MySpace have launched their answer to YouTube. Well that is what people are saying but they already host more consumer generated videos than YouTube so are well and truly a player in that market. myspacetv.com is focused more on professional content. There is a good article on the Telegraph on this. Technorati Tags: myspacetv
Tony Blair, soon to be former Prime Minister of Britain, gave a speech yesterday where he talking about the impact of blogs and other consumer generated media on the media and political landscape. Here are a couple of quotes from his speech: “Newspapers fight for a share of a shrinking market. Many are now read [...]
Jim Coudal, renowned designer at Coudal Partners, gave a presentation at the Future of Online Advertising (FOOA) in New York on 7th June 2007, about one of their businesses, which is called The Deck. The Deck is a network of blogs all focused on a very specific niche audience of creative, design and web professionals [...]
Just a few notes, blinks and interesting stuff I’ve picked up over the last couple of days. I need a bit of time to absorb everything and write some more meaningful posts. ——————————- “Blogging in an ephemeral fad. Destined to burn itself out in a year or two.” Hiawatha Bray, business journalist circa 2002 He [...]
This was the title of one of the presentations from the Future of Online Advertising conference, however I’m going to summarise a number of presentations that dealt with the same subject but with different angles. Beyond Google’s AdSense product, which appears on numerous blogs, it isn’t that easy to buy advertising on blogs. Here are [...]
I’m at Gotham Hall in New York City attending the Future of Online Advertising conference. I’m going to post summaries of presentations and thoughts throughout the two days. The venue is amazing. Bit slow off the mark as the WiFi network has only just started working at lunchtime. Hope this isn’t an indication of the [...]
According to TechCrunch Feedburner a great company that we use here at Marker to help measure and promote blogs is in the final stages of a $100 millon cash acquisition by Google. Not much of a surprise as Feedburner is a fantastic service with a large user database ripe for monetizing with Adsense and ties [...]
Twitter.com let’s you tell the world what you are doing right now. It essentially a micro blog tool for the TXT generation, allowing you to post up only 140 characters. You can send it in via your phone or Instant Messenger client, so it is much more real time and mobile to a standard blog, [...]
BostonNow daily newspaper is now printing blogs in their paper. See the full article on Marketing Vox
Hot Skills, Cold Skills According to a Computer World Survey, the most sought-after corporate IT workers in 2010 may be those with no deep-seated technical skills at all. The nuts-and-bolts programming and easy-to-document support jobs will have all gone to third-party providers in the U.S. or abroad. Instead, IT departments will be populated with “versatilists” [...]