What is the difference between webcasting and streaming?
In general, the terms are used inter-changeably. Technically, “Webcasting” covers all the steps in producing an online broadcast – from capture and coding of content through to delivery, whereas “Streaming” refers to the software that actually delivers the webcast to the user’s desktop player program over the web. The word comes from the way it works: webcast data is viewed, but not actually downloaded in full and stored on the user’s computer – it just “streams” through in real time, piece by piece.
