Sling… Shot
Sling Media was acquired by EchoStar… great news for a really cool company with a great product. I dig that Sling Media has always had a strong interest in mobile. They have had a Windows Mobile client for a quite a while - it is pretty slick. And recently I believe they announced a version for Palm and intentions for a J2ME client.
I got my first Sling box from my friend Andy. He let me borrow it - it was one of the original batch and the streams were unencrypted - Windows Media format. I was trying to hack the thing to see if I could pull off a stream from my cable box, pump into a media server, and broadcast that stream live (their software limits you to a one-one peering). Yeh, I know the pirating implications are not admirable, but it was a fun project. That led to another project, which led to a dead end… but valuable lessons learned along the way.
Anyway, congrats to the team, local investor Ryan McIntyre, and Jason Hirschhorn from Sling who I met through NewsGator.