BBC’s Online Strategy
Also from Paid Content today is news that the BBC’s online strategy is up for review at the Ofcom regulator in the UK.
“Services up for approval include seven-day catch-up TV online and by cable, web/TV simulcasts and non-time limited audio downloads online. The iPlayer audio and video player (name TBD, I understand) will be deployed […]
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. […]
Who’s Making Knowledge - Today’s Buzz
Who’s making knowledge? See the post below (below, below - follow your cursor to the wikipedia post). Apart from that I picked this up from Robin Good’s site and after it I can tell you why it is baloney:
“On September 9, 2006, 112 of the world’s most compelling thinkers, artists, writers, scientists, social entrepreneurs, philosophers […]
Personal TV and Performance TV Get Closer, European Web 2.0. Raw FLow, Self-Cast
It tends to happen under the radar of Web 2.0 commentary but the TV is where Web 2.0 will happen and some giant steps are being made in that direction.
London-based Rawflow, a start-up with a Danish background, is one of the pioneers. Already serving medium sized broadcasters, Rawflow is getting ready to launch personal TV […]
EveryDay Content Moves up The Agenda
I take some satisfaction in seeing former IT specialists CNET’s strategy with Chow (a food site) starting to make the new media buzz. Over the past month I’ve posted a few times (here, here, and here) on the importance of everyday activities for Web 2.0 and Content 2.0 business models.
The interest is this: much of […]
New Content Kings Are Coming
I spent some of yesterday speaking with Gary Murray at Mixcast, Royce Dixon of Streetz iz Talking and Josh Berman at Soul Gorilla.
Royce and Josh run channels on Mixcast. Royce Dixon makes trhe kinds of documentaries that used to appear on mainstream TV - telling the stories of the marginalised.
Josh is part of […]
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 Edge
Talking about the edge becoming the mainstream I perused a few sites today that look like proper magazines making real money. Vice magazine for example has been hard at it for about eight years now.
Urban 75 began as an off-shoot (pun intended) of a soccer suporters club. Their magazine site is now very accomplished […]
No More Edge
IndiaTVLive.com
One of the fascinations of IPTV is the way that what appear to be minority interests - like Indian television in America - come into the mainstream.
I mention it because a couple of days back when I was talking with Gary Murray of Ooh TV, it struck me that edginess is everywhere. We’re not […]
Cultures Prone to Innovation
I just got off the phone from talking with Gary Murray of OOh TV. Three things Gary said should give us pause for thought.
1. Already he foresees a shake out coming in the online video space. Ooh are gearing up by focusing in on their most popular product area - urban innovation.
2. Online culture initiatives […]