Bittorrent Redux
I wrote about bittorrent here and contrasted them with the much more successful Akamai. This seems like an odd juxtaposition to some, but the fact is that bittorrent wanted to play in content distribution and even made and marketed products that claimed to do so. Of course we know their strategy was lacking vis a […]
Why BitTorrent inc lost the war for online content distribution
Excerpt from a strategy analysis done at the Columbia Business School Summary On the surface, Akamai and Bittorrent have similar solutions to similar sounding problems, to whit: How do you move content from content owner’s originating servers to requesting consumers without the delays associated with the general internet. This is a serious problem for (a) […]