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- Mark Cuban on user generated content: Bad for ads, great for (my) free biz dev
- Mark Cuban said a lot more than beware YouTube “morons” at his Advertising Week keynote last week in New York City, I know because I was there.I asked Cuban if his inflammatory anti YouTube commentary was designed to enhance the value of his own content businesses, as I recount in...
- Tags: HDNet, Landmark, Landmark Theatres, Mark Cuban
- Blog posts 2006-10-03
- Mark Cuban: hdnet, YouTube, Mavericks and the art of calculated hype
- Mark Cuban: HDNet, YouTube, Mavericks and the art of calculated hypeThe problem with HDTV is not the expense.......although the expense is still way too high at this point. The real problem is that it's being used as a "trojan horse" to foist all kinds of DRM on us, to...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, calculated hype, MAVERICKS, HDNet, Mark Cuban, YouTube Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-09-28
- Mark Cuban: hdnet, YouTube, Mavericks and the art of calculated hype
- Mark Cuban got away cheap this morning in New York City. His Advertising Week keynote lobbed digs at the National Basketball Association NBA, but no fines were levied for conduct unbecoming.The “out-of-control” on the basketball court Cuban was no where to be found on the staid McGraw Hill auditorium stage....
- Tags: Cuban
- Blog posts 2006-09-28
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- Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?
- As expected, billionaire Carl Icahn launched his proxy war to turn over Yahoo's board of directors and one of his nominees is Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo and then took those funds to buy the Dallas Mavericks. Just for entertainment value I may buy a...
- Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Chairman, Mr., Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Director, Yahoo Shareholder, Bebchuk, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Comcast's stumble: More competition than economy?
- Comcast's stumble: More competition than economy?I don't think they have any real competition yet...Verizon's FIOS service isn't all that prevalent when compared to the number of homes serviced by Comcast. And AT&T offers squat. I for example live in a suburb of a medium size city. We...
- Tags: INTERNET, TV & Home Theater, TVs, Network technology, DSL, Comcast Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-12-05
- Should ISPs block P2P?
- Mark Cuban, HDNet CEO and Dallas Mavericks owner, has posted an open letter to Comcast and other ISPs/telcos/cable companies asking them to block P2P. As a consumer, I want my internet experience to be as fast as possible. The last thing I want slowing my internet service down are...
- Tags: Bandwidth, P2P, Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-11-23
- LG RC797T SuperMulti DVD/VHS Recorder
- You've probably noticed that DVD/VHS recorders haven't dropped in price as much as you'd expect for technology that's been around for several years. One of the major reasons for the relatively high price this year is that all DVD/VHS recorders that include an analog TV tuner also must include a...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, user interface, LG RC797T, recorder, DVD, DVD/VHS, LG Electronics Inc.
- Product reviews 2007-06-11
- BenQ W10000
- BenQ has been a major player in DLP front projection display technology for years, and the company's latest flagship projector, the W10000, is a one-chip design with Texas Instruments' new 1080p resolution chip. A good-size lamp means the 10000W will drive large screen sizes, which is an important consideration...
- Tags: projector, BenQ W10000, BenQ Corp.
- Product reviews 2007-04-10
- Cuban: High-def may kill the Internet video star
- Mark Cuban, gave a presentation at the UBS media and communications conference Thursday, and walked through the future of high-definition television and what it means for TV and Internet video. Cuban owns HDNet and is admittedly partial to high-def video. "When you have a hammer everything...
- Tags: video, Internet video, Cuban, Personal Technology, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-08
- Mark Cuban courts YouTube foe
- Mark Cuban courts YouTube foeMark Cuban courts YouTube foeWho the heck is Mark Cuban?[i]Cuban is the owner of the Dallas Mavericks and co-founder of HDNet, the first TV network to broadcast exclusively in high definition.[/i]Ok, but who is he? What does his opinion matter on this subject?I really don't...
- Tags: Mark Cuban, foe, YouTube Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-11-15
- Mark Cuban vs. YouTube: 0 for 2
- Reuters anointed Mark Cuban a “moron” labeler with its tabloid style “reporting” and sensationalist headlining of Cuban’s multi-topic, hour plus, Advertising Week keynote presentation in September. I had the pleasure of attending Cubans talk, I even had a front row seat. I reported on his remarks under the headline:...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., Business Models, Web 2.0, Media, Advertising, Legal, Google, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Brands, Marketing, Self-Promotion, Copyright, Content, Cuban
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
- Inside Mark Cuban's brain
- Media maverick sounds offCNET's Rich DeMuro sits down with billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and founder of HDNet, to talk tech.
- Tags: Mark Cuban
- Videos 2006-10-02
- Analysts don't like YouTube's chances
- Analysts don't like YouTube's chanceshow lametoo bad the movie studios can't come up with a better alternative than a lawsuit. If TV shows got those kind of ratings, they'd be sitting pretty.this year, I've even stopped watching NFL football or any kind of TV at all.the cool part is:...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, YouTube Inc., Forrester Research Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-10-02
- YouTube: clip culture or junk culture?
- YouTube had a starring role at Advertising Week over the past five days in New York City. For Mark Cuban, the video sharing site plays the villain (see “Mark Cuban: HDNet, YouTube, Mavericks and the art of calculated hype,”) while for NBC the “clip culture” wins best supporting role (see...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., YouTube
- Blog posts 2006-09-29
- Mark Cuban does 'The Apprentice', low-cost version
- NBC’s “The Apprentice” is billed as “the reality show series in which candidates compete to get hired by famously tough executives Martha Stewart and Donald Trump.”Mark Cuban, at his “blog maverick,” is trying the low-cost, direct route to find new “talent.”In his post yesterday, “The Movie Business Challenge,” Cuban puts...
- Tags: movie
- Blog posts 2006-07-24
- JVC LT-32X787
- The most popular size for wide-screen LCD TVs right now is 32 inches diagonal, perhaps because it closely matches the screen real estate of 27-inch, non-wide-screen CRT TVs that many people want to replace. These sets come in numerous prices, brands, and feature sets, and JVC's LT-32X787, with a street...
- Tags: TVs, Monitors & displays, TV & Home Theater, JVC LT-32X787, JVC
- Product reviews 2006-06-06
- Akimbo for Media Center
- Akimbo began life as a set-top box, offering IPTV programming via a broadband Internet connection. After buying the set-top box hardware (originally $199, now $69), Akimbo subscribers would pay a $9.99 monthly fee to download content from more than 100 channels, with additional pay-as-you go fees or add-on subscriptions for...
- Tags: Media Center PCs, TV & Home Theater, Akimbo, Media Center PC
- Product reviews 2006-06-01
- Tiers and the lowering of the connectivity classes
- Broadcast.com co-founder and budding movie distributor Mark Cuban makes a call for tiered broadband services, with real-time provisioning of capacity by carriers and interconnect providers to ensure that "mission critical" applications, such as medical monitoring, can continue uninterrupted even when there is high demand for throughput. That sounds...
- Tags: carrier, network
- Blog posts 2006-01-16
- Bill proposes new deadline for digital TV
- Bill proposes new deadline for digital TVGate$ wants my moneyI'm sure Gate$ & Co are planning a scheme to extort money from us.One more reason to stay with Linux and avoid windoze like plague.Political suicideAny politician who supports this is going to have to run in their next election as...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Better-Quality, Gate$, TV, tower, digital television, spectrum, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2005-10-14
- The Incumbentsphere
- The blogosphere is getting a new form of spam--incumbent spam. Here's an example, from CNET's John Roberts, reacting to Steve Rubel's suggestion that CNET go all blog: ... I don't think readers care about the labels at all, especially if they are not blogging themselves. I believe...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Blogging, Cuban, spam, Chris Anderson
- Blog posts 2005-08-06
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