Why Mobile Will Win in TV
Just attended an IBM briefing morning the primary purpose of which was to inform companies about the IBM/Venture capitalist initiative (Conor - might be worth contacting ACT Ventures or IBM direct). Though that was the purpose I was distracted by a comment from one of the presenters that mobile will be the winner in digital […]
Kav’s Comments
I thought kav’s comments on the last post were so strong I wanted to highlight them so I’ve put them up here. Hope that’s okay and thanks to KAV, who used to work in pharma compliance….
“One of the main problems as I saw it (and the reason I got out of the industry)
is that for […]
Crowds, Wisdom and Politics.
This too via IWantMedia:
“Slate, the online magazine owned by the Washington Post Co., is launching a 2008 Political Futures database, which aims to harness the “wisdom of crowds” to forecast the outcome of 2008 U.S. Presidential and Congressional races. Slate will publish hourly updates of key data.”
Problem is according to the book Freakonomics most elections […]
YMOGEN
This is from Ymogen, a UK mobile web community builder. I find it fascinating:
As part of the mobile and web community CMS development, an exploratory research project is being conducted with BBC Innovation Labs and Nokia, using location-based story-telling and its implications for citizen journalism.
Tell us more.
Competition Sparks Copyright Suits
Just noticed that the Viacom $1 billion suit against YouTube comes as Viacom opted for Joost as a distribution partner.
I was talking recently with the guys at Joost competitor Babelgum who told me they are finding extreme difficulty getting rights clearances for whole shows - the rights legacy for different segments, interviews, archive footage, and […]
The IBM Advantage
To date IBMs’ Second Life islands have been closed except to the IBM insiders and alumni. What IBM does for business in Second Life therefore is part of tomorrow’s news. But to preview: there is already a buzz around retail. Far more interesting from a wider cultural perspective IBM is demonstrably discovering that the virtual […]
Sorry, That Was Second Life
The Second Life experience had some considerable coverage on blogs a week or so back and this week comes the English languagae version of a report by Dutch institute EPN oN Second Life. I picked it up from this blog though the original blog is here.
These are the findings that are provoking interest, or […]
Dublin Calling
Talking to a couple of the people at the Irish Times recently it struck me how little impact blogging is having on the opinion forming duopoly of the IT and RTE. There are clubs and then there are folks lucky enough to sit on top of the opinion tree.
Despite Ireland having numerous newspapers and lots […]
From The HotWire Blogs Catching Up to Newspapers, Pass TV
- Blogs are now a near second to newspapers as the most trusted information source: A quarter (24%) of Europeans consider blogs a trusted source of information, still behind newspaper articles (30%), but ahead of television advertising (17%) and email marketing (14%).- High spenders are most trusting of blogs: Of those who spend more than […]
What Won’t Save Newspapers?
Techdirt’s carrying a short piece on newspapers’ continuing inability to get the Internet right (OK the Guardian looks good but it’s costing them $25 million a year in losses).
I’d already been thinking earlier in the day about how I write one way for the blog and another way for papers and mags. Pinning down that […]