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Agency is the future of Media

August 27, 2010

Com­pa­nies cre­at­ing con­tent for brands may be the future of media.

Yahoo! acquires WebJay

January 9, 2006

A few min­utes ago, I learned that Yahoo! acquired Web­Jay, a site that allows for cat­e­go­riza­tion, edit­ing, lis­ten­ing, and shar­ing of playlists online (In a way, it can eas­ily be com­pared to del.icio.us for mul­ti­me­dia.) Web­Jay was cre­ated in early 2004 as a way to cre­ate the inter­net equiv­a­lent of mix tapes. Lucas Gonze, the cre­ator of Web­Jay agreed […]

Modular by Design — Introduction

August 7, 2004

I’ve been look­ing at the dif­fer­ent trends in dig­i­tal media and have started devel­op­ing a com­mon the­ory in terms of the issues relat­ing to music, TV, phone ser­vice, weblogs, and soft­ware and the impact the Inter­net has on all those busi­ness mod­els. From there, I came to a con­clu­sion that what the Inter­net does well is break apart […]

The changing musical landscape

February 24, 2004

Two entries popped up in my RSS reader today that made me think about the ever-changing musi­cal land­scape: On the shifted librar­ian, Jenny talks about chang­ing behav­iors when it comes to music. A 9-year-old think­ing of music as some­thing you burn, not a piece of plas­tic, rep­re­sents one of the biggest chal­lenges to date to the music […]

Microsoft Lock-in?

June 3, 2003

The recent announce­ment of a part­ner­ship between AOL Time Warner and Microsoft rep­re­sents an inter­est­ing new twist in the shap­ing of the Inter­net. For the past few years, Microsoft has been try­ing to fig­ure out how to remain rel­e­vant in an era of increas­ing open­ness. The rise of HTML and of HTTP as the under­ly­ing protocol […]

AOL-Microsoft Settlement: The Future

May 30, 2003

AOL and Microsoft have announced an end to their feud. It seems to me that there is a lot in there that needs to be dis­sected and pon­dered about. It will impact the devel­op­ment of the Inter­net for years to come. IM : One of the con­di­tions for the AOL/Time Warner merger was that AOL open its […]

Microsoft and AOL: Friends again

May 29, 2003

Microsoft and Amer­ica Online set­tled their browser law­suit, putting an end to spec­u­la­tions that AOL would dump IE from its lead­ing client. As part of the deal, AOL receives a seven year royalty-free license to include Inter­net Explorer and will get an early peek at any­thing new in Red­mond. Most inter­est­ing to me in the different […]