If 90% of Your Customers Are Offline….Lessons from db twang.
Google and Yellow Pages had a little head to head recently , in front of an audience of a thousand people. What they had to say to each other was fascinating.
Aren’t you guys competitors, the discussion moderator asked? After all you’re both chasing the local search market.
Not at all said the guy from Yell - […]
For Music Where’s The Gain from the Internet Pain?
The Register recently commented that nobody is making money from music downloads. They’re making money from hardware.
Then I came across this from IT News.
On average, 4.1 million, or 2.1 percent of the 190 million US cellular subscribers, used their mobile phone as a music player in August, according to M:Metrics. The research firm estimates […]
More TV Follows the Web
News Corp.’s U.K. satellite broadcaster BSkyB is joining with Al Gore to unveil a British version of his Current TV, a channel showing user-generated videos. BSkyB chief James Murdoch says Current TV brings “the Web’s sense of empowerment to television.”
Thanks to Patrick at I Want Media for that.
No sooner had I blogged on TVs tendency […]
Today’s Media Pulse
Today iTunes makes only a slim profit, and its rivals are awash with red ink. Napster is seeking a buyer, and even with its backhaul business, Nokia’s new Loudeye acquisition - the basis for Recommenders - lost $3.5m on revenue of $5.4m in its most recent quarter
Nokia taps the Wisdom of Experts | The […]
George Lucas Says No More Films
BizofShowBiz - For those in show business and the entertainment industry
I picked this up from BizofShowBiz:
“We don’t want to make movies,” says Lucas. “We’re about to get into television. As far as Lucasfilm is concerned, we’ve moved away from the feature film thing, because it’s too expensive and it’s too risky.
“I think the secret to […]
Digital Magic is A World Leader In Online Content - What?
Digital Magics is an Italian company that has projects other new media ventures only dream of.
First they have a platform for mixing live TV with user content in real time. In other words what they do is driven by user interest and user contributions and they’ve worked out how best to do it, cheaply, while […]
Internet TV Aggregators - Are They Building the Right Model
The success of JUMP TV in getting onto the stock markets is probably going to encourage more venture capitalists to back Internet TV aggregators. I’m not convinced. TVeXT was launched back in April and looks to be slowly attracting channels but it also looks like hard going.
TVeXT has the ambition of providing an eclectic group […]
Where Content is Headed (1)
A while back you could safely say that the content industries were television, newspapers, radio and magazines. Of course there were books but that was the long finger of content, stuff that took time. Music was something else, a bit like books but an industry that got more breaks on the TV.
The dynamic end of […]
Classifieds
Craig Newmark who is due to talk at the Amsterdam cross-media Picnic next week describes classifieds as content like any other, providing an engaging experience for users.
That is leading some observers to speculate that newspapers will have to use their classifieds to attract users to whom they can then pitch banner and sidebar ads.
Yes, it’s […]
The Weekly Lens
It was a good week for finding sites that point the way forward and one that’s been unduly ignored if my reader stats are anything to go by is Sellaband. You can find my post about it here.
Sellaband have an intriguing way of taking the VC and financier out of the content development business. […]