February, 2003
A Little Help from Our Friends…..
by Ken Pyle
This Beatles song keeps going through my head as I try to put some order to all of the things going on right now. The big focus for Viodi right now is the upcoming Independent Telco Video Content Conference. Of course, this conference and most everything else we do is pretty insignificant compared to threats we face from the terrorist scum that would like send us back to the seventh century.
Clearly, we are relying on and owe a great deal of debt to our brave friends in the military, police and intelligent agencies that protect us every day. It sometimes seems like there is very little that we can do amidst a world of uncertainty. But to paraphrase President Bush, the best way to defeat these thugs is go about our business as usual. And so that’s what we will all do!
And I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the friends who are helping me to keep the Viodi business "going as usual" and who are playing a key part in this month’s conference. Peter Lowten, Russ Breault and Brian Stevenson have been very helpful in tying together the many loose ends that are inevitable in organizing a conference.
Of course, the conference couldn’t happen without the fine line-up of friends, who will be enlightening us regarding cable television, iTV and VOD, or without the generous support of our friends who are sponsoring this conference. Our sponsor friends all have technical roots in the spirit of Silicon Valley, even if they may have sprouted in places far away from here. The tech field is such that one meets a great number of people through the course of a career and many of those people become friends.
A great deal of cross pollination occurs in tech because of these friendships and that makes the magic that continues to be the spirit of Silicon Valley. I have had the good fortune to see some of this Silicon Valley magic in the past few weeks in the form of some interesting video products developed by different friends in different companies right here in this former “valley of the heart’s delight”.
I hope you have enjoyed this issue of the Viodi View and I hope to see you in LA at the end of the month. In the meantime,
we will all get by with a little help from our friends…..
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