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Is Comcast getting into Netflix’s business? It’s a tempting argument, given Comcast’s launch this week of Xfinity Streampix, a service for streaming TV reruns and old movies. That sounds an awful lot like Netflix’s bread-and-butter. Both companies have 20 million-plus … Continue reading
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Tagged Comcast, Netflix, streaming
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Apple’s Voice App Has Siri-us Implications for TV
So, I tested Siri, Apple’s iPhone4s voice recognition app, and here’s my conclusion: It ain’t a miracle app, but it raises the bar dramatically and sets the stage for a revolution in user interfaces for TVs, cars, and many other … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, remote controls, Siri, TV, UI, Verizon, voice recognition
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Netflix’s Real Problem
Netflix has a BIG problem. Not because it angered customers by doubling its price or even because it enraged them by attempting to spin off its DVD business. Netflix’s problem is that it fundamentally has little leverage with the studios. … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Internet, Media, Mobile, Television, Uncategorized, Video
Tagged Amazon, Apple, CBS, CW, Dish, Google, Hulu, Nertflix, studios, TV
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AOL and Yahoo!: Fingers in Google’s Dike
AOL and Yahoo! both revolutionized the Internet. And both have completely lost their way. Back in the 1990s, AOL introduced millions of people to email and online content. Yahoo! taught people how to find things online. Now both seem reduced … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Internet, Television, Uncategorized, Video
Tagged advertising, Alibaba, AOL, digital media, Google, Huffington Post, Marketing, Media, Microsoft, publishing, Search, SEO, TechCrunch, Time Warner, Yahoo
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Going Gaga at Amazon
At some point, some people decided they’d better eat the costs of their mule herd and invest in tractors to haul stuff if they wanted to survive. Which side of history is the music industry on? Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, iHollywood Forum, Internet, Media, Mobile
Tagged Amazon, Apple, cloud, cloud-drive-and-illegal-music, digital media, ebooks-an-epublishing-good-or-bad, glassless-3d-tv-with-face-recognition-video, Google, indirect-revenue-apple-and-starbucks, Internet, ipads, iphones, iPods, iTunes, lady-gaga-new-album-not-doing-so-well-sales, Mobile, Music, piracy, RIAA, wireless
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This Phone Call Is Brought to You by Coca-Cola
The cost of telephony is approaching zero, and you can already buy TVs that let you have Skype video calls while you’re watching. Can phone ads be far behind Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, iHollywood Forum, Internet, Media, Michael's Blog
Tagged AT&T, Media, Microsoft, nextechforum-com, phone-call-from-coka-cola, questionmark3dnowatermark, savannah-stern, savannah-stern-vice-city, savannahstern, savannahstern2010, savannahsternthedealcloser, savannah_sternyahoo-com, Skype, telephony
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Are You Sure You Want to Friend Facebook?
The media business (and yes, since Facebook and Google put content on screens, they are part of it) is entering a Brave New World where marketers are learning with extraordinary specificity your occupation, state of health, social status, hobbies, favorite movies and music, sexual proclivities and practically every other piece of meaningful information about you. We are told that this will improve the rate of return on advertising by orders of magnitude, and I believe it.
But the downsides are potentially enormous, and haven’t been thought through. If information is power, we are handing power on an unprecedented scale to the people who control what we see and hear on those broadband pipes. When Barack Obama joked at Facebook last week that “I’m the guy who got Mark Zuckerberg to put on a coat and tie”, he was a lot closer to the truth of his position in the scheme of things than he realized. Continue reading
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Tagged Comcast, Facebook, facebook-publishing-rights-all-photos, fitsomething, how-to-prevent-facebook-from-claming-the-rights-to-your-photos, how-to-prevent-facebook-from-photos, Internet, iphone5, is-facebook-going-to-have-all-publishing-rights-to-our-pribate-photos, mark-zuckerberg, mark-zuckerberg-favorite-movies, Media, movies, NBC, nextechforum-com, privacy, savannah-stern, social media, Television, whatdoyoucallpantsthatdontfityouanymore
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