Six months later iTV is a flat-out iFlop. Renamed Apple TV upon launch, the ballyhooed box has sold perhaps 250,000 units--far behind the 1 million sold for the iPhone, which was priced twice as high and has been on the market less than half as long. Appl
Here's the problem: All video sharing sites are silos. For publishers wanting to publish video on multiple sites with proper metadata, the task is monumental. I understand that Ford Models, which publishes on at least 6 platforms including a hugely su
I think that the TV in the living room is still the place for a sit back TV experience, not a PC. Maybe Joost will be popular when the main TV is being used, but with PVRs becoming cheaper and people having a growing number of TVs, with hundreds of channe
If they did Skype and Kazaa, they must be smart, right? But very smart people sometimes make very big mistakes. Sometimes it is because they remain glued to their old paradigms. Below I describe some of the mistakes they have made – some in the core c
Zunächst fror während der Übertragung des Bundesliga-Spiels von Eintracht Frankfurt gegen den VfB Stuttgart das Bild ein und der T-Home-Receiver reagierte nicht mehr. Nach einem Neustart bestand das Gerät darauf, ein Firmware-Update herunterzuladen un
Keep in mind, this business model will only work if the rates at BitTorrent-powered content stores are significantly lower than conventional ones. In other words, users aren’t just going to let themselves be ripped off. If they feel they’re getting a
1. Devices to connect the TV to the Internet. This is what everybody's trying to do at CES and MacWorld. But it's not enough, even when those devices get going, you also need to solve . . . 2. Better home bandwidth. Right now you can't stream HDTV over h
For media companies looking at the future of video, the elephant in the room is — why should anyone pay for video distribution if virality is the new metric of success? For agencies the elephant is — how do we charge for this value when it doesn’t f
