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20/20 Hindsight on Myspace
Hindsight is always 20/20. Still, looking back on Rupert Murdoch’s $580 million purchase of Myspace in 2005, it’s possible to see a series of worrisome red flags. I present them forthwith so that you can pick out the next flops yourself — and if you’re a media mogul, maybe save you a billion or two.
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Rupert’s Right
I’m no big fan of Rupert Murdoch, but I think he’s right about Google and newspapers. Something has to be done about the fact that search engines get a completely free ride sourcing millions of articles on the Web…and then taking most of the advertising revenue. Continue reading
Muddled Metrics: Is Broadband Really TV’s BFF?
The Nielsen and comScore broadband video numbers cut many ways Despite industry and analyst worries that broadband video was undermining Americans’ taste for traditional TV, Nielsen and the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) found in a new study … Continue reading
The Bright Side of Newspaper Industry’s Gloom
Hello? Anyone Ever Heard of the I-N-T-E-R-N-E-T? While the L.A. Times was busy firing an editor this week for having an affair with Brian Glaser’s publicist and then hiring him as a guest editor, much more momentous things were happening in the newspaper business. Billionaire … Continue reading
NBC and Fox’s Online Deal: If You Focus on Google, You’re Missing the Point
Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, television used to be free. Three big broadcasters — NBC, ABC and CBS — gave away all their content for free. Everyone watched it. Advertisers paid billions. And everyone was happy. … Continue reading
MySpace: Tools Don’t Kill Copyrights. People Kill Copyrights.
Fox wants to protect media content and grow MySpace at the same time. Tough job! MySpace’s apparent attempt to prevent users from embedding tools such as music, video players and ecommerce engines in their site doesn’t make compute financially or … Continue reading
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