On Digital Media

On Digital Media, Episode #40

In this episode John Federico, Chia-Lin Simmons and Steve Hatch discuss:

• Blockbuster’s decision to select Blu-Ray over HD-DVD. Chia-Lin doesn’t think we should write off HD-DVD yet as the porn industry is still a strong supporter. Steve still thinks that shiny discs full of video are irrelevant. John thinks he’s only half right: owning content is very different than renting it.
• A big week for Yahoo:
• Is there a Yahoo “deal” in the works? Who will be involved and what might the structure look like? Some people think it might involve Newscorp swapping MySpace for a 30% stake in Yahoo…which would value MySpace at $12.3 Billion. (Excuse me!? Come again!?)
• Terry Semel steps down as CEO, Jerry Yang steps up. John thinks it’s a way to portray “the Yahoo that once was.” If nothing else, it’s good for employee morale and their ability to attract talent.
• Lonelygirl15 once again using product placement as a monetization strategy. This time with Neutrogena. She’ll still be lonely, but with good skin. We think this bodes well for niche content and UGC…
• …especially for this demographic as teens watch more online video than any other demographic according to the results of a new study.
• Fans of VuGuru’s “Prom Queen” (the production company founded by Michael Eisner) number in the “tens of thousands” based on the show’s MySpace profile. Is this relevant?
• Veoh creates a browser-like (media center-like?) online application that retrieves video streams from around the Internet and presents them for simple, easy playback.
• Joost is seeking to embed itself in hardware from TV and set-top box makers. We’re keeping our eye on Joost. We think it will be one of the only VOD plays that’s scalable, thanks to its peer-to-peer architecture.
• Steve and Chia-Lin (and to some degree, John) are perplexed at the “Web 2.0 / Native App” dichotomy of the iPhone.
• What’s the video format for YouTube Mobile? (Not the “iPhone YouTube Mobile”, but the YouTube Mobile for us iPhone-less peasants…)
• The Open Mobile Technology Forum is asking technology companies to agree on a broadcasting standard for mobile video. The problem with that request? The term broadcast. Don’t give us broadcast on our phones - give us video on demand!

Our wine this week is an incredible Amarone that Chia-Lin brought. I wish I remembered to save the label…

Our closing music is Democracy from Alexander Blu.

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On Digital Media, Episode #39

In this episode John Federico, Chia-Lin Simmons and Steve Hatch discuss:

• Wine! We’re learning how to rate our wine on the 100-point scale. Thanks to Cork’d for the how-to. Vist Cork’d and add us as your “drinking buddies.”
• NBC wants noon to 2pm to be your new Prime Time with TheLunchBreakShow.com
• Chia-Lin has determined that John is a Phone Ho. John declines to respond.
• It’s rumored that Apple will launch video rentals via the iTunes Store this fall. So, “DRM is Dead”, but only for content that you own?
• Steve thinks the concepts of content “rental” and “on-demand” content will be blurred in the very near future. It will all come down to available bandwidth and the ability to deliver hi-def content without latency. Apple’s”video rental” is just a stepping stone to true video on-demand.
• Want to develop for the iPhone? It’s all Web 2.0!
• Steve thinks YouTube videos will likely be rendered in Quicktime for playback on the iPhone
• Chia-Lin is no longer “One Gadget Girl”
• We love the FaceBook OS. There. We said it again. But John still wants to know how they’re going to monetize it.
• Six million FaceBook users have embedded the iLike application in their FaceBook profile and more than 300,000 users per day are adding it.
• Steve thinks that LinkedIn should be looking over its proverbial shoulder…at FaceBook. John thinks that Steve hasn’t really thought through the value proposition that each social network provides. (and doesn’t provide)
• Marketers are realizing that they can use tags to start targeting advertising, particularly display ads. Chia-Lin thinks that the results could be better than search marketing. Steve doesn’t think it will be as effective as the rigor that AdWords requires. 
• Google pushes Google Checkout on eBay vendors….and eBay pushes back. Hard.

 Our wine this week is our old standby, the 2004 Coppola Rosso along with a 2005 Oak Grove Zinfandel.

Our closing music is Democracy from Alexander Blu.

Send us email to comments AT odmcast DOT com or call our comment line and leave a message: 775-860-2263.

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On Digital Media, Episode #38: The Tangent Show

For this episode we invited John Wall of The M Show and Marketing Over Coffee to join John Federico and Steve Hatch over Skype. (Thanks to Doug Kaye and the folks at GigaVox Media for The Levelator. Without it, this show would not have been possible…trust us.)

In this episode, we yammer about:

• Google book search now available on book publishers own web sites
• At the Book Expo last week in NYC, the CEO of Macmillan Publishers steals two of Google’s laptops to give mean old Google a “taste of its own medicine”. What’s next? A fight in the schoolyard? Stealing lunch money?
• Old Publishing likes to own everything. New media - even “new publishing” understands new ways of doing business.
• C.C. Chapman and John Wall both recently had pieces published in BostonNow, the new free news daily in the Boston area.
• Book sales to slow as publishers are discovering that they are competing for consumers’ attention along with television, film, radio, the internet and portable media.
• According to The NPD Group, kids are adopting new media at an ever-decreasing age, currently at just over 6 years old. Steve and John F. think that’s still too high as their 3 and 4 year-olds (respectively) are already using the LeapFrog Leapster. Steve think’s John F.’s son will have root on the old PowerMac in a few days…
• Millenials have no concept of “appointment media” the way other generations did
• NBC is going to allow consumers to embed streaming video of their shows in blogs and other web sites. “‘Cause the only worse than people stealing your stuff is people not watching your stuff at all…”
• The music industry’s slump spills over into ancillary businesses. When you don’t produce records anymore, what do you give out to commemorate sales records - gold iPods?
• Blizzard Software is suing ‘peons4hire’ for spamming World of Warcraft players for the purchase of virtual gold in WoW
• Rocketboom begins a sponsorship program: $3,000 per episode. YouTube is the first sponsor…and Rocketboom will now be distributed on YouTube. Coincidence? We think not.

In Studio 1A we were enjoying good ol’ Coppola Rosso and a 2005 Oak Grove Zinfandel. We have no idea what John Wall was sipping at his location…

Our closing music is Democracy from Alexander Blu.

Send us email to comments AT odmcast DOT com or call our comment line and leave a message: 775-860-2263.

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