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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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The U.S. as ‘Digital Backwater’
xactly how we expect to lead the world in the next generation of connected digital devices when we can’t provide basic broadband services — or the education and income necessary to use them — to a large chunk of our citizens is beyond me. ` Continue reading
Mark Burnett Video Available
For those of you who missed iHollywood Forum and NXTcomm’s Q&A with Survivor and Apprentice Producer Mark Burnett about the future of digital content delivery, just click on the image to the left to go a page with links to view the video. (About the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011-nxtcomm-in-usa, AT&T, digital content delivery, digital media, environment, green, iHollywood Forum, IPTV, Mark Burnett, mark-burnett-video, nxt-colmm-2011, nxt-comm, nxt-comm-2011, nxtcom-2011, NXTcomm, nxtcomm-2011, nxtcomm-2011-show, nxtcomm2011, stairway-to-heaven-verizon-exclusive-for-iphone, Verizon
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Help from Cisco; Hurt from Google
Two tech bellwethers may provide a glimpse of how digital media will fare in the months ahead. Cisco helped stocks recover today after CEO John Chambers said he was "even more comfortable" with projections for long-term growth rate. Google fell … Continue reading
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Tagged Cisco, digital media, Facebook, Google, Stocks, technology, venture capital
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eBooks: The Writing is on the Wall
On a day when financial woes caused the Los Angeles Times to fire its editor and the Orange County Register to can its business section, I found myself thinking about Amazon’s Kindle. The Kindle, you’ll recall, is an ebook that … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, digital media, ebooks, Los Angeles Times, newspapers, publishing
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What Is a Hit?
In the new world of Web original programming how do we measure success? As showa like "Goodnight Burbank," MySpace’s "AfterWorld," and "Prom Queen" revive interest in the Webisodic format, media buyers and programmers have to ask themselves what constitutes a … Continue reading
Yahoo Buys BlueLithium: Let the Reach Wars Begin
Consolidation in the ad network space is a necessary next step This has been a harrowing six months in the digitial ad space, with DoubleClick, aQuantive, Tacoda, RightMedia, 24/7, all getting gobbled. With today’s announcement that Yahoo! is buying behavioral … Continue reading
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Tagged AOL, digital media, Google, online advertising, Yahoo
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Can We All Say “Hulu?”
The NBCu and News Corp. portal unveils a name and a URL We imagine that the executives at NBCu and News Corp. decided to be a bit playful and "YouTube-sounding" when they came up with the name Hulu for their … Continue reading
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Tagged digital media, NBC, News Corp., online advertising, online video
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Can MySpace Make a Blockbuster?
The big budget Webisodic “Afterlife” hopes to vindicate a fallen model? Anyone remember Digital Entertainment Network? TheSpot? Those online reality series from AOL? Well, long after that original model for Webisodic entertainment crashed and burned, MySpace and Electric Farm Entertainment … Continue reading