Web Hosting Firm Speedera and AlwaysOn to Video Blog Sessions

Speedera Networks (www.speedera.com), a provider of on-demand distributed application hosting and content delivery services, and super-weblog site AlwaysOn, founded by Tony Perkins, today announced that the two organizations will be enabling Internet viewers around the world to view live video streams of the World Economic Forum (WEF) sessions held January 26-30 in Davos, Switzerland.

Through the use of "video Web logs", viewers will additionally be able to interact by rating content of the sessions, posting reviews, and expressing their opinions.

"For those people passionate about the global issues being debated in Davos, this video blogging service is an enormous leap forward in communications," said Ajit Gupta, president and CEO of Speedera Networks, which is hosting and delivering the WEF content for AlwaysOn.

"This joint project between AlwaysOn and Speedera will make the WEF more transparent than it has ever been before," said Tony Perkins, founder of AlwaysOn, which has a user base of more than 165,000 bloggers.

The video will be streamed through Microsoft Windows Media and combined with interactivity through text Web logging (or "blogging"). This means users not only can view the sessions in real time, they can also comment in real-time as they watch.

Any visitor to the www.alwayson-network.com site can view the sessions. To join the blog and post comments, visitors must register, which is free of charge.

In addition to video blogging the event live, Speedera and AlwaysOn are making the content available as archived files for six months following the event.

Over the course of this year's five-day event - expected to draw more than 2,500 participants from 96 countries - key political figures will be in attendance such as Victor Yushchenko, the new leader of the Ukraine, U.S. Senator John McCain, and Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission.