by Allen Weiner | October 15, 2008 | Comments Off
So, when I asked Marissa Mayer at an analyst event a few years back if Google thought of itself as a media company, her answer was a resounding no. Poptub is proof she was right. This rather sad attempt to provide a video guide to the best videos playing on YouTube isn’t nearly as good [...]
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Category: blogging social media Television Web 2.0 Tags: Google, Poptub, Television, TV, Yahoo, YouTube
by Allen Weiner | October 15, 2008 | Comments Off
The former TV critic in me cannot help but recommend the new made-for-the-Web program, “Back on Topps,” featured the Sklar Brothers (Randy and Jason) of “Cheap Seats” fame (an ESPN Classic show that is truly a classic). The premise of the new show, which has new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday, is around the Topps [...]
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Category: blogging social media Television Web 2.0 Tags: ESPN, Jason Sklar, Randy Sklar, Topps. Michael Eisner, TV
by Allen Weiner | October 15, 2008 | 1 Comment
As an update to an earlier post, pioneering online TV service Joost is now fully operational converting from a clunky desktop installed TV 2.0 entity to a more consumer-friendly Flash-based site similar to Hulu. The similarity ends in that Joost has a wide variety of current and retro TV fare (where else can you find [...]
Category: broadcasting Television Web 2.0 Tags: Hulu, Joost, TV, TV 2.0
by Allen Weiner | October 13, 2008 | 1 Comment
One of the good things about living part time in Austin, Texas, is the number of Web 2.0 companies (not to mention Web 1.0) companies in the area and the entrepreneurial energy that permeates the tech community. I had the opportunity to visit one prominent Web 2.0 company, Pluck, last week. Pluck is a leader [...]
Category: advertising Newspapers Publishing social media Web 2.0 Tags: Austin, Newspapers, Pluck, Publishing, Seesmic, social media
by Allen Weiner | October 3, 2008 | 1 Comment
Now that’s a TV 2.0 experience No matter what side of the aisle you sit on, you have to point to Twitter and Current TV as two of the real winners of the VP debate. By combining a live stream of the debate with a Twitter feed, the net result was a steady stream of [...]
Category: advertising blogging broadcasting Newspapers Television Uncategorized Tags: Current, debate, Twitter
by Allen Weiner | October 2, 2008 | Comments Off
As a native Philadelphian, it is always fun to poke fun at everything New Jersey, but I find nothing funny about the possibility of the Newark Star Ledger (yes, the paper Tony Sorpano would pick up at the bottom of his driveway) going out of business. Despite a huge number of buyouts (200 to be [...]
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Category: advertising Newspapers Publishing Tags: Minneapolis, Newark, Newspapers, Publishing, Spokane
by Allen Weiner | October 2, 2008 | Comments Off
A few updates following my recent report, “With Careful Execution, Simulstreaming Holds TV 2.0 Promise,” a view into the trend which allows communal online viewing of TV or video content: CBS has jumped into the mix with “Viewing Room,” an application from CBS Labs which allows viewers to watch an episode of “How I Met [...]
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Category: advertising broadcasting Newspapers Television Tags: CBS, Gartner, Lycos, Michael Moore, simulstreaming
