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Links from last week...
Posted in IPTV, Internet, Radio, News on April 17th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Joost: It’s The Metadata, Stupid!
When talking about Joost, people tend to focus on its P2P infrastructure, its media center-like interface and its content deals. Now those are all valid points, but the real key to Joost’s success may be something else: A metadata framework that might just revolutionize the way we watch television.
Google CEO on YouTube, Clear Channel, broadcasters
Interview to Google CEO Eric Schmidt at the National Association of Broadcasters conference. The interview goes over the latest YouTube and Google news regarding media and includes advice to broadcasters and investors.
Internet radio dealt severe blow: Copyright Board rejects royalty appeal (Via Digg)
A panel of judges at the Copyright Royalty Board has denied a request from the NPR and a number of other webcasters to reconsider a March ruling that would force Internet radio services to pay crippling royalties.
Interesting links from last week...
Posted in Television, Internet, Radio, News on March 13th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
GigaOM: Last.fm, Pandora Ko-ed by new royalties?
The Copyright Royalty Board increased Internet radio royalty rates adopting a rate proposal that according to webcasters (such as Pandora or Last FM) will put them out of business.
Meet EZTV the leading TV contents distributor group via Bittorrent. Interesting for it’s views on piracy as a positive force for the TV industry.
Lost Remote: The Future of Media
… a series of one-on-one video interviews with local technology thought leaders about the future of media. (…) Also, a great example of how a local broadcaster can carve out a niche online.
Paying (or at least reciprocating) the user first...
Posted in Internet, Radio, News on February 26th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Tim O’Reilly and Phil Torrone give their opinion on terrestrial radio and point out how the industry completely forgot the most important key principle of success in business: to focus on your customers. This fact, as mentioned in the article, is increasingly true for other industries such as television networks or cell phone carriers. The problem for all this non customer focused industries is that disruptive technologies and trends are becoming a viable alternative for this customers, thus forcing traditional industries to evolve.
Many times, it’s the customers themselves who are behind this alternatives, built on OpenSource, OpenContent and free to share concepts. As Samuel Rose of SmartMobs points out, the future might actually be based on a SharingEconomy. Under it, the very same concept traditional industries are having problems with today remains the same:
…”the market” will eventually drive people towards creators and providers and facilitators who really start to think about “How can i reciprocate back real value to these people who are sharing with me?”