Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
In the hard copy March issue of SportBusiness International there is an article about SecondsOut.com - a site for boxing fans. They aggregate a global audience for second tier boxing matches which they stream on their site, charging on a pay per view basis.
This is the internet at it’s best - national TV channels [...]
Background - anyone unfamiliar with Chris Anderson’s Long Tail Theory can check out his book, his original Wired article (which gets it down to five pages).
I was reading in the Economist this morning about the death of the UK record store. HMV and Virgin are both struggling, and Music Zone with 104 shops has gone into administration.
Part of [...]
What is it with us Brits and agencies?
They are everywhere in this country, much more so than in the US, for example.
I`ve been feeling it most in advertising through our investment in Buy.At, and estate agents have been figuring prominently in my thoughts about the property sector (of which more below and in a later [...]
I got an email this weekend (along with many of you, I’m sure) announcing that the Venice Project has entered its public beta phase. For those of you that don’t know the Venice Project is the latest venture from the founders of Skype and has been a stealth mode TV over the internet project for [...]
This week BT announced the launch of BT Vision, their new IPTV service. There are lots of details on RadioandTelly but in summary you get:
A set top box which supports Freeview (UK free to air digital terrestrial TV service)
Set top box incorporates PVR which can hold 80 hours programming
Electronic programming guide which combines 14 day TV schedule [...]
The kernel for this piece was this presentation from Bear Stearns by Spencer Wang on the future of the entertainment industry I found on Raphael’s (Leafar) and Nick Carr’s blogs.
The presentation uses value chains as a framework to analyse TV and chimes well with a lot of what I wrote in Internet TV the end of the world [...]
This is a follow up to my post last Internet TV - its the end of the world as we know it. There were many comments (for which thank you all) which were the result of some fairly bold statements, a couple of which deserve a little more consideration. This is about the future architecture [...]
