TV Everywhere is a concept put out by TV distributors that basically says that if you pay for cable or satellite, you should be able to watch the content you want, where you want. Everywhere. To some people this is not a good idea.
YouTube, CBS, NBC, ABC are going to have an awful lot in common in the not too distant future.
Rupert, you didn’t ask my opinion on this, but since when has that ever stopped me.
Here is a hard cold fact of the Internet age. Any content creator whose sole business is selling their content à la carte will have a hard time surviving. In a world of unlimited digital choice, the cost of creating and marketing content that generates a profit is expensive and difficult. Which is exactly why the successful sites have been aggregators. So what are newspapers to do?
It’s easy to write about what the government or other people should do with our/their money. It’s harder to come up with a course of action that I can undertake on my own that possibly, somehow could make a difference. My first inclination is always to try to look “for the next big thing.” But the next big thing is just that–next. It’s not now. Its Venture Capital. It’s not self-funding, renewal capital.
Internet Video. It’s the salvation for content creators everywhere. It’s the end of dependence on the big bad meanies — the cable and satellite companies. Right? Hell no. The concept that “over the top” video creates a valid business alternative for content creators is as misguided an Internet business myth as there is.
The future of any technology can be defined by the economic opportunities it creates. Take just one look around Pittsburgh to see the explosion in the number of businesses built around advances in medical technology and the importance of entrepreneurs focusing on new technology. The impact has been enormous. Which brings us to today. What [...]
There is a lot of money being spent trying to turn internet video into something it’s not. It’s not TV. It’s certainly not going to be HDTV. What is shocking about the entire attempt to turn the internet into a TV/HDTV distribution medium is how much people lie to themselves about what is actually happening.
It appears that YouTube can only monetize about 4 percent of its content. Which leads to the question of “how can Youtube monetize the other 96 percent of its content?” The answer, believe it or not lives within Youtube and begins with another question: “Can YouTube generate enough traffic per video to cover the cost of reviewing content for copyright violations?” After all, Google is the king of traffic generation and monetization, right?
Is there anything more fun than sitting around, growing your hair, drinking a Bud while listening to Jethro Tull and pondering how to change the balance of power in the search world and unseat Google? Better search? Too subjective. Better monetization? After the fact. Better User Interface? Will we know it when we see it? A new and different search? Semantic? Human powered? We won’t know till we know. But what about the Google Index — all the Web sites that are indexed by Google? What is it worth to be in the Google Index?
Craig Moffett of Bernstein Research wrote an amazing report entitled “And Now for the News…The Emperor Has No Clothes.” If you can get a copy, read it. Starting with the disappointing but expected news that journalism is no longer a service consumers desire to pay for, he moves on to the problems facing Internet video.
There is a dirty little secret in the cable industry. It’s being kept secret not by the cable distributors, but by the big cable networks. End this practice and the United States goes from being third world by international broadband standards to top of the charts and exemplary. Make this change and Net neutrality becomes a non-issue. There is plenty of bandwidth for everyone. What is the dirty little secret ?
Is blogging just the end result of someone’s input into a content management system? Of course it is. So what? You could point a URL to a daily post in a discussion forum. It would have far better interactivity than a blog, and would be just as easy to post as often as the author would like. Does that make the output purely a forum post?
There was a lot of discussion about my previous posts. My point is that the Internet is a stable platform. It’s a utility. It’s evolved to the point where you can count on it and develop applications for it without much fear that it’s going to change.
What confirms my point is that with all the talk of a possible or existing recession, not a single mention is ever made about how increases in productivity from technology will pull us through. That is counter to the recessions of the past 25 years. Whether it was the early ’80s, the ’90s or even the post-bubble, economists and others pointed to technology as a catalyst to productivity that would help pull us out of our economic doldrums.
One thing about Jerry Yang that I always have admired is that he cares. He cares about his employees. He cares about his products. He cares about his shareholders. Most of all he cares about building a world-class company that can be great at what it does.
If you look at Yahoo singularly, it is a great company. For he and David Filo to build a company with more than 6B in sales and more than 25B in market cap is an astounding feat. Unfortunately for Yahoo, it has had to weather both the Internet bubble bursting and the emergence of Google as a force in search and online advertising.
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