After reading the article, I found nothing new that I hadn't already learned by reading the books and papers already out by other authors like Edward Castronova and Nick Yee. I wish someone would focus less on explaining the what the concept is about and more on some actual case studies instead. In theory it sounds interesting, but who is getting it to work and what did they do?

But this is only a problem because gas is so cheap in the US. If gas was taxed properly to support infrastructure, public transportation and research on alternatives instead of subsidising it. Gas in Sweden is roughly twice as expensive compared to California.

I want Swallow! Bring it to Mac too!

They do have som good algorithms both in the QuickTime Player and the QuickTimeStreamingServer which if they implemented that in iTunes and iTV could get people playing shows, even over Wireless networks, to get instant play of their shows.

It will be really interesting to see how well it works, but I'm guessing that there will be a significant delay initially but in a future upgrade it will be gone.