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Let's take ten of the most popular new consumer technology products in recent years (with a couple of our portfolio companies in the mix): iPhone, Facebook, Wii, Hulu, FlipCam, Rock Band, Mafia Wars, Blogger, Pandora, and Twitter and let's try to describe in one sentence or less why they broke out (feel free to debate the reasons they broke out in the comments): In most of these cases, the breakthrough product or service delivered a new experience to consumers that they had never had before.
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The television set can support digital media but it often lacks a browser. That's what Google is banking on will make the difference. A browser, search and content that can be seen on a television set as easily as on a digital device. This will have the purpose of providing television with its own Web oriented architecture. In anticipation of the coming bridge between television and the Internet, independent filmmaker Zak Forsman began digging into what it would cost in time and money to launch an online video on demand (VOD) portal for Sabi Pictures. He then needed a streaming server. Dynamic Streaming.
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