Verizon Buys AOL for Online Video
Verizon today announced that it was buying AOL for an astonishing (at least to me) $4.4 billion. According to most sources, they were buying AOL because they want to get into the online video business. I am not sure...
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 moreSaving Patch… and AOL
Lots of potential.. if… In 2007, Tim Armstrong and Jon Brod founded Patch Media, a hyperlocal news site (or network of sites), after Armstrong grew frustrated that he could not find out anything about what was happening in his...
Read moreRule Britannia
OK, now everyone… I am in England this week, and yesterday we had lunch with my in-laws at The ‘Club’. The Club used to demand that all men wear jackets and ties, and while that rule apparently has been...
Read moreAOL Goes VJ
Today, we began training AOL journalists and producers to create their own online video content using small cameras and laptop edits. Sound familiar? It should. AOL is filled with bright, aggressive, creative people eager to create content for their...
Read moreThe Show Must Go On…. or must it?
It’s news Jim, but not as we know it…. Yesterday, I found myself on a panel at the Edinburgh Television Festival with the Heads of News at The BBC, Channel 5 and ITN, respectively (r to l). The topic...
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