The view is great from YouTube
For those keeping track of the massive online video traffic, the latest January numbers show YouTube still holds a commanding lead. The Google-owned vid site racks up about 53 percent of total online video traffic.
Next four are: AOL Video (11 percent) Yahoo Video (10 percent), MySpace (8 percent) and MSN/Live Video (3.5 percent). According to the numbers from Compete.com, all but MSN gained in share from the month before.
The biggest gainer was AOL, up 32 percent since December in total share.
Comcast: ‘No big deal’
Facing scrutiny from the FCC over its “network management,” Comcast officials said last week what they’re doing does not amount to discrimination or traffic interference.
That explanation was offered as federal regulators study whether ISPs like Comcast should be disciplined for interrupting certain types of data traffic, like file sharing, an Associated Press report said.
Comcast, in filings with the FCC, said network management of peer-to-peer applications doesn’t violate the Federal Communications Commission’s network neutrality principles. Citizen groups have filed charges, accusing the cable giant of engaging in discriminatory traffic practices. Comcast is accused of interfering with peer-to-peer file sharing and other services.
“The carefully limited measures that Comcast takes to manage traffic on its broadband network — including its very limited management of certain P2P protocols — are a reasonable part of Comcast’s strategy to ensure a high-quality, reliable Internet experience for all Comcast (customers),” Comcast said in a Feb. 13 FCC filing.
FCC rules prohibit broadband providers from discriminating in the delivery of Internet traffic to customers, except for reasonable network management purposes.
Yahoo the new Digghoo?
Yahoo announced a new service called Yahoo Buzz that uses consumers’ voting to uncover the most popular content from sites across the Internet and bring them to Yahoo’s homepage.
The service, currently in trial, measures consumer votes and search patterns to identify interesting and timely stories and videos from large news sources as well as niche blogs. It said the top stories will be given primary editorial consideration for feature placement on Yahoo.com.
Yahoo said it was an example of the company’s move to open up the site to more third-party publishers and make it more social and relevant to its users.
The same “crowdsourced” system to assign story priority has been used at popular bookmarking sites such as Digg or Newsvine.