OMN Open Media Network - storage infrastructure
Perhaps another alternative to Google Video upload, or is this more like the photo hosting sites? I’d like to find a way to get my personal media data closer to the internet backbone, so it’s not strangled by the slow pipe into the house, but I also don’t want all of it publicly indexed and accessible. With the photo hosting sites, they’re mostly either affiliated with a photofinisher, and are looking for print and merchandise revenue, or they’re selling to space to people who just need image storage and bandwidth.
From John Battelle’s Searchblog
Tags: noneMike Homer, of Netscape and now Kontiki, and Marc Andreessen, of Netscape and now Opsware, have launched the Open Media Network, a free platform for the storage and distribution of public video and audio content. I spoke to Homer about the new network, which uses Kontiki’s video serving system on the back end. The system is a mashup of sorts between Tivo and BitTorrent - it has a well considered interface and employes a secure P2P network for file distribution (it doesn’t actually use Tivo or BitTorrent technology).
