com) announced it received a $30 million investment from Williams Communications and $10 million from some unnamed investors. After the deal is concluded, Williams will own 49 percent of the company, with the overall investment meaning that the three investors will now own 65 percent of iBEAM.
According to Drew Henry, senior VP of marketing for iBEAM, the deal also means Williams will resell iBEAM's services. As part of the deal, Williams will elect four members to iBEAM’s board of directors, in an expansion of the existing board to nine directors.
“Williams Communications is a recognized leader in its field and we look forward to leveraging our individual but inter-related strengths into a mutually beneficial, long-term strategic relationship,” said Peter Desnoes, president, chairman and CEO of iBEAM, in a statement.
Henry called the deal important for the streaming industry and for iBEAM. "We have always had the perspective that this space is one that is growing and will continue to grow," he said. Henry pointed out that iBEAM's relationship with Williams dates back a few years, when Williams started providing satellite and ATM services for the company. Now iBEAM will have access to Williams' growing fiber optic network.
So what does the deal mean for iBEAM's satellite delivery service? Henry said that the company will continue to provide those services for ISPs that have its edge devices. "As we move forward, we'll continue to provide hybrid satellite/fiber optic network," he said. "Our relationship with Williams will provide higher quality terrestrial distribution than we see today, but in the end we fundamentally believe we can deliver high quality from edge networks with the satellite delivery model."
In April, iBEAM released an announcement that it was retaining investment banking firm Morgan Stanley to pursue funding. At that time, iBEAM said it would run out of money in Q3. Henry didn't reveal how much longer Monday's investment would fund the company, but said it's striving to reach cash flow profitability. "We're very focused on managing expenses," he said. In April, iBEAM laid off about 140 employees or about 25 percent of its workforce to reduce expenses.
iBEAM has long been touting its entertainment customers. But Henry said that two-thirds of its revenues from enterprise customers. "We’re focused on the streaming communications segment," he said. "We think there's a significant opportunity for enterprise services." But Henry acknowledged that the entertainment side is where lots of the headlines are.
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RealNetworks, Microsoft Face Off on DRM
By Jose Alvear
June 22, 2001
RealNetworks’ launch of the RealSystem Media Commerce Suite is the first spark in an impending battle with Microsoft and others in the digital rights management arena.
On Wednesday, RealNetworks Chief Executive Officer Rob Glaser unveiled a digital rights management solution called RealSystem Media Commerce Suite to empower the “next phase of digital media delivery.” The long-awaited DRM system will be used to power the security of MusicNet, the digital music company formed recently by RealNetworks, BMG, EMI and Warner Music.
During his keynote at Streaming Media West 2001, Glaser showed the first live public demo of MusicNet, a browser-based subscription service that lets users search and store their music online. In the demonstration, Dave Halprin, MusicNet’s director of product marketing, illustrated how a user can stream and download music after acquiring a license from the RealSystem Media Commerce Suite.
According to Glaser, the DRM system, which was in planning for about two years, was one of the “missing pieces” of such a service. Some of the tamper-proof technologies came courtesy of Aegisoft, which RealNetworks acquired in January 2001. Glaser said that RealNetworks wanted to take an integrated approach. “We wanted to unveil a very comprehensive solution to the marketplace,” he said.
Glaser stressed that the company wants to securely deliver “all media, to all devices,” in any format including downloads, streaming, peer-to-peer, and even physical form.
To underscore the importance of the new technology, Ben Rotholtz, general manager of systems and tools for RealNetworks, said this is one of the company’s top three announcements ever.
Late to the Game?
Microsoft, however, did not seem impressed at the news. According to Michael Aldridge, lead product manager at Microsoft’s digital media division, “We’ve had [DRM] since 1999.” He said that Microsoft has powered over 8 million secure transactions already, with audio, video and even e-books.
Microsoft’s DRM technology is also in its second version — the company released DRM 7.0 in July 2000. “[RealNetworks’] DRM is coming late to the game,” said Aldridge. “They have a lot of catching up to do and will have a huge learning curve.” He pointed to services like CenterSpan’s Scour, a file-sharing system that operates exclusively with Windows Media and that uses digital rights management to control access to files, so if a user shares a file with someone else, that user must register and use Scour to play the file.
Aldridge pointed to announcements this week that showed Windows Media being adopted by digital asset management companies to control and protect content. Partners such as Mediasite, Bulldog and Jaguar have built on top of Windows Media to help manage digital media for news organizations and pay-per-view systems. “We’ve developed great core technology that allows customers to build on top of that,” said Aldridge.
Apple’s Absence
Phil Schiller, vice president of worldwide marketing for Apple, said DRM is “very, very important.” But with RealNetworks’ announcement, Apple is the only major player not to have its own DRM solution. This may make QuickTime less attractive to content providers that want to make money with audio and video. “There are digital rights systems that work with QuickTime,” said Schiller, pointing out SealedMedia as one such provider.
Schiller wasn’t convinced, however, that RealNetworks’ solution is the best way to go. “It’s important for the industry to have solutions that work with all,” he said. “It’s still a wild, wild west for DRM and we need to have standards.”
What Price DRM?
When Real’s Rotholtz sees Microsoft’s claims of 8 million secure transactions, he scoffs. “I would strongly question that number,” he said, wondering what percentage of transactions actually generated some revenue. When asked what level of success RealNetworks would settle for, Rotholtz said, “Eight million transaction in 10 months? That’s pretty sad.” He said that Microsoft, in the end, just wants to sell more copies of Windows. “We don’t have an agenda,” he said.
But RealNetworks has yet to release information about how it intends to price the new RealSystem Media Commerce Suite. Rotholtz said to expect some pricing news in 30 to 60 days. But some clues are already emerging. Rotholtz said that although RealNetworks won’t act as a clearinghouse for transactions, companies will have “a relationship” with RealNetworks. “We’re in the water together,” he said.
Ready to Pay?
DRM solutions are clearly beginning to mature, but are consumers ready to pay for audio and video content? Despite the big news by RealNetworks, consumers have shown they prefer to get their content for free — what’s often referred to as the
“Napsterization” of society. Glaser said that RealNetworks’ GoldPass subscription service — which now has over 200,000 subscribers paying about $10 a month — is proof that users are willing to pay. GoldPass features premium content from the NBA, Major League Baseball, exclusive music and more.
Glaser said that a lack of DRM standards is what’s holding back a lot of content providers from going online. “A lot of content owners say, ‘Heck, I’ll just wait until next year or next month’,” he said. According to Glaser, XMCL – the technology behind the Media Commerce Suite — will “fuel the availability of digital media and lower the cost of deployment because there’s no custom work to build a solution.”
XMCL, Glaser said, will eventually be submitted to standards bodies like the W3C or the IETF for ratification. Glaser hopes to push XMCL as a standard “much like HTML was unleashed on the Web.” He pointed out that RealNetworks has done similar things with SMIL and RTSP, now standards in the streaming industry. “It’s great for the industry and the spirit of collaboration,” he said.
With a list of backers that includes technology companies and content owners (including IBM, Adobe, Sony, MGM Pictures, Intertrust, Sun and Starz Encore), RealNetworks is in direct competition with Xerox spin-off ContentGuard. ContentGuard is pushing for the XrML (eXtensible rights Markup Language) standard, with the help of Microsoft’s DRM technology. Partners backing XrML are Adobe, Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Portal and others. It seems the competition between XrML and XMCL—and RealNetworks and Microsoft in the DRM space — is just beginning.
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MPEG-4 Roars at Streaming Media West
By Bill Bernat
June 22, 2001
The potential of MPEG-4 far outpaces what has actually been delivered, but several vendors at the show were indeed demonstrating actual, shipping, purchasable and implementable solutions.
Although the battle cry of interoperability and openness has been uttered before, the streaming media landscape remains the near-exclusive domain of outstanding, but proprietary, architectures from Microsoft, RealNetworks and Apple. In recent months, however, those on the front line of the first generation of MPEG-4 products have fought their way out of the vaporware jungle, heralding the arrival of an impending onslaught of streaming products based on the open standard over the next three to 10 years.
Admittedly, the deep potential of MPEG-4 exceeds its delivered capability by orders of magnitude, but several vendors at Streaming Media West 2001 were indeed demonstrating actual, shipping, purchasable and implementable solutions.
Philips MP4Net
Philips has been involved in many aspects of the development of the ISO MPEG-4 standard and is active in standards bodies promoting interoperability between different vendors’ MPEG-4 implementations including the 3GPP, ISMA and M4IF. If and when MPEG-4 becomes the de-facto standard for delivery of digital media, Philips MP4Net may go down in history as the company that got there first on the wired Internet with its WebCine product line.
WebCine offers end-to-end Internet streaming using ISO-Standard MPEG-4, and consists of three version 1.0 products: WebCine Encoder, WebCine Server and WebCine Player. The products support the Simple and Advanced Simple profiles. The Encoder consists of hardware (including a Matrox Video Grabber) and application software running on Windows NT. Like the Encoder, the Server is available only as a bundled hardware and application software system, but runs Linux instead of NT. An enterprise version of the Server will be manufactured and sold Sun Micrososystems.
The WebCine Encoder sells for roughly $25,000, the WebCine Server for roughly $15,000, and the WebCine Player is free. The player is available for download now, as is sample content. The 1.1 version of the WebCine Player, due this fall, will be skinnable and will have an Active-X interface to allow Windows programmers to do pretty much anything they like with the technology.
Packet Video
Packet Video has delivered a line of products for wireless MPEG-4 using the Simple Video Profile as specified by the 3GPP and also supporting Temporal Scalability (dynamic rate control on the server). Pricing is not on a list schedule due to the nature of Packet Video’s customers (wireless carriers, handset manufacturers, etc.). Packet Video does have a PC-based player, but its purpose is to facilitate content and technical testing, not to act as a rendering tool for end-users. A Pocket PC version of the player is already shipping with systems such as Compaq’s iPaq.
As with the other front-line MPEG-4 implementers, Packet Video is working hard to make sure that interoperability doesn’t slip through their fingers.
Emblaze
Emblaze is a diverse company with a number of offerings, one of which is wireless MPEG-4. The Emblaze Wireless Media Platform, consisting of an Encoder, Server and Player, has already been deployed in Korea by KTF. Regarding interoperability, Emblaze is very active in the Wireless Multimedia Forum and the 3GPP, and for a few months has been doing interoperability testing with PacketVideo – a sign that companies in this space are determined to prevent standards forking.
Unlike PacketVideo, Emblaze has signed an agreement with Microsoft to support WMT for wireless Emblaze-based media delivery. This takes them out of the “pure” MPEG-4-only camp, but may be a wise business move. It will be a long time before these kinds of issues play out.
The Rest of the World
A number of other vendors are working with MPEG-4 at lower levels, such as design development and semiconductor manufacturing. iVast will be opening the beta program for its first MPEG-4 offerings in July. Envivio, whose MPEG-4 authoring tools demo wonderfully, has released nothing yet but is working with beta customers and has partnered with Sigma Designs to put Envivio's rendering technology on silicon. ObjectVideo, who claims to be ahead of the competition in implementing the daunting MPEG-4 Main profile, hopes to get product on the street later this year. Generic Media announced a partnership with PacketVideo to add PacketVideo's MPEG-4 media delivery to Generic's growing list of formats available to subscribers. And some companies not showing at Streaming Media West 2001, such as GMV Networks, hope to be major players in the MPEG-4 games, with products on the way as well.
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FWD: Viral Marketing
By David Ferris
June 25, 2001
A successful viral marketing campaign is among the best things that can happen to any business. But, identifying a catalyst to set the viral mechanism in motion defies the rules of science. Streaming media is a good place to start.
When Sanger Robinson and two friends arrived at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival with a camera and microphone, their chances of making a splash in online entertainment seemed remote indeed. They had to beg for interviews with stars like Matthew Broderick, which they hoped to stream at their just-launched Web site, Netbroadcaster.com. At the time, most of the online buzz at Sundance was about entertainment sites with deep pockets and big plans.
“We felt like schmucks,” Robinson recalls. “We were sleeping on a friend’s floor.”
Now in 2001, most of those big-name sites — you know who they are — have either died very public deaths or burned through their coffers and gone quietly into the night. But Netbroadcaster, a compendium of streaming entertainment video, is thriving. In February, Jupiter Media Metrix reported that Netbroadcaster’s 3.5 million unique visitors made it the sixth-largest newcomer on the Internet.
In fact, says Robinson, Netbroadcaster is profitable, even though (or perhaps because) it never got a cent of venture capital. In December, in the thick of the dot-com die-off, Netbroadcaster’s 10 employees got a Christmas bonus. Now, the company may have to vacate its four rooms on West 7th Street in Los Angeles for something closer to Hollywood.
What did Netbroadcaster do right? For one thing, it made sure its content — which started as public-domain film clips and Robinson’s own celebrity sightings — got distributed as widely as possible. Here’s how: At the Netbroadcaster site, users get streams for free but have to register — a mechanism that gives the company valuable data about its customers; namely, their e-mail addresses. Netbroadcaster then promotes its offerings through an e-mail newsletter. At the bottom of every e-mail is a promotional tag line and a link to a streaming clip available only to Netbroadcaster members. In addition, a spate of good publicity for one of the company’s only original pieces of content — a parody called “Being Regis Philbin” — hasn’t hurt, either.
Netbroadcaster’s popularity curve rose in classic viral fashion, which is to say, steeply. It took the company 10 months — from January to October 2000 — to get 1 million users signed up for its e-mail newsletter, said Sean Costello, the company’s chief creative officer. By January 2001, that number had jumped to 2 million, and by mid-March, 3 million.
“We didn’t have any money to brand ourselves,” says chief executive officer Robinson. “We saw the value of acquiring an audience first and the content later.”
With exclusive content and a mechanism to spread the message far and wide, Netbroadcaster is a case study in “viral marketing” — that buzzword and phenomenon that has spawned some of the Internet’s greatest success stories, like Hotmail, Napster and the Blair Witch Project.
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The premise of viral marketing, as its name suggests, is to spread a message on the Internet in much the same way that humans spread viruses — from one to many. Salespeople have long known the power of word-of-mouth as a sales technique. Apply the same principle to the giant worldwide conversation called the Internet, and you can have a marketer’s dream: a message spread across the world, instantly, exponentially, and for free. The trouble is activating the viral mechanism, something that remains a mystery even for veteran marketing directors. But when you add to the equation, streaming media — which has proven its worth in advertising click-through rates — you have a considerably more attractive platform for the viral mechanism.
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The Streaming Media Sector
By Paul Kushner
June 25, 2001
Investors remain strong as Federal Reserve announcement looms.
The streaming media sector felt decidedly more negative than it appeared last week. That's because 53 of the 85 stocks we follow finished down, yet the mean average share price remained practically unchanged at $6.44. The reason for this anomaly is because most of the large cap stocks gained ground or remained neutral. In comparison, the major indices reacted much the same way, with the Nasdaq gaining 0.3% and the Dow falling just 0.2%.
Despite continued bad news from technology stocks, investors remained strong on the hope that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates yet again this week. Web hosting and other infrastructure stocks like content deliverers were the big losers last week — Exodus, Globix and CacheFlow led the way down. On the winning side were the enterprise communication stocks, like Eloquent and WebEx. To have these two groups on opposite ends of the spectrum seems a little oxymoronic. On the earnings front, look out for news on Liberate Technologies, a provider of interactive TV software. It is set to release fourth quarter numbers on Thursday.
Upstream: Eloquent, InteleFILM, Webex
Rich media business-to-business communications company Eloquent(ELOQ), had a nice pop last week. ELOQ gained almost 25% in trading and closed at $1.56 on Friday. The move has less to do with any news that came out (since none did) but more with an investor’s realization that ELOQ is undervalued. On May 30, ELOQ’s CEO, Cliff Reid, said in a statement that “Eloquent's stock is currently trading at levels that we believe are significantly below fair market value, especially for a company with a cash and short term investments balance exceeding $30 million.” With that in mind, ELOQ announced it would begin a stock buyback initiative. The ELOQ board subsequently approved the repurchase of up to 250,000 shares of common stock, to be made on the open market or in private transaction “from time to time.” Although ELOQ has a good cash position, the company is experiencing declining revenues and large losses. For the first three months of 2001, revenues fell 57% to $2 million. Losses, meanwhile, were $4.2 million. All in all, it is a confusing picture. The last big news release from ELOQ was a strategic marketing agreement it announced at the beginning of June with The McKenna Group, a global strategy-consulting firm.
Never have I seen a stock jump so much without a shred of news or even a hint of a rumor. Last week iNTELEFILM(FILM) moved up 55.4% to 87 cents. Friday's close, also its high of the day, represents a figure that FILM has not seen since March. The suspicious part is that it came on very low volume. FILM is composed of five different companies, which are mainly involved in some form of the television commercial production industry. The one streaming company is its webADTV subsidiary. The only thing to explain the move is the positive comments from Yankee Group analyst, Steven Vonder Haar, when he spoke about the coming rise of “on demand marketing.” I will try and snoop around for some other explanations and keep a close eye on FILM this week and report back later on my findings.
WebEx Communications (WEBX) was the number one winner last week as it gained 6 points or nearly 30% and closed at $26.30. The move led the charge among the very productive videoconferencers. On Tuesday, WEBX signed up Carlson Wagonlit Travel, the second largest U.S. corporate travel agency, as a new customer. Carlson Wagonlit will use a custom-branded version of WebEx Meeting Center to communicate with its central headquarters and business offices around the world. No financial specifics of the deal were given. The rapid rise came on Thursday and Friday on more than three times normal volume. WEBX is an exceedingly volatile stock; its yearly range is $5.06 – $58 and the stock was trading in the mid-single digits just a few months ago. Keep the company in mind; WEBX is poised to truly exploit the enterprise communication market.
Downstream: Digital Lava, Exodus, Launch
Investors made a mass "exodus" from Exodus Communications(EXDS) last week. Its market cap went down 63%. The collapse brought EXDS from $4.61 to Friday’s close of $1.69. It even hit its yearly low of $1.18 on Thursday. EXDS has been falling for the last month over worries about slumping infrastructure spending. But the poop really hit the propellers on Wednesday when EXDS said it was officially updating its business outlook for the second quarter, which ends this week on the 30th. EXDS said it sees the second quarter coming in at $315 million, a substantial decline compared to the first quarter and significantly less than analyst’s expectations of $355 million. For the year, EXDS said it expects revenues to be approximately $1.35 billion and full year cash net loss is expected to be approximately $500 million. What really freighted investors though, was the fact that EXDS said it was spending cash reserves faster than it had planned. The company now has $1.1 billion in cash, which it expects to fully fund them through the third quarter of 2002. Ten firms downgraded EXDS last week on the news. EXDS still has a market cap of close to a billion dollar and no profits.
Followers of Digital Lava (DGLV) were treated to quite a roller coaster ride last week on no news yet with record volume. DGLV fell to an all-time low of 15 cents on Wednesday but by Friday, the company was able to recoup some of those losses and finish at 45 cents. That closing price still equates to a 50% drop from the previous week’s close of 90 cents. The information that DGLV has been spending the remaining bits of its depleting cash reserves is nothing new, so I wonder why the stock is getting crushed all of a sudden. At the end of March, the company had $1.1 million in cash and cash equivalents and still has a heavy cash burn rate. There are rumors floating on the chat boards that the company is poised for another big shakeup, i.e. more layoffs or even filing for bankruptcy.
The music has turned somber for Launch Media (LAUN). After an incredible run at the end of May and a leveling off period during the first weeks of June, LAUN has started to falter. Last week, the Internet music site dropped nearly 32% to 45 cents. The yearly low for LAUN is 24 cents. Within the last two weeks, LAUN has fallen almost 50%. LAUN is still heavily involved with the RIAA lawsuit that is looking to classify its service as interactive, which would mean it would have to arrange individual licensing agreements with record labels. LAUN, on the other hand, wants to be viewed as an Internet radio station which means paying a flat fee. LAUN also has the continuing problem of a large cash burn rate, huge losses and decreasing revenues. On May 15, LAUN said: “As of March 31, 2001, Launch had approximately $3.6 million in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities. This cash is not sufficient to meet the company's capital needs through June 30, 2001.” Well, even after receiving funding of $2 million, things must be getting tight. LAUN will continue to suffer unless it supplies an answer to this cash crunch question soon.
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Streamingmedia.com Index
June 25, 2001
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| Adobe Systems |
ADBE |
43 29/50 |
+4 1/50 |
+10.2% |
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| Akamai |
AKAM |
6 17/21 |
-7/10 |
-9.3% |
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| Amnis Systems |
AMNM |
1 44/83 |
-15/79 |
-11.0% |
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| America Online |
AOL |
53 1/10 |
+2 1/5 |
+4.3% |
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| Ampex |
AXC |
3/10 |
0 |
0.0% |
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| Apple |
AAPL |
22 13/50 |
+1 41/50 |
+8.9% |
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| Arbitron |
ARB |
24 39/83 |
+10/77 |
+0.5% |
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| Artistdirect |
ARTD |
53/93 |
-3/25 |
-17.4% |
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| Audible |
ADBL |
31/50 |
-1/20 |
-7.5% |
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| Avid |
AVID |
12 17/20 |
-1/5 |
-1.5% |
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| Blockbuster |
BBI |
18 9/20 |
-2 1/3 |
-11.2% |
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| Brilliant Digital |
BDE |
11/20 |
-3/20 |
-21.4% |
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| Burst.com |
BRST |
17/81 |
-1/99 |
-4.5% |
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| CacheFlow |
CFLO |
3 49/50 |
-24/25 |
-19.4% |
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| Chequemate/3D.com |
DDD |
1/5 |
0 |
0.0% |
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| Chyron |
CYRO |
16/25 |
-1/99 |
-1.5% |
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| CMGI |
CMGI |
2 23/25 |
-2/25 |
-2.7% |
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| Convera |
CNVR |
4 13/20 |
+13/25 |
+12.6% |
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| CUSeeMe Networks |
CUSM |
1 1/5 |
-1/5 |
-14.3% |
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| Destiny Media Tech |
DSNY |
7/40 |
-1/67 |
-7.9% |
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| Digital Island |
ISLD |
3 19/50 |
0 |
0.0% |
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| Digital Lava |
DGLV |
9/20 |
-9/20 |
-50.0% |
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| Eloquent |
ELOQ |
1 14/25 |
+9/29 |
+24.8% |
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| Emusic.com |
EMUS |
53/93 |
0 |
0.0% |
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| Enron |
ENE |
44 22/25 |
-2 19/50 |
-5.0% |
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| eSynch |
ESYN |
22/71 |
-1/20 |
-13.9% |
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| Raindance Com |
RNDC |
1 9/31 |
-3/20 |
-10.4% |
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| Excite@Home |
ATHM |
2 |
-4/5 |
-28.6% |
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| Exodus |
EXDS |
1 20/29 |
-2 23/25 |
-63.3% |
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| Ezenia! |
EZEN |
12/25 |
-10/91 |
-18.6% |
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| Fifth Ave Channel |
FAVE |
1/4 |
-1/50 |
-7.4% |
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| First Virtual Com |
FVCX |
43/50 |
-4/21 |
-18.1% |
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| GlobalMedia.com |
GLMC |
0 |
0 |
0.0% |
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| Globix |
GBIX |
1 7/20 |
-1 7/25 |
-48.7% |
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| High Speed Net |
HSNS |
3 |
0 |
0.0% |
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| iBEAM |
IBEM |
23/39 |
+2/25 |
+15.7% |
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| ImaginOn |
IMON |
7/50 |
-1/50 |
-12.5% |
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| Inktomi |
INKT |
8 81/89 |
+19/50 |
+4.5% |
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| iNTELEFILM |
FILM |
67/77 |
+22/71 |
+55.4% |
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| Kanakaris |
KKRS |
1/8 |
-1/99 |
-7.4% |
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| Keynote Systems |
KEYN |
9 4/7 |
-4/25 |
-1.6% |
|
| LAUNCH |
LAUN |
9/20 |
-17/81 |
-31.8% |
|
| Learn2.com |
LTWO |
1/5 |
-0 |
-4.8% |
|
| Liberate |
LBRT |
8 3/5 |
-9/20 |
-5.0% |
|
| Liberty Livewire |
LWIRA |
6 1/2 |
+2/5 |
+6.6% |
|
| Liquid Audio |
LQID |
2 46/63 |
-3/50 |
-2.2% |
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| Loudeye |
LOUD |
1 27/50 |
-9/25 |
-18.9% |
|
| Macromedia |
MACR |
19 2/5 |
-64/79 |
-4.0% |
|
| Madge Networks |
MADGF |
13/25 |
-3/50 |
-10.3% |
|
| MAX Internet |
MXIP |
1/10 |
-2/67 |
-23.1% |
|
| Media 100 |
MDEA |
1 44/53 |
-3/43 |
-3.7% |
|
| Mediabay |
MBAY |
46/63 |
+1/33 |
+4.3% |
|
| Medium4.com |
MDM |
16/41 |
+1/20 |
+14.7% |
|
| Microsoft |
MSFT |
68 39/47 |
+64/79 |
+1.2% |
|
| MP3.com |
MPPP |
4 17/20 |
0 |
0.0% |
|
| Musicmaker.com |
HITS |
2 1/4 |
+3/50 |
+2.7% |
|
| Navisite |
NAVI |
1 17/25 |
-3/50 |
-3.4% |
|
| NetRadio.com |
NETRC |
22/71 |
0 |
0.0% |
|
| Network Appliance |
NTAP |
11 1/3 |
-3 16/39 |
-23.1% |
|
| Novell |
NOVL |
4 67/77 |
+10/77 |
+2.7% |
|
| On2.com |
ONT |
25/49 |
-1/10 |
-16.4% |
|
| Optibase |
OBAS |
5 1/5 |
-22/71 |
-5.6% |
|
| Payforview.com |
PMGH |
1/4 |
+1/50 |
+8.7% |
|
| PictureTel |
PCTL |
5 4/25 |
+10/37 |
+5.5% |
|
| Pinnacle |
PCLE |
5 3/50 |
-16/39 |
-7.5% |
|
| Polycom |
PLCM |
24 24/49 |
+2 17/27 |
+12.0% |
|
| Princeton Video |
PVII |
4 25/51 |
-17/50 |
-7.0% |
|
| QSound |
QSND |
16/39 |
-4/57 |
-14.6% |
|
| RADVision |
RVSN |
5 3/20 |
-1 9/50 |
-18.6% |
|
| RealNetworks |
RNWK |
11 10/13 |
+1 19/50 |
+13.3% |
|
| SGI |
SGI |
1 1/50 |
-25/49 |
-33.3% |
|
| Sonic Foundry |
SOFO |
1 32/33 |
-1/33 |
-1.5% |
|
| SonicBlue |
SBLU |
3 8/89 |
-1/99 |
-0.3% |
|
| SRS Labs |
SRSL |
4 2/25 |
-21/50 |
-9.3% |
|
| Streamedia |
SMILE |
3/20 |
0 |
0.0% |
|
| USA Video Interactive |
USVO |
27/50 |
-3/50 |
-10.0% |
|
| Video Network |
VNCI |
2 7/50 |
-1/20 |
-2.3% |
|
| Viewcast |
VCST |
3/4 |
-10/91 |
-12.8% |
|
| Virage |
VRGE |
2 53/93 |
+2/67 |
+1.2% |
|
| Visual Data |
VDAT |
1 44/53 |
-20/87 |
-11.2% |
|
| VTEL |
FORG |
24/25 |
-3/50 |
-5.9% |
|
| WarpRadio.com |
WRPRE |
3/20 |
0 |
0.0% |
|
| WebEx |
WEBX |
26 3/10 |
+6 |
+29.5% |
|
| Xcelera |
XLA |
3 2/3 |
-1/3 |
-8.3% |
|
| Yahoo! |
YHOO |
17 22/71 |
+1 3/10 |
+8.1% |
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