Archive for the 'Internet' Category
Now that Google has bought YouTube, what do you do if you’re an executive in the new media division of, say, Viacom? Or NBC? Do you partner with Google? Do you roll your own service? Do you sue them? Some combination of all three?
In the past year, whenever a media rights owner has protested [...]
Marc Cuban has a series of posts on YouTube and the DMCA safe harbor provisions that are worth a read, here and here.
Cuban in the first post essentially argues that to comply with the DMCA you have to be “the master of your domain” and compares YouTube with Revver:
Youtube lawyers are saying that as long [...]
I’ve been mulling the Goog-YouTube acquisition the past week and wanted to share some thoughts.
First off, it’s impressive to see GOOG effectively admit their own video product wasn’t going to succeed. That’s a hard and difficult thing for companies to do.
Second, the “Google is an engineering-driven company” meme is now dead. If it were such [...]
Since last Fall, at the Web 2.0 conference, or maybe even last spring, the "new bubble" meme has been gathering momentum among digerati. Like night following day, it has been followed by the "bad time to do a start-up" meme, captured best by these two posts.
I more or less agree with everything Caterina Fake writes [...]
There have been lot’s of comments recently about the number of video services and sites launching, best captured today in Arrington’s blog with this headline:
“Online Video Sites: Breeding Like Rabbits”
Yes, and the point is? Look, video is a datatype, arguably the most important datatype. As our pipes get fatter, it’s natural there will be many, [...]
I thought this post from Doc Searls today was pretty much dead on:
I think letting small children watch TV is like giving them Quaaludes. I also think kids in their most formative years need to interact with each other, nature, and themselves. They need to read and play and feed their curiousity about the world. [...]
In the somewhat behind-the-curve piece in Newsweek this week about web 2.0 companies like flickr and MySpace, it was nice to see some small bit of credit given to eBay. I think there is a credible, and probably correct, argument to be made that most of the things we consider new and unique about these [...]
This is the kind of blog I love to find, and the raison d’etre of the medium as far as I am concerned.
It’s called “Shoefiti” and dedicated to documenting — both in words from the collective community and on google maps in a great mash-up – the urban phenomenon of shoes dangling over powerlines and [...]
Fred Wilson writes today about his favorite business model for the web, which in short is: give away your service or product for free, build a large base, then upsell that base to premium services. At McDonald’s, this is know as the “fries with your shake?” model.
This is a model I know intimately and lived [...]
As I’ve re-entered the technology and internet world over the past six months after 18 months of ignoring it, I’ve been stunned by one thing in particular: the overall poverty of thinking about business models, and the lemming-like thinking about business strategy.
I blame it all on Google.
Here’s what I think has happened. Google’s evolution [...]
