Have you noticed it already? What is the biggest change on the internet in the last five years? If you haven’t already noticed it, it is the growth of audio and video on ordinary websites.
How often recently have you browsed onto a webpage and an audio track has started instantly? Until about a year ago it required an expensive studio setup to be able to stream audio across the web. Now there are free open source programs that will let you record straight to your hard drive. The quality is good enough, without any editing, to be used online. The piece of software that is used to create the streaming audio file is inexpensive enough for anyone. In fact members of my site have access to it included in the resources section.
Video is now taking the net by storm as well. Within the very near future you will begin to see the sort of “info-mercial” that currently appears on late night cable channels appearing on the web. New compression technology means that videos can be streamed within the web page, making them accessible to almost anyone with web access. At the other end of web video check out the “mobloggs” already appearing with video...