In a classic Innovator’s Dilemma move, Gemstar has invested $2.8 million in BuddyTV. The Innovator’s Dilemma basically says that for a company to survive, it must get into new technologies long before they are as profitable as their existing technology. If they wait too long, newer, smaller companies will embrace and develop the new technology, [...]
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Most ridiculous Web 2.0 article of the day
A Reuters article entitled “Participation on Web 2.0 sites remains weak” takes the cake for the most ridiculous reporting I have seen today. The author takes statistics such as “…0.16 percent of visits to Google’s top video-sharing site, YouTube, are by users seeking to upload video for others to watch…” and “…two-tenths of one percent [...]
New Media Expo channel on Magnify.net
I saw a post on TechCrunch about a new video sharing/aggregation site called Magnify.net. Magnify.net allows you to link to other video sites that allow embedding (Youtube, Google Video, etc.), and aggregate videos from those sites to your Magnify.net “channel”. It also allows users to upload video directly to the Magnify.net channel, with configurable options [...]
Non-DRM music from Apple/EMI can only help
A few days ago when Apple/EMI non-DRM’ed music was the hot story of the day, CNBC’s Power Lunch ran a clip about it. After the clip ran, Bill Griffeth wondered aloud about how that couldn’t be good for their business, because those files would surely appear on the peer-to-peer networks.
I’m guessing Bill hasn’t logged on [...]
And We Liked It
The comments following the TechCrunch post about the new SanDisk/Yahoo media device quickly hammer home the generational difference in MP3 player usage and music consumption.
In a quote from a Yahoo guy about the device, he brings up the often-heard argument that “..we all know iPods are mostly full of not-paid-for MP3s.”, and then numerous people [...]
