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- Web 2.0
- An umbrella term for the second wave of the World Wide Web, which was coined by O'Reilly Media (www.oreilly.com) and CMP Media (www.cmp.com) in their 2004 and subsequent conferences on...
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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
- 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
- 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
- Who needs Brightcove? VMIX video gets sexy
- Creative is sexy these days, for everyone. So proclaims VMIX.Dubbed the “Free video sharing and hosting community,” VMIX sounds like the latest, but certainly not last, valiant attempt to unseat Google’s almighty YouTube. VMIX, however, has set its competitive sights on a different online video leader, Brightcove. How does...
- Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, VC, Venture Capital, Google, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Google buyouts are BAD business
- Will the real Google PLEASE stand-up! Google CEO Eric Schmidt and company are saying some wild and “crazy” things, literally.I heard Schmidt tell Wall Street last month that it is still “unclear” how revenue will be generated from its $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube while nevertheless expressing supreme confidence...
- Tags: YouTube, Venture Capital, VC, Web 2.0, Google Software Applications, Google, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Google's YouTube, Viacom: Better off divorced!
- The Google-YouTube-Viacom $1 billion copyright infringement tussle is sounding more and more like the prelude to a divorce settlement!I dissect Google in-house counsel Michael Kwun’s “he-said, she-said” legal “defense” preview in “YouTube: Why Google is running scared” AND provide my claim by claim counter argument to him for why his...
- Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, TV, Television, ROI, Profits, Google
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- 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
- YouTube: Why Google is running scared
- Google’s trademark Googley super confidence is no where to be seen in its in-house litigation counsel’s blustery quid pro quo Washington Post retort to Viacom general counsel Michael Fricklas’s prior op-ed.While defiant, Michael Kwun is pithy, to a fault. It is ironic that his indignant “reply” to Viacom reads more...
- Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, User-Generated Content, Google, Copyright, Content, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- Google news and views, Web 2.0 showcase: NEW at Digital Markets!
- Readers of this Digital Markets Blog know I am passionate about two things:Google and Web 2.0!To complement my ongoing, in-depth, exclusive reporting and analysis of all things Google and Web 2.0, I am authoring two new series going forward:1) Web 2.0 Showcase and 2) Google News and ViewsWeb 2.0 Showcase...
- Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, User-Generated Content, Media, Google, Copyright, Content, Business Models, Amateur Content, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- Google news and views: Google hacking, domains and job interviews
- NEW Digital Markets Series: Google News and ViewsNoteworthy Google links from all around the World Wide Web!A New Googely Hire, pre-indoctrinatedMark Pilgrim, "Two visions," 3/19/07There are two basic visions of the future of the Web, and one of them is wrong. Im going to work on the right one for...
- Tags: YouTube, Yellow Pages, Yahoo, Web 2.0, Video, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- Web 2.0 video showcase: Acceptable.tv, Brightcove, Payoneer
- UPDATE: Google news and views, Web 2.0 showcase: NEW at Digital Markets! First Issue: NY Video 2.0 March Meetup Presentations at Columbia UniversityMTV Networks: Kenny Miller, EVP & Creative Director, Global Digital MediaBrightcove: Tony Dunaif, VP, Content PartnershipsPayoneer: Yuval Tal, FounderMTV Networkss Acceptble.TV: Kenny Miller“When watching isn’t enough, take control”...
- Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, Venture Capital, VC, User-Generated Content, TV, Television, Content, Business Models, Amateur Content, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- A startup is just an idea away
- [Guest Blogger Stewart Mader, Atlassian - makers of Confluence and Jira. His blog can be found here.] I found this post from the Blogspotting blog, and just had to write about it. In it, Stephen Baker tells how he overheard...
- Tags: Wiki, tool
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Viacom brings the hate
- Today Viacom brought a lawsuit against the popular Google property YouTube for $1 billion dollars in damages, citing that the website intentionally violated its copyright. The claim states that YouTube has hosted nearly 160,000 unauthorized clips of their programming.Ill be writing more about this later as more facts become available,...
- Tags: Viacom Inc., lawsuit
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- Google: Internet bubble 2.0?
- In the immortal words of presidential candidate Ronald Reagan to President Jimmy Carter, “There you go again.” Henry Blodgett and Mary Meeker are “going again” with exuberant cheerleading for an Internet darling. Which is the “lucky” public company getting the Blodgett-Meeker props this Web 2.0 go around? The...
- Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Search, Google, Blogs, Video, YouTube, ROI, Wall Street, Profits
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- Google vs Old Media: Who needs YouTube?
- Who needs YouTube? That is the $1.65 billion dollar online video question. Google CEO Eric Schmidt confidently let it be known this week that every mainstream professional video content producer does, in very Googley take it or leave it terms. Vicaom does not believe it needs YouTube, however,...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Media, Advertising, Culture, Google, Video, YouTube, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Content
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- 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
- Why Google will never pay for content
- I hold an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business. No MBA necessary, however, to grasp the American way, the American capitalist way that is: You get what you pay for! Why then does Wall Street darling, $140 billion market cap, 29% profit margin Google wantonly “make...
- Tags: Advertising, Brands, Business Models, Click Fraud, Content, Copyright, Google, Google Software Applications, Marketing, Profits, ROI, Search, Search Advertising, Video, Wall Street, Web 2.0, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- YouTube: What Google CEO Eric Schmidt really thinks
- I feel as if I have been traversing the country with Google CEO Eric Schmidt this week! Yesterday I enjoyed lunch with him during his address to the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco (read my first-hand report in “Google CEO extols $800 billion advertising opportunity”). I spent...
- Tags: Wall Street, Search Advertising, Metrics, Content, Copyright, Google Software Applications, Television, TV, Brands, YouTube, Video, User-Generated Content, Google, Culture, Search, Advertising, Media, Web 2.0, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- 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
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