What is netcasting?
Netcasting, also known as Push Technology (a misnomer), and Webcasting is the automated delivery of personalized and up-to-date information. Why introduce a new model of content delivery on the Internet? Because traditional Web-browsing poses many challenging problems for users: • It is difficult for users to find the information they are interested in. Access to an infinite number of Web sites makes it difficult to find relevant information. • Once users have found relevant information or sites, it is hard to automatically track and monitor when these sites change. Instead, users spend much time browsing a small set of sites to check for updated information. • Finally, the increased richness of Internet content has made browsing the Web over a low-speed connection a painfully slow experience. To address these problems, Netcasting provides to each user automatic delivery and offline access to the information and Web sites that he or she uses most often. This new “push” model of content
