Category: digital media

TiVo is anti-social

Posted by: Stephen Baker on March 31

I spent a solitary weekend watching March Madness on my own schedule. I was alone because while I waited to watch the games on TiVo, skipping through the ads, many…

Apple’s Genius: Take Two

Posted by: Stephen Baker on February 11

I clearly angered a lot of people with my post about Apple’s Genius software. To all those offended by my discussion of race, my apologies. I thought I’d take another…

Apple iTune’s Genius: Is it racist race-based?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on February 09

Update: This post angered quite a few people. I’ve used their input and my own thinking to write another version of the post. Please check it out. Thanks. ITunes users…

MobiTv

Posted by: Stephen Baker on November 21

Do any of you watch or plan to watch TV on your handhelds? Except for the seventh game of the World Series and maybe Obama’s inauguration speech, I’d bag live…

SXSWesters: What’s New Down There?

Posted by: Heather Green on March 11

I’m not at the conference and would love to hear from folks who are there about what’s the new interesting tech is that’s making the buzz. I am wondering about…

This Week’s Digital Dish: Bringing Out the Gloves

Posted by: Heather Green on March 05

Ok, a little late, but here’s the most recent Digital Dish, our weekly video show about tech. Spencer Ante, Catherine Holahan, Arik Hessedahl and I debate whether Microsoft, Sprint Nextel,…

Baffld: Just in Time for Valentine’s Day

Posted by: Heather Green on February 12

Talk about going high tech with old tech issues. How about harnessing the crowd to get advice on love, dating, and cheating? A friend of mine just told me about…

Math rescues Woody Guthrie recording

Posted by: Stephen Baker on February 11

Good story in Science News about how a mathematician rescued the grammy-winning Woody Guthrie recording. Jamie Howarth and his team listened for other noises in the distorted old recording. They…

Music question: Are skippy MP3s Apple’s problem?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on November 13

Ever since I moved my music from a bug-invested PC to an Apple laptop, my music files have been playing worse than scratched vinyl. Songs are jumping, and sometimes fast-forwarding…

MySpace Wooing Original Shows Makes Sense

Posted by: Heather Green on September 13

MySpace’s plan to create original series won’t come cheap: My colleague Ron Grover reports each installment will cost the producers more than $80,000, much higher than the estimated $5,000 per…

Blog, Podcast RSS Online Sales To Be Nearly Half Size Of Mobile Sales

Posted by: Heather Green on August 07

Here’s another tidbit I found interesting in Veronis Suhler Stevenson just released ad sales forecast: Revenues for blogging, Podcast and RSS are expected to hit $1.1 billion in 2011. Meantime, pure-play mobile is only expected to reach $2.7 billion. That’s lower than I would have thought, given all the hubbub about it and Google’s recent moves to open up wireless spectrum.

Companies Blocking Facebook

Posted by: Heather Green on July 30

Shel Holtz points out in a really thoughtful post that two-third of the companies in the UK are blocking Facebook. And then he goes on to explain why that makes…

Amateur V. Professional Video: Who Wins? Depends on Who You Ask

Posted by: Heather Green on July 26

Digging into the Pew study on video viewing, I was struck by the fact that most people who watch online videos say they would rather watch professionally-produced videos over “content ‘produced by amateurs.’” All except men between the ages of 18-29, a coveted audience for advertisers. “Overall, 62% of online video viewers say that their favorite videos are those that are professionally produced, while 19% of online video viewers express a preference for amateur content.” “For young adult men who are online video viewers; 43% express a clear preference for professional video, while 34% prefer amateur content. Another 19% of male video viewers ages 18-29 say they enjoy both amateur and professional content.”

RockYou’s Plan: Get Big on Facebook, Then Use that to Promote Other Cos.

Posted by: Heather Green on July 13

I met Lance Tokuda, the co-founder of the popular widget maker last night and he explained his three-step strategy for using Facebook to create a widget network. Step one: Win the initial landgrab. Step two: Cross promote to increase penetration of RockYou widgets. Step three: Use that widget network to promote other companies widgets.

Is TV Past the Future for Video Blogging?

Posted by: Heather Green on June 27

I’ve been hearing a lot more recently from companies that doing video blogging about putting product placement and pitches into their video blogs. Angel Gambino, an exec at the social networking site Bebo came in today and was talking about it. And my collegue Peter Burrows mentioned that Kevin Rose from Digg and Diggnation said that he thinks this is the future of advertising.

Selling my penultimate chapter

Posted by: Stephen Baker on June 19

I see Tim O’Reilly will be selling books by the chapter. (ex Chris Webb). The natural comparison is to the break-up of the music CD into marketable songs. I see…

Books’ lasting power

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 14

Since it’s from the Print is Dead blog, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised to see a prediction of the book’s demise. It quotes Bill Gates saying that reading…

Investor Danny Rimer Says Joost’s Advantage is in the Experience

Posted by: Heather Green on May 10

In light of Joost’s $45 million investment announcement, there is lots of discussion about what the video services advantage will be over competitors. Or for that matter, simply the broad distribution of content already out there. I.E. Why would people use Joost? I spoke briefly with Danny Rimer, from Index Ventures, to get his view of what will make Joost stand out. Here are parts of the interview with Rimer, who said that it’s the experience based on P2P, more than exclusivity, that will sell folks on Joost.

Joost Raises $45 Million

Posted by: Heather Green on May 10

Joost announced that it raised around $45 million from Index Ventures, Sequoia, Li Ka Shing Foundation, CBS and Viacom. Talk about new and old money joining hands around the campfire….

YouTube’s Steve Chen: Copy Protection Technology Taking Time

Posted by: Heather Green on May 07

YouTube Co-founder Steve Chen talks about the integration with Goolge and the state of the video sharing services copy protection technology, which is just now in the testing phase, despite Eric Schmidt’s claims last month that the technology would be released in a few weeks. Now, it looks like the Claim Your Content system won’t be released for at least a few more weeks. YouTube co-founder and chief technology officer Steve Chen told BusinessWeek that the system is only now “entering the testing phase.” In his first interview since the lawsuit was announced, Chen spoke to BusinessWeek about the secret to YouTube’s success, its plans for growth, its massive technology infrastructure, as well as providing an update on the merger with Google, which closed last November 13. What follows are edited remarks of Chen’s interview with BusinessWeek editor Spencer E. Ante.

How Blip.TV Sees the Video Market

Posted by: Heather Green on April 19

When I spoke this week with Dina Kaplan, co-founder of Blip.tv, she outlined the three major video segments that she sees online. She describes the first segment as the viral…

Talking Points Memo Has Fun With Video

Posted by: Heather Green on April 18

When I wrote last month about Next New Networks, a new producer of indie videos, they showed me a show about politics called Veracifier that hadn’t launched yet. I…

MusicNet, Pressplay, and Clownco Jokes Miss the Point

Posted by: Heather Green on March 23

The chatter is non stop about how the history is repeating itself, how those darn smug Hollywood moguls will fail because they don’t have a user interface to show us…

NBC and News Corp.’s Very Clever YouTube Killer

Posted by: Heather Green on March 22

For the most part when people started talking about the old media folks creating a YouTube killer, the belief was that they would get it wrong. Turns out that the…

The Rise of Niche Social Networks and That Money Question

Posted by: Heather Green on March 15

With the phenomenal growth of MySpace, it makes perfect sense that over the past year, a host of niche social networks including Nike’s Joga soccer site, Dogster, and the boomer site Eons would pop up. The questions become, how big can a niche site get and how much money can you make?

Internet Video TV: We Dont Know How it Will Work, But That’s Fine

Posted by: Heather Green on March 08

In doing a story about Next New Networks, a new original video network startup, one of hte most interesting elements in talking with the N3 crowd and other folks like Jeff Jarvis, who is backing a couple of new video series, is how frank everyone is that they are starting something from scratch and that they really don’t know how this will work.

Another Hurdle for YouTube Advertising: Parsing U.S. Audiences

Posted by: Heather Green on February 28

I was chatting with Podtrac CEO Mark McCrery about advertising in this distributed world and he mentioned that another hurdle for YouTube, beyond signing up the major media folks, will be helping U.S. advertisers reach U.S. audiences since the majority of YouTube’s audience is outside the U.S.

Last.fm Does Deal With Warner Music

Posted by: Heather Green on February 06

Last.fm, the social music service, just announced a deal to stream songs from Warner Music’s entire catalog on Last.fm’s free ad-supported streaming service and soon-to-be released subscription service. Given the…

BW Profile of Wallstrip

Posted by: Heather Green on January 19

My collegue Aaron Pressman did a short profile of the video blog Wallstrip for this week’s magazine. It’s a novel idea in a year where indie video bloggers who want…

Second Life and Metrics That Matter

Posted by: Heather Green on January 05

If there was one big lesson from the last bubble, it was to understand what metrics meant. Eyeballs, getting big fast, focusing on revenues and not profits, hits. All these…

WHy Wouldn’t a Big Media YouTube Killer Work?

Posted by: Heather Green on December 22

Or at least, since Google doesn’t have a clue yet how to make money on YouTube, why can’t the media companies (whose content built up YouTube) get the chance to try to figure it out on their own?

For Video’s Future Consider Video’s Past

Posted by: Heather Green on December 19

I think that like most Americans I have a tendancy to forget about history when I am thinking about innovation and change. But watching a biography last night of Mary…

Music’s future? Consider poetry

Posted by: Stephen Baker on December 12

Poets, in the 19th century, were stars. If People Magazine had existed back then, Lord Byron, with his wildly fluctuating weight and pansexual appetites, would have been a supermarket…

Speaking of the holidays…Vlogsanta is BACK!

Posted by: Heather Green on November 29

Yeahhhh! That crazy Vlogsanta is back…..Who, you say? Why only the slightly demented seasonal creation of video blogger Chuck Olsen. If you have a holiday related question, Vlogsanta’s the guy…

Dabble’s Hodder on video search

Posted by: Stephen Baker on November 21

Interesting interview on Biz2.0 with Mary Hodder, CEO of video search start-up Dabble. She has her challenges, because loads of people don’t bother searching anywhere but on YouTube. But Dabble…

What Would An Agent Do? Online Video Stars

Posted by: Heather Green on October 25

I enjoyed reading the story in the NYTimes today about the talent agency that’s scouting video stars online. But I also had fun riding in on the bus just imagining…

Venice Project, Music Nation: From P2P Video to Label-backed Contests

Posted by: Heather Green on October 20

Two stories about launches of video startups, including the Skype backed Venice Project and Music Nation, an online American Idol where voters decide who gets signed to a deal with Epic Records.

NBC News Wakeup Call

Posted by: Heather Green on October 19

The news that NBC is dramatically reshaping the network, through deep cuts in the news operations and changes in the primetime lineup is a huge shift. The networks were one…

The Problem with Web Metrics

Posted by: Heather Green on October 16

Here’s a story I edited, written by Sarah Lacy, about a topic that drives us all crazy online: Web Metrics. This story is a good overview of the issue for…

Clever, Clever YouTube

Posted by: Heather Green on October 09

The Google purchase of YouTube makes so much sense to me because only someone with a massive ad search network could make YouTube pay out quickly enough to stave off…

YouTube signs Licensing Deals with Universal, CBS, and SonyBMG

Posted by: Heather Green on October 09

Continuing the work it has been doing to clean up its copyright infringing act, YouTube signed deals with Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Group and CBS to license the…

Cyworld and the Stratification of Social Networking

Posted by: Heather Green on October 05

Will splintering be how MySpace topples?

The Lessons of Lonelygirl

Posted by: Heather Green on September 13

Lessons of the Lonelygirl saga for other filmmakers? Don’t do it.

The Virtues of Growing Big Fast Are…

Posted by: Heather Green on September 12

Could growing big fast without a business model be a problem for the likes of YouTube and MySpace?

YouTube’s Licensing Question and the Record Labels

Posted by: Heather Green on September 07

Fred Wilson has an interesting analysis of YouTube’s revenue potential. As part of his estimate, he does some musing. “Let’s say that 60% of the videos being served on YouTube…

Sci Fi’s Webisodes

Posted by: Heather Green on September 05

I am constantly fascinated by what Sci Fi is doing online, from their behind the scene podcasts to now, a series of Webisodes made for the Web for Battlestar Galatica….

BW’s Jon Fine and Lonelygirl15 Sleuthing

Posted by: Heather Green on August 28

Jon Fine has been sucked down the Lonelygirl15 rabbit hole. I have been there as well, along with loads of people online, so I understand his obsession. He reports his…

Grouper, Sony, and the Copyright Card

Posted by: Heather Green on August 23

It makes absolute sense that Grouper, one of the startup video sharing sites, got bought by a Hollywood player. The company has good technology, a proven team on innovators (the pair behind pioneering online radio service Spinner)—and have been loud and clear in their committment to protecting copyrighted works.

Pricing Cuts Hit Nascent Online Video Market

Posted by: Heather Green on August 21

In a testament to just how quickly the online video market is evolving, Guba is already starting to cut pricing. I am not sure I have ever seen a cycle…

Traffic Statistics Online and the Importance of Triangulating

Posted by: Heather Green on August 11

Great discussion going on about traffic stats from Alexa, Comscore, and Hitwise and why it’s definitely a buyer beware scenario out there. Particularly interesting rundown from Webanalysticsbook.com (via Siliconbeat)on the different approaches and the issues with them.

CNN is Very Good for Blip.tv

Posted by: Heather Green on August 01

CNN partners with Blip.tv for the major media company’s new service that lets the public upload videos, articles and recordings.

YouTube Overtakes MySpace: Maybe

Posted by: Heather Green on August 01

File this under one of the things that drives me crazy. But making any definitive statements using Alexa numbers seems reckless to me. Sorry for repeating, but Alexa so far…

Ze Frank, YouTube, and Making Money

Posted by: Heather Green on July 28

Ze Frank’s discussion on YouTube, copyright, control and/or money, and how that represents the coming of age of indie online video.

PBS Partners with OMN and Google to Sell Videos Online

Posted by: Heather Green on July 26

PBS partners with Google and Open Media Network to sell downloadable videos online.

Skype Founders New Video Service

Posted by: Heather Green on July 24

BW’s Steve Rosenbush writes about a new video distribution venture that the founders of Skype are working on. Steve writes: “Working under the code name “The Venice Project,” Zennstrom and…

Hodder’s Dabble Video Directory Service Launches

Posted by: Heather Green on July 24

Dabble, the video search and social networking site started by blogger Mary Hodder, is launching today. As with many services that offer leaps forward, Dabble is trying to solve a…

The Internet, Video, and Feedback

Posted by: Heather Green on July 24

How the showing of the Grizzly Man documentary showed some of the potential that the Internet to remake what we think of as video and storytelling.

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs

Posted by: Heather Green on July 19

Celebrity blogs, fake blogs, anomymous blogs. Now a combo of the three with the Secret diary of Steve Jobs

Heads Up, Janet Jackson Fans

Posted by: Heather Green on July 18

Hard on the heels of the BBC inviting the public to help it redesign its Web site, Janet Jackson is inviting fans to design the cover of her new album….

Bix: American Idol for the Online Video Set?

Posted by: Heather Green on July 17

The launch of Bix, the online contest service from Mike Speiser, one of the founders of Epinions.

Attention Deficit and Strategies for Engagement

Posted by: Heather Green on July 14

BW story about shattering attention spans and strategies three companies (Nike, Efficient Frontier, and the BBC) are using to try to reengage folks in this new world.

Glad to See Hitwise Weigh in on Digg v. NYTimes Traffic

Posted by: Heather Green on July 07

In a great example of how blogs can be used to bring clarity to muddy facts, traffic tracking service Hitwise sifted through its data to weigh in on the debate on whether the Digg is closing in on the NYTimes. Their finding: “The share of page impressions for the NY Times was 19 times greater than for Digg for that week.”

A Hard Look at Google’s Nonsearch Innovations

Posted by: Heather Green on July 03

BW’s Ben Elgin took a hard look at Google’s innovations outside of search, finding that none of these services have become market leaders.

A Different Take on Copyright Battles (YouTube v. the World)

Posted by: Heather Green on June 29

When it comes to this next phase of content (the post music phase) are we in for a new kind of discussion? Will the upstarts gunning to make money (and help artists make money) be the ones behind the debates over copyright?

Guba Debuts Online Video Store with Warner Bros.

Posted by: Heather Green on June 26

After announcing last month that it was teaming up with BitTorrent to rent and sell movie and TV shows online, Warner Bros. announces a similar deal with online video service Guba.

Groking Digg V. NYTimes Numbers

Posted by: Heather Green on June 23

Digging a little more into the Digg v. NYTimes monthly unique visitor numbers.

Speaking of Digg and Digg Rivals: Checking in with VH1

Posted by: Heather Green on June 23

With the news of Digg branching out and AOL mimicking its news aggregation model, checking back in with the VH1’s own Digg-like celebrity service

Digg Expands Into New News Areas

Posted by: Heather Green on June 22

Digg officially announced that’s its expanding beyond tech into new areas, including world & business news, entertainment, science and gaming. The blessed event betas on June 26.

Social Media and Network Effects

Posted by: Heather Green on June 21

I was talking recently with Ben McConnell and Jackie Hubb, consultants who run the Church of the Customer blog, and they explained their theories on the rise of customer evangelism….

Sony BMG Does Online Syndication with Brightcove

Posted by: Heather Green on June 19

In a good example of how a traditional media company is adapting to the new world of distributing creative works, Sony BMG is announcing a new music video service using Brightcove’s technology.

Google’s Shakespeare: Bard’s publishers need not fret

Posted by: Stephen Baker on June 15

I was surfing through Google’s complete Shakespeare, and I looked up one of my favorite quotes from Julius Caesar. Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed…

Net neutrality: The innovation issue

Posted by: Stephen Baker on June 12

I’ll confess. I haven’t been thinking much about “net neutrality” since editing a story about it in February. But I was talking about it with Mary Hodder last week. She…

Google Maps and the NYT?

Posted by: Heather Green on June 02

So, trolling around the NYTimes site, I found this mashup of Google Maps and some Times travel stories. First, I didn’t know that the Times had a built out travel…

YouTube Keeps Going and Going.

Posted by: Heather Green on May 25

According to Hitwise, YouTube’s marketshare of visits increased 160% over the past three months, keeping it well ahead of MySpace Videos.

Hollywood Games

Posted by: Heather Green on May 19

After tracking the TV upfronts this year to learn more about Hollywood’s digital offerings, a main theme that stands out is the proliferation of games tied to shows.

Inside the Upfronts With the NYTimes

Posted by: Heather Green on May 16

Little on NYTimes reporter Virginia Heffernan’s live blogging the TV network’s Upfront presentations. (Where the big channels present their lineups for the fall).

Slate’s textcasts: Can you listen to music at the same time?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 16

It looks like Slate is preparing to offer textcasts of its written content. I wouldn’t mind having something to read on the iPod. But the problem is this: The text…

The 1% Rule

Posted by: Heather Green on May 10

The Church of the Customer writes about the about the 1% Rule—Where 1% of participants at a site end up creating most of the content. (While according to Yahoo’s Bradley Horowitz, 10% actively interact with it, while the rest remains more of an audience.)

Warner Brothers to Use BitTorrent

Posted by: Heather Green on May 09

In a big step forward for file sharing technology, Warner Brothers is announcing today that it will sell movies and TV shows using BitTorrent.

Steven Soderbergh to Use BitTorrent

Posted by: Heather Green on May 05

At a panel this week at the Tribeca Film Festival, director Steven Soderbergh said he planned to use BitTorrent to release a short he’s doing.

Micro TV And Horses

Posted by: Heather Green on May 03

Equitrekking, at TV production company has launched its own video channel online using Brightcove’s technology

Dilbert Goes Open Source

Posted by: Heather Green on April 25

Scott Adams is using his blog to collect story ideas for a Sunday comic.

Brightcove Opens Up

Posted by: Heather Green on April 24

Brightcove is opening up to all comers this weeek. The startup offers a publishing, distribution and advertising platform for big and small producers to produce their own online video channels.

BW’s Rob Hof spawns an avatar

Posted by: Stephen Baker on April 22

Here’s a fun cover story by BW’s Rob Hof about virtual gaming. I especially like the end, where he gets mad at a few virtual squatters who have invaded his…

Why Veoh is Having a Big Day

Posted by: Heather Green on April 18

Veoh, the online video startup raised $12.5 million and the collective reaction question across the Web seemed to be What? Veoh’s CEO explains his strategy, and then we do a little runthrough of a lot of video services trying to figure out their different market positions.

Nike’s Online TV

Posted by: Heather Green on April 17

I like that Nike was locked out of advertising in the U.S. during the World Cup by Adidas, because it made them come up with an alternative online marketing campaign that’s pretty inventive.

Who Gets Social Media Right?

Posted by: Heather Green on April 14

Are there newspapers, TV stations, media companies that you think have good strategies or are adopting social tech in a smart way? What impresses you?

Arbitron: Net Radio Up, 11% in U.S. Have Checked Out Podcasts

Posted by: Heather Green on April 13

New survey data released by Arbitron finds that about 11% of Americans, or 27 million people, have listened to an audio podcast. Net radio usage is on the rise. Nearly 12% of people in the U.S., or 30 million folks, are weekly Internet radio listeners, up from 8% a year ago.

The Logical End to the Disney Discussion: Buy YouTube

Posted by: Heather Green on April 12

There has been a lot of discussion about whether Disney made a smart move or a dumb one in deciding to start streaming its TV shows over the Net. And Ben Barren suggests that Disney should buy YouTube.

Web 2.0 Companies Making Money?

Posted by: Heather Green on April 12

Mark Pincus asks a pertinent question: Are there any Web 2.0 companies making money?

Hitwise Shows MySpace Outpacing YouTube

Posted by: Heather Green on April 07

Had heard that Myspace’s new video service was doing well, but some new data from Hitwise shows that it’s outpacing YouTube.

YouTube Raises $8 Million from Sequoia Capital

Posted by: Heather Green on April 05

YouTube, the video sharing service, raised $8 million, bringing the total amount it has raised so far to $11.5 million. The backer is Sequoia Capital, the VC that originally financed the startup in November.

YouTube CTO Outlines Copy Protection Tools

Posted by: Heather Green on April 03

Steve Chen, the CTO of YouTube, outlines steps the video sharing service is taking to try to provide better copy protection for copyright owners, including education, better tools for copyright owners, and more sophisticated back-end tools.

YouTube Profile

Posted by: Heather Green on March 31

BW profile of the founders of YouTube, Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, and how they’re trying to turn the video sharing service into a partner Hollywood can work with.

Videos: A Weekly Siren Call to 24% of Web Surfers

Posted by: Heather Green on March 30

OPA’s new study shows that about one in four people online watch a video each week. The favorite style? Short humor and news clips. DO clips have to reign forever though?

The Appeal of Second Life

Posted by: Heather Green on March 29

One of the most fascinating things about Second Life, the online game, is the alternative economy that’s growing up within that game itself.

BW Podcast with Terry Heaton from Donata

Posted by: Heather Green on March 29

The guest on BW Cutting Edge podcast is Terry Heaton, the new media consultant, who is helping traditional media companies get their heads around working with blogs and the host of people flocking to user generated content.

Web 2.0 Awards: It had to Happen

Posted by: Heather Green on March 28

The Web 2.0 Awards are here! Who is on the list, you ask? Well, the real question to me is will they, or the awards be around next year….

Facebook On the Block, Looking For $2 Billion

Posted by: Heather Green on March 28

After turning down an offer for $750 million, Facebook has put itself on the block, hoping to get $2 billion, BusinessWeek reports.

Blogs and Attribution

Posted by: Heather Green on March 22

The recent ruckkus over attribution at Engadget raises issues about how you source an item when you blog about it.

Caruso croons on iTunes

Posted by: Stephen Baker on March 22

Arik Hesseldahl points to century-old Caruso recordings available on iTunes. It’s an interesting post about the ancient music available online. Fascinating troves for musicologists, I’m sure. But I don’t think…

Google Finance: Why?

Posted by: Heather Green on March 21

Google’s portal aspirations.

March Madness

Posted by: Heather Green on March 19

CBS just put out a press release, reporting that it served 14 million streams of live video and four million visitors during the first four days of the NCAA Championship….

Digg Argues It Has Ways to Prevent Manipulation

Posted by: Heather Green on March 17

Questions were flying about whether Digg is being used for stock manipulation. BW reporter Elizabeth Woyke called Jay Adelson, the company’s CEO about measures designed to thrawt that.

When Google Calls…..

Posted by: Heather Green on March 16

At a lunch in NYC, Google’s Eric Schmidt talks about online video.

Keeping Up With What’s What

Posted by: Heather Green on March 15

Looking for recommendations for how to get out of a comfort zone, when it comes to tracking new ideas and thoughts.

The New Old Web 2.0

Posted by: Heather Green on March 15

Could taking a page from beauty community MakeupAlley help today’s 2.0 Geeks figure out media?

What You Know and Web 2.0

Posted by: Heather Green on March 14

Alexa reminds us how MySpace emerged out of nowhere. This sounds like the way services and companies will emerge nowadays, all the scrutiny about who will buy whom notwithstanding.

Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and Question on Newsvine

Posted by: Heather Green on March 13

Pointer to BWonline list of top techies under 30 and appeal for insight into one of the companies mentioned, Newsvine.

Elephant in the Room

Posted by: Heather Green on March 13

Interesting that in the NYTimes story about new media takeover bait, one of the experts quoted, Rafat Ali, wasn’t mentioned as a candidate.

New York Times and Edelman: A Step Back

Posted by: Heather Green on March 09

What are lessons to take away from the discussion about the story the NYTimes did on Edelman working with bloggers.

What Do We Blog About When the Story Dies?

Posted by: Heather Green on March 07

The RIMarkable blog devoted to all things BlackBerry asks: What do we blog about now that the hotly contested story we were following is over?

Video Online: 3 minutes v. 30 minutes

Posted by: Heather Green on March 06

What’s the worth of a 3 minute video blog v. a 30 minute TV show?

Trouble in Social Networking Paradise?

Posted by: Heather Green on February 28

A couple of stories at BWOnline dig into potential problems with social networking. Alex Halperin raises the prospect that there is more bubble than profit in social networking sites. And…

Behead the VCs?

Posted by: Heather Green on February 27

Umair Haque says that VC inexperience may be the reason for the chasm between tech companies and content companies these days. Or it could be that tech is moving too fast for media companies or tech companies to know how to bridge the gap.

Audio Tags?

Posted by: Heather Green on February 25

A little on an idea about social networking and audio snippets from David Ives, the CEO of TVEyes.

Video, Advertising, and Online

Posted by: Heather Green on February 14

Why were video downloads available at first online for only $1.99 and not free, through some ad-supported model? One ad exec thinks its just a sign of how fast things are moving online.

Dogs, Videos, The Internet

Posted by: Heather Green on February 10

This just in! Yahoo video search this year plans to feature clips from the Westminster Dog Show video on Feb. 13 and 14. I was prepared to mock this, if…

The Office blog: funny, but one missing piece

Posted by: Stephen Baker on February 10

Dwight blogs on NBC’s The Office, but he could carry the experiment much further

Dabble This

Posted by: Heather Green on February 02

A little more on the Dabble video, after speaking with the service’s designer Mary Hodder.

Bubble V. Boom?

Posted by: Heather Green on January 28

Isn’t the natural cycle of bubbles and booms a bust?

JerryTime Video Blog is Pure Gold

Posted by: Heather Green on January 23

A little about It’s JerryTime, a clever new animated video blog series.

BW Online Video Story

Posted by: Heather Green on January 23

Pointer to BW Online story Heather Green wrote about online video and video blogs. Thanks to anyone who made a recommendation of a favorite creative work.

Grain of Salt Category…..

Posted by: Heather Green on January 17

A grain of salt when interpreting the connection between videos available for sale on iTunes and higher ratings.

Favorite Online Video or Video Blogs?

Posted by: Heather Green on January 12

A call out for recommendations of online videos and video blogs.

ITunes Catches A Security Bug

Posted by: Heather Green on January 11

Pointer to The Register report on iTunes security bugs uncovered by security researchers.

Search Engine Leeches?

Posted by: Heather Green on January 09

Instintively I agree with Jakob Nielsen’s analysis that search engines can be leeches.

New Stars of Indie Content?

Posted by: Heather Green on January 07

How do people find indie video and audio podcasts that they like? Who do you think are the new indie stars?

MySpace: The Web’s Very Own Houston

Posted by: Heather Green on January 03

Pointer to a BW column about the intentions behind the design chaos at MySpace.

What I Learned From Radio

Posted by: Heather Green on December 28

Lesson learned from being on an hour-long radio about podcasting and satellite radio.

Bubble Talk and Joe Kraus

Posted by: Heather Green on December 20

Some thoughts from JotSpot’s co-founder Joe Kraus on the brewing digital bubble.

Two-Tiered Internet

Posted by: Heather Green on December 15

Pointer to BW story about the clash that’s building between the Internet cos and the telcos and cable giants who want to charge extra fees for heavy uses of their networks.

NBC Joins iTunes

Posted by: Heather Green on December 05

NBC shows now for sale on iTunes as Apple says it has sold 3 million videos in first two months. That’s nice. But what’s up with video blogs at iTunes?

The future of blogs in fiction and movies

Posted by: Stephen Baker on December 02

Fictional character blogs give Hollywood a vast laboratory for story development and franchise extensions.

One Ring to Rule Them All

Posted by: Heather Green on November 16

Does Google trump other communities? Is Google trying to own the ecosystem?

An end run around Apple: Buying rights to music for eternity

Posted by: Stephen Baker on November 16

A startup called Navio plans an end-run around Apple’s iTunes.

Reverse Snobbism?

Posted by: Heather Green on October 31

Along with Susan Mernit, I wonder whether there isn’t some reverse snobbism afoot, with Jeff Jarvis and Rafat Ali criticizing the recent Online News Assocation conference because of lack of buzz.

Freebies from Forrester Research

Posted by: Heather Green on October 25

Charlene Li at Forrester posts free videos from a recent conference that the research house hosted recently on social computing.

CBS and the Show Blogs

Posted by: Heather Green on October 17

Will there be a point when we say enough? “I don’t want a blog from the co-producer of the new remake of Pride and Prejudice Keira Knightley.”

Did Apple jilt its customers?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on October 13

The charge that Apple held back the video iPod to boost sales of the Nano stirs up angry rebuttals.

Google: The Hype and the Glory

Posted by: Heather Green on October 05

Michael Arrington over at the Tech Crunch blog feels let down by the Google and Sun announcement. But being gaga over Google all the time means you’re going to be disappointed.

New Yorker’s Blogging State of Mind

Posted by: Heather Green on September 23

Some thoughts from the New Yorker editor on why they choose a particular cartoon on blogs that’s making the rounds online.

Brainstorming from Foo Camp

Posted by: Heather Green on September 23

Some thoughts on what traditional companies could learn from the notion of perpetual beta and link to Tim O’Reilly’s map of brainstorming at Foo Camp.

What Will Papers Look Like?

Posted by: Heather Green on September 14

Interesting BBC story on the future format of newspapers. (Via CNET)…

Digital Media Past

Posted by: Heather Green on September 12

Learning from digital media past.

We Want Your Votes: BW Best of the Web

Posted by: Heather Green on August 24

Calling for help in pulling together a BusinessWeek special report called the Best of the Web.

CBS and the Public Eye

Posted by: Heather Green on August 19

A little on CBS Public Eye blog, that’s launching in early September.

“Can you talk about Google?”

Posted by: Heather Green on August 18

That’s the question our press person just came by to ask me. We get these requests from TV shows to come in do quick interviews. This time it was about…

What Price Creativity?

Posted by: Heather Green on August 11

Under what circumstance would you pay for a podcast?

Sprucing up Flickr

Posted by: Heather Green on August 02

Flickr last night announced on its blog some changes it was unveiling in search, all designed to make it easier to find photos.

Participatory Culture’s Countdown

Posted by: Heather Green on July 29

Ditty on Participatory Culture, the open source digital video service that’s close to launching a beta version.

Paid Content’s Rafat Ali on Balancing Advertising and Reporting

Posted by: Heather Green on July 18

Chat with Rafat Ali, founder of PaidContent, the blog that covers digital media about balancing being an entrepreneur and a writer.

Cable Network Reaches Out to Video Bloggers

Posted by: Heather Green on June 30

Video blogging gets a solid local push from New England Cable News. The Boston Globe reports that the cable news network on July 15 will open up a service on…

Traveling Along

Posted by: Heather Green on June 29

Are niche blogs/podcasts/media networks dealing with slices of your life the future of digital media?

Proactively Recruiting Bloggers

Posted by: Heather Green on June 28

Talk about crossing the divide. Dave Sifry of Technorati and Joe Trippi blogged yesterday about their work, along with John Hinderaker at Powerline to promote Blog One, an effort to…

Looking into wikis at BW

Posted by: Stephen Baker on June 22

BW is kicking around the idea of an open-source article, even after the wiki failure at the L.A. Times

Watching the Blogs: NYTimes v. Newsweek

Posted by: Heather Green on June 13

Comparing Newsweek’s BlogWatch to the NYTimes’ blog column.

CNET: “Blog Crazy”

Posted by: Heather Green on June 09

Cnet’s 28 blogs and how they work around the fact that not every blog will have a post everyday.

Webby awards barely nod at blogs

Posted by: Stephen Baker on June 07

The Webby awards pile 10 million blogs into one category. Boingboing wins.

Off to the Webbies

Posted by: Stephen Baker on June 06

Blogspotting prepares to attend the Webbies—as an observer, not an award winner.

Power of Digits Part II

Posted by: Heather Green on May 31

Looking into some numbers quoted by the NYTimes about an overexuberant and since repudiated forecast for Forbes.com’s future sales.

Microchunks: How each piece of media has to stand on its own

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 31

Links to an economic study of new media, and points to a ringtone that’s become a music hit as example of a media microchunk.

Care and Feeding of Bloggers

Posted by: Heather Green on May 25

Tristan Louis at TNL.net takes apart some data, in an attempt to unlock the few of the secrets of popular bloggers.

USA Today and Blog Bubble

Posted by: Heather Green on May 25

USA Today columnist Kevin Maney writes today to warn, correctly, about getting caught up in the blogging bubble. Thankfully, it doesn’t look like that is happening in the absolute sense…

Digital Radio

Posted by: Heather Green on May 23

Meeting tomorrow with KCRW, the public radio station in Santa Monica. With podcasts, a live radio stream, a music and news stream solely for online and on-demand programming, they seem…

Blogger Pay

Posted by: Heather Green on May 10

Maybe it’s just the early days, but after taking apart some numbers that have been bandied about what bloggers are paid, Tristan Louis writes that bloggers don’t make as much…

Online Exuberance

Posted by: Heather Green on May 05

Everyone knows how aggressive Forbe’s online strategy is, including adding podcasts. And indeed, a bullish statement attributed to the Forbes.com president at a recent speech in an article by BtoBOnline…

BW Podcasting: Any Suggestions?

Posted by: Heather Green on May 05

Just quick post about BusinessWeek’s plan to do podcasts.

Through the Eye

Posted by: Heather Green on May 04

Post about Washington Post Photoblogging and links to debate over what Sirius and Infinity are doing when it comes to grassroots media.

Unlikely Podcasting Pioneer

Posted by: Heather Green on April 27

Quick post on Infinity Broadcasting adopting podcasting for one radio station.

Beyond the Type

Posted by: Heather Green on April 26

This is a post about Online Media Network, an non-profit Internet media service that showcases grassroots video and podcasts.

We’re Off

Posted by: Heather Green on April 22

Goodness! So thanks everyone for the informative, encouraging, and thoughtful comments on the launch of our blog. We have a few bugs/learning curve issues (at least from my end) to…

Getting Smarter

Posted by: Heather Green on April 21

I thought it was encouraging to read Dan Gillmor’s post on how broadcast journalists are starting to get the grassroots movement. News gathering is richer and more pertinent when it…