Tag Archives: Digital Media

DMCA and Mashups: The GoogTube & MySpace Perspective

Posted on October 19, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

Just got the latest Bambi Francisco NetSense email in my box. The topic is how will copyright holders treat GoogTube. After some discussion on strategies for getting the most money out of Google, the discussion moves to DMCA and then … Continue reading →

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Venture Capital Video

Posted on October 17, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

I was playing with the Magnify.net beta and created a simple site with VC related videos–VCVideo. I haven’t tracked down Borat’s VC pitch yet…

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Google & YouTube: a Sign of Weakness?

Posted on October 7, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

TechCrunch was there first and then WSJ substantiated the new price in the much-rumored GOOG-YouTube talks. So, the #1 online company captures the #1 online video player to cement its position. $1.6B is not a huge number for a strategic … Continue reading →

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Jeff Bezos on Amazon Web Services (Mechanical Turk, S3 and EC2)

Posted on September 27, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

I’m at the MIT Emerging Technologies Conference today. Jeff Bezos was the first keynote speaker. His talk focused on Amazon Web Services (AWS), in particular, Mechanical Turk, S3 and EC2. Jeff didn’t talk about the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), which is … Continue reading →

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Coincidence?

Posted on September 13, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

Interesting how Microsoft is ramping up the conversations around the Zune rollout right after the Apple announcements of the new iPods, which came out yesterday…

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NBC streaming for free: what’s the angle?

Posted on September 13, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

The race to put TV on the internet continues with an announcement today from NBC that all of their new prime time shows will stream for free this fall. Each show will have a cast member, creator or producer “host … Continue reading →

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Flickr Photos Geotagged at 50K/hour

Posted on August 29, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

Flickr finally released its geotagging feature. It’s a simple drag’n’drop interface onto a Yahoo! map. 1.2M geotagged photos in 24 hours is about 50K/hour, which is an impressive rate even for a feature that was “pre-sold” for a while. There … Continue reading →

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Mobile e-literature, Sugar Mama, Stash: Virgin Does it All

Posted on August 19, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

Okay, so I’m on vacation and not spending much time on the Net. That would explain the increased number of WSJ-sourced posts. Anyway, WSJ reports on yet another way to drive SMS traffic, this time through content especially created for the … Continue reading →

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