Tag Archives: Media

The Problem with Streaming

Last night,  on a whim, I decided I was going to log into my Netflix account and bum around watching movies.  This turned into a functional nightmare.  I spent an hour trying to find a film that I would like to see, and ended up being stymied time and time again by the lack of [...]
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Sometimes, get a friend to review a product

So, the last big player of last months (Gasp!) New York Tech meetup just came back from San Diego, Comixology.  Interestingly, so did my friend.  He’s in the middle of selling off all of his old school stock of his (now closed *sob*) comic book store at Comic-Con San Diego!  (hence the San Diego Connection) [...]
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Techstars Boulder 2009 Roundup: Next Big Sound, Take Comics pt1, Everlater, and Losing Facebook Connect Virginity

Image via CrunchBase So as usual, we’re overdue for a roundup.  Earlier, we heard about TechStars 2009.  There are already summaries of the products available, mainly at Techcrunch, and few at Fred Wilson‘s.  But we like doing reviews here.  So we are.
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Someone asked me about Second Life

Image by Pathfinder Linden via Flickr I was recently asked, in the comments section of this blog, whether there is potential in buying advertising space in Second Life.  I wanted to answer this question more generally- instead of dealing with just Second Life, is it worthwhile to develop a real life business through a virtual [...]
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The New New Business of News

Image by Getty Images via Daylife While in some previous posts, there have been discussions of the theoretical maximum viewership of news-content, as well as the history of Newspaper, it is now time to discuss what does all of this mean in a practical sense. This is the third major age of newspapers, but not [...]
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A Brief History of the Last Two Times Newspapers Dealt with Tech

Image via Wikipedia As a medium of outward bound communication, Newspapers are about as old as the book.  The first agreed upon Newspaper was the Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien, published in 1605 by Johann Carolus in Strasbourg, not much later than the invention of the Gutenberg Press , somewhere between 1439 and 1450 [...]
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A Precursory Look at Reed’s Law

Image by Getty Images via Daylife So for the past few days, on Fred Wilson‘s blog, there have been comment after comment about what to about, well comments. A good deal of this has to do with what to do with Newspapers in the Internet ecosystem, and their relationship to their readers, especially as their [...]
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