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Category Archives: Digital Media
Widget Convergence: Web-to-Desktop
The guys at Goowy and yourminis blog that you can now put your widgets on your desktop, all thanks to Adobe Apollo. I tried it and it’s pretty neat, despite the fact that it is alpha tech running on alpha tech. … Continue reading
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Tagged Adobe, Digital Media, Industry News, Macromedia Flash, startups, Web 2.0
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Widgets, Widgets, Everywhere
Widgets are the new cool. Everyone agrees they are a big phenomenon that’s here to stay. No, widgets are not new. They’ve been around for a very long time in multiple technology implementations. Some prior examples are in Brad Feld’s … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Media, Mobile, MySpace, startups, Web 2.0
Tagged Blogging, Bubble 2.0, Digital Media, e-commerce, Long Tail, Mobile, MySpace, Social computing, social networking, startups, The Long Tail, Web 2.0
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MySpace Doesn’t Want You to Make Money
In the continuing saga of MySpace vs. third-parties-who-want-to-make-a-buck, MySpace recently blocked Revver. TechCrunch got MySpace PR to explain why it happened. If a widget violates our TOS, we block them. Breaches would include any person, widget or software that violates … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Media, MySpace, Web 2.0
Tagged Digital Media, MySpace, social networking, Web 2.0
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Making Money From the Paradox of Choice
In parallel to 3GSM, Ogilvy runs a telco conference in the beautiful Dolce Sitges Hotel, about 35km from Barcelona where the main even is. Sitges is a vacation town for the Barcelonians, a quiet place fit for a more exclusive … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Digital Media, Mobile, startups, VC, Venture Capital, Web 2.0
Tagged Advertising, Digital Media, e-commerce, Long Tail, Mobile, startups, The Long Tail, VC, Venture Capital, Web 2.0
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Long Tail Aggregators
I’m at the AlwaysOn Media Conference in NYC today. At breakfast, Esther Dyson (who just recently left CNet), Chris Dobbrow (now at GoingOn, the platform powering AlwaysOn), Melinda Gipson (GateHouse Media) and I had an interesting discussion about how to … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Digital Media, Web 2.0
Tagged Advertising, Digital Media, Long Tail, The Long Tail, Web 2.0
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Snowmobiles and Cell Phones
I’m at the Polaris Digital Media Summit in Deer Valley, UT. It’s great event with a good mix of portfolio and industry execs. Since snowboarding is not allowed in Deer Valley, a few of us went snowmobiling yesterday. The weather … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Media, Mobile
Tagged Digital Media, Mobile, Polaris Venture Partners
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Flipping the Ad Model: Consumer Choice == More Money
Talk to a grizzled broadcast TV exec and he’ll lament consumer choice: the choice of many cable/sat channels, the choice of spending time online or in front of the TV, the choice of whether to watch ads or fast-forward through them, … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Digital Media, Web 2.0
Tagged Advertising, Digital Media, Industry News, social networking, Web 2.0
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Madison Avenue Subsidizing Mobile
Thanks to Bill Wittenberg for this pointer to a NYT article looking at how advertising can subsidize some advanced mobile services for consumers. The article mentions Xero, Blyk, Virgin’s Sugar Mama I’ve written about before, etc. Link to Madison Avenue Calling – New York Times
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Tagged Advertising, Digital Media, Mobile, startups
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Bob Metcalfe on Internet Video
Beet.TV caught up with my partner Bob Metcalfe and did a nice interview on the evolution of the Internet to the video Internet. Bob makes three key points: The Internet has been getting richer since the days of uppercase ASCII As communication … Continue reading
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Tagged Digital Media, Long Tail, Polaris Venture Partners, The Long Tail
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Second Life Numbers: Mystery Revealed
Some of you have probably followed the debate in the blogosphere about virtual community usage and growth. Very recently, Clay Shirky and David Kirkpatrick had a somewhat tense exchange over the credibility of some Second Life numbers. David talked to CEO Philip Rosedale and … Continue reading
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Tagged Blogging, Digital Media, Social computing, startups, virtual worlds, Web 2.0
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