Apple’s Brilliant JUDO Moves > Launches Subscriptions For Content-Publishers On The App Store
Reading the multitude of stories around Apple’s announcement of subscription (30% take!!) programs for publishers. What strikes me here is the elegance of the ultimate market judo executed by Apple over just a (2003-2011) very short period of time. Here is how it looks to me: 2003 In the face of a clear … Read more
Qwiki Hits No. 1 On Google Trends ‘Hot Searches’ In The U.S. (Techcrunch)
TechCrunch Disrupt Winner Qwiki Hits No. 1 On Google Trends ‘Hot Searches’ In The U.S.. MD: A great article summarizing Qwiki’s unique approach to delivering a visual-web experience, and an excellent example of a new application tapping into what I call the “Visual Revival” an important trend in consumer behavior and functional utility across the … Read more
Netflix CEO: ‘We Are Now a Streaming Company’: Video «
Netflix CEO: ‘We Are Now a Streaming Company’: Video «. Congrats to Reed on a very successful transition in a very tenuous marketplace. – MD Netflix now considers itself a “streaming company which also offers DVDs by mail,” according to CEO Reed Hastings in the management commentary that accompanies its third-quarter earnings release. According to … Read more
Gawker Founder: The Future of Online Media Is Video
Gawker Founder: The Future of Online Media Is Video. At Monday’s IAB Mixx conference in New York, Gawker Media Founder Nick Denton took the stage with AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka to discuss the future of the blogging network — and that future is all about images and video. “People don’t really want to read text,” Denton … Read more
Chris Anderson: How web video powers global innovation | Video on TED.com
Chris Anderson: How web video powers global innovation | Video on TED.com. Quite possibly one of the best speeches on why VIDEO will fundamentally transform forever how the world learns, evolves and grows in the very near future. ith each of the three main ingredients of this crowd-accelerated innovation, YouTube is stretching the boundaries and … Read more
Video Online to Dominate Global IP Traffic by 2014, Says Cisco
Video Online to Dominate Global IP Traffic by 2014, Says Cisco. CISCO, makers of really cool network things has this to say about online video: WOW that’s gonna be a lot of traffic! They’re expecting global IP traffic growth of over 30% per year carrying through 2014 with video leading the way well into the … Read more
Five Questions With… TubeMogul’s Brett Wilson
Five Questions With… TubeMogul’s Brett Wilson. Great Q&A with Brett from TubeMogul, some important data points here around – How “views” as metric for success around video is not viable – How important Facebook is in terms of the social viewing platform MD Issues regarding analytics have come up in at least one of our … Read more
The Role Of Curation In Journalism | Techdirt
The Role Of Curation In Journalism | Techdirt. Jay Rosen points us to an article out of France that takes a stab at presenting what a modern internet-era newsroom should look like. The point that I find most interesting, that helped clarify a few different ideas for me, is that it splits “journalism” into three … Read more
