The Technium |
August 19th, 2008 |
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In the universe of the free ("free" as in beer), getting ripped off is the norm. Yes, many products and services are deliberately priced at zero these days, but a significant portion of consumers will gravitate to illegitimate free versions of not-free stuff. Free versions of pricey digital products are [...]
Portfolio |
August 19th, 2008 |
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Blaise Zerega is stunned. Who knew these ad networks were so valuable? Wow. There were 160 venture capital investments in ad companies from Q1 2007 to Q2 2008, worth more than $2.1 billion. And in same period, there were 100 acquisitions worth about $20 billion, according to a new report [...]
NewTeeVee |
August 19th, 2008 |
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While nerd-friendly content has ruled the online video world up till now, the jocks and all their sporting events are storming the web. Yesterday, the Sports Business Journal reported that the NBA is in negotiations with regional sports networks and cable providers to stream live basketball games online. And today, [...]
NewTeeVee |
August 19th, 2008 |
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While nerd-friendly content has ruled the online video world up till now, the jocks and all their sporting events are storming the web. Yesterday, the Sports Business Journal reported that the NBA is in negotiations with regional sports networks and cable providers to stream live basketball games online. And today, [...]
Attitudes towards FiOS, Verizon's (NYSE: VZ) next-gen internet and video platform, are constantly changing, as investors alternate between dismay and optimism over the prospects of the $23 billion gambit. Saul Hansell surveys the current landscape and finds… that the outlook is still pretty cloudy. The company currently has about 1.4 [...]
For a long time I've been calling for standards in social media advertising. Today if an advertiser wants to make a social media buy across multiple social sites, they will need to build different creative for each of the different social media advertising products on each of the major companies, [...]
In trading some e-mails with Jim Crowe recently, he was nice enough to spend some time to answer questions about Level 3's CDN business for publishing here on the blog. While Level 3 has been pretty quiet in regards to[...]
Here's one certainty in the hubbub that has resulted in the wake of the departure of high-profile exec Ben Ling from Facebook last week: COO Sheryl Sandberg is definitely not responsible for the melting of the polar ice caps. That's the joking question-Was global warming Sandberg's fault too?-that was asked [...]
VideoEgg's CEO laments the loss of joy in the world of online marketing and offers suggestions to help create the happiest place online.[...]
Jossip |
August 18th, 2008 |
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There was a time, not so long ago, when crazy people had to go on public access shows at 3am to get their voices (and all the ones in their head) heard. Then came YouTube, and it obliterated the competition. It was cheaper (FREE!) and allowed your message to reach [...]
Digg the Blog |
August 18th, 2008 |
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Hey everyone - Katie Couric's asking for questions from the Digg community that she can take along with her to the political conventions in Denver and St. Paul. She'll be interviewing newsmakers and politicians over the next couple of weeks and will post the videos on YouTube and CBSNews.com. If [...]
GraphOn, a small Santa Cruz software company, claims Google Inc. is illegally using patented web technology in its various divisions including YouTube, AdWords and Blogger sites.[...]
NewTeeVee |
August 18th, 2008 |
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Top Gear, the massively popular British show that's equal parts automotive and entertainment now has its own YouTube channel. This marks the first time the BBC Worldwide has dedicated a YouTube channel to a single show. The Top Gear channel features clips of shows including car reviews, celebrity interviews and [...]
Timo Paloheimo, a blogger in Finland, has come up with a clever idea: Google Minus Google. The site is simply a way to use the Google search engine but see results that filter out Google domains like Knol, YouTube, Blogger, Orkut and many others.[...]
The National Basketball Association hopes to start live streaming in-market games this season—a no-brainer for some and a major headache for others. The NBA, which takes pride in trying to blaze new paths even when they wind up going nowhere, has authorized its teams to launch three digital services by [...]
NewTeeVee |
August 18th, 2008 |
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YouTube has started running display ads on its mobile site, m.youtube.com, for users in the U.S. and Japan. YouTube continues to be super-cautious about any and all advertising deployments; in a short announcement post on the company mobile blog this morning, the word "test" was used six times. I didn't [...]
CA-Silicon Valley/Peninsula, Description: Media Operations Coordinator, YouTube (Temporary) - Mountain View, San Bruno, Chicago or New York This is a temporary role offered through WorkforceLogic. This position is based in Mounta[...]
ASAP for Hire on a weekly basis. CBS Eyelab is looking for freelance editors for a mash up project. Whether you're a pro editor or a self taught youtube king, we're looking for[...]
This position is available in San Bruno, CA. The area: Marketing "YouTube", a Google company, is looking to expand its world-class Engineering team, which aims to solve the most[...]
