Oct 26 2009
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People buy a lot of goods. Slide doing well with their shift to virtual goods. Nears porfitability.
Oct 06 2009
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“ Today, if you take out a display ad on the Internet, you’re likely to see ads for punch-the-monkey, colon cleansing, and Acai Berry scams. Ads cost nothing because of an infinite supply of untargeted display space on the web. A single impression costs nothing because of that infinite supply. And so if you take that ad in the wasteland of low-trust brands, you will become less legitimate.
Oct 05 2009
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Fueling Web Engineers.
- Steve: Did you read the news on amazon offering their 1-click MPS to their merchants? (link: http://bit.ly/QryUX)
- I think that's pretty significant stuff (for the continued development of self-sustaining mobile web).
- Joshua: yeah people can now buy even more useless crap! :)
- Steve: That makes your career even more bright.
- I hope that's a genuine smile.
- Joshua: my career? just job prospects, man
- My career is going to be in politics and public service.
- All I'm doing is gathering funds and building my network of campaign donors
- Steve: Hard to buy the senorita LV handbags working in the public service sector.
- "the useless crap"
- Joshua: hahaha
Oct 02 2009
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Comcast zigs while Time Warner zags
It seems likely that Comcast will acquire a controlling interest in NBC Universal.
In a way it’s nothing new for a cable operator to seek control of cable properties. That was John Malone’s playbook when he ran TCI.
But i think it’s interesting to see the differences between comcast’s strategy and time warner’s strategy
For example:
Cable. Time Warner spun out Time Warner Cable. Comcast grew their cable business over the last 10years substantially buying AT&T and Mediaone.
Time Warner is divesting online content eg AOl, while Comcast is buying (daily candy, fancast, theplatform, plaxo).
I have always been impressed with the execs at Comcast. I also like it that the founders are still running the business.
I think the NBC move is a signal that the once mighty cable network as a scarce point of distribution isn’t the only game in town.
And i believe it also is a signal that over the top online video is becoming real.
(disclaimer: wrote this on my iPhone. Sorry any typos and lack of links).
Jul 30 2009
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So, should Mrs. Walters and ABC get a cut of the revenue on this fake ad?
Jun 24 2009
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“ When Facebook took action against two third-party ad networks for displaying ads the company felt deceptive, other networks and app developers quickly toed the line. In that ecosystem, Facebook has the power to take away their business with a few strokes of a keyboard, but in the broader ecosystem, media is fragmented, and the threat of legal challenges not strong enough. Almost every player knows that some action will ultimately happen, but they will get hit whether they run it or not, and in the past, the most ultimatley profitable action has been to get while gettin’ is good. You might pay a fine and have to change your ways, but you’re better off having that pool of funds. Those gains then act like an internal VC fund to provide the company a runway for going more legitimate.
