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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mike Afergan, Senior VP & GM of Web Experience Business Unit, Akamai (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: What exactly are some of those decisions? Would you give us examples of some of the more complex decisions that happen at the edges? Mike Afergan: Sure, take image manipulation, adapting an image. To be clear, it’s simple from a conceptual perspective. It’s easy to understand. Doing that at scale across a number
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mike Afergan, Senior VP & GM of Web Experience Business Unit, Akamai (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: There are a variety of user experiences and architecture designs that are being stored and based on what device a request is coming in from, the right one is being served. You’re saying that the decision of which of those designs is going to be served and what performance level is being done
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mike Afergan, Senior VP & GM of Web Experience Business Unit, Akamai (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s take the situational complexity and performance topics. Could you talk about at what point is each of these problems being solved? Who is solving what part of this diversity? Is it the Web experience owner? What part of the problem is he solving? What part of the problem is an infrastructure vendor
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mike Afergan, Senior VP & GM of Web Experience Business Unit, Akamai (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: On those two trends, from where you sit at Akamai, how does that affect what you offer and what your customers are looking for from you to support those trends? Mike Afergan: There are a lot of things that come from those trends, a lot of exciting things. I’d focus on three trends
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mike Afergan, Senior VP & GM of Web Experience Business Unit, Akamai (Part 1)
Those who read my blog regularly will recognize the company Akamai. I have featured it in several Technology Stocks posts as well as in an interview with Willie Tejada for my Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing series and an interview with Tom Leighton for Entrepreneur Journeys. Since being founded in 1998, Akamai has been a
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: David Aronchick, Co-Founder and CEO of Hark (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: If I were an app developer, and I wanted to mash up some Dark Knight content and use Dark Knight characters to build an app or game, today, I have to go through a proper licensing process, correct? David Aronchick: Yes. There are variety of things you would need to do. The unfortunate
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: David Aronchick, Co-Founder and CEO of Hark (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: In which direction do you think the business is going to go? Is it going to be that movie executives would want to chop up their content and distribute through your website or YouTube for marketing purposes? Or do you think this is going to be the kind of monetization opportunity you were
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: David Aronchick, Co-Founder and CEO of Hark (Part 4)
SM: So, if I were a marketer thinking about how to use your capability, and let’s say I work for a movie studio, one of the things I would want to do when a new movie is coming out is to release a whole bunch of clips on your site so that there’s lots of
