by Allen Weiner | February 2, 2009 | 11 Comments
I have watched Hulu’s coming- out party ad (see here) several times, both live during the heartbreaking SB 43 (yes, I live in Arizona) and then online where it will live forever to be cheered, jeered and even possibly revered. As someone who has followed Hulu since before this forward-thinking online venture between NBC and [...]
Category: advertising broadcasting citizen media social media Television Video Tags: Alec Baldwin, Google, Hulu, Super Bowl, YouTube
by Allen Weiner | January 27, 2009 | Comments Off
Yahoo’s Q4 and 2008 full-year earnings call yielded few surprises in the wake of the economic downtown: Revenue is down, expenses are being controlled and the company will continue to focus on core strengths while offering cautious guidance for Q1 2009. Yahoo watchers know the call was less about dollars and cents and search share [...]
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Category: Search social media Television Web 2.0 Tags: Blake Jorgensen, Carol Bartz, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | January 20, 2009 | 2 Comments
Online coverage of President Barack Obama’s inauguration brought new clarity to the media opportunity for social networks, proving the inherent value of varying social graphs and demonstrating what it takes to ignite powerful, meaningful conversations at a huge scale. With a dizzying array of online coverage, ranging from Hulu’s feed of Fox News to Livestation’s [...]
Category: broadcasting citizen media social media Television Tags: Barack Obama, CNN, Facebook, Obama, social media
by Allen Weiner | December 16, 2008 | 1 Comment
For those who follow the newspaper industry, the announcement that the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News (it’s a JOA town) is scaling back on home delivery comes as no surprise. The Free Press will be delivered Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays starting in March, while The News will be delivered Thursdays and Fridays. Ownership of [...]
Category: citizen media economy Newspapers Publishing social media Tags: Detroit Free Press, Detroit News, economy, Newspapers, Publishing, unions
by Allen Weiner | December 10, 2008 | Comments Off
A few year’s back, I told anyone who would listen that there’s a huge opportunity for a mobile handset that included functionality and applications that were geared for content creators. That segment is a fairly broad one with bloggers at one end and professional reporters at the other. One mobile handset company feverishly took notes [...]
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Category: blogging broadcasting citizen media Mobile Newspapers Publishing social media Tags: iPhone, journalism, N95, Nokia, reporters
by Allen Weiner | December 8, 2008 | Comments Off
Much as airlines such as United and Delta sought the cover of Chapter 11 bankruptcy to reorganize and attempt to meet the demands of changing market dynamics, the venerable Tribune Company publisher of eight large daily metro newspapers, is teetering on the edge of Chapter 11 as it faces billions of dollars in debts it [...]
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Category: advertising broadcasting Newspapers Publishing social media Television Uncategorized Web 2.0 Tags: Chapter 11, Chicago Cubs, Chicago Tribune, Tribune Company
by Allen Weiner | December 5, 2008 | 2 Comments
It comes as no surprise that YouTube has made some changes to its business, some that have been well publicized–such as its attempt to shed its “mature” content and give video creators the ability to easily add licensed music to their clips–and others a tad more subtle. In late November, YouTube’s player suddenly changed its [...]
Category: blogging citizen media social media Video Web 2.0 Tags: Google, Hulu, Video, YouTube
by Allen Weiner | December 4, 2008 | 1 Comment
Faster than you can say, I am part of the Mapple Universe (thanks Lisa Simpson), a number of video services including Joost, mDialog and YouTube have brought rich on-demand versions of their web offers to the iPhone. Powered by innovative transcoder Ripcode, who has cracked the code in transcoding while a download is in progress, [...]
Category: blogging broadcasting Mobile Newspapers Publishing social media Television Video Tags: Apple, Google, iPhone, Joost, Livestation, mDialog, MySpace, Ripcode, Video, YouTube
by Allen Weiner | November 24, 2008 | 1 Comment
As I walked through the Austin Farmers Market on November 22, a local organization was handing out flyers telling locals about the February 17, 2009 deadline for the analog to digital transition, the point at which time local broadcasters would cease analog transmissions. In short, death to rabbit ears. Now, here’s the irony: Nov. 22 [...]
Category: blogging broadcasting citizen media social media Television Video videocameras Web 2.0 Tags: Akamai, Google, YouTube
by Allen Weiner | November 21, 2008 | 1 Comment
I had the opportunity to stop by Pluck’s Austin headquarters and talk with Eric Newman, SVP & General Manager of the company about Pluck on Demand, a new offering that allows publishers to add contextually relevant content to their sites…and possibly earn a cut of ad revenue.
Category: blogging citizen media Publishing social media Tags: Demand Media, Eric Newman, Pluck, social media, Web 2.0
