by Allen Weiner | April 23, 2009 | 1 Comment
As part of its audit process, evaluating its vast array of products and services, Yahoo! has decided to shutter Geocities the hosted community business which it bought in May 1998 for $3.75 billion. The closing of Geocities joins Farechase, Yahoo Briefcase, Yahoo Pets and My Web as part of CEO Carol Bartz’s plan to “increase [...]
Category: blogging social media Tags: Carol Bartz, Geocities, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | March 26, 2009 | 2 Comments
In this podcast, I talk briefly about a concept that I have been pondering (and talking about) regarding the notion of a mobile content creation device to facilitate content and audience immediacy. What should it be? What sort of functionality should it have? How much would it cost? Who are the buyers for such a [...]
Category: blogging broadcasting citizen media Mobile Publishing Uncategorized Video Web 2.0 Tags: content, Dell, devices, handsets, Mobile, Motorola, netbook, Nokia, podcast
by Allen Weiner | March 19, 2009 | 1 Comment
Mike Kaply of Brand Thunder talks about his company’s solution to help recording artists (and soon sports teams) create personalized, branded browsers to promote themselves and their products.
Category: advertising blogging citizen media social media Tags: Brand Thunder, browsers, Firefox, music, Sugerland
by Allen Weiner | March 19, 2009 | Comments Off
Tyler Barth, director of marketing for Blue Microphones, demos the new Mikey, a cool gadget that attaches to your iPod, iPhone, etc.. and facilitates amazing .wav recording.
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Category: blogging broadcasting citizen media Conferences Tags: Blue Microphones, SXSW
by Allen Weiner | March 18, 2009 | Comments Off
Last year, I wrote about the concept of turning the mobile phone into the ultimate device for mobile reporting (a concept which applies to any content creator). Publishers, in keeping with the Web 2.0 notion of timely information in a variety of formats, would arm journalists with a tricked-phone phone from which they could write, [...]
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Category: blogging citizen media Conferences Mobile Publishing Tags: Dell, Flixwagon, journaist, netbook, Nokia, platypus journalist, Qik, SXSW
by Allen Weiner | March 17, 2009 | Comments Off
After two-plus days of panels, meeting and briefings (as well as just bathing in the spirit and energy at SXSW), the interactive (web/internet) portion of the show ends and the music takes center stage. Film continues throughout the week with a mix of indie films, short films and some world feature film premieres. Spike Lee’s [...]
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Category: blogging citizen media Conferences Tags: "Over the Hills and Far Away", Austin, Spike Lee, SXSW
by Allen Weiner | March 11, 2009 | 2 Comments
Sunday, March 15 marks my introduction to the multimedia wonders that await me at SXSW in Austin. Until Tuesday, the focus is on “interactive” followed by music from Wednesday on with film running throughout. It will be a busman’s holiday (there’s a term you just don’t hear enough) in that I will be “reporting” from [...]
Category: blogging broadcasting citizen media Conferences Tags: Nokia, Now Live, SXSW, Twitter, YouTube
by Allen Weiner | March 9, 2009 | Comments Off
Memo to Carol Bartz: It’s a nice achievement that Yahoo! now has 793 newspapers in its consortium, 120 of whom are using its APT advertising platform, but this effort is perhaps an exercise in futility unless the newspapers can figure out a way to cut costs and generate digital dollars in short order. And I [...]
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Category: blogging broadcasting Conferences Newspapers Publishing Tags: Carol Bartz, Maven, newspaper consortium, Newspapers, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | March 8, 2009 | 1 Comment
A few weeks into my TV 2.0 project ,where I set up a viewing center sans cable or satellite, I successfully completed the digital transition by attaching a Samsung digital converter box and Radio Shack indoor antenna to my Sharp 32-inc TV. At first, it was a total fail, but because my TV had not [...]
Category: blogging broadcasting regulatory Television Video videocameras Tags: Apple TV, Boxee, digital transition, Microsoft, Neulion, Phoenix, Radio Shack, samsung, Xbox, ZeeVee
by Allen Weiner | February 26, 2009 | Comments Off
As Yahoo enters the command and control part of its evolution, new CEO Carol Bartz sums up on the company’s blog the reason for a new, more centralized corporate structure: “Mention Yahoo! practically anywhere in the world, and people yodel. But in the past few years, we haven’t been as clear in showing the world [...]
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Category: blogging citizen media Publishing Search social media Web 2.0 Tags: Carol Bartz, Yahoo
