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January 11, 2008
David Caruso, streaming video, and my sordid past
David Caruso, that red-headed guy from CSI: Miami, has a technology company, so he says.
Or at least he's doing a lot of TEASING about his technology company, popping up at different events, dropping some hints, doing pics with fawning journalists, then quietly riding off into the sunset.
"Are you OK?"
But seriously, I was hanging out in the press room at CES when a small crowd of people started swarming around an interview room and ta-da, David Caruso started walking around. I gawked for about two seconds, then went up to him and asked who he was promoting...
"I'm here promoting my company," says he, reaching into his portfolo and smoothly handing me an over-sized postcard with a stylized rendering of himself on one side, and his signature on the other side.
"Visit the website, it has a video on it," Caruso explains. "We came out here two weeks ago to make it, I think you'll like it."
He doesn't say anything else, so I ask his companions, Nils Lahr and Frank Nein for more information. Lahr was CTO and co-founder of iBeam broadcasting and before that was a senior developer at Microsoft when VXstreme was bought my MS.
Back in the dot.com day, iBEAM and SkyCache/Cidera went head-to-head in the ISP space deploying satellite dishes and servers on the "edge" of the edge of the network. (See, my sordid past!). So, Nils was basically The Enemy, but I hung out at iBEAM parties and smoked cigars while they came to our parties and ate our great food at our great party locations.
It was a very cordial sort of competition.
ANYway, the third member of this trio is Frank H. Nein, tied to Nils through OrionsWave. Nils is the founder and COO of OrionsWave, and Frank is the "Digital Media, Industry & Technology Consultant/Analyst" there, started in January 2004.
Caruso's company is called Lexicon Digital Communications. The cryptic video and an underpolished website can be found at www.lexicondigital.tv. The probably spent more on renting the plane used in the video than they did on the website. There's a lot of sunglasses in the video. Judge for yourself.
Posted by dmohney at January 11, 2008 10:48 AM