What are the Types of Streaming!

1 – (VOD) Video on Demand streaming

types of streaming

Allow users to select and watch/listen to Video or Audio content on demand. Such technology is often used to bring video on demand to TVs, mobiles and PCs.

On-demand means just that. Fully realized, whenever the content is required, it is available to those that request it, wherever they happen to be (connected to the Internet that is). On – demand streams may be an archived live streams.

live streaming

2. Live streaming

Delivering live content over the Internet, involves a camera for filming the media, an encoder to digitize the content, and a (CDN/Media server) to distribute and deliver the content.

Livecasting or livestreaming is often the term used that describes the process of broadcasting real-time, live video footage or video feed to an audience accessing the video stream over the internet. The viewing device can be a desktop computer, laptop, tablet, smartphone or digital screen at home, at the office or in a brick and mortar venue such as a movie theater, restaurant, house of worship or sporting arena. The broadcast can be just video, audio or both.

Live streaming has gone way beyond video chat, music, webinars and “lifecasting” — the broadcast of someone’s daily life for all the world to see. It’s now also focusing on huge events that thousands can watch and enjoy simultaneously on computers and mobile devices and viewers often will interact with the broadcast Host or guests or other viewers, through text chat, twitter feed, voice or webcam video.

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Download VS streaming

Why streaming rather than download?

Streaming: (The Shower)

As the name suggests, to “stream” means to “flow like water” [definition mine]. Imagine you have a reservoir and that reservoir is full of water. You open a spigot and through the pipes flow the information. When you close the spigot the flow pauses. But, you can always recommence that flow. Now let’s add in one more variable – you are in the shower. The water that passes through the pipes and flows over your head gets used of course, but we don’t hold onto it. It, instead, goes over us and into the drain.

At this point you might be saying, “So what? Download, stream – who cares? I still get to watch my movie.” Well, that might be true, but here’s the key difference from a legal perspective: in our simplistic model, when you stream, you don’t keep any data. And if you aren’t keeping any data, then you can’t redistribute that data. This therefore means that you only use the data for one simple purpose: consumption. From a content distributor’s perspective, this avoids some of the necessity of ensuring that you, the user, doesn’t redistribute the content or data in illegitimate ways.

  • No need to wait for download to happen
  • Ability to control bandwidth end to end (Bandwidth Management)
    • Provides an efficient use of bandwidth because only the part of the file that’s being transferred is the part that’s being watched
  • Secure Access
  • Asset Management and control (view versus takeaway)
    • Provides the content creator with more control over his intellectual property because the video file is not stored on the viewer’s computer. Once the video data is played, it is discarded by the media player
  • Usage reporting (log files)
    • Allows content deliverers to monitor what visitors are watching and how long they are watching it.
  • Live streaming
  • Makes it possible for users to take advantage of interactive applications like video search and personalized playlists.

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Why download rather than streaming?

Downloading: (the Bath Tub)

When you download, think of a bathtub instead of a shower. As the water comes out of the spout, we have the same control of start and stop as we do when in the shower, correct? We can pause our downloads, we can stop them altogether. However, much like a bath, a download isn’t really useful to us until it’s full. Therefore, to make effective use of a bathtub and a download we have to “plug the drain”. We must hold onto it and use it for an extended period of time. So, with data, our devices don’t serve as pass through entities, but rather, as storage containers in much the same way a bathtub works for water.

This has a significant legal consequence. Namely, since you hold onto data instead of letting it pass through a device, you acquire a different set of de facto rights in the data. For example, if you download an entire film onto your computer (legally, of course), you enter into a license agreement with the distributor of that content. That license is going to let you consume the content, much in the same way a streaming license will. However, a download license will, by the very nature of downloading, specifically prohibit you from doing certain things with that content, namely, making available for redistribution through copying or subsequent streaming or making available for download through third party systems, modifying, amending, and so on. The subtle difference of “keeping” data fundamentally changes the way in which the data is viewed through a legal lens.

  • One time bandwidth cost
    • Your device connects to the source of the file, then copies and saves it to your hard drive.
  • Playback anytime, any place
    • TV shows and movies that are downloaded are “bought” versus rented and are available without time limit.  That is, you “own” the movie or music file.
    • A downloaded file is available whenever you want to play it.
  • Ability to easily redistribute files
    • You can copy the file or move it to other hard drives unless it is a copyright-protected file.
  • Transfer media to other devices
    • You can copy or move the file and save it to play on other devices unless it is a copyright-protected file.
  • Always get best quality
  • Usually no firewall issues.
  • Usually, you must wait until the download is complete before you can watch the media.
  • The downloaded file can be streamed to other devices once it has been saved.
 

Egypt entrepreneurs foster innovation during Global Entrepreneurship Week!

Global Entrepreneurship Week is the world’s largest celebration of the innovators and job creators who launch startups that bring ideas to life, drive economic growth and expand human welfare.

During one week each November, GEW inspires people everywhere through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators. These activities, from large-scale competitions and events to intimate networking gatherings, connect participants to potential collaborators, mentors and even investors—introducing them to new possibilities and exciting opportunities.

GEW

Celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week in Egypt:

With over 150 countries participating and celebrating the Global entrepreneurship week in all its form; GEWEgypt with the great support of MCSBE team the GEW Egypt kicked off  from 16 to 23 November with over 120 activities.

GEW Egypt at the Greek Campus
GEW Egypt at the Greek Campus

The opening ceremony started on Sunday 16th November 2014 at The GrEEK Campus, Down Town, Cairo with lots of interesting activities taking place during the week by MCSBE and as well by strategic partners ILO and EJB. the event is sponsored by Vodafone, Organizing Partners include Nahdet El Mahroosa, MC Egypt, Ice Cairo, VC4Africa, Cairo University, Nile University, AUC, BUE, Arab Academy for Science & Technology and Maritime Transport, AWTAD, Injaz, Innoventures, US Embassy, Phai, Maan,  and many others. – Read more here

One of the Remarkable events that took place on November 19th & 20 is Cairo Innovates organized by the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology in cooperation with Nahdet El Mahroussa: a 2 day event transforming The GrEEK Campus in Tahrir Square into a science hub!

The Opening Ceremony was attended by Minister of Scientific Research Sherif Hamad, former Prime Minister Essam Sharaf and the former Minister of Higher Education Amr Ezzat Salama and director of Nahdel El Mahroussa Loay El Shawarby, As well as heads of research centers and institutes and universities and a number of business owners and representatives of civil society organizations

Cairo Innovates Opening

Cairo Innovates Opening

A Sciene Hub at the Greek Campus by Cairo Innovates

Cairo Innovates A Science Hub at the Greek Campus

Cairo Innovates is an event gathering that brings together all regional R&D stakeholders in one place — the pipeline of innovators and scientists who are Egyptianising technology and building the Egyptian economy and the mentors, accelerators, incubators, investors and crowd-funding platforms that can empower and drive their innovation.

Cairo Innovates at The Greek Campus

The Greek Campus fully packed with Innovators

 The aim is to create a buzz for science and encourage its local growth. For the first time, Egyptian scientists and innovators will take over the GrEEK Campus — we want their excitement to become contagious! says Cairo Innovates

Also an Employment fair for Startups by Injaz Egypt giving the opportunity to youth and startups to explore all Employment opportunities available in the market.

 Injaz Egypt Employment FairInjaz Egypt Employment Fair

Bottom Line

Egypt Has great potential  for entrepreneurship to serve as a dynamic force in a New Egypt as well improving the state of the national economy in Egypt and start-ups have good growth potential

Proudly there’s great organizations in Egypt supporting and empowering the new generations, the Entrepreneurs and Startups through different options  incubation, extensive mentorship and funds such as Startup Mena, Masrdotbokra, Injaz Egypt, Endeavor Egypt, Flat 6 Labs, Nahdet El Mahrousa , AUC School of Business, Startup weekend, and lots More

We as InsideOut Today always proud to  be part of the community and supporting the Startups we also participated  last month at RiseUp Egypt Summit (Riseup summit is Egypt’s largest entrepreneurship summit to be held for the 2nd year) and we provided lots of interesting activities at the Summit check it here

We also hold a public chat over twitter Every other Thursday at 1 PM (Cairo – Egypt – Local Time) for one hour using the hashtag #IOTTT to discuss latest topics & trends related to business & technology, this month we are talking about Online Video Marketing!

And gladly we will host a special Twitter chat on the Occasion of the GEW on Sunday 23 November at 12 Noon to Discuss Egypt entrepreneurs foster innovation during GEW!

SUNDAY TWITTER CHAT

Get Involved and Join #IOTTT twitter chat we value your opinion!

Here’s how:

  • Follow @insideout_today
  • Click here to view and follow the feed directly on Twitter.
  • Add the hashtag #IOTTT to each of your tweets and begin each response by noting which question you’re answering (“A1:” to answer question 1, for example) So everybody can follow along

And here is snap from #IOTTT past twitter chats

 

The History of Streaming…What is Streaming?

 

Streaming Basics

streaming basics

The History

streaming historyIn the early 1920s, George O. Squier was granted patents for a system for the transmission and distribution of signals over electrical lines which was the technical basis for what later became Muzak, a technology streaming continuous music to commercial customers without the use of radio.

Attempts to display media on computers date back to the earliest days of computing in the mid-20th century. However, little progress was made for several decades, primarily due to the high cost and limited capabilities of computer hardware. From the late 1980s through the 1990s, consumer-grade personal computers became powerful enough to display various media.

During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Internet users saw:

  • Greater network bandwidths.
  • Increased access to networks, especially the Internet.
  • Use of standard protocols and formats, such as TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML
  • Commercialization of the Internet.

Severe Tire Damage” was the first band to perform live on the Internet. On June 24, 1993, the band was playing a gig at Xerox PARC while elsewhere in the building, scientists were discussing new technology (the Mbone) for broadcasting on the Internet using multicasting. As proof of their technology, the band was broadcast and could be seen live in Australia and elsewhere.

The first symphonic concert on the internet took place at the Paramount Theater in Seattle, Washington on November 10, 1995. The concert was a collaboration between The Seattle Symphony and various guest musicians such as Slash (Guns ‘n Roses, Velvet Revolver), Matt Cameron (Soundgarden, Pearl Jam), and Barrett Martin (Screaming Trees).

When Word Magazine launched in 1995, they featured the first-ever streaming soundtracks on the Internet. Using local downtown musicians

  • The first music stream was “Big Wheel” by Karthik Swaminathan.
  • The second being “When We Were Poor” by Karthik Swaminathan with Marc Ribot and Christine Bard.

What is streaming

what is streaming

Generally speaking, streamed data can be any information/data that is delivered from a server to a host where the data represents information that must be delivered in real time. This could be video, audio, graphics, slide shows, web tours, combinations of these, or any other real time application.

Definition: Streaming media is video or audio content sent in compressed form over the Internet and played immediately, rather than being saved to the hard drive.

Explanation: Streaming or media streaming is a technique for transferring data so that it can be processed as a steady and continuous stream. Streaming technologies are becoming increasingly important with the growth of the Internet because most users do not have fast enough access to download large multimedia files quickly. With streaming, the client browser or plug-in can start displaying the data before the entire file has been transmitted.

With streaming media, a user does not have to wait to download a file to play it. Because the media is sent in a continuous stream of data it can be played as it arrives.

For streaming to work, the client side receiving the data must be able to collect the data and send it as a steady stream to the application that is processing the data and converting it to sound or pictures. This means that if the streaming client receives the data more quickly than required, it needs to save the excess data in a buffer. If the data doesn’t come quickly enough, however, the presentation of the data will not be smooth.

 

Egyptian Startups Ditch the Entrepreneurial World at RiseUp14

More inspiration, more success stories & strong advices combined with amazing vibes Feeding off innovation and enthusiasm for Startups.

Vibrant entrepreneurial community at RiseUp14

RiseUp14

More investments, more pitches and more funding were shown this year at RiseUp14:

From Networking, pitches, keynote speeches, Inspiring success stories, round table discussions, workshops, Trade Fair for startups and panel discussions the young startups were given the opportunity to be in touch with the entrepreneurial world, investors, mentors and top successful entrepreneurs from around the world for more funding and mentoring opportunities,

RiseUp14 took place this Year from 12 to 14 October at the Greek Campus at the American University in Tahrir Square.

This year the event included around 3,000 startup projects and 150 investors, drawing many high-profile public figures

The event kicked off on October 12 with a welcome speech by Abd El Hameed Sharara founder of RiseUp Egypt followed by sports competitions by Transforma and the amazing performance of Mostafa Hussein Band wich made the crowd very enthusiastic and energetic in this great atmosphere.

Then inspiring key notes speeches by Ahmed Gabr the man of the deepest dive in the World! He now has a place in the Guinness Book of Records with 350meters and Dr. Naif Mutawa, the creator of THE 99, the first group of comic superheroes born of an Islamic archetype

crowd in the opening

Opening of RiseUp14

Event Highlights:

The 2 days packed event on October 13th and 14th was perfectly designed to connect Egyptian Startups with the top successful entrepreneurs, investors and mentors.

Representatives and delegations from 17 different countries participated at the RiseUp Summit this year.

The countries represented are from the UK, Austria, the Netherlands, Germany, Turkey, Denmark, Tunisia, Morocco, Rwanda, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and India. The individuals and groups from these countries participated as a variety of different organizations including co-working spaces, investment funds, incubators and consultants

The event featured a mixture of keynotes:

The two days packed event featured several keynote speeches, successful entrepreneurs sharing there success stories on Enspire Talk Stage by Endeavor, startups showing their products and services in several booths by Injaz Egypt “Injaz Egypt Trade Fair”, a Speed Dating for startups bringing them together with potential cofounders through 15 minute conversations organized by Flat6Labs, as well as workshops, roundtables, debates, fireside Chats and many other activities.

On October 13th the start of the day was super strong with a very inspiring key note speech by Dave Mcclure sharing crucial advices and tips with the attendees.

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Dave Mcclure Key note speech

Also a very interesting first panel discussions by MITEF Pan Arab “The Arab World Meets Silicon Valley” Moderated by Chris Schroeder and the panelists were Dave McClure, Fadi Ghandour, Hala Fadel and Ahmed al-Alfy” – All the panels discussions are available for viewing online here

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Arab World Meets Silicon Valley MITEFArab Panel Discussion

On October 14th the opening started with a very inspiring key note speech by Engineer Wael Rizk followed by lots of inspiring success stories on Enspire talk Stage and more other great activities.

WAEL RIZK

Wael Rizk Key note speech

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Chris Khalifa Inspiring Success Story of Zooba Eats On Enspire Talk Stage

InsideOut Today Participation:

InsideOut Today proudly provided for the 2nd consecutive year the live streaming service for the RiseUp Summit broadcasting the event to the world over the web to different devices and smart phones. It attracted more than 2,000 viewers to the live stream embedded on different websites.

InsideOut Today provided RiseUp with a turn-key solution that included the capturing devices, encoders and cloud streaming servers.

The overall views where +2,000 you can view all recorded session here

Besides live streaming we had different activities in RiseUp14:

1. Roundtable discussion: On October 13th InsideOut Today hosted a roundtable discussion at the RiseUp summit and we chose a complex topic that we witness online every day in Egypt “Impact of social networks in Egypt on media and news” Guests for this roundtable were media stars – Doha Al Zohairy presenter at Al Arabiya TV channel and also the social media influencers – Mahmoud Salem Award winning Blogger (Best ME blog in 2006, BOB Best English Blog in 2011) Guests shared their opinions and experience with the attendees and it was a really interesting discussion!

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

InsideOut Today – Roundtable Discussion

2. Workshop: On October 14th we had a very interesting workshop at the RiseUp summit “Content Marketing Innovations for Startups” at the workshop our CEO Fady Ramzy went through the journey of online content from understanding what is content marketing & its importance, to the latest innovations in content marketing, the art of story telling, understanding the new platforms such as scan media and augmented reality and understanding the CONTEXT and he presented some examples of innovative content check it here

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InsideOut Today – Workshop

 And also our CEO Fady Ramzy was interviewed by Al Horra TV giving his opinion about RiseUp14

Fady interview horra TV

Fady Ramzy Interview with Al Horra TV

The Closing Ceremony:

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Abd El Hameed Sharara – Closing Ceremony

The Hashtag #riseup14 was trending during the summit and it generated a great engagement as people were posting pictures and feedback during and after the event and we collected some lovely pictures from #riseup14 on our flicker account Was such a great journey to be operating Social and covering the event; we enjoy being part of the community and supporting entrepreneurship in all fields.

See you in RiseUp15!