Some marketing seems to be happening. Found this on Briefing.com:
PSINet (PSIX) : If you can't catch a fireworks show this weekend in
person, watch the Nation's US fireworks display on the net. PSINet, the
ISP that seems to be acquiring local ISPs as fast as they can, is doing a little
PR this weekend as they are both sponsoring the event and providing the
network services. Ampex (AXC) is producing the "webcast" and you can
view it at tvontheweb.com starting at 9:00 PM EST on Sunday,
July 4. This particular event isn't really an investing event for today; it won't
really do anything for PSIX or AXC right now. But Briefing.com believes
that the second generation of the internet, with a complete blending of
digital video and audio with all of the great features of the text internet,
searching, linking, and open distribution, will be a bigger boom than the first
version of the internet. While the next generation internet isn't really in place
at all yet, nearly everything is still technically troublesome, it seems clear that
the video internet, what we have also called "media" internet, will be even
bigger than the text internet, eventually. This particular broadcast, of
fireworks and choreographed music, seems as good a place as any to mark
the advent of the new era. Fireworks are always kind of hard to capture on
TV, should be interesting to see what it looks like over the internet. - RVG |
