Yesterday I dumped an article on my blog about Livestation (after I had posted a couple of articles about Skinkers AND Livestation). Title was something “like Microsoft readies Joost killer”. First thing happening was a comment from someone at Livestation who explained that it’s Skinkers who takes initiative, not Microsoft although Microsoft has a minor stake in Skinkers. Also he commented that Livestation is not readying a Joost killer, it isn’t even the target (in short, it’s p2p television).  Short after this I noticed the blogosphere was picking up articles telling that Microsoft was readying a Joost killer. Mashable, ZDNet, etc… Shortly after publishing the comments came in on those blogs correcting the articles and writers.  And then there was Long Zheng with one of his fabulous blog posts, read it here. In one word, FANTASTIC!. Long Zheng was followed by Ed Bott’s article “Welcome to the echo chamber Long”. But that ain’t all,  Robert Scoble picked up the stories of Long Zheng and Ed Bott. Finally, the guy who first came up with a story about Skinkers and Livestation and is working for Microsoft, Steve Clayton came up with his opinion of this all (for those who don’t know, he was the one who did the videos. Oh, before I forget, Mashable picked it up with the wrong title but also I feel they have no intention to mention their sources and don’t want to mention the video producers?

I myself made the mistake to link to the blogs who got it wrong, received a comment about it and decided to change the title of the article and included a reference in the article to the comment in my article.

Things I learned are pointed out in Scoble’s post, don’t trust the news the first 24 hrs, but also, don’t hesitate to change some things in the post. Things I didn’t blog about are for example the screenshots from  the new Internet explorer 8 (http://technorati.com/posts/tag/ie8)

Last thing: Jari from Skinkers corrected makes things clear, just read the article on Steve Claytons blog and for those who are interested in the difference:

What is different? There have been several ways to watch TV on your PC, so what is different here? (Source: Don Dodge, Microsoft Emerging Business team)

• LiveStation uses Peer-to-Peer technology to distribute the TV signal, so it doesn’t require a big server infrastructure and lots of bandwidth. The P2P technology was developed at Microsoft’s Cambridge research lab and functions similar to BitTorrent.
• Silverlight allows the video to be displayed in very high quality, and with amazing speed. Silverlight was unveiled at MIX07 earlier this year to rave reviews. LiveStation shows off the power and elegance of Silverlight.
• Live TV, this isn’t recorded TV being re-broadcast…it is live, without delay. Of course the technology could be modified to stream recorded shows or other types of content.
• TV on your cell phone? Silverlight runs on cell phones, so in the future LiveStation could deliver Live TV directly to your cell phone or mobile device