Friday, December 7, 2007
Is there a Web 2.0 bubble? Keep an eye on that "Beacon" of light
I grabbed this video from BoomTown. If I had a valuation, I'd hate this video. Alas, I am a more like a fraction of a fraction of the pie kinda guy. I'd take that, come to think of it.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Made Kosher for Hanukkah
What goes good with latkes on Hanukkah?? HAM! Juicy, spriraled ham. Thanks Ralph's Grocery store.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Hulu, Facebook, Killer Apps like Twitter
Is it fun, easy, eventful, and jump on the bandwagon gotta have it kind of stuff? Does it go on my Facebook page? The answers to these questions must be yes in order for the next interactive product to make noise or undermine the conventional wisdom that says their is no new new. Twitter did it. Facebook, with it 5,000 apps and counting is the backdrop, and if you're not a product on the Facebook platform....well you'll have to go to the big Google meeting in Mountain View, CA. Or you can go anyway because you'll want to be on this new Open Social platform too.
Are you a portal like Hulu? You're dead. Forget about traction. You're too big, to repeatable, to similar, not stealthy, and not new. Then again, you might just have a video experience that has never been seen before, a decent round of funding too and the content from two of the biggest suppliers in the hemisphere. But wait. I can watch Friday Night Lights on NBC.com and it works fine. But NBC.com doesn't have Conan the Barbarian. They do have Conan O'brien. I'm so confused! But maybe that was Hulu's intention all along. For now, Joost has Showtime's Dexter for free and they're not pushing any adds down my throat (CBS might change all of that if the Writer's Strike persists in 2008), so that might be my video platform of choice for now, but I'm nomadic and so I'm sure I won't have many reasons to stay loyal (guess what Joost, your newsletters aren't really wetting my appetite to load your client on another computer). My guess is VeohTV, Joost, The CBS Audience Network that helps populate their platforms has a preeetty nice jump on Hulu by the way. Time will tell. Meanwhile, the web is getting more and more social. Are you?
Are you a portal like Hulu? You're dead. Forget about traction. You're too big, to repeatable, to similar, not stealthy, and not new. Then again, you might just have a video experience that has never been seen before, a decent round of funding too and the content from two of the biggest suppliers in the hemisphere. But wait. I can watch Friday Night Lights on NBC.com and it works fine. But NBC.com doesn't have Conan the Barbarian. They do have Conan O'brien. I'm so confused! But maybe that was Hulu's intention all along. For now, Joost has Showtime's Dexter for free and they're not pushing any adds down my throat (CBS might change all of that if the Writer's Strike persists in 2008), so that might be my video platform of choice for now, but I'm nomadic and so I'm sure I won't have many reasons to stay loyal (guess what Joost, your newsletters aren't really wetting my appetite to load your client on another computer). My guess is VeohTV, Joost, The CBS Audience Network that helps populate their platforms has a preeetty nice jump on Hulu by the way. Time will tell. Meanwhile, the web is getting more and more social. Are you?
Thursday, September 6, 2007
A New Professional Frontier
CBS Interactive is my new professional home! I am thrilled beyond words to describe my pride, excitement, and commitment to this exciting new chapter in my digital life. I am quite new to CBS Interactive, having started just last week, but the CBS/Viacom Corporation was my employer for many years during my stints in the old media biz.
I enter the CBS digital fold at a crucial time as the CBS Homepage is undergoing a reformation. I use the reformation reference very loosely here as it is historically a religious term. As it represents a break from something old, like the Roman Catholic Church, to a new way at looking at something I apply it to the conversion of one web model to another. For the CBS Homepage in its Alpha state (9/5/2007) is a stunning achievement for such a large platform that has resided in an older reactive state for many months. This is not to say that there have not been many small, important steps towards this new site for many months, or that this transformation was not organic, steady, and thoughtful. There is an architecture behind the new CBS Homepage and the old CBS Homepage that reflects a passion for change, risk, and community.
I am seated at a small desk at CBS and, as I type, my mind is humming with ideas. I have awoken each day for the past week and a half with a mix of zeal, fear, and wonderment at where my digital life has led me.
I enter the CBS digital fold at a crucial time as the CBS Homepage is undergoing a reformation. I use the reformation reference very loosely here as it is historically a religious term. As it represents a break from something old, like the Roman Catholic Church, to a new way at looking at something I apply it to the conversion of one web model to another. For the CBS Homepage in its Alpha state (9/5/2007) is a stunning achievement for such a large platform that has resided in an older reactive state for many months. This is not to say that there have not been many small, important steps towards this new site for many months, or that this transformation was not organic, steady, and thoughtful. There is an architecture behind the new CBS Homepage and the old CBS Homepage that reflects a passion for change, risk, and community.
I am seated at a small desk at CBS and, as I type, my mind is humming with ideas. I have awoken each day for the past week and a half with a mix of zeal, fear, and wonderment at where my digital life has led me.
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