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- Infectious Greed: Is television really 'shitty and nutty'?
- Are television networks and cable companies really “shitty” and “nutty”?In Paul Kedrosky’s infinite but actually short words of wisdom they are.Ironically, Kedrosky’s earthy assessments were pronounced just AFTER he went off air from pontificating on one of the very “shitty” and “nutty” properties he not so eloquently disses: NBC Universal’s...
- Tags: Development tools, TV, viewing.The Kedrosky, NBC, NBC Universal
- Blog posts 2007-03-23
- Google CEO trumped by power video play
- Google’s greatest cheerleader, CEO Eric Schmidt, is being trumped at his own online video game, big time!Schmidt confidently boasted just weeks ago that the Google one-two YouTube and Google Video punch renders Google invincible on the Internet video front, saying to Wall Street that other sites may host their own...
- Tags: video, NBC Universal, NBC, News Corp., online video, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-22
- NBC Universal launches DotComedy
- NBC Universal today launches its new comedy "broadband channel," DotComedy. The site is an interesting reflection of YouTube in a couple of ways. On the one hand, its a pretty obvious effort to entice users into enjoying NBC Universal-owned content under the NBC Universal tent as opposed to...
- Tags: Blogging, Copyright, DMCA, Live Web, Social networking, Tags, Video, NBC, NBC Universal, DotComedy
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
- Media tipping point? NBC slashes jobs, costs; says "it's not our fault" (it's no joke)
- The Mercs Charlie McCollum writes: How bad are things at NBC?....Well, Jay Leno said on "The Tonight Show late last week that things are so bad, ``our interns are calling Mark Foley, looking for work. He also asked guest Howie Mandel, host of "Deal or No Deal, whether as...
- Tags: NBC
- Blog posts 2006-10-23
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- CRM 2009 Forecast - Part 2 - Sticking My Hands Out To Be Slapped
- Last week at this time I was throwing my neck out there forecasting some of CRM's moves in 2009 - and no one chopped it off, thank goodness. So, now, in the same spirit, I'm going to do part 2 of three and stick my hands out to be slapped...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, PaaS, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Emerging Technologies, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: High-end home theater setups
- Economy be damned, you want to upgrade your home theaterand do it rightfor the holidays (and/or in anticipation of the Super Bowl). If you have the means to spend more than two grand on a set and the hundreds and hundreds more to round out your setup with primo components,...
- Tags: Plasma, Home Theater, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Richard Solo 1200 - Backup Battery with Flashlight
- If you own an Apple iPhone 3G and use it relentlessly throughout the day, you've probably noticed its battery life often does not last as long as you would like. This is acceptable with something like a music player, but for a cell phone, it's a little more important for...
- Tags: Engineering, backup, battery, Apple iPhone, Richard
- Product reviews 2008-12-02
- Acoustic Research HDP100 HDMI Powerlink System
- If you've paid to have your HDTV installed in any kind of permanent way, you know that the cost of installation can often overtake the cost of the television itself. Part of that installation cost involves wiring: running cables from your gear up to the TV, generally through walls. In...
- Tags: TVs, Network technology, TV & Home Theater, Acoustic Research HDP100, HDMI, HDMI-cable, cable, transmitter, back-panel
- Product reviews 2008-12-02
- Griffin Simplifi
- The Griffin Simplifi ($79) is a USB-connected dock for Apple's iPod and iPhone that offers an integrated Flash memory card reader. To be clear, the Griffin Simplifi doesn't let you import or export files directly between Flash cards and your iPod, it simply consolidates a USB card-reader and iPod dock...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Memory, Flash memory, Griffin Simplifi, Griffin, Apple iPod
- Product reviews 2008-12-01
- Minutes per viewer spent on network TV Web site
- Name Minutes per Viewer FOX Broadcasting 114.3 CBS Television 48.4 ABC.COM 45.5 NBC.com 34.6 Source: Nielsen by NB
- Tags: Network, CBS Corp., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, NB
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Why Grandma Sandy and Aunt Roz don't want an HDTV for Christmas
- Why Grandma Sandy and Aunt Roz don't want an HDTV for ChristmasIt isnt the money[b]"In addition, one could also just buy an HDTV that fits horizontally. The screen will be almost as tall as the original. Big deal if there is a gap above it."[/b]Yeah, try telling that to a...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, HDTV, TV
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- Surveys show consumers love HDTVs, but show some confusion about HD programming
- Surveys show consumers love HDTVs, but show some confusion about HD programmingHDTVI have a 60" mitsubishi and have no HD programing except regular channels you get over the air.I use an upconvert DVD player and the whole thing looks fine to me,i'm 56 years old and have no plans of...
- Tags: Blu-ray, Consumer electronics, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Sales strategy, survey, Blue-ray, HDTV, DVD, Blu-ray disc, early adapter, disc
- Discussion threads 2008-11-30
- Online video audience for network TV Web sites in September 2008
- Name Viewers, 000 Viewer growth from August 2008 NBC.com 5,557 312 ABC.COM 5,246 105 CBS Television 3,296 38 FOX Broadcasting 1,371 165 Source: Nielsen by NB
- Tags: Network, Online Video, Video, TV, Corporate Communications, Marketing, NB
- Blog posts 2008-11-29
- Mumbai attack coverage demonstrates (good and bad) maturation point of social media
- Mumbai attack coverage demonstrates good and bad maturation point of social mediatoo much BS, I ignore itOn one hand is too much contradiction in the news that I even stopped paying attention to.On the other hand hundreads of people were dying in Iraq every day last year and the media...
- Tags: Blogging, social media, attack coverage, maturation, perpetrator, Wikipedia
- Discussion threads 2008-11-28
- What might end Apple's open source pass
- What might end Apple's open source passFirst "free and open" music industry will winI reckon. I've seen numerous software development opportunities for companies that are being free and liberal with music, just like FOSS but with notes and instruments.Interesting times. The end of sick unabated controlling greed. I'm proud to...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, content owner, Apple Inc., open source, music, digital-rights management
- Discussion threads 2008-11-28
- Top Web companies in US in October 2008
- Rank Property Audience, 000 Total Audience 190,616 1 Google Sites 147,035 2 Yahoo! Sites 144,903 3 Microsoft Sites 123,483 4 AOL LLC 111,259 5 Fox Interactive Media 90,636 6 eBay 70,737 7 Ask...
- Tags: Site, Advertising & Promotion, Networking, Marketing, NB
- Blog posts 2008-11-27
- Is on-demand slowly killing traditional broadcasting?
- Is on-demand slowly killing traditional broadcasting?I'm happy for television and on-demand.I do have my antenna with my HDTV, so I can watch local shows broadcasted from ABC, FOX, and CBS (don't care for NBC due to broadcasting in real channel 2 in zip code 32304). I only watch local digital...
- Tags: TVs, cloud computing, TV & Home Theater, on-demand, TV, traditional broadcasting, broadcasting, NBC, British Broadcasting Corp., ABC Inc., BBC website
- Discussion threads 2008-11-26
- Is on-demand slowly killing traditional broadcasting?
- I'm not a big TV watcher to be honest. In the UK, we have the "licence fee" which you need to pay the government before you even connect the telly to the wall. If you don't, you can bet your arse you'll have armed police storming the windows to your...
- Tags: On-demand, Broadcasting, Cloud Computing, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Fastest-growing US sites in October 2008
- Sep-08 Oct-08 Growth, % Rank Total Internet 189,468 190,616 1 N/A TheStreet.com Sites 4,135 10,550 155 101 Spencer Gifts, LLC. 2,077 5,058 144 231 HULU.COM 2,850 5,342 87 214 Healthgrades 2,894 5,034 74 234 Everyday Health 14,930...
- Tags: Site, Internet, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, NB
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- The (Government 2.0) revolution should be televised
- The (Government 2.0) revolution should be televisedBe careful!!Terms like "Government 2.0" should not be tossed around lightly! There are those who believe we need just that...another American Revolution and a complete restart!RE: The (Government 2.0) revolution should be televisedAndrea - When I hear Patriot 2.0, I get an image...
- Tags: Government 2.0, transparency
- Discussion threads 2008-11-25
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