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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.
Posted in Entertainment, Media
Tagged animationofgoodbye, AOL, bye-animation, byeanimation, Facebook, Fox, funny-goodbye-animation, goodbye-animasi, goodbye-animation, goodbyeanimation, Justin Timberlake, justintimberlake2005, M&A, MySpace, News Corp., nextechelectroniclogo, pictureanimation-goodbye, social media, Time Warner, Yahoo
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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
Is Big Media Getting Its Money’s Worth?
Major media companies are on a buying spree, but are they cost-conscious? "Do you know any companies we might be interested in?" This questions, or soemthing much like it, has beern posed to me on more than one occasion in … Continue reading
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Tagged digital media, iVillage, mergers and acquisitions, MySpace, NBC
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In-Your-Facebook
Once a fading also-ran in the social media arena, Facebook appears to be growing up Today’s Newsweek cover will be a major feature on Newsweek and the ideals and ambitions of it young founder 23-year-old Harvard drop-out Mark Zuckerberg. Once … 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 Dark Side of the Blogosphere
A friend of ours pulled her daughter off of MySpace after she discovered that the girl was publishing provocatively dressed pictures of herself labeled with "slut". Now we learn of a prominent blogger who was forced to cancel an appearance at … Continue reading
Posted in iHollywood Forum
Tagged blogging, Digital Media Summit, Grouper, MySpace, social media, YouTube
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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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Tagged blogging, Fox, music player, MySpace, News Corp., web store
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