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Key Articles of the Week...
Posted in IPTV, Citizen Journalism, Long Tail, Internet, News, Pro Am Journalism, Free on November 30th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
A flight across Europe for $10 is indistinguishable from magic
Is there really such a thing as a free lunch? Actually, there sometimes is. Craigslist really is free. Wikipedia really is free. Nobody is “monetizing your attention”. It’s all thanks to a combination of the falling technology costs of Moore’s Law with the Gift Economy.
Other times, there are strings attached. Advertising clutters your page. You’re pitched upgrades. Limits are imposed. You’re upsold to different products or locked into something very much not free. The difference is this latter category used to be the only category of free. Now it must compete with really free. And the newer category is growing fast.
MTV To Give South Park Episodes For Free
MTV Networks will make every episode of South Park available for free online next year. The important part of this news is the fact that MTV is not doing this to make you happy; they’re doing it to make money.
YouTube & Joost, One Year Later...
Posted in IPTV, Television, Internet, Advertising, News on October 4th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
A year ago, on October 2006, Google announced that it had reached a deal to acquire YouTube for $1.65 billion. That very same month Skype founders revealed “The Venice Project” or what would later be known as Joost. What has, and what hasn’t changed since then? (more…)
The Media Defender Story...
Posted in Internet, News on September 28th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Media Defender is a company that “has been contracted by every major record label and every major movie studio, video game publishers, software publishers and anime publishers”. Their mission is to fight Internet piracy using what they call a “technological approach”. For different reasons, they’ve been on the news since last July. The following is summary of who they are and what they’ve been up to until today. (more…)
Links of the Week...
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Publishing, Music, Internet, News on September 28th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Reflections of a Newsosaur: Yahoo! for Yahoo?
Newspaper publishers who partnered with Yahoo are seeing such significant online sales increases that they could start producing positive over-all revenue gains as early as 2009, says one Wall Street analyst.
Links of the Week...
Posted in Music, Internet, Mobile, Advertising, News on September 21st, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Record Labels Use Piracy Data to Please Fans (Via Digg)
It turns out that P2P is not only an enemy for the major record labels, it’s also an excellent marketing research tool. In fact, MediaDefender is using piracy to help labels increase profitability. (more…)
Still Looking for a Business Model for Internet Video...
Posted in IPTV, Television, Internet, Mobile, News on September 13th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Despite the huge growth of video on the net, a clear business model has yet to be found. At MCH we advocate that to find a working business model a complete paradigm shift is required: The industry is not only in front of a simple platform shift, it’s facing a whole social transformation where scarcity doesn’t exist…among other important changes. (more…)
Google’s Wake Up Call to Newspapers...
Posted in Internet, News on September 6th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Google recently announced a partnership with the major news agencies to feature their original stories, while at the same time hiding “duplicates”, or in other words, the actual newspaper’s versions of that very same story. (more…)
TV and the Internet: Both Dead & Boring?...
Posted in IPTV, Television, Internet, News on August 30th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Two ideas made the rounds in the blogosphere this week. The first one, a prediction from Vint Cerf, “founding father of the Internet” and Google’s Vice President: it’s the end of TV, as we know it. TV is dying. Upon further reading and beyond the sensationalist headers, what Cerf means is that the way we consume TV contents and how we get to them is changing. (more…)
Plastic news, Internet and the political discourse...
Posted in Television, Internet, News on August 16th, 2007. By Maren Hermans.
One quarter of all Americans are using the Internet as their primary source of information, and they have some comments on traditional news coverage on television: artificial, not trust-able, biased, uncaring, are only some of the appraisals published in a new study. (more…)
Google News: comments on the comments...
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Publishing, Internet, News, Pro Am Journalism on August 9th, 2007. By Maren Hermans.
Google wants to integrate comments from people and players related to each of the stories featured in Google News. This is another step into times of total information, and probably also necessary regarding the growing popularity of Citizen Journalism. (more…)