Postcards from the Blogosphere
Video tops the list of this week's wrap-up of things making waves in the blogosphere.
That's one small step for NBC ...
And one giant leap into the Blogosphere fror SNL. Over on A VC, Fred Wilson talks about how NBC is offering its SNL videos for free on its own web site. What NBC has done is a step in the right direction, but they've got a long way to go.
You've got to walk before you can run, however, and making these popular videos available is a nice first step. As Fred and others point out, however, they've got to improve the service if they really hope to acheive any kind of viral traction.
Fred writes, "You can't put the video on your own page, like you can with YouTube. That is key, and I mean key. People want to turn their MySpace pages, their blogs, and whatever else into their own TV station. And that's critical to viral distribution. NBC needs to offer that functionality."
The player isn't that great, either. Including ads in the videos might not be a bad idea either, especially if they're planning to make money with their new idea. A mainstream media company that makes money from online video? Now, there's an idea. ;)
Don't take my word for it. Here's the Natalie Portman video on NBC. If you're looking for it on YouTube, you'll find it here. It isn't available on Google Video, from what I can tell. Go make up your own mind.
Amazon vs. iTunes: Round I
John Paczkowski writes: As the iTunes generation drives the switch, Amazon must begin to deliver digitally the physical media that accounts for so much of its business.
10 reasons why YouTube is better than Google Video
An excellent summary from Church of the Customer Blog. For more, see my earlier post here.
SkypeMe Your eBay Bids
Om Makik writes: When eBay bought Skype last year for a whopping $4.1 billion ($2.6 billion in stock/cash and rest as an earn out) my theory is that the first step in integration of the two companies would be adding a Skype Me feature for all sellers on the eBay system. Well, time to say, told you so.
Wikipedia Publishes Millionth Article
The Wikimedia Foundation announced today the creation of the 1,000,000th article in the English language edition of Wikipedia. The article is about the Jordanhill railway station in Scotland, and it was started by Wikipedia contributor Ewan Macdonald. Wikipedia is a free, multilingual, online encyclopedia with 3.3 million articles under development in more than 125 languages.
Mystery Training
i-boy is not a political blog. Too many other bloggers do it much better than I ever could. If you have the time and want the inside scoop on American politics, there is a mainstream source with all the buzz and flavour of the best political blogs out there: Mark Halprin's The Note. This week, his crew provides the text of a speech that pretty much all candidates headed to this weekend's Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Memphis can give. "We have included stage directions too, but, alas, we can't help you deliver it. For that, you are on your own."
The Future of Marketing is Dino-fantastic
My dinosaurs post from the The Future of Marketing Summit has caused a bit of buzz. Several conference participants (and even some of the organizers) have written me in support of my dino-tirade. In case you missed it, see for yourself how Theresa Wise, Partner, Media & Entertainment at Accenture wins my dinoprize.
In other news ...
A bunch of cool Google Hacks.
Yahoo! Havi Hoffman's review of O'Reilly's fifth Emerging Technology Conference.
Bill Gates is still richer than you.
Ask.com relaunches, sans Jeeves.
Real-life Simpsons intro
Have a great weekend,
~G~
ps: PJ, if you're reading this, I just wanted to maks sure that you know that most of the time you don't have to pay to subscribe to an RSS feed. I know you old-school media guys equate "subscribe" with "pay" ... but times are changin' my man! That said, feel free to PayPal me some cash anytime you feel like it.
Saturday, March 11, 2006
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