Facebook – The Emperor Apparently Has No Clothes – or not so many
I like it… but I don’t pay any attention to the ads... The New York Times today reported that General Motors will stop running ads on Facebook. While GM only spends $10 million a year on its Facebook ads,...
Read moreJoin Us In London This Summer
This summer the Olympics are coming to London. There are going to be millions of people there, most of them shooting video on their cameras and iPhones. But in June, the month before the Olympics starts, we’re going to...
Read moreFacebook IPO – Is The Social Network The Next Bubble?
FACEBOOK IPO – IS THE BUBBLE ABOUT TO BURST? Megasite Facebook is preparing for its IPO. The valuations have been in the range of $100 billion. But now, at the precipice of the IPO, Facebook has amended its offering...
Read moreThe Instagram of Video – The Next Big Thing
The purchase of iPhone app Instagram for $1 Billion by Facebook was astonishing, but it focused people on what is fast becoming Web 3.0, which is a world in which people put stuff into the system as much as...
Read moreOprah Winfrey Network is Toast – Verizon Could Have Saved Her
photo of Oprah from The Daily Mail from Twitter, Tweeted by Oprah (so I hope there are no rights issues here) The Daily Mail, the UK newspaper everyone loves to read, announced today that The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN)...
Read moreIs Facebook Finished? Here Comes Web 3.0
About a million years ago, I owned a house in Philadelphia. The New York Times had just bought VNI, which was based in Philly, and we had to move to NY. (No great tragedy there). The real estate market...
Read moreAnd now… Amazon TV
I like books. I buy a lot of books I used to go down to Borders to buy my books, which was, frankly, a pain. They had limited shelf space; they often didn’t have what I wanted. Then,...
Read moreDraw Nothing – except a few conclusions – the fall of Zynga?
In the early 90s I formed my first company, Video News International – VNI. The idea was to give small video cameras to freelance journalists around the world and get rid of the need for crews and fly-in reporters...
Read moreMobile Video Set To Surpass Online Video This Year
VIDBLOG reports that by the end of this year the mobile video ad market will surpass the online non-mobile (what should we call it?) market. This is only surprising in how quickly this shift to mobile has come about....
Read moreNew Numbers and an Old Economist
Joseph Schumpeter was an an early 20th Century Hungarian- American economist. He popularized the term ‘creative destruction‘ – that is, “the role of new companies in making innovations that interrupt the circular flow. New firms “do not arise out of...
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