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Microsoft Officially Releases Windows Media 7
7/17/2000 Unveils New Player with CD Burning Capability After months of showing off beta versions of its Windows Media 7 system, Microsoft Monday released it officially, announcing new partnerships and a brand new Windows Media player.
"We have now crossed the chasm to make digital media mainstream," said
Will Poole, vice president of the Digital Media Division at Microsoft.
"Windows Media Technologies 7 delivers the full potential of digital media for
consumers, content providers, developers and enterprise customers, and for the
first time moves this technology beyond the early adopters to the everyday
user."
The Windows Media 7 consists of the Windows Media Player 7, Windows Media Services for Windows 2000 Server, Windows Media Encoder 7, Windows
Media Rights Manager 7 (for digital rights management), and the Windows Media
Software Development Kit (SDK) 7 (for application development). Microsoft says it can offer “Near-VHS quality video” at 400 Kbps and “near-DVD quality” at 700 Kbps.
Perhaps the biggest push for the company comes with its new Windows Media player, which has turned into a full-fledged jukebox player, much like MusicMatch and RealJukebox. It supports both streaming and downloadable music unlike Real’s software which uses two separate players. RealNetworks’ recently released Real Entertainment Center is a move into incorporating both streaming and downloading, however.
Microsoft’s new player is firmly aimed at the consumer space and those new to digital media. It offers CD playback, support for downloaded music, streaming, compatibility with music devices, a built-in media guide, a radio tuner and even CD burning.
The Windows Media 7 system (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmedia) is available now for download, except for the server which comes with Windows 2000 Server edition.
In a related announcement Monday, EMI said it was making 100 albums (from popular artists) available for digital download.
The Windows Media player will be released Tuesday.
By Jose Alvear Sonicbox: Tune In the Web, Wirelessly by Jon L. Jacobi
My father once regaled me with a story about the primitive crystal radio he and his Iowa-bound brothers used to listen in on important sporting and world events during the early 1930s. His description stirred my imagination, as I'm sure hearing voices and events from faraway places stirred his. Streaming radio has had a similar effect on me -- I have enlivened many an afternoon listening to the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs webcasts, which were unavailable to me via terrestrial radio here in San Francisco.
The obvious problem with Internet radio is that you must be near a computer to use it. Several products that attempt to uncouple Internet radio from the computer have been announced -- all are still vaporware, except for the Sonicbox. The device is scheduled to ship soon, and Streamingmedia.com got its hands on a pre-release version to put to the test.
Not a true stand-alone device, the Sonicbox still needs your computer for its Internet connection and to run the accompanying iM Tuner software. However, by including a 900MHz transceiver, a pager-size 900MHz receiver, and the iM Remote Tuner control device, the Sonicbox set allows you to wirelessly pipe Internet radio broadcasts to any stereo system.
The Sonicbox is an innovative product that serves its goal of freeing the Internet radio listener from the PC – at least to some degree. However, gadget appeal plays a large role in justifying the estimated $75 to $100 street price.
The iM Tuner software, which can also be used independently of the Sonicbox hardware, is available for free download from the company’s Web site. The simple-to-install software supports any station that's broadcast in RealAudio, Microsoft Windows Media, or MP3 (Icecast, Shoutcast) format, and will even play MP3s. (You'll need to install the freely downloadable RealPlayer and Windows Media Player 6.4 to make use of the iM Tuner.)
The iM Tuner serves as a front-end for iM Band, Sonicbox's tuning service, which delivers what the company considers to be the 800 best stations on the Internet. The stations are divided into 25 diverse genres, and are cleverly alphabetized for easy memorization: A for alternative, B for blues, W for world beat, X for eXtreme, and so on. I spent an hour hopping from station to station and barely scratched the surface of the available content. If you're not satisfied with the preset stations, there are 32 user-definable slots on the Z-band.
Part of Sonicbox's iBand service and revenue model involves replacing broadcast advertising with ads targeted toward the individual listener. Yes, Sonicbox is collecting information about users. To the company's credit, it doesn't use any coercion. However, if you don't provide at least an e-mail address, you can't take advantage of the iM Tuner's “More Info” function, which e-mails you with additional information about songs, artists, and stations.
Setting up the Sonicbox hardware consists of plugging the 900MHz transceiver into your computer's USB port, running an audio cable from your sound card's output to the transceiver, and then running an audio cable from the Sonicbox receiver to your stereo, or to a pair of headphones. (All connections on the Sonicbox side are mini-stereo jacks.) If you already own off-the-shelf 900MHz wireless audio components like headphones or speakers, you can substitute them for the Sonicbox receiver in this setup. Setting the receiver to the proper wireless frequency takes just a few seconds -- installation is about as easy as hooking up a stereo system.
In my tests, the Sonicbox worked well within its transmission range of 100 feet. If you have a 900MHz portable phone, you probably already have a good idea of the type of reception and range you can expect. My apartment is a wireless black hole with scads of outside plumbing lines, ancient wiring, and the like. However, I was still able to get a strong signal about 50 feet away. The wireless sound quality was comparable to direct output from my sound card.
However, remember that overall quality is limited to that of the Internet broadcast. Stations that stream at 32Kbps or better come close to FM radio quality, but a number of stations broadcast at half that rate or less.
The iM Remote Tuner box, which allows you to select stations with a turn of the dial remotely, works well, though its software counterpart wouldn't respond to the remote when Sonicbox was busy finding a channel or performing other housework. My only real complaint about the remote is its size--4-inches deep, by 8.5-inches wide, by 1.5-inches thick--which makes it cumbersome to drag around the house. I found myself longing for simple band and preset controls on the pocket-size receiver. Also, the visual feedback provided by the remote isn't absolutely necessary, since iBand audibly announces (pre-rolls) every selection.
The Sonicbox is an excellent, well-conceived product that does its job well within its scope. However, it’s not a must-have: The value is primarily in the wireless functionality, and in the packaging of stylized hardware devices. You could move Web radio listening to your stereo for much less by purchasing cables at your local audio store.
Then, of course, you wouldn’t have the gee-whiz impression that wireless devices invoke, and you wouldn’t have the bragging rights that come with owning one of the first of these devices to come on the market. We’ll be watching closely for the release of Kerbango’s Internet radio, and Akoo’s Kima, expected by the end of summer. Perhaps they’ll up the ante.
By Jon L. Jacobi Last week was a week for big moves and big deals. Whether it was Pinnacle dropping almost 60% or RealNetworks teaming up with AOL, it was a week of extremes. By-and-by though, it was a week in which winners far outpaced losers (for once) and that's a welcome change. This type of merging and mingling is good for the sector. It strengthens the entire industry by shoring up the weak and solidifying the strong. But I find myself asking this question: Were we merely following the rest of the markets, (for the week the Nasdaq gained 5.54% and the Dow gained 1.66%) or were we setting a new precedent? And will we continue to need eye-catching and atypical amounts of striking press releases to get us in gear? Whatever the case, who cares? I don’t think it will matter much in the long run--streaming has too bright a future.
UP-STREAM (CUSM, DGV, EXCA, NETR, RNWK)
Top 5 Winners
CUseeMe Networks (CUSM) rebounded an impressive 26% last week and closed at 10 5/16. If you recall in our last issue I mentioned that a certain insider purchased a few shares at the current levels and that CUSM seemed pretty reasonably priced at 8 1/8 and should rebound. Well it seems CUSM followed my heed.
Digital Lava (DGV) erupted last week. The small-cap video learning company gained over 25% in trading and closed at 7 1/16. The move is a strong showing for a company that has been lying dormant for months as both volume and price lagged. The end of May was the last time DGV ticked above 7. On Tuesday DGV unveiled a subscription-pricing plan for their “HotFoot Host” system, a new service that enables users to store their presentations online. On Thursday Cisco announced they had purchased 10,000 licenses for HotFoot. DGV has a long ongoing relationship with Cisco that only seems to be getting better and better. HotFoot with its very reasonably priced subscription plan could prove to be a big winner for DGV.
Excalibur Technologies (EXCA) continues its revelry, as it soared to a new all time trading high Friday. For the week, EXCA grew another 30% and closed at 49 3/8. Since the debut of Virage (less than 3 weeks ago) EXCA has leapt over 50%. Keep in mind that the smaller cap VRGE has been no slacker either. As digital content continues to grow, the need for searching it will also increase; EXCA and VRGE are the two big players and the only public companies in this space, so they should continue to perform well. I have questions about both of them being a true long-term play though. Eventually their technology will become commonplace and cheap. On Friday EXCA announced the appointment of two new Board Members, Herbert A. Allen and Susan K. Allen, his sister. Allen & Company, of which Mr. Allen is President, owns approximately 30 percent of EXCA’s outstanding common stock.
NetRadio (NETR) special broadcast alert … stock gains close to 45% on big news, stay tuned for further details. On Monday NETR entered into a huge alliance with Microsoft WebTV Networks where its radio programming will appear in Windows Media Format . Four channels (Hits, Route 1 Country, The X and Vintage Rock) will now be available to all WebTV Plus and WebTV subscribers. Specifics of the agreement, which also includes promotional, marketing, advertising and support activities involving both companies, were not disclosed. This announcement is a lifesaver of sorts for NETR, which had seen its share price dip to an all time low on June 5th of 1 1/2. After news of the WebTV deal became public, shares of NETR traded as high as 5. That initial euphoria wore thin quickly and NETR closed Friday at 2 5/8. Its hard to say what NETR will do now. The WebTV deal is big but is it enough to make NETR a worthwhile investment? I don’t know. If I were an investor I would have hoped for a buyout by Microsoft. NETR had more good news on Thursday. Their web site claimed five out of the six leading slots in Arbitron's February 2000 InfoStream Webcast report. Other Internet music companies (like LAUN, LQID and MPPP) did well last week also.
RealNetworks (RNWK) made some big waves last week, as the stock gained 10 points or over 21%. On Thursday RNWK announced a major strategic alliance with AOL. The deal, which will undoubtedly have lasting effects for RNWK’s breaks down as follows: 1) AOL will now deploy the RealSystem 8 software throughout the entire AOL network. 2) RealPlayer will be distributed with the Netscape browser and through Netcenter. 3) AOL 6.0 (which is due out later this year) will be equipped with RealPlayer streamingmedia technology. And 4) RealNetworks will distribute Spinner, the free radio Internet radio player. With the power of AOL’s 23 million+ users behind them, RNWK will be taking a substantial step towards its goal of dominating Microsoft. It was only a few weeks ago that RNWK made another big announcement with Apple. If you need more to coo about, AOL and RealNetworks are currently working together to use RealSystem 8 in the webcast of CBS’ “Big Brother” television show. With these types of deals it sounds like RealNetworks is more appropriate for CBS’ “Survivor “show.
As I always say, if your going to lose, lose big.
Big 5 Losers
5th Avenue Channel (FAVE) lost another 22% in trading and closed at a mere 17/32. FAVE, which has more than its fair share of troubles hit a new all time low of 7/16 on Thursday. It seems FAVE hits a new low every week. There was nothing new to report for FAVE good or bad. With the current conditions surrounding FAVE, no news certainly isn’t good news. Investors want to hear something on the positive side. Otherwise, this stock will continue to slide.
MediaBay (MBAY) evaporated 25% and hit a new yearly low on Friday of 2 1/8. The loss comes despite a very positive article in “Upside Today” touting the great “niche” MBAY is establishing for itself in the audio book club and specialty radio content market. Investors must be oblivious to that fact because MBAY has been on a steady decline since February. MBAY is not alone in their misery though. All of the spoken word companies have been having a hard time as of late. (Except for AudioHighway, which signed a big deal, two weeks ago.) Look at Kanakaris (KKRS) and Audible (ADBL) both are near their yearly low and both had losses last week. I believe the reason for this overall decline in this space has to do with a reallocation of assets. When dealing with Internet companies, investors like to stick with industry leaders and after the recent deal, AHWY is it for many.
Pinnacle Systems (PCLE) dropped almost 60% last week and closed at 9 17/64. That is not a misprint. This shellacking (-13 47/64) is due to an early earnings-warning announcement that came out of the company on Tuesday. In short, the company cautioned that net income would only be between 6 and 8 cents per share, excluding acquisition-related and one-time charges. Analysts were expecting 16 cents a share. Actual figures will be released on July 25th. Interestingly, this year’s net sales figures will still be nearly more than 50% over last year’s totals. President and Chief Executive Officer, Mark Sanders, said, “The fourth quarter was particularly back-end loaded and a significant amount of business closed in the last week on terms less favorable than expected. However we believe the fundamentals of our business continue to be sound, and the markets we serve offer exceptional growth prospects for the future, especially as broadband networks and full-quality video over the Internet become widely available.” After the announcement, USB Piper Jaffray quickly lowered their rating on the company form a “Strong Buy” to a “Buy.” I think PCLE is still a major player in the industry. Earnings and revenues are still growing substantially and should continue to do so. While a return to above 20 might be a lot to ask for, I could easily see a 12-month target growth of 50% from these levels.
By Paul Kushner
The Real Scoop On The Recent Downfall
Keynote (KEYN) is a performance measurement company, that recently started handling the measurement of streaming media delivery. KEYN has only been a public entity since the end of September, and in that short time they have gone through some wild price swings. At its IPO, it went public at about 30, rose to over 170 then fell back to 30 again. Within the last few months KEYN has been on a tear, perhaps because of its new streaming initiative.
Last week, though, saw some quirky issues with KEYN’s third quarter earnings report. Most reporters and investors said the report was magnificent. The company reported blowing out analyst’s expectations by more than 400%. First Call consensus numbers were for a loss of 3 cents while KEYN posted a gain of 11. Sounds great right? Well I would have thought so also. Investors trounced the stock. On Friday KEYN fell more than 18 points and closed at just under 65. Upon a close examination of KEYN’s earnings report, things aren’t as rosy as they appear. As I like to say “the market is hardly ever wrong.” There has not been one article explaining this downfall correctly so this is a scoop. Read up.
KEYN, no matter how well it does or doesn’t do, seems to be involved in a big pile up--as the stock goes up investors pile on. Interest is fueled by rumors of better than expected earnings and new customer acquisitions. But as soon as the tides turn, watch out. The last one holding the bag will be in for a rotten surprise. Take a look at fafafooey_1999’s advice to a fellow investor: “They are now saying SHORT! (or in your case dump it too protect profits)”
Currently the big issue on everyone’s mind is earnings and what they really meant. So why did KEYN go down after such supposedly stellar report? Check out this post by MicroSuperSoft: “...just face it, KEYN shocked nobody.”
Initially after the earnings announcement, there was much confusion regarding the numbers. Many news agencies were reporting that KEYN had incorrectly missed their numbers. fleance2000 took all of this in and reported: “KEYN earnings # reported differently by different sources. Briefing says 11c/share. Bloomberg says 6c/share (est was 3c loss). CBS MarketWatch says 11c LOSS. I read the earnings release and it is 11c/share proforma, 6c/share including amortization/stock based compensation.”
This confusion was credited by many for the initial downfall of KEYN after the release, but as the drubbing continued investors were at a loss. Or were they? Check this informative message by dcuwcy: “Ignore the Pro Forma figures. There is a loss from operations of $3.7 million. The only reason for the overall profit was the $5.4 million of interest and short term capital gains made on the cash and securities of $356.4 million.” Or this one by cool0: “Anyone read the actual report? It's indeed a loss from operations! Interest income offset the loss from operations! I hope this won't have an effect on big investors tomorrow!!!”
Well that information did have an effect and here is a reason why from bobby25.rm:“The concern here is that the income is a result of their interest and not real earnings from operations. A person might as well take a company public call it an Internet company and do nothing with the cash. Just let it generate interest and call itself a profitable Internet company. (And yes, I know they will do something with some of it but they don't need that much cash). On top of that the quarterly earning numbers slowed from the 50% sequential increase in the prior quarter to 32%.”
So this is the real reason KEYN fell so dramatically. Never underestimate the minds and actions of the investors (and message board posters). Look for a moderate rebound this week. Support levels seem to be around 60.
MOTLEY FOOL (20 Posts) By Paul Kushner Even with all the hoopla that was reported in this week’s Streaming Media Sector report, KEYN seems incredibly oversold. On Friday KEYN lost 18 1/4 points and closed at 64 15/16. The day before KEYN reported blow out revenue numbers for their third quarter. Estimates were for a loss of 3 cents and KEYN posted a gain of 11 cents. It was, in fact, the first profitable quarter for the recently public company. KEYN has run up significantly since June 1st when it was trading at around 40. Maybe investors were applying the old buy on rumor and sell on news tactic. Whatever the case, I would expect some sort of rebound. The 52-week range on KEYN is 17 1/4 – 177.
Last week’s stock pick NaviSite (NAVI) guided itself to a 6 1/2 point gain and closed at 44 1/8. NAVI looked just too good to pass up. Even though NAVI was added to the Russell 3000 Index last week, it closed down about 3 points. On Friday NAVI announced that their Streaming Media Division would deliver an interactive live webcast with actress and supermodel Cindy Margolis on behalf of Anheuser-Busch. The event is planned for July 17, 2000. The weekly range for NAVI was 37-45 3/4.
Disclaimer By Paul Kushner As the amount of web content expands at a feverish rate, a flurry of sites are competing to be the ultimate guide to what’s good on the web. There’s just too much compelling stuff out there on the net, and content-hungry surfers want, no, they need good media indexes to help them find the content that they would enjoy the most. Voquette (http://www.voquette.com) has the unique position of not only helping audio-craving surfers find the content that they will enjoy, but also enabling those users to then take that content away from the computer and into the car, the gym, the subway, or any of the other places we’ve always wished we could take our web audio.
On Tuesday, Voquette announced a deal with BroadcastAmerica.com to allow users the ability to "record" its radio and TV stations.
Voquette is in the business of enabling personal web-audio products and services. What I mean is that Voquette believes that there is a lot of content that is available on the net today for a variety of applications that web users are interested in consuming in an audio form. But it’s difficult for them to find the content that’s out there that’s personally relevant or of interest to them. So Voquette.com makes it easy to find all of the web audio content, or a majority of the web audio content that’s available today in a logically organized directory fashion with search capability. The website features all formats of audio on the web, including streaming formats, but also downloadable formats like MP3. It’s rapidly becoming the most comprehensive all-audio destination on the web.
Yes, then there’s Voquette Media Manger which is free software that makes it easy for users to choose, capture and record content for playback at a later time. It’s a huge convenience for people who have an interest in content, particularly content that is a little bit longer like Internet radio programming, conference calls, lectures, audio books, and other things that may not be ideal for listening when you’re sitting at your laptop or desktop.
And that’s the third thing that Voquette does. After you find the content, you can select the content or schedule the content to be recorded at a different time, the Voquette Media Manger then allows you to record on a variety of consumer audio recording devices such as cassettes to portable MP3 players to CD-R’s and MiniDiscs.
The enabling technology is something that we developed to enable legacy recording devices [like portable cassette players] that aren’t smart enough to be connected to the web. We have found that by making these devices web-enabled that consumers have a broader choice.
The enabling of legacy devices is something that we wanted to do because we wanted users to have choice, but our principal focus is to make it as easy as possible for users to find, capture, and to listen to any web audio that they are interested in. So the emphasis on the business is placed on the destination having the most comprehensive reach of audio content in one place, and an easy way for you to capture scheduled recording and consume the audio when it’s convenient for you.
Well it’s all about personal use. There’s no way you could use the Voquette Media Manger to capture and then rebroadcast. We have some 60 partners representing close to 100,000 hours of Internet programming on Voquette.com, and these partners clearly want their content heard by as many people as possible. Regarding legality, I get asked about that a lot. There’s a perception and there’s a reality. It is absolutely legal. When we started the business a year ago there was a general reluctance among content partners to allow for the capturing and playback of the content. And RealAudio particularly blocks the copying of content. But when they express concerns, we take them through a discussion of “Why are you in business, what are you doing with your content, do you not want to expand your audience, why do you make this content available, what is the business model around the content, what are you interests here?” When we look at things from this perspective, it’s pretty clear that this is an advantage to the copyright owner or the publisher of the content, and that’s why we’ve been able to move forward as well as we have with as much content as we have.
There are a variety of things that are important here. First is to be able to best assure that if you come to Voquette.com, you’re going to have a quality experience. And there are so many variables in media on the web that we’d like to believe that by having an active partnership with Voquette, that the solution we offer the user is a higher-quality solution.
In several ways. First of all there’s a quality criteria for the content itself before it’s put on our website so we have a reasonably high degree of certainty that when it’s clicked on and delivered that it’s a live link and it’s the content that you want, and you’re not going to end up with a sub-optimal experience. Couple that with the Voquette Media Manager, which has a very unique feature which is a personal favorite of mine. We’ve all had the experience, and we should remember that the majority of us are still on dialup connections, and a streaming 56k media file will oftentimes run into net congestion and buffering issues. With the Voquette Media Manger, our user just clicks a button which says essentially “high quality streaming.” And it looks at the stream, and say you set it to record at 5 o’clock in the afternoon. We go to the content, we connect to the content, we cache the whole stream in the Voquette Media Manger, and then we write it out to your Rio player or CD-R, etc. So at the end of the line when you consume the audio, it’s the highest quality experience we can deliver.
It’s a subject of constant debate here. We have users who absolutely love it, who don’t mind the fact that it is computer speak and sounds a bit androidish. Because it allows them to listen to things that they ordinarily have to read. There is no doubt that it will improve and that it is improving. The text-to-speech capability is part of the Voquette Media Manager Plus, which is an upgrade to the free Voquette Media Manger. It is designed so that as new text-to-speech technologies evolve, we’ll be able to upgrade and plug those in. We’re already testing one in-house that is a significant improvement over what we have now.
We’ve made two recent announcements that we think are pretty significant. First is what you had mentioned, the support for CD-R and CD-RW. We’re finding that even though there are 200 million cars still driving around the country with holes in the dashboards that we’ve forgotten what they’re used for. We used to put cassettes in there. Now you can put the web in your dashboard and listen to it. A lot of our users, particularly commuters, find that very convenient. More and more we’re finding cars that have CD-players in them and the ability to listen to your recording on a CD is pretty important. Also what we just recently announced is that the new version of Voquette Media Manager, version 1.4 is integrated with and enables some 190 million of the jukebox players that are out there. We’ve actually enabled it such that the Voquette Media Manger sits on top of WinAmp, and RealJukebox, and some of the other jukebox players out there, and brings the streaming capture and time-shift capability to our favorite MP3 jukebox player. So rather than trying to develop a competing jukebox technology, we just said “consumers have made their choice, so let’s enable those jukeboxes, let’s make them more robust and more capable.”
What’s coming down the road? Because we’re really focused on consumer’s choice, the market will determine, and consumers will determine whether they like other kinds of web audio devices to listen to and playback. That includes wireless devices, and as these new devices come into the marketplace you’ll see Voquette supporting all of those new devices and formats.
Interview by Scott Bass
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MidStream Technologies - Software Developer
Chyron Corporation - LEAD ENGINEER - STREAMING MEDIA SPECIALIST
ORBLYNX - Product Marketing Director
MSHOW.com - Systems Sales Engineer
MSHOW.com - Live Webcaster
TV onthe WEB - Streaming Media Encoder/Technician (New York City)
MediaOnDemand.com - SMIL Page Programmer
SeaChange - User Interface Designer
Oratrix Development - Streaming Media Programmer
Oratrix Development - Software Development Engineer
Video Technics, Inc. - Linux System Administrator
MovieFlix.com - Systems Engineer
Loudeye Technologies - SQL Server DBA
Loudeye Technologies - Sr. Software Engineer, Device Driver Development
Luxxon Corporation - Sr. Apllications/Systems Engineer
Luxxon Corporation - A Senior Internet & Database Developer / Internet Music Service
XACT RADIO - A Architect / Internet Radio
XACT RADIO - Product Marketing Manager
ON24, Inc. - Sales Technical Advisor
Net Exchange, Inc. - C++/Java Developer
Infotech Solutions - Streaming Media Developer
Infotech Solutions - Board Design Engineer
Luxxon Corporation - Pre Sales Executive
Madge.web - Java developer
Sportscapsule - Computing Info Systems Analyst/Web Developer (#J001720)
Stanford University - Streaming Technical Consultant
Globix - Streaming Media Architect
Spotlife, Inc. - Web Developer/Programmer
David Sirieix Inc. - MPEG Encoding/Transcoding Software Developer
Midstream Technologies
- VP Sales and Marketing
ConsultNet - General Manager, San Francisco
Activate - Director of Sales
Coollink Broadcast Network - Account Manager
Activate - Playstation 2 Developers
Moderngroove Entertainment - VP TVI Services
Television Internet Broadcasting Network - Sales Executive
Television Internet Broadcasting Network - Associate Director of Avid Services
DES - Product Marketing Manager, New Media
Artesia Technologies - Marketing Support
Oratrix Development - CMO
eMikolo.com Inc - Ad Sales Manager
MovieFlix.com - Director of Sales (Eastern Region based)
Loudeye Technologies - Product Manager, Video Group
ParentWatch - Sr. Mgr., Business Development
ON24, Inc. - Streaming Media Sales
VStar On-Demand - Product Marketing Manager - Media Services (CA)
Sonic Foundry Media Services - Product Marketing Manager - Media Services (CA)
Sonic Foundry Media Services