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Jeff Pulver: It’s been amazing, I mean the whole experience this week with the people, the technology, the vision and the reality of seeing all this come together. Its one thing to talk about it from far, when you bring people from the world of Media, Internet, Communications and Entertainment together, not just from your local town or city, not just from New York or Hollywood, but from the world. It’s pretty amazing, I have run across people here that flown in from Asia, from South America, from Africa, they came here from all over Europe and they are really interested in what’s going on in the world of video and the internet and how advances are broader than our changing what they are doing, perhaps breaking certain things to get the same time opening up new opportunities and that was this week that I actually announced the creation of two things the Video On the Net Alliance which frankly is open to everybody, as always strongly would encourage you to join, because its free and if you are interested in what’s going on in the future, it’s a great group of people who are helping to drive that future and set that charter. They also filed the petition at the FCC on Tuesday that was the requesting for regulatory, for pre-emptive ruling that, well let’s just say that we are looking for the FCC not to regulate Video on the Internet.

As the big multimedia companies, the big moguls old school start to figure out what’s happening to their future. There is really somebody there who wants to take some old rules and apply to the new technology, because that’s in their, it’s in their DNA, even if they are embracing this technology themselves from the top to down, so sort of pre-emptive strike what  already started happening in Europe with the EUs looking at applying some type of broadcast regulations to internet video. I'm asking for declaratory ruling on behalf of Network 2, that in fact Video on the Internet is not subject to the communications act into both title 3 and title 6, which it should be a no brainer, but nothing in Washington is ever a no brainer and really interest that we have at heart, are not only our own, but everyone else around us.

Everyone in this place who in someway, shape or form is contributing to this social sculpture which is making up this new Internet and what’s really fun here at one is that we bring together the world’s phone companies, bring together the entertainment guys and this is an event centered in this time around Silicon Valley, so you see a lot of tech innovation and you see a lot of people trying to figure out what is exactly going on and how is that happening and it doesn’t matter whether or not people are talking about one key form of communication another at the end of the day. So, new and exciting stuff is here and its after 10 years of doing this and starting out really small to get to a point of time when if people come here from all over the world this is destination, it’s a lot of fun to sometimes, well, be me.

Ed Kohler: Sure, you have bit of history in the background of public policy is it’s related to technology, why is that you are passionate about that side of business, what kind that got you, think why that’s…

Jeff Pulver: Well, in 1996 when I was still gainfully employed, a petition was brought forth to the FCC asking for the sale and use of Internet telephony software to banned in America and the makers of such offer to be regularizes phone companies, that was known as The ACTA Petition, that began then creation on ad hoc basis, what is now know as the Voice on the Net Collision and I started that by reaching as my data base people, when I found 110 companies from all over the world, some as big as Microsoft, Netscape and Intel in a small start ups and we advocated to not regulate this an ACN technology, we advocated that if they are going to regulate it should be smart regulations that advocation was good for at least nine years. I learned that if we don’t make a voice for yourself in Washington, you are not heard and then only voice it is heard is of the voice of the lobyists with people represent people with deep pockets and telecom is one market place whenever we are dealing with the market of television, were in the United States $66 billion was spent just on advertising alone.

The big disruption is going to happen when advertising sales move in some part, growing manner from TV to the Internet and so, from our perspective its obvious that as this cards are played out, since the net is one of the place coming up, in fact its going to be a play where lobbies can involve and try to put their own petitions trying to block somehow the creative juices that’s making up this nascent industry and if we don’t take a voice and standup and do something, someone will take that voice away from us and as the matter for fact 2003, when the world is coming back together and I was involved with another store of technical freeware dial-up, I looked at the advancements of voice over broadband and I realized that if the phone companies understood what I understood, as voice over broadband was destructive to the core business, they would do everything they could to stop it before progress, because that’s how they work. Well, I filed the petition of my own asking for declaratory ruling and Voice Over Broadband, it doesn’t touch legacy phone network and ends up on the Broadband Internet, were not to be regulated as telecom and it took a year, but in February 2004, the Pulver Order was issued and that’s taught me that one person can make a difference, then nothing is impossible and that if you believe in yourself and your convictions, you can actually create law and order.

Ed Kohler: Yeah, its big difference there.

Jeff Pulver: And so, of course I did I was able to make that Pulver Order happen, I am not shy.

Ed Kohler: Yeah, seen that happen now as law. How about you have any highlights from the show, anything particular that…

Jeff Pulver: Well, I think for me personally Monday’s pre-conference workshops were spectacular with the people came both on the IPTV side and the Cynthia Bernfield  the television stuff and frankly the whole, we had a lot of interest in WiFi 6 mobile convergence, its just continues to be strong. On a personal note being able to share the opening plenary with both Vinod and Nicholas, that was cool...

Ed Kohler: Yeah.

Jeff Pulver: That was cool and I like some of my side comments as we know, I was thinking of whether I am talking to myself, I first thought that if we ever make a IPv6 happen. Then one is born to be given IP address, when we send everybody, there is a matter how we, what kind of devices we have, of course we know one entities when we receive DNAs has to update ourselves that we know where we are. We just do a reboot in the morning and there you go. So, I was starting to think that while I was on stage with those of guys, I don’t know why? So, that was good, I really enjoyed being inside the Video on the Net pavilion and my hotel room at Fair Mount , we hosted some receptions and some energy in the buzz and the excitement from these up and coming Internet TV industry is just amazing. I just being part of the furniture and just hanging out and just being sort of invisible, that was great, that was absolutely great. I enjoyed the blogger pannel yesterday for other reasons that was kind of fun sharing the stage, there was Scoble and Errington and my friend Steve Rockfield and in the end Andy and Chris Brogan, but it was sort of really the Errington – Scoble show that’s been outstanding.

Ed Kohler: Start to get a word about those guys on stage…

Jeff Pulver: Yeah, I was like and my microphone kept on going out, which is like OK, I knew someone saying shut-up, so I was, its OK. But, rest of it is the whole dynamic, I look around the show floor and there are people here have come from far and wide to be here and its fun to just watch business happen and watch people learn and know that we are catalyst for people to go out and start new companies, where they are as, we are platform for their companies to be showcased and in many case its for them to be purchased or get funding and “Oh, really” I think it’s serving on critical role in emerging ecosystem of this new Media Internet Communications industry and its not just one sector, but its an overlaid many and after many years talking about the potential of the future is now and its only gets better from here.

Ed Kohler: Yep, What about Network2 is put other plans for more that’s going next?

Jeff Pulver: Yeah, Network 2 TV is started out based on an idea that I had and today we have over 500 different channels across 40 different categories, and our core focus on the consumer side of Network 2 is to help you with discover what there is to watch and we showcase shows that are hosted across multiple places, whether its self hosted by the company themselves on blip.com or Veoh.com or Revver or BrightCove it doesn’t matter to us we're agnostic and we are really looking for quality shows that represents the best of what’s out there today. Network 2 also has the business side of it, which is focusing on monetizing, what it means to actually be a leader in longtale Internet TV and over the next six months lot of our plans, I think you will see happen, this week we announce relationship with Veoh, there are other relationships which are also existing which haven’t been announced yet, but you will see it will be fun.