More User Content, More Cooperation, Smart Advertising, Even Giving
Here are a few sites that I think point the way forward. That is to a visually rich world where a cooperative enterprise grows out of the web. We saw some of it yesterday in Shopwiki and we know the same spirit exists in TripAdvisor.
There’s also Hotelchatter, Jaunted and more impressively Yellow Arrow.
These are […]
Creation Nets
The early 21st century is breakout time for people who have spent their lives straightjacketed by information technology. Yes, kids use Bebo and MySpace but the rest of us who endured the previous generation of management by IT tools are looking for a bit of biography feel-good too.
The story begins with copier repair man. […]
Video Content at Rock Bottom Prices, Also For the Enterprise.
I missed the audio-visual side of this when the announcement came about ShopWiki’s first round of funding ($6.2 million). Pity because it holds a lot of lessons for content producers and companies looking to improve knowledge collection and sharing.
In late June, ShopWiki debuted a video wiki feature that enables users to post video reviews on […]
New Advertising Models
TechCrunch
Over at TechCrunch a pattern is emerging. Sites with big visitor numbers (YouTube serves 100 million videos a day) and no real revenue model.
Rafat Ali over at PaidContent is today making the point that Web 2.0 bubble stories are already beginning to appear.
I’m not so convinced but the pattern that’s emerging is that advertising […]
The Long Tail, At Last
I picked up my review copy of Chris Anderson’s Long Tail on Friday and spent some of the day absorbing its lessons.
It may not be the book that seals-the-deal on a new vision of the future but it comes close because the basic idea if so fertile.
Anderson is a scientist turned economist so when […]
Local Media
Back in April celebrated US tech-journalist Dan Gillmor announced the end of his personal involvement with Bayosphere, a Bay area local citizen media initiative he helped found.
Gillmor didn’t quite sound the death knell of local new media but his opt out put people “in the know” on their guard.
Gillmor found the business of helping create […]
IPTV Growth Guess Clueless
This strikes me as an underestimate giving scant recognition to the fact that IPTV will offer a range of buddy like services that powered myspace to 30 billion hits a month recently.
It comes from a Diffusion Group report.
“IPTV deployments in several key European countries are on schedule, with new launches expected in […]
Specialist Podcasts
This does what it says on the tin:
Media Swamp is the podcasting portal where web professionals, interactive marketers and others looking for quality information and entertainment go to download shows targeted to their interests.
The Media Swamp Podcast Network
There’s not a whole lot of podcasting channels up there right now but surely that will change. Media […]
Mobi TV
It’s a day when the mobile content world took a couple of important steps forward. First Mobi TV raised $70 million in round C funding.
“We have taken tremendous strides to develop this rapidly emerging market across three continents over the last few years,” said Phillip Alvelda, CEO, chairman and co-founder, MobiTV. “These rather substantial funds […]
Art and the Mobile
Interesting - I was sent this by the PR for Nokia. It strikes me as a very good idea, one that might launch a new genre in mobile phone use.
Merging Art & Technology With Mobile Phones
American museums and art galleries are starting to utilise mobile phones instead of the usual rentable audio guides. The Tacoma […]