Akamai will give tech support to Pangea Day
Some folks tomorrow will celebrate World Fair Trade Day, and others might enjoy Pangea Day, a film festival of sorts that will unfold in multiple venues around the world and that can be viewed on personal computers and some cellphones.
Akamai Technologies Inc. of Cambridge said it will give technical support to Pangea Day by providing live and on-demand streaming of the event's content to the PangeaDay.org website as well as live streaming of content to mobile phones.
Akamai specializes in using its technology to power rich media, dynamic transactions, and enterprise applications online.
An Akamai press release described Pangea Day this way: "On May 10, 2008, at 18:00 GMT, millions of people all over the world will come together to watch a four-hour program of short films. With live broadcast venues in Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro, and thousands of self-organized events planned in over 100 countries, Pangea Day aims to help bring the world together for a unique shared experience. Pangea Day will be broadcast around the globe in eight languages and through multiple forms of media."
Scheduled musical performers include Hypernova, a rock group from Iran. (At left, a photo taken from a Hypernova post on the website MySpace.com.) Queen Noor of Jordan is also expected to be on hand, according to Akamai.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)
