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Leading US TV streaming site Hulu has been trying to sell itself for much of this year, but is no longer for sale. The company announced yesterday that the sale process was terminated and now the owners, which crucially include content owners News Corp, Disney and Comcast, will keep the site independent. According to [...] I have seen two comments in the last couple of days making the point that whilst content companies of all flavours are happy for the traffic they get from Facebook they are increasingly conscious that time spent on Facebook is time not spent on their own properties, and hence generating ad revenues for Facebook [...] Over the weekend I read a post by Ed Bott about the the decline of TiVo and Windows Media Center which had the following Google Trends chart: I think this shows conclusively that since around 2008 consumer interest in media services based around local storage – Media Center and Tivo have waned whilst [...] It is often the case that new media formats are greeted with suspicion amid fears that the changes they herald will undermine important creative aspects of society. Often these fears are misplaced and it is the distribution channels of the old format that are under threat rather than the media itself, and after a [...] My friend and co-author Nicholas Lovell regularly sets out his belief that the future of digital media is a tiered business model where the majority of users get the content for free and heavy users pay, with very heavy users paying heavily. The games industry has made this model work with free to play [...] On Monday there was an article on Techcrunch about a startup called Inkling that has developed an innovative digital textbook platform for the iPad (picture above). Their technology adds collaboration, multimedia, 3D, quizzes and social interaction to the basic reading experience and they have just released their first book/app – an iPad [...] There was a good article on Techcrunch on Saturday covering an interview Erick Schonfeld had with Marc Andreessen. In a reference to explorers landing in Mexico and burning their boats so looking forward was their only option the post was titled: Andreessen’s Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats”. He makes an excellent contrast [...] Dutch app store analytics firm Distimo has some great info posted on ReadWriteWeb this morning. It is a long post and well worth the read if you are into this area. For those of you looking for a quick takeaway, check out the two graphs below. What you see is that Apple [...] |
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