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- YouTube, MySpace, Facebook: Is the honeymoon over?
- Is Facebook really the next Google, royalty in waiting?Chad Hurley declared himself and his partner Steve Chen Internet "Kings" upon the YouTube buyout by Google for a royal ransom of $1.65 billion in GOOG.The world has since concurred, literally at least on the Chad front.From the World Economic Forum in...
- Tags: YouTube, MySpace, Google, Facebook
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- MySpace Friends: Rupert Murdoch is NOT the boss!
- Rupert Murdoch is not the boss of me!So believes Eli Pariser, Executive Director, MoveOn.org Political Action, and he wants fellow civic organizers to believe the same.In a joint panel appearance today with MySpace Senior Vice President for Public Affairs, Jeff Berman, at the Personal Democracy Forum underway in New York...
- Tags: YouTube, User-Generated Content, Social Networking, MySpace
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- MySpace wants Photobucket? Where is Google!
- News Corp’s Fox Interactive Media FIM nears deal to buy Photobucket, is the latest M & A industry chatter/rumor, courtesy of an unidentified person, this time cited by The New York Times:Photobucket allows its users to store photos and videos and then easily drop them into their pages on prominent...
- Tags: YouTube, Yahoo, Web 2.0, Wall Street, Video, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Networking, Search, Google Software Applications, Google
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Podcast: gShare, Silverlight, Justin TV and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we discuss gShare, which purports to integrate Google Office and Microsoft Office, and the Silverlight announcements from MIX07. David also talks about the promise of Mozillas Thunderbird 2.0 email and I talk about my two days in Hollywood attending the OnHollywood conference,...
- Tags: YouTube, Web Technology, Social networking, Salesforce.com, SaaS, Personal Technology, Office 2.0, Microsoft, Google, General, Dan &, David Show, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- OnHollywood: The future of media, YouTube, .tv and the digital universe
- After spending a day at MIX07 in Las Vegas, I landed in Hollywood to attend the AlwaysOn OnHollywood conference. AlwaysOn founder and OnHollywood host set the tone for the event with his opening remarks to the crowd of technology execs and digital media and Hollywood types. "Unless you adopt...
- Tags: YouTube, Web Technology, Social networking, Personal Technology, OnHollywood, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- Web 2.0 Social Media: Voyeurs rule, not amateurs!
- In my “Social Freeloaders” User Generated Content UGC series last year. I created a Web 2.0: Top five social risks list to evaluate the sustainability, or not, of UGC based models. In asking Social freeloaders: Is there a collective wisdom and can the Web obtain it? last June, I used...
- Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Networking, Google, Amateur Content
- Blog posts 2007-04-28
- Inside the user-generated content revolution
- Some critics (such as ZDNet blogger Andrew Keen, author of "Cult of the Amateur") dismiss user-generated content as mostly amateurish crap. Its also rife with licensing issues. But marketers and advertisers are exploring various business models to embrace the content of the crowd and generate revenue. These include product placement,...
- Tags: Entertainment, General, Social networking, Web Technology, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- Google: Any rain on My Maps parade?
- Is the latest incarnation of Google Maps the closest thing to heaven on earth, literally?Perusing Techmeme would suggest so, starting with the Official Google Blog declaration that a new My Maps feature is “Map-making: So easy a caveman could do it.” Google’s message is on Googley target and typically widely...
- Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, Venture Capital, VC, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Search Advertising, Search, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture, Amateur Content, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- Mozilla tinkers with in-browser social network
- Mozilla Labs says its working on building social networking technology into its browsers. Think MySpace meets Firefox. For the effort, called "The Coop," Mozilla says it will "let users keep track of what their friends are doing online, and share...
- Tags: YouTube, Yahoo, Web Technology, Social networking, MySpace, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- John Edwards on DVD: Greatest hit in Iowa?
- Edition number 30 in this Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Are Amazon, Netflix, Columbia House shipping thousands of DVDs to Iowans? Perhaps. The DVD retailers and renters, however, are facing competition this week, not-for-profit DVD competition, from the John Edwards...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, HEALTHCARE, DVD, John Edwards, Iowa, Digital Markets, health care, health
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- NBA video highlight mixer: Fans are in control!
- AT NBA.com, fans users are really in control, of their own “NBA movie”!Get media, mix movies, share, the NBA Fan Voice declares. Steve Grimes, Vice President of Interactive Services for NBA Entertainment:The NBA.com Highlight Mixer provides our fans with easy-to-use editing tools along with the broadest selection and highest quality...
- Tags: Amateur Content, Culture, Media, Movies, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Web, Television, TV, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- Web 2.0: Are Cisco, News Corp., Viacom, Gannett really clueless?
- In the Web 2.0 social networking “users are in control” world, mega corporations must be feeling we’re damned if we do, damned if we don’t! I polled a few weeks back “Poor Google?,” noting a string of setbacks and a underwhelming 2007 beginning. Google, of course, is “everyone’s favorite...
- Tags: Newspapers, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Print, Video, YouTube, Content, User-Generated Content, MySpace, Social Web, Culture, Google, Enterprise, Web 2.0, Usability, Media
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- YouTube makes deal with BBC: Who wins?
- The two Internet kings—Google and YouTube—were unusually restrained in announcing “BBC and YouTube partner to bring short-form BBC online content to online audiences.”Mark Thompson, Director-General of the BBC, did offer the typical “ground-breaking partnership” exclamation, however.How ground breaking? Not very from the YouTube side.AUTHORIZED CONTENT ON YOUTUBE: The non-exclusive partnership...
- Tags: Business Models, Google, Google Software Applications, ROI, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Web, Television, TV, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-03-02
- YouTube: Presidential candidates cool in 'User Generated Politics' campaign 2008
- Edition number 27 in this Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Did you ever want an online place where you could go to watch all the slick presidential campaign videos produced by the candidates?YouTube to the rescue: A “You Choose ‘08” channel...
- Tags: Social Software, President Clinton, John Edwards, Presidential Race, Political Campaign, Hillary Clinton, Politics, User Generated Politics, Web 2.0, Local, Media, Culture, Government, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Marketing, Self-Promotion, Social Networking
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- Google: Hollywood vs. YouTube video games
- Will the Google-YouTube-Copyright Holders video game ever end?Web surfers will no longer be reliving the magic moments of the 2007 Oscars via YouTube. The vid-viewing site complied with a Tuesday request from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to remove all unauthorized clips, Variety stated yesterday.I just relived...
- Tags: Advertising, Amateur Content, Movies, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, Television, TV, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-02-28
- YouTube scores NBA deal
- Do you dream about being the next Michael Jordan? You can have your basketball shot at clip-culture fame courtesy of the NBA and YouTube:“Post Up the NBA” debuts on the new “NBA Channel” on YouTube to “provide fans around the world and the entire YouTube community with the opportunity to...
- Tags: Social Software, Search Advertising, Amateur Content, Marketing, Self-Promotion, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Social Networking, Social Media, ROI, YouTube, Video, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Google, Search, Advertising, Web 2.0, Media
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- Web 2.0: Does 'old media' get it?
- MySpace and Facebook are typically categorized together as “social networking” Websites. Facebook, however, makes a clear distinction between its business and that of MySpace. I chatted with Dan Rose, Vice President, about the Facebook business model at the recent Media Summit in New York City, He underscored to...
- Tags: Advertising, Amateur Content, Facebook, Google, Google Software Applications, Media, Metrics, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-02-25
- John Edwards NOT Social Networking for 'User Generated Politics' campaign 2008
- Edition number 24 in this Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”John Edwards is "Social Networking" like a true politician, he is covering all his bases and promising action. But what is his actual Social Networking record?In “John Edwards: Be my MySpace...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Local, Culture, Government, User-Generated Content, MySpace, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Marketing, Facebook, Social Networking, Social Media, User Generated Politics, Politics, Hillary Clinton, Political Campaign, Presidential Race, President Clinton, John Edwards
- Blog posts 2007-02-24
- iStockphoto CEO on Getty Images acquisition: Exclusive interview on one year anniversary
- Got $1.00? Then you can download one of 1,459,000 artist quality, royalty-free images showcased at iStockPhoto.Bruce Livingstone, iStockphoto President and CEO, has been powering “the first, biggest and best community-powered marketplace for value-priced imagery,” since he founded it in April 2000.As of February 2006, Livingston has been powering his photographic...
- Tags: Brands, Business Models, Content, Copyright, Culture, ecommerce, Marketing, ROI, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, The Real Deal, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- Google: Why TV networks will trump YouTube
- It is a mainstream media irony when the very old print media guard characterizes the broadcast old media guard as merely “posturing” before the mighty, inexorable Google. While the “old gray lady” strives to maintain an apparent “balanced” discussion of Viacom and NBC and News Corp. versus Google, Richard...
- Tags: Advertising, Amateur Content, Business Models, Content, Culture, Google, Google Software Applications, Legal, Local, Marketing, Media, Metrics, Newspapers, Search, Search Advertising, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, Television, TV, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-02-18
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