Family, friends and fans are mourning the death of 49ers former head coach Bill Walsh. After a long battle with leukemia, Walsh succumbed to the disease at the age of 75. During his ten years with the the San Francisco 49ers, he led them to three Super Bowl victories.

In honor of one of the greatest coaches ever and with the support of KRON in San Francisco, Neokast is live streaming the public memorial service at 11am Friday Pacific Time at Candlestick Point in San Francisco. Come check out the link-to-stream to neokast.com.

Special thanks to the Harmony for Peace Olympic Trip for allowing Neokast to QuicKast and be a part of the festivities at City Hall in San Francisco on August 8th. It is a privilege to be a part of such an innovative and spirited goal - to bring peace, brotherhood, and understanding between the United States and China in preparation for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

We will be continuing help the “Harmony Van” as they travel to all 50 states…in some very creative ways, so stay tuned.

That is what Neokast is all about - QUICKASTING people, places, and things that have never been streamed before in places that have never been streamed before. Most importantly, we empower you, yes you yourself, to QUICKAST with your own camera and PC with unlmited amount of users, high quality, and for little or no cost.

Have you ever thought about QuicKasting your road trip? With the help of Sprint Mobile Broadband, Neokast QuicKast, a laptop. and a camera, you can make it happen and stream your trip in real time with good quality and stability. Neokast Productions made a trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco last night:

The end goal:

Today marks the one year countown to the 2008 Beijing, China Olympic Games!

Neokast Productions will be QuicKasting a ceremony that will be held on the front steps of San Francisco City Hall (on Polk St. side) starting Wednesday, August 8th at 10AM pacific time to celebrate the countdown. The ceremony commemorates the beginning of a 10 month trip covering the 50 American states and several Canadian provinces. Over 300 cities will be visted in one year! Visit olympictrip.org for more information as it becomes available.

Neokast Productions live streamed the Angel City Derby Girls in real time with high quality with nothing but Sprint Mobile Broadband, a commodity laptop and DV camera. It was wildly entertaining and quite frankly made regular TV sports programming look old and lagging behind the times. Enough with the same old same old - it’s time to bring all sports into the fold with a unique, live, real-time, spin through Neokast.

There is such an interesting dynamic in streaming people, places, and events in places where no one could ever previously see (besides actually being there) and could never previously envision to be actually live streamed on the Internet for the world to see.

“Lollapalooza Live” started Friday evening. It was deemed to be a state-of-the-art “live webcast” powered by the AT&T Blue Room and Akamai.

First of all, live is an overused word in this space. For the general public, live simply means that content is being streamed through Windows Media Player, Quicktime, or Realplayer, which always involves heavy buffering even at low bitrates. After all, streaming is hard, right? It takes lots of equipment, huge bandwidth, a Master’s degree in the field, and racks of servers to publish streams. Incorrect.

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