And now for something completely fantastic: The trick of making Monty Python videos available for free online has boosted DVD sales of the comedy sketch show. If you compare DVD sales figures on Amazon before and after the creation of ...READ»
Tara MaitraVice President, General Manager of Content Services
TiVo> New York, New York
Tara Maitra, 37, helps bring content from Amazon, Netflix, YouTube, and more than 50 other sources to TiVo subscribers.
"TiVo is ...READ»
Patrick KoppulaCEO
Ffwd> San Francisco, California
Patrick Koppula, 34, who cofounded the popular music-recommendation site iLike, started Ffwd (pronounced fast forward) to bring order to the world of online video.
"TV has ...READ»
Camcorders are moving in two directions at the moment: Bigger more traditional ones are recording to large solid-state drives, while the cheap pocket "youTube" camcorder is getting better video quality. Sony's latest offerings slide ...READ»
Kodak's taken the guts of its Zi6 pocket camcorder and uprated them into the new Zx1. It's a candybar-shaped device with Motorola-RAZR-like metal controls and it shoots video at 720p. Those controls are a little curious, but they're ...READ»
Been tough to post the last few weeks due to illness (bad cold, hopefully nothing more). Amazing things are going on in the social space which merits discussion. The "mommy blogger" incident which caused Motrin to pull a campaign. ...READ»
Reports that Obama plans to bring the President’s weekly “fireside chat” into the new century surfaced this weekend. The president elect plans to not just offer the chats on the radio, but on YouTube as well.READ»
Both candidates used the Internet to reach America's voters. But Team Obama mastered the medium early and exploited it to the hilt: from an active texting strategy to the MyBarackObama.com social networking site. And along the way, Obama's technology strategy changed the face of politics -- and perhaps the U.S. government -- forever.READ»
There was a lot of coverage about how the candidates used — or didn't use — social media to garner supporters. But what about how social media sites galvanized their members to go out and vote? From imeem to Facebook, here are a few examples.READ»
As media companies like the New York Times Co. continue to post dreary results and circulation numbers continue to decline rapidly across the industry – It got me thinking of some questions that these companies (and other media ...READ»
The gym I belong to has an inspirational message posted that changes weekly. Today there was a quote from Barbara Hall from her book A Summons to New Orleans that ended:
Look. Listen. Choose. Act.
And I thought, ...READ»
Fans across the nation (especially Red Sox Nation), many whom had just sat through Turner Broadcasting System’s (TBS) pregame for Game 6 of Major League Baseball’s (MLB) American League Championship Series (ALCS), prepared for ...READ»
John McCain’s “invisible friend,” as Keith Olbermann of MSNBC dubbed him after the debate, was the run away winner last night. I’m talking, of course, about “Joe the Plumber” (AKA Joe Wurzelbacher, an Ohio plumber). John ...READ»
Peter Gabriel's human-rights group Witness embraces social media, creating a YouTube for unseen atrocities. With camera-equipped cell phones, ordinary people suddenly have the means to document their lives and share evidence of rights violations. The Hub allows anyone around the world to submit such clips to a central site where its target audience of activists can connect and take action.READ»
As mainstream media becomes more open to tapping into the blogosphere and even the Twittersphere during this collapse; news and analysis are becoming two-way conversations.READ»
It’s been years since YouTube became the jewel in Google’s [GOOG] crown in terms of usership, but it’s never made the company a dime. Now it seems the search giant is figuring out effective ways to monetize their video site, ...READ»
On the afternoon before the VP debate, I find my attention occupied by the election. Here are a few things on my mind:
Last night on The Colbert Report, they did a wonderful thing. After a humorous commercial about "Voter ...READ»
Well I'm NOT the smartest guy in the room. I do, however, know how to think like a maverick and get a job done! It might be dirty and look ugly, but I'll get the job done.
Some might say that I have a criminal mind. Well, I ...READ»
I honestly doubt that there will ever be a time when American families trade the old living room television set for a broadband connection and an IBM.
Having both? Sure, it's been like that for over a decade now, but the ...READ»
The brilliance of "getting it" with YouTube, Twitter and more
I had two experiences recently that have solidified my
conviction that doing it "the old way" is a really good way to lose cool
points. As ...READ»
We've all heard great things about the Flip video cams, those diminutive, inexpensive recorders that have taken the YouTube generation by storm. Well, Kodak [NYSE:EK] appears to want to jump on that money train, having made ...READ»
Today I happened to be thinking about my last few presentations at conferences, especially at the Global Reggae Conference in Jamaica in February where I was invited to speak about leveraging the web to promote Reggae ...READ»
Sony's [NYSE:SNE] cheery little Internet companion, the mylo 2, is getting an extensive upgrade that has the potential to bring it into some semblance of relevance in the consumer tech world. Like many of Sony's odd pet projects, ...READ»
