Mark Cuban's question in a post below asks us to imagine if my old company - encoding.com aka Loudeye (which encoded lots of a-list music and video) decided to throw all the content it had online. That would have been one hell of a site from a user's perspective - movies, ...
Today Henry Blodgett argues Google should buy Spot Runner essentially arguing Spot Runner is enabling targeted TV advertising for the long tail of local advertisers. Spot Runner's not the only company dreaming the dream of enabling the long tail video advertising (both online or offline). And based on a conversation I had ...
Alright the title's really a double negative, but the slang sentiment makes my point. We're not in a bubble the way we usually think of bubbles. The Tulip Bubble was a bubble, the Stock Market 98-01 Bubble was a bubble and in some areas(note: as my friend dave berson, head ...
I just found out someone who I worked with at zango died last weekend in a tragic cycling accident. Having lived through a similar tragedy when my would-be best man was killed in a car accident a decade ago, all I can say is that I my deepest sympathies go ...
I've often been accused of being a marketing geek and this past weekend I embraced my inner marketing geek.
Like any marketing geek worth his salt - I need a white board to work through ideas, thoughts especially when working on a new business plan (which I am) and/or to just ...
I love to needle my liberal friends about how that the reason conservatives find fault with liberal ideas is that a lot of them are about feeling good about solving a problem vs. actually solving the problem.
"Protecting/Cleaning/Saving" the environment is one of those issues that is a standard bearer issue ...
Thanks to Dave McClure, I had a chance to sit down the other day with Scott Rafer, CEO of myBlogLog. In the course of our conversation (largely reliving the ups and downs of the online business sector from 98 to present), Scott made the good point that when it comes ...
to all the apple maniacs out there who love to tout how bullet proof their os is, all i have to say now is - b.s. last night my shiny six week old macbook began crashing every time i tried to boot it up. all i got (and ...
Mashable covers the story here and comes to the conclusion that mark's personal feelings are driving magnolia's decision to go after youtube users.
Two things come to mind - who cares if its personal? Mark's business has the right to do what they are doing and they are doing it.
I've ...
I will have to see as a geek having had jobs that have allowed me to go to shows like e3 and ces has been awesome. For gaming, e3 was nirvana though its success ultimately led to its implosion. Thankfully ces isn't going anywhere soon and now with ...
