Archives for the "Content" tag
Memo to Media Execs
There’s an interesting Michael Wolff piece in New York about the declining value of content. (Disclaimer: I used to work for Michael in the early 90s) While I generally agree with the concept that content is becoming more widespread and that there is an increase in the amount of content being produced, I fundamentally disagree [...]
Tags: Cable TV, Content, Music, Trends
In Media
Lack of synergy
According to an article in the Washington Post, AOL is loosing market share to Road-Runner. The interesting thing is that both companies are owned by AOL-Time-Warner but are not playing together. This represents a huge problem for the company as it is the most visible area of potential synergy between AOL and Time-Warner. Here’s a crazy [...]
Tags: AOL, Access, Broadband, Content, Time-Warner
Internet.com Acquires Earthweb’s content
Today, Earthweb and Internet.com announced that Internet.com was acquiring all of Earthweb’s content properties. For me, it’s an interesting announcement because I was involved in the building of both properties. When I left Internet.com in 1996 and went to Earthweb, I was in charge of building Earthweb’s properties into something competitive with Internet.com. At the time, [...]
Tags: Acquisition, Community, Content
In Media
From Scandinavia With Love
I was recently speaking at a conference called Escandinavia 2000, which covered the state of the Internet in Scandinavia. During that conference, I had a chance to speak to a number of people about the state of wireless in the Scandinavian countries. Here’s what I’ve learned and how it can help those of you who [...]
Tags: Content, Europe, GSM, SMS, Software, Standard, Trends, United States, Video, Wireless, e - commerce, hybrid computing
In Business, Politics, Technology
Fear and Loathing in Los Angeles
Over the past few months, the controversy over napster has continued to grow increasing fear among the music industry that it is becoming an endangered species. However, this issue is not about music but about movies. Yes, L.A. is starting to feel that it has now has to open war on a second front as its [...]
Tags: AOL, Content, Security, Trends, Video
In Media
Boo.com Goes Bust
As many of you may have heard already, Boo, the company for which I used to work, has closed its doors. I’ve been looking at the press coverage and it seems that some of the coverage does not work out. For starters, Boo.com’s failure is not an example of why B2C E-commerce will fail, it’s an [...]
Tags: Content, Currency, Europe, Integration, Languages, Process, Software, United States, e - commerce
In Business, Technology
