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Netflix built an army of servers to stream TV—now it’s powering games

Fast Company Tech

A little over a decade ago, Netflix decided to take streaming into its own hands: Instead of relying on commercial content delivery services, the streamer built its own servers from scratch, and gave them away to internet service providers. It can serve about 500,000 simultaneous streams. Thats something that were building now.

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Event Platform vs Streaming Platform

AccelEvents

Should you opt for a streaming platform like Youtube or social media, or would an event technology better suit your needs? Here’s a breakdown of the biggest differences between an event platform and a streaming platform for hosting a virtual event. Streaming Platform Overview and Advantages.

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A Gentle Introduction to Analytical Stream Processing

Towards Data Science

Building a Mental Model for Engineers and Anyone in Between Stream Processing can be handled gently and with care, or wildly, and almost out of control! How you transition from a batch mindset to a streaming mindset although can also be tricky, so let’s start small and build. You be the judge of what future you’d rather embrace.

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Amazon is bringing virtual viewing parties to Prime subscribers with Watch Party

The Verge

Amazon didn’t share a full list of titles, but a press release from the company states anything from the streaming service’s US catalog should be featured. Watch Party hosts will oversee full synchronized playback controls and a chat feature to talk with all other guests. Prime Video’s new Watch Party feature is entirely private.

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HBO Max launches a group watch tool to stream full episodes on Snapchat

The Verge

With HBO Max Minis, users will be able to stream the pilots of select series with up to 63 other Snapchatters. And now, HBO Max Minis will allow anyone on Snapchat to view entire episodes of more than a dozen series from the streaming service for free, including pilots from Lovecraft Country and Game of Thrones. Image: HBO Max.

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Amazon is rolling out Watch Party social viewing feature for Prime members

TechSpot

According to Variety, it consists of synchronized video playback controlled by the host alongside a chat window on the right side of the video stream. Amazon’s Watch Party is a native social viewing experience for PC users. With support for up to 100 participants, Amazon is practically guaranteeing that nobody.

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What are your most useful synchronous online facilitation practices?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by/NC from Matthew Saunders' Flickr Stream. That's why Nancy White's post on most useful synchronous online facilitation practices really caught my eye. Nancy takes us through a gradient of modalities and technologies for synchronous meetings. I posted a question on the educator listserv and there doesn't seem to be one.