Dmitry Shapiro, according to a statement on the web site of the "second annual sold-out Web 2.0 Conference [which] took place October 5-7, 2005 at the Argent Hotel located in beautiful San Francisco," where he was a speaker:
"is a world recognized thought leader and visionary in electronic communications, peer-to-peer networking, online community, and computer security. Shapiro is a frequent speaker at major technology and business events, and is widely quoted in the press, including InfoWorld, PCWorld, Computer World, eWeek, Internet World, and other publications."
Dmitry Shapiro is the Founder and CEO of Veoh, a secure, copyright-respecting, peer-to-peer (P2P), distributed, grid-based system for the aggregation and distribution of video content with virtually no restrictions on what and how much individual and commercial users can upload and a business model that relies on advertising around, and sales by users of, content hosted as "databits in the cloud" on a multitude of computers belonging to the users themselves.
You can listen to an exclusive, ten-minute-long video interview with Dmitry Shapiro, recorded this afternoon at the Hilton Burbank Airport & Convention Center, where he spoke to attendees at the Videomaker Expo West 2006 conference, by clicking on the image below.
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Dmitry Shapiro, Founder and CEO, Veoh
access interview with Dmitry Shapiro on Veoh itself
more about Dmitry Shapiro and Veoh
You can read a transcript of a December 12, 2005, interview with Dmitry Shapiro on the socalTECH.com ("Dedicated to High Technology in Southern California") web site by clicking here.
You can read more about Dmitry Shapiro and Veoh in a March 2, 2006, article by Erick Schonfeld, editor-at-large, Business 2.0 Magazine, entitled "Reinventing the boob tube--Adding peer-to-peer file sharing to viral video could be a formula for changing how we watch television," by clicking here.
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