3Crowd rolling out its next-gen CDN, called XDN
Ryan Lawler. Sep 16, 2011
3Crowd is preparing to roll out a new CDN product, called XDN (Exchange Delivery Network), which it promises will cut the costs of content distribution by “orders of magnitude” while also providing incremental revenues for the owners of network bandwidth and infrastructure that is otherwise unused.
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With new UI, 3Crowd keeps it simple stupid
Ryan Lawler. June 20, 2011
Hoping to draw enough users to make its innovative peer-to-peer content delivery network model work, 3Crowd has redesigned its CrowdDirector dashboard UI to make using the service drop-dead simple.
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3Crowd Lets Customers Roll Their Own CDN
Ryan Lawler. May 17, 2011
Technology startup 3Crowd believes that by enabling customers to build their own caches, it will be able to send CDN costs down to zero.
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3Crowd, a new fourth-generation CDN
Lydia Leong. May 14, 2011
CrowdCache is a small, free, Java application that you can deploy onto a server, which turns it into a CDN cache. CrowdDirector handles the request routing, management, analytics, and so forth. What you get, in the end, at least in theory, is a turnkey CDN.
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3Crowd's CrowdCache: Reinventing The Content Delivery Network For The Masses
Jason Kincaid. May 9, 2011
Today a startup called 3Crowd is launching a new technology called CrowdCache. The gist of it is pretty straightforward: CrowdCache looks to turn traditional commercial CDNs on their head by letting anyone create a CDN of their own using their own servers and PCs.
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3Crowd Launches CrowdDirector, Signs Break Media & Rev3
Ryan Lawler. July 12, 2010
3Crowd Technologies, a startup providing technology that helps publishers manage content delivery in the cloud, announced that it has made its CrowdDirector product generally available today.
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3Crowd Launches Cloud Management Platform CrowdDirector To The Public
Leena Rao. July 11, 2010
3Crowd, a startup that provides management tools for cloud-based services, is announcing the public availability of its platform, CrowdDirector.
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3Crowd Raises $6.6 Million For Cloud Management Tools
Leena Rao. April 13, 2010
3Crowd a startup that provides management tools for cloud-based services, has raised $6.62 million in Series A financing from Canaan Partners and Storm Ventures.3Crowd a startup that provides management tools for cloud-based services, has raised $6.62 million in Series A financing from Canaan Partners and Storm Ventures.
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Former CDN Founder Launches Plan to Disrupt the CDN Market
Anthony Ha. February 2, 2010
3Crowd Technologies, the new startup from BitGravity co-founder Barrett Lyon, has come out of stealth with new products that the company believes will help revolutionize the price structure of streaming video online
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Content distribution startup 3Crowd wants to shake up online video
Anthony Ha. February 2, 2010
The un-profitability of video sites has become a cliche — but Barrett Lyon, founder of startup called 3Crowd, said he wants to change the economics of online video.
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3Crowd Comes Out Of Stealth, Reveals Its Plan To Disrupt The CDN Market
Jason Kincaid. February 2, 2010
3Crowd is looking to change the way people use content delivery networks, with a goal of making it both cheaper and easier to use these CDNs.
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Digg's Rose, Adelson Back Crowdsourcing Startup 3Crowd
Chris Cameron. December 26, 2009
Digg and Revision3 co-founders Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson have provided crowdsourcing startup 3Crowd Technologies and its founder Barrett Lyon with an early Christmas present of funding.
Lyon says the angel investors join Storm Ventures and Greenwich Technology Associates to "give 3Crowd the shot in the arm it needs to take off," likely sometime early next year.
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BitGravity Co-Founder Announces 3Crowd, Funded By Jay Adelson And Kevin Rose
Daniel Brusilovsky. December 22, 2009
3Crowd Technologies, Barrett Lyon’s new stealth startup, has announced that the company has received funding from Storm Ventures, Greenwich Technology Associates and angels Kevin Rose and Jay Adelsonparticipating as well. Lyon didn’t disclose the amount of funding, but characterizes it as a convertible note.
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Fighting Cybercrime, One Digital Thug At A Time
Terry Gross. January 26, 2010
Joseph Menn covers Internet security and technology for the Financial Times; Barrett Lyon is a self-taught digital-crime fighter and CEO of his own stealth-mode start-up, 3Crowd. Both men join host Terry Gross for a conversation about how cybercrime is much worse than we thought — and why they argue that the Internet might not survive.
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