I read an interesting post by Cuban called “Hulu is kicking Youtube’s Ass” where he argues that YouTube’s business model is broken and that Hulu has the only sustainable model going forward. He argues that because Hulu has rights to sell ads on their videos they are doing a much better job in revenue [...]
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Isn’t Yahoo! supposed to compete with Google and other consumer properties? I mean, even AOL has an RSS reader (here). People are using RSS readers more and more and Google’s making it social. I now get feeds shared to me every day and they’re usually the most interesting ones. For instance the [...]
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This was a quote i found on Chris Anderson’s - the author of The Long Tail - and it refers to how search will be done in the future. The short popular stuff will be pre-loaded results by humans, the medium will be populated by friends and the obscure long tail is found by algorithms. [...]
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I love my Google Reader. I like being able to stay in one “web inbox” and cruise through a stream of web clips.
One thing I don’t like is hassle of placing a comment on a blog. To leave a comment, i have to leave Google Reader and go to the blog, then type in the [...]
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Granted, i haven’t seen it in person or used it, but i watched the Macworld speech by Steve Jobs about it and let me tell you - the phone looks incredible. The phone looks awesome but more than that, it is over-delivering. Again, Apple is taking everyone’s expectations, throwing them out the window and giving [...]
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After visiting Romania, i attended the Le Web 3 conference in Paris. While i won’t get into what went on the second day (kinda lame), i wanted to post my notes on the first day of speakers. Here goes:
10-10:30: Real World and why it matters: Hans Rosling
This was a fantastic presentation of describing [...]
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Fo drizzle, yo
This is my annual Snoop post. Even since Dre’s The Chronic, i’ve been in love with Snoop’s rapping. I even wrote a paper in college for an English class where i translated The Scarlet Letter to the lyrics of Nuthin’ But A G-Thing, it was renamed Nuthin’ But an ‘A’ [...]
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I saw the annoucement last week (and news stories) of the new AOL CEO, Randy Falco, and got to wondering, if I’m in charge of running AOL which is now in the business of monetizing traffic to AOL.com and other pages, how would i do it? A few thoughts came to mind….
First, i would [...]
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Yesterday, someone sent me an email about the Google/YouTube deal with the note “seems like an absurd amount of money.” Well, i think it was a good deal for Google. Here’s why:
YouTube has critical mass which is VERY hard to get
YouTube (like Google Video) is a complete browser-based system which fits in with google’s [...]
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The first step towards the Google PC are there which i commented on here and here with yesterday’s announcement of the Google Apps. The next step is for them to announce the low cost PC - which may not happen for a while.
Second, there’s a very interesting post from Chris Anderson about what this could [...]
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