Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

[etopia]

Newbie with thanks and suggestions

Dear IHUB members,

Yesterday, an MPEG-4 audio interview I conducted with Brian Berger, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Wave Systems on my Trusted Computing World website got more visits than any of my posts on my web sites ever has.

This was, I soon figured out, because KmS posted: Has anybody listened to this?

http://63.206.28.65/get/tcw/tcw2.html

on this "Wave Systems" (WAVX) e-mail list.

Since then I've exchanged e-mails with Matt, signed up as "Etopia," and read the rules.

Now I'm trying to find a way to repeat and augment yesterday's stampede by offering to provide value to IHUB members.

Investors interested in Trusted Computing should know that there's another audio interview already on the TC World site. It's an interview with Jim Ward, who is in the software group at IBM and is also the President and Board Chair at the Trusted Computing Group. You can hear Jim Ward talk about Trusted Computing at:

http://63.206.28.65/get/tcw/tcw1.html

Investors interested in grid computing should know that I also maintain the Grid Computing World site, at:

http://63.206.28.65/get/gw/grid0.html

It's full of interviews with spokespersons from Intel, United Devices, Globus, the NIH, and so on.

Before I go on to mention a proposal designed to help both my operation and investors with the need to know, I need to mention two other points.

The server that delivers these and other audio clips of interest to avid listeners is a powerful Sun Microsystems LX50 which is capable of serving up to 120 simultaneous MPEG-4 audio streams. Unfortunately, I am just getting started in the audio publishing business, I am not by any means over-capitalized, and so the upstream connection off my server is a puny DSL link from SBC that only allows for 4 simultaneous upstream transmissions, if they are set for 56 kbps.

Of course, this is tragic. Yesterday, during the rush on the Wave Systems clip, intrepid visitors who got there early could log in and listen to the interview with Brian Berger unimpeded. But after four of them were hooked up, no one else could access the sound files, so they came, saw there was nothing for them, and left.

I very much want to remedy this problem.

One way to solve it would be to spend more money to either co-locate the server at a server farm or pay for some other hosting solution that would give me greater outgoing bandwidth. These solutions will, however, cost money.

I am a registered Google AdSense publisher and if enough people click enough times on the ads on each of the pages on these sites I'll get enough money to upgrade the infrastructure and serve everyone who wants them all the audio clips to which they may want to listen.

So if you find yourself on one of my sites, drawn by a desire to hear some industry luminary or other explain the technology and business prospects of his or her company, and there's an ad there you might be interested in, just click on it (and maybe one or two others). It won't cost you anything and, if enough people do that, I'll be able to upgrade the upstream channel and serve more files to eager listeners.

This brings me to the next, and final, point. Pleased and surprised as I was to get so much sudden traffic generated by a link on IHUB, I am still calm enough to pose this question to you members: If there are companies, or government agencies, or personalities associated with either, about which you would like to know more, you can send me their names, along with general or specific questions you would like answered, and I will try to add them to my list of interviewee at the earliest possible time.

Then I can tell you about the interviews, you can visit my pages, listen to the sound clips (while clicking on the ads) and we'll have a win-win-win-win-win (me, you, the interviewees, Google Adsense, and their advertisers) situation.

If you have any comments about this proposal, or are ready to suggest a company, agency or person to be interviewed on one of my sites, you can send these comments and/or suggestions to me at:

[e-mail]

Thanks in advance for any interest you may have in these suggestions.

Regards,

"Etopia"