webcasting

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
webcasting

   <multimedia, World-Wide Web> (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://webcasters.org/).

   (2003-07-08)