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To: Don Potenza who wrote (2930)	4/25/1999 11:57:00 PM
From: Pruguy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5843

Lycos announced they are forming a new competitor to Magnitude network and Brooadcast.com.... this will allow to break in to programming to make special announcements. No surprise here.....It will be using Realnetworks software to run the system....Bagged Barry Diller...another coup for the GLaser and CO. This is no small news event at all Barry Diller's sponsorship of rnwk is a major event

To: Don Potenza who wrote (2930)	4/27/1999 12:35:00 PM
From: soup	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 5843

"Tiny and Jerky" >Hey, soup, you are getting annoying ...< You have no idea. >... with all this repetition of your initial posts.< You want repetition, reread the last SI/RNWK 100 posts on. On SI/AAPL we discuss technology, marketing, product and marketing strategy, management/board composition, comparative valuations, technical analysis option strategies, occasional cheerleading and even ... WHAT THE COMPETITION IS DOING! The only thing I see here is "Go RNWK!"; When's the stock going to split?"; "RNWK's signed a (non-exclusive) licensing deal with so-and-so"; "Yahoo!", etc. IMO, You all need to have the quality of RNWK discussion upgraded. And frankly, isn't that is what the presence of a reasoned "bear" should precipitate? >... but as far as streaming goes, you are living in another world if you think QT 4 will pose a serious threat to RNWK.< QuickTime 4.0 taps into Net's richest vein: images. >Apple just "staked a claim," to use gold miners' parlance, to what could be the richest vein of that gold rush that is the Internet. The nuggets of the Internet are the things you can download such as photos, music, entertainment, movies, educational materials, virtual reality views, or anything else people want to view. The curse of the Internet is that most of the really interesting things to see take a disproportionate amount of time to download, and often require many different "plug-in" programs. Even then, these nuggets are often fool's gold, as in "tiny and jerky" or "incomplete and disappointing." But what if there were a technology that would allow you to download a movie and view it full-screen while it was downloading -- without waiting and without skips and jerks?< uniontrib.com Could it be, I'm not the only one who's underwhelmed by RealPlayer? The article goes on to describe the coming boom in online content creation and the inevitable ubiquity of streaming media -- made possible - not by the mega-sized mass-media content providers, but by the free distribution of QT server technology to anyone with a home PC and something to say. >Please go back to the i-mac thread and post when you've got something RNeWK to say.< I do my best. But nothing I say (or don't say) will matter to those who don't want to hear. soup PS> Anyone care to post/BLS a good analysis of what MSFT is up to?