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- Can video make reading sexy? CBS to launch book channel online
- “Video killed the radio star”? So sings The Buggles.CBS Corporation’s Simon & Schuster, however, is singing the praises of video to make books stars and is creating a new “book-centric” Internet video channel aimed at doing just that: BookVideos.tv!Slated for a June launch, BookVideos.tv will “humanize authors,” Sue Fleming, Vice...
- Tags: Culture, Marketing, The Real Deal, TV, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- 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 use Gmail?
- Google is no longer shy in touting its Gmail.On Valentines Day, Google shed the Gmail veneer of exclusivity, as I discuss in "Google’s Silence."I also pointed out in "Gmail for the masses" how Google is exploiting the most valuable Web real estate to promote Gmail uptake: its own $150 billion...
- Tags: Advertising, Google, Google Software Applications, Marketing, ROI, Search, Search Advertising, Self-Promotion, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, The Real Deal, Video, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-02-17
- Jim Lanzone's vision for Ask.com: 'Real Deal' Interview
- Barry Diller, CEO, IAC/Interactive, has taken to extolling the IAC search engine property Ask.com as the “connecting glue” for IAC’s “integrated conglomerate” of diverse Web properties and services.Jim Lanzone, CEO, Ask.com, however, prefers to see himself operating as a “chef” remixing content ingredients to create a better search experience for...
- Tags: Business Models, Local, Usability, Advertising, Search, Google, Blogs, CEO Interviews, Internet Data, Brands, Marketing, The Real Deal, ROI, Metrics, Ask.com, AskX strategy
- Blog posts 2007-01-10
- Bid4Spots vs. Google Audio Ads? EXCLUSIVE 'Real Deal' CEO interview on radio battle
- Bid4Spots is an online marketplace for unsold commercial radio advertising inventory based on the premise that when ”radio stations have unsold airtime close to the week of broadcast, many would rather sell it at a substantially discounted rate, than not sell it at all.”Bid4Spots runs weekly reverse auctions where radio...
- Tags: Bid4Spots, ROI, Radio, Google Software Applications, The Real Deal, Marketing, Google, Search, Advertising, Media, Local, Business Models
- Blog posts 2006-12-10
- Blip.tv vs. YouTube? Founder talks 'The Real Deal' in exclusive interview
- Blip.tv is not a blip in online video.I chatted at length with Mike Hudack, co-founder and CEO, today about how blip.tv came to be and where it is headed.Blip.tv has a simple tag line that encapsulates its straightforward mission: “a great service for great shows.” Hudack and his four...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., video, Mike Hudack, advertisement, Blip.tv
- Blog posts 2006-11-13
- SWMX Radio vs. Google? SWMX COO talks 'The Real Deal' in exclusive interview
- Google was mum on its dMarc Broadcasting acquisition at its Q3 conference call last month (see "Is Google hiding the radio star? Google silent on dMarc Broadcasting").Google spokesperson Michael Mayzel told me that Google is:Planning on releasing a beta version of Google Audio Ads by the end of the year.Industry insiders...
- Tags: Business Models, Local, Media, Advertising, Google, TV, Television, The Real Deal
- Blog posts 2006-11-05
- Metacafe vs. YouTube? Metacafe CEO talks 'The Real Deal' in exclusive interview
- Google’s acquisition of YouTube realigned the online video space.Metacafe is now the “world’s largest independent video site,” according to Arik Czerniak, Co-founder and CEO. I had a lengthy chat with Czerniak yesterday while he was in NewYork City, the “media capital of the world.”Czerniak is based in Israel, where he...
- Tags: Business Models, Media, Advertising, Culture, User-Generated Content, Venture Capital, VC, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Self-Promotion, TV, Television, The Real Deal, Content, Social Media
- Blog posts 2006-11-04
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- News to know: Cisco; Azure; Smartphones; Twitter lists; Facebook; Skype; Twitter device
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Cisco unveils collaboration, e-mail and social tools for the enterprise Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft puts more...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Twitter Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Skype Technologies S.A., Cisco Systems Inc., Smartphone, Sam Diaz, E-mail, Web Browsers, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Online Communications, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
- 18 truths: The long fail of complexity
- Agree *****One of the best distillations of what 'risk' actually is, and why complexity exponentially increases it, I have read.But more to the point takes a realistic, rather than optimistic or pessimistic, view of how to asses it. And correctly acknowledges the 'human' factors involved in both cause, and...
- Tags: Strategy, HEALTHCARE, information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap (or even free)
- RE: Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap or even freeGreat post, Ed! Seeing how you outlined the cheapest way to get Microsoft Windows 7 there should be no reason why anyone would not want to upgrade now. Price is no longer an issue. This would be...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, legal way, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- Wal-mart preempts Black Friday with HDTV specials this Saturday
- China made productsYES all we need is more 'Made In China' to get the economy churning....Bring it home to 'China' no longer USA because we are like Rome we manufacture nothing, we import everything and borrowing TRILLIONS from China.How long will this last I would say as long as they...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, HDTV, manufacturing, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- EU showdown over Oracle-Sun; Objections seem imminent
- Oracle should expose the M$ agents in the commision and then it should file a lawsuit in the US against M$ for criminal interference to a US approved deal.The more you post...The less you make sense... please go back to the "Asile du Pingouin" institution to get your medication EU...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Xobni expands to include enterprise but where are Web, Mobile and even Mac versions
- Search tools more than important!!!Good that mostly everbody knows that in business life nothing works without e-mail and even that important is a reliable and fast search tool for Outlook! One of those is Lookeen It has so many features which lighten your work that is amazing. It works with...
- Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Office, Mail.app, Entourage, Web, Xobni, Microsoft Outlook, Apple Macintosh, mobile
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Deck the halls with LED
- Sounds OKSounds like a reasonable idea although the cost of LED lights is quite high ($30?).lehnerus2000$30 for LED lights?We buy sets here for $15... and considering that the power consumption is so much lower that they quite literally pay for themselves in the savings on my electric bill, they're worth...
- Tags: Engineering, light-emitting diode
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- Is Microsoft a dinosaur to Google's mammal?
- Random comments...How odd the mixed metaphors sound... "built from the ground up to work in the cloud"...The dinosaurs were around for tens of millions of years, and we mammals can barely say the same. The crown of creation can be wrested from the head of the wearer by something unforeseen--like...
- Tags: Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, Ideation, Google Inc., desktop, dinosaur, Linux, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Laptop computers
- This year the laptop list was a tough assignment for several reasons. First, the emergence of a new class of ultra-thin laptops--spawned by lower-cost processors from Intel and AMD--has made things more complicated. Second, there's a fresh crop of Windows 7 laptops, and...
- Tags: Processor, Hard Drive, Performance, Apple MacBook, Memory, Graphics, Laptop Computer, Netbook, Computer, Intel Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Compaq CQ61z, Timeline 1810T, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows 7, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris
- Blog posts 2009-11-01
- What's the hurry? You can still see Miami from the plane.
- Add another choiceHarry, you need to add another choice on your survey."If the climate [b]IS[/b] warming, it is part of a natural cycle and has very little to do with mankind's actions, and there is very little that we can do to affect it."another choice being added--Harry FullerFuller, why the...
- Tags: launch-pad, global warming
- Discussion threads 2009-10-31
- Microsoft to drop Office Accounting product, services
- DumbWhat a dumb move their Accounting software was one of the best products they had.Anyone notice a trend?Dumping Money, dumping Office Accounting, and all at a time when the Feds are increasingly regulating Financial firms. While MS is clearly not a "Financial" Company it looks alot like they are...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Office Accounting, Microsoft Corp., Intuit QuickBooks, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- Making a foundation a real solution to the mySQL mess
- Sounds good. Too good?This sounds like a great solution to a problem that is probably costing Oracle, destroying what little credibility Sun has as a brand, while ensuring that every website on the planet virtually retains access to a free, secure and efficient database. If we don't do something, the...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Dana, MySQL, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
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