Webcasting

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  webcasting
       
           (From "World-Wide Web" and
          "broadcast", sometimes just called "push") {Multicasting} on
          the {Internet}.  Webcasting implies {real-time} {streaming}
          transmission of encoded {video} (or {audio}) under the control


          of the {server} to multiple recipients who all receive the
          same content at the same time.  This is in contrast to normal
          web browsing which is controlled from the {browser} by
          individual users and may take arbitrarily long to deliver a
          complete document.
       
          {Pointcast} and {Marimba} were early pioneers.
       
          {International Webcasting Association
          (http://www.webcasters.org/)}.
       
          (2003-07-08)