Archives for the "Content" tag
A Dark Cloud
If an external party can control when or how you can use a device or decide on what you can or cannot see, or select what programs you can install on it, are you still owning it?
Tags: Content, Copyright, Intellectual property, censorship, killswitch, ownership, rent
In Analysis, Business, Media, Politics, Technology
Is Ownership Passé?
In this first piece in a series, I look at ownership vs. renting, the result of a number of observations throughout the last few months.
Tags: Access, Apple, Connectivity, Content, Data, Internet, Media, Trends, amazon, kindle, netflix, ownership, rent
In Analysis, Business, Media, Technology
2009 Predictions: Hardware
Where I try to read the tea leaves and divine what new gadgets will be coming this year and the trends they will engender.
Tags: Computing, Connectivity, Content, Internet, Trends
In Technology
Microsoft Loves RSS
The blogoshpere is buzzing about Microsoft’s announced support for RSS. Here’s a quick history of how they got there, and the good and bad on what they are adding to the standard. How we got there? Microsoft is not really a new player in the syndication space. With the release of Internet Explorer 4.0, in 1997, the [...]
Tags: Content, HTML, History, Microsoft, OS, RSS, Standard, Syndication
In Technology
Paid Content on a tiered structure
Reports that AT&T is planning on introducing a pre-paid card for online content show some potential new developments in the online space. If we were to follow the model further, we could see something new developing, with companies offering a basket of content for a fixed price. For example, imagine you would like to get [...]
Tags: AOL, AT&T, Cable TV, Content, Pricing, Strategy, United States, online world
In Business, Media, Technology
Blog, Internet, and Marketing
For the past week, I’ve been posting a fair amount about the raging cow and about establishing trust in a market where marketers are trying to get in side by side with other bloggers. Chris Pirillo makes some good points about the raging cow campaign: Is it so bad if they are trying to engage [...]
Tags: Blogging, Content, Internet, Marketing, Standard
In Business, Technology
