http://www.technologyreview.com/web/25361/?ref=rss&a=f
.................The software, free for anyone to use or modify, may
not sound particularly special. Called VP8, it is a video codec--
software used to compress video for transfer online and decompress it
for playback at the other end. Google acquired VP8 in February, when
it bought a small New York company called On2.
However, this seemingly humble piece of code is being promoted by
Google and a consortium of major software and hardware vendors as a
crucial tool that will bring about a new wave of online innovation.
Google combined VP8 with an existing open-source audio codec, called
Vorbis, to create a new free video format called
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