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More reflection on the Kindle: Did Amazon just answer an unnerved media industry's prayers?: This is a replay of a conversation with my father who spent most of his life as a media executive (though not with any company that I've ever worked for). Dad: Oh, you have the Kindle? Me: Yes. It's pretty neat. Raises a lot...; Tags: Media Company, Advertisement, Screen, RSS, Industry, New York Times Co., Amazon.com Inc., Content, Kindle, Times, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-12-06
Corporate-sponsored Presidential debates: No, thank you: Yahoo had its Democratic Candidate Mashup. Google and YouTube teamed with CNN for a series of presidential debates. It's a troubling trend: Politics is baldly dependent on corporate largess this election cycle. Now, you may say, "Hey, Ratcliffe, these are media companies covering the election. We...; Tags: Media Company, Candidate, Nothing, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Mitch Ratcliffe; Blog posts 2007-10-01
Get ready for the 'Twitterization' of mainstream media: Back in 1991, when I first started as a tech journalist for PC Week now eWeek, there was no Web. There was print, TV, and radio. PC Week was a print book and, to the extent that any of the parent company Ziff Davis' publications were online, it...; Tags: Media Company, Web, CNET Networks Inc., Media, Blog, Information, Blogging, Investor, Twitter, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-08-16
YouTube videos downloadable and storable on new RealPlayer: RealNetworks says its forthcoming RealPlayer software will be configured to allow users to save YouTube videos - as well as those by other providers- for later viewing.The upgrade, which is expected in June, will also let users store these clips on DVDs.Reuters reports that this video storage option will be...; Tags: YouTube, News; Blog posts 2007-05-31
FAST battles GOOG and YHOO for media markets, says its search traffic larger than Yahoo!: FAST Search and Transfer, the leading European search firm, today introduced a search based business platform for media companies and said that search traffic from its customers has surpassed Yahoo! and will overtake Google in 2 years.The Norwegian based company said its FASTMedia software platform is the first to match...; Tags: New Rules, FAST, Enterprise IT; Blog posts 2007-04-30

Will Google follow Viacom's lead?: The Electronic Frontier Foundation applauds Viacom today for standing up for upfront “fair use” rights of YouTubers.Responding to Viacoms willingness to take steps to protect the free speech rights of those who post videos to YouTube and similar video sharing sites, the Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF and Stanford Law Schools...; Tags: YouTube, Video, Legal, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture, Copyright, Content, Business Models; Blog posts 2007-04-23
Major Media Company Puts the "Team" Back in Software Development: Clear Channel Communications, a Fortune 500 media company, owns more than 1,200 radio and TV stations across the United States and 750,000 billboards worldwide. The company's Enterprise Application Development group lacked a standard development methodology, formal software testing, and requirements authoring standards. In addition, the group missed project deadlines because...; Tags: Software, Media Company, Team, Software Development, Clear Channel Communications Inc., Microsoft Corp., Team Management, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Marketing; Case studies 2007-04-01
Digital culturus interruptus: Right here, right now, the almighty copyright finally comes home to roost: Digital culturus interruptus: Right here, right now, the almighty copyright finally comes home to roostI liked this article so much...I bought the domain! (theothertube.com)Excellent reporting!Thanks David,this is the sort of in-depth article that ZDNet needs - factual, up-to-date, informative and entertaining. Too often lately others have posted rehashed old non-news....; Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, recording industry, Joe Blow, Viacom Inc., media company, Roy Orbison, YouTube Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-03-13
Silicon Valley is turning into media valley: Silicon Valley is rapidly turning into Media Valley--and New York, NY should look out--the capital of the media world is shifting about 3,000 miles westwards.Some of Silicon Valleys largest companies are media companies: Google, Yahoo, EBay, for example are media companies--they publish pages of content and advertising around it.Some of...; Tags: Trend watch, Silicon Valley; Blog posts 2007-02-25
YouTube antipiracy software policy draws fire: YouTube antipiracy software policy draws fireGood, all those brats shouldn't be...uploading copyrighted material anyway, umm, hello, "distribution or public broadcast", can't get anymore public than YouTube, heh. Normally I am against any form of censorship or copyright bullies, not this time. :-lThe Media companies are missing the pointI believe that...; Tags: Corporate communications, Advertising & Promotion, YouTube Inc., media company, You-Tube, video, Viacom Inc., Napster Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-02-18
YouTube vs. The Media World: Mutually Assured Destruction: The Wall Street Journal reports that Googles YouTube division is under attack from a coalition of mainstream media companies in the escalating struggle for a share of revenue from the video-sharing site.Driving the latest flare-up is testimony by a former Google employee that the company earned $809,000 in AdWords revenue...; Tags: Business &, Technology, Google Inc., video portal, YouTube Inc.; Blog posts 2007-02-12
PodCamp: Revenge of the narrowcasters: This weekend, I had a chance to drop in on PodCamp at Bunker Hill Community College on the edge of Charlestown, MA see my Flickr Set of photos for a few pics I took. I led two discussions, both of which were pretty well attended. One of...; Tags: media company, podcast; Blog posts 2006-09-11
Where is the disruption from the Internet?: Where is the disruption from the Internet?I wondered when......someone other than me was going to get it. Not only have the traditional media, the TV networks and newspapers, not adapted themselves to the internet, but by virtue of the fact that we have all of this information at our...; Tags: Advertising & Promotion, TVs, media company, Internet, PC; Discussion threads 2006-08-02
Where is the disruption from the Internet?: My recent conversation with IBM's top strategist, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, about the disruptive effects of PC technologies reminded me of a key insight I had about the Internet, that almost made me faint(!)Two years ago, on a sunny afternoon walking along Geary Street in San Francisco, I was thinking: where was...; Tags: media technology, Internet; Blog posts 2006-08-01
Napster founder commerce enables unprotected MP3s on MySpace: Napster founder commerce enables unprotected MP3s on MySpaceI believe we will see more professional content and distribution networksI think this is great. The Internet is the great ‘democratizer’ of things, and it is finally spurring more competition in the entertainment industry, in which distribution companies are finally listening to their...; Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Advertising & Promotion, Digital media, RSS, distribution network, distribution company, media company, digital-rights management, MySpace, MP3, Napster Inc.; Discussion threads 2006-07-26
The New York Times: Searching for the 'Dough' offline: The New York Times’ Richard Siklos outlines how traditional media companies are “Waiting for the Dough on the Web” in his “Media Frenzy” piece today:one could make a case that the amount of focus on — and hype about — Internet activities at media companies has some kind of inverse...; Tags: New York Times Co., media company; Blog posts 2006-06-25
Hello, Silicon Media Valley: Silicon Valley's Babe Ruth does it again. Steve Jobs will be on the board of media giant Disney following the acquisition of Pixar Animation Studios in a stock deal valued at $6.3bn.This is a very significant moment in Silicon Valley history because it shows how Silicon Valley is changing into...; Tags: Disney Corp., media company, Steve Jobs; Blog posts 2006-01-24
Why an open standard for DRM won't prevent the DRM trainwreck: Why an open standard for DRM won't prevent the DRM trainwreckObviouslyI thought the point of this article was obvious to everybody (which just shows that I still overestimate the intelligence of "everybody".) To protect something, you must limit who has a key, and make certain there are no methods...; Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Advertising & Promotion, open standard, digital-rights management, media company; Discussion threads 2005-12-12
Defending creators of digital media: I wasn't disappointed by the recent Supreme Court ruling that allowed content owners to sue file trading networks for failure to do enough to protect their copyrights. That shouldn't surprise anyone who caught my post last week where I defended content owners against the "fair use" militias who want to...; Tags: Thievery Corp., music; Blog posts 2005-06-28
Global Media Company Cuts Costs and Extends Sales Reach: Reed Elsevier is a leading global media company employing 36,500 people in every part of the world. Its business is people intensive, demanding constant travel and meetings. The company looked for a collaborative software solution that would help it to make better use of its specialists, product development people, and...; Tags: Media Company, Solution, Reed Elsevier Inc., Microsoft Corp., Product Development, Sales Strategy, Product Marketing, Sales Force Management, Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Microsoft Office, Research & Development, Business Operations, Sales, Marketing, Management, Office Suites, Software; Case studies