On Digital Media

On Digital Media, Episode #18

John Federico, Chia-Lin Simmons and Ken Gellman review their picks for the top stories of 2006 and offer predictions for 2007.

We wish you all the best in ‘007.

Our holiday wine selection was a 1919 Cabernet Sauvignon and an AmberHill Cabernet Sauvignon from Raymond Vineyards.

The book mentioned this week was The Deviant’s Advantage by Ryan Matthews and Watts Wacker.

Our closing music is Democracy from Alexander Blu.

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On Digital Media, Episode #17

In this episode, John Federico, Ken Gellman and Steve Hatch discuss:

• Verizon wins approval to deliver FIOS service in New Jersey. John is awaiting installation like a child on Christmas morning…
• John got his hands on a La Fonera router from Fon. Steve is jealous.
• The Netherlands recently switched to an entirely digital distribution system for television.
• Ways to have social media or consumer generated content put cash in your pocket.
• Shelly Palmer interviews Steven Starr, CEO and Founder of Revver.com on his new podcast, Media 3.0
• Break.com; MetaCafe “Producer Rewards”
• Big Media are in discussions to create an online video destination site to compete with GooTube…but still, no one knows how to measure this stuff yet…including the IAB.
• “The Page View is dead.”
• The DVD Forum approves download-to-burn standards using CSS…which is already easily cracked.
• VC Funding reaches “dot com levels” while M&A will continue to be strong in ‘007.
• Nintendo retracts of 1 million Wii’s by end of this year, announces replacement program for wrist straps on Wii-motes; Sony reaffirms plans to ship 6 million PS3’s by March of ‘007.
• ShopWiki, others, soliciting user-generated video product reviews. John may produce a few just for laughs…

Our closing music is Democracy from Alexander Blu.

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On Digital Media, Episode #16

This week’s episode includes John Federico, Chia-Lin Simmons and our special guest, Steve Hatch. Ken Gellman couldn’t join us this week, but we expect him for episode #17…

In this episode:

• John had a good time (perhaps too good a time…) at the PaidContent NYC Mixer. (Thanks, Rafat.)
• Listener Email
• Sony to build vertically integrated music service + device while cellular carriers allowing content providers to sell content to their subscribers off-deck
  Music companies releasing music from certain artists as mp3 in order to gain access to Apple’s iPod
• Chia-Lin doesn’t want to back up her music - where’s the online bit locker for digital media?
• iPhone “confirmed” by Kevin Rose;
• Steve wants it to have Exchange support. John wants Steve to just get a Mac.
• MarketingSherpa case study on Popeye’s and their successful use of coupons via SMS (facilitated by qtags)
• Jason Calacanis becomes “Entrepreneur-in-Residence” at Sequoia Capital
• Time Warner looking for “internet deals” to help speed up the transformation of AOL
• Executives expect new media to make money…eventually, while the New York Times Company is doing it NOW
• Is About.com user generated content? John tries to make the distinction between casual user generated content and dedicated production of user generated content.
• Wenda Harris Millard of Yahoo isn’t convinced that user generated content has real revenue value - doesn’t Yahoo make lots of money from user generated content like email, Yahoo 360, Yahoo Groups, etc.?
• Social networking is solely for the youth market? Really?
• Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics: Podcasting is growing. Podcasting is declining. Film at 11.
• Dana Gardner thinks that the B2B publishing value of podcasting is being overlooked. (Not by us, of course…)
• Use Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 to make transcripts of your podcast
• John got a Skype client for his Treo 700p: iSkoot

Our wines this week were: 1919 Cabernet Sauvignon and some (very good) chianti that I’ve never heard of…

Our closing music is Democracy from Alexander Blu.

Send us email to comments@odmcast.com or call our comment line: 775-860-2263. You can also reach us via Gizmo by contacting username ondigitalmedia.

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